{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-07-28/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But there was another thing connected with it, which we can only rightly understand if we take the following into account. To think—to live in thoughts that spring forth from within—as we do today, was impossible for the men of ancient times. They might be wise, indeed infinitely wiser than modern humanity, but they were not ‘clever’ in the sense of cleverness today. Today we call a man clever who is able to produce thoughts out of himself, who is able to think logically—to bring one thought into connection with another, and so forth. In olden times there was no such thing—no such thing as Thoughts independently produced. The Thoughts were sent down to the earth at one and the same time with the Revelations that came to man from the spiritual world. Man did not think and ponder, but he received the spiritual content by Revelation, and he received it in such a way that the Thoughts came with it. Today we think and ponder about things. In those ancient times the impressions which the souls received brought the Thoughts with them. The Thoughts were inspired, not self-made Thoughts. Now he who ordered the Cosmic Intelligence which thus came to man along with the spiritual Revelations—he who ordered this Cosmic Intelligence, who had, so to speak, dominion over it,—is the same spiritual Being whom we, when we make use of our Christian terminology, call the Archangel Michael. He had to administer the Cosmic Intelligence in the cosmos.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. 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Man kann das nur in der richtigen Weise einschätzen, wenn man das Folgende beachtet. So nachdenken, so in Gedanken leben, die aus dem Inneren herausstoßen, konnten die Menschen der alten Zeitalter nicht. Sie waren unter Umständen weise, unendlich viel weiser als die neuere Menschheit, aber sie waren nicht in dem Sinne dessen gescheit, was man heute gescheit nennt. Heute nennt man einen Menschen gescheit, der Gedanken aus sich selber produzieren kann, der logisch denken kann, der einen Gedanken mit dem anderen in Zusammenhang bringen kann und so weiter. Das gab es damals nicht. Selbständig erzeugte Gedanken gab es nicht in alten Zeiten. Die Gedanken wurden mit den Offenbarungen, die einem aus der geistigen Welt kamen, zu gleicher Zeit auf die Erde heruntergeschickt. Man dachte nicht nach, sondern man empfing den geistigen Inhalt durch Offenbarung, aber man empfing ihn so, daß die Gedanken dabei waren. Heute denkt man über die Dinge nach; dazumal brachten die seelischen Eindrücke die Gedanken mit, Die Gedanken waren inspirierte Gedanken, nicht selbstgedachte Gedanken. Und derjenige, der die kosmische Intelligenz, die in dieser Weise sich mit den geistigen Offenbarungen zur Menschheit begab, ordnete, der im besonderen über diese kosmische Intelligenz sozusagen die Herrschaft hatte, das ist eben diejenige geistige Wesenheit, die wir, wenn wir uns der christlichen Terminologie bedienen, als den Erzengel Michael bezeichnen. Er hatte im Kosmos die Verwaltung der kosmischen Intelligenz.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":234,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-07-28/p020"}],"english":["GA 237/1924-07-28/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":234,"en_words":248,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.11,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6192,"original_word_count":5596,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams. Revised by D.S. 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