{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-07-28/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"While these wonderful teachings were going forth to the souls in that super-sensible School directed by Michael himself, the same souls were taking part in an awe-inspiring event that could only appear within the evolution of our cosmos after long, long epochs of time. We on the earth, when we speak of the Divine, look up to the super-sensible world. When we are in the life between death and a new birth, as I have indicated once before, we really look down on to the earth, albeit not the physical earth. As we look down on to the earth, great and mighty, divine-spiritual workings reveal themselves to us. Now at the time (at the beginning of the 15th century) when that School began, of which I said that many souls within the realm of Michael took part in it, at that very time one could witness something that is repeated in cosmic evolution after only long, long centuries. As one looked down to the earth, one witnessed, as it were how Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones—the members of the highest Hierarchies—were accomplishing a mighty deed. It was in the first third of the 15th century, in the time when behind the scenes of modern history the Rosicrucian School was founded. Ordinarily when one looks down to the earthly realm from the life between death and a new birth, one sees the deeds of the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones taking place in a uniform and steady way. One sees the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones carrying the Spiritual from the realm of the Exusiai, Dynamis and Kyriotetes down into the Physical, and by their power implanting the Spiritual into the Physical. But, ever and again after long epochs of time, one witnesses an awe-inspiring departure from what is thus seen in the ordinary course of being. It was in the Atlantean time that such a thing had last shown itself, as seen from the aspect of the Supersensible. What is taking place at such a moment in humanity shows itself thus:—As one looks down from the spiritual world, one sees the earth in all its realms flashed through by lightning flashes; one hears a mighty, rolling thunder. It was one of the cosmic thunderstorms that take their course while human beings upon earth are as though wrapt in sleep. But it revealed itself mightily to the spirits around Michael.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. 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Jahrhunderts, als diese Schule ihren Anfang machte, von der ich sprach, wo zahlreiche Seelen im Bereich des Michael an dieser Schule teilnahmen, da konnte man zu gleicher Zeit etwas sehen, was, wie gesagt, nur nach langen, langen Zeiträumen sich wiederholt im kosmischen Werden: Man sah gewissermaßen beim Hinunterblicken auf die Erde, wie Seraphim, Cherubim und Throne, also die Angehörigen der höchsten, der ersten Hierarchie, eine gewaltige Tat vollbringen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-07-28/p033"},{"locus":"GA 237/1924-07-28/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Es war im ersten Drittel des 15. Jahrhunderts, es war in der Zeit, als hinter den Kulissen der neuzeitlichen Entwickelung die Rosenkreuzerschule begründet worden ist. Schaut man sonst von dem Leben, das man hat zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt, hinunter auf das Irdische, sieht man gleichmäßig vor sich gehende Taten der Seraphim, Cherubim und Throne. Man sieht, wie die Seraphim, Cherubim und Throne das Geistige aus dem Bereich der Exusiai, Dynamis und Kyriotetes hinuntertragen ins Physische, durch ihre Macht das Geistige dem Physischen einpflanzen. Von diesem, was man so gewöhnlich im Fortgange des Werdens schaut, zeigt sich nach großen Zeiträumen immer etwas grandios Abweichendes: Es war zuletzt in der atlantischen Zeit, daß sich so etwas auch vom Aspekte des Übersinnlichen aus gezeigt hatte. Was da in der Menschheit geschieht, das zeigt sich, indem man jetzt, von der geistigen Welt aus, die Erde in ihren Gebieten durchzuckt sieht von Blitzen, indem man mächtig rollende Donner hört. 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