{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-07-28/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Behind all that took place historically in the soul of man at the beginning of the 15th century, there stands a tremendous process which revealed itself to the pupils of Michael at the very time when they were receiving their teachings in the super-sensible. In Atlantean time, when the Cosmic Intelligence, while remaining cosmic, had taken possession of the hearts of men, such an event had taken place; and now for the present earthly realm it once again broke forth in spiritual lightning and thunder. Yes, it was so indeed. In the age when men were conscious of the earthly historic convulsions only,—when the Rosicrucians were going forth, when all manner of remarkable events were happening of which you can read in external history,—in that age the earth appeared, to the spirits in the super-sensible worlds, surrounded by mighty lightnings and thunderclaps. The Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones were carrying over the Cosmic Intelligence into that member of man's organisation which we call the system of nerves and senses, the head-organization. Once again a great event had taken place, It does not show itself distinctly as yet, it will only do so in the course of hundreds or thousands of years; but it means, my dear friends, that man is being utterly transformed. Formerly he was a heart-man; then he became a head-man. The Intelligence becomes his own. Seen from the super-sensible, all this is of immense significance. All the power and strength that lies in the domain of the first Hierarchy, in the domain of the Seraphim and Cherubim who reveal their strength and power through the fact that they not only administer the Spiritual *within* the Spiritual, like the Dynamis, Exusiai and Kyriotetes, but carry the Spiritual into the Physical, making it a creator of the Physical,—all this their power the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones now had to apply in accomplishing a deed such as takes place, as I said, only after many aeons. And one might say: What Michael taught to his own during that time was heralded in the earthly worlds beneath with thunder and lightning. This should be understood, my dear friends, for these thunders and lightnings must become enthusiasm in the hearts and minds of anthroposophists. And whoever really has the impulse towards Anthroposophy—(though it be unconsciously as yet, for men do not know it yet, but they will learn it in good time)—whoever has this impulse within him, still bears in his soul the echoes, the after-echoes of the fact that in the circle of Michael he received yonder heavenly Anthroposophy. For the heavenly Anthroposophy went before the earthly. The teachings given at that time were to prepare for what is now to become Anthroposophy on the earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The New Age of Michael","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-07-28","location":null,"word_count":454,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-07-28/p039","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams. Revised by D.S. 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In dem Zeitalter, das nun die irdischen Erschütterungen erlebte, in welchem die Rosenkreuzer sich ausbreiteten, in welchem allerlei merkwürdige Dinge geschahen, die Sie ja in der Geschichte verfolgen könnten, in diesem Zeitalter zeigte sich die Erde für die Geister im Übersinnlichen umtobt von gewaltigen Blitzen und Donnern. Das war, daß die Seraphim, Cherubim und Throne die kosmische Intelligenz überleiteten in dasjenige Glied der menschlichen Organisation, das die Nerven-Sinnesorganisation ist, die Kopforganisation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-07-28/p035"},{"locus":"GA 237/1924-07-28/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Es war wieder ein Ereignis geschehen, welches sich heute noch nicht deutlich zeigt, erst im Laufe von Jahrhunderten und Jahrtausenden sich zeigen wird, und darin besteht, daß der Mensch vollständig umgestaltet wird. Der Mensch war vorher ein Herzensmensch. Der Mensch ist nachher ein Kopfmensch geworden. Die Intelligenz wird seine Eigenintelligenz. Das ist, vom Übersinnlichen aus gesehen, etwas ungeheuer Bedeutsames. Alles das wird da gesehen, was an Macht und Kraft im Bereich der ersten Hierarchie liegt, im Bereich der Seraphim und Cherubim, die dadurch ihre Macht und Kraft äußern und offenbaren, daß sie das Geistige nicht nur im Geistigen verwalten, wie die Dynamis, die Exusiai, die Kyriotetes, sondern das Geistige hineintragen in das Physische, das Geistige zum Schöpferischen des Physischen machen. Diese Seraphim, Cherubim und Throne, sie hatten Taten zu vollbringen, die, wie gesagt, nach Äonen nur sich wiederholen. Und man möchte sagen: was von Michael den Seinigen in der damaligen Zeit gelehrt worden ist, das wurde unter Blitzen und Donnern da unten in den irdischen Welten verkündet. Verstanden sollte das werden, denn diese Blitze und Donner, meine lieben Freunde, sollten Begeisterung werden in den Herzen, in den Gemütern der Anthroposophen! Und derjenige, der wirklich den Drang zur Anthroposophie hat, der hat heute noch unbewußt, die Menschen wissen noch nichts davon, sie werden es schon kennenlernen -, der hat heute die Nachwirkungen in seiner Seele davon, daß er damals im Umkreis des Michael jene himmlische Anthroposophie aufnahm, die der irdischen voranging. 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