{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-08-08/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us try to gain a vivid idea of how the Cosmic Intelligence had been conceived. I will give you a rough sketch of what these Moorish, Spanish scholars taught to their pupils in Spain in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries, in the time when in other parts of Europe such things were prevailing as the School of Chartres, of which I have told you so much. In Spain it was taught by the Moorish scholars and above all by such an individuality as Averroes, that the Intelligence holds sway everywhere. The whole world, the whole cosmos is filled with the all-pervading Intelligence. Human beings down here on earth have many different properties, but they do not possess a personal intelligence of their own. On the contrary, every time a human being is active on the earth, a drop of Intelligence, a ray of Intelligence proceeds from the universal Intelligence, and descends as it were into the head, into the body of the single human being. So that the human being as he walks about on earth, shares in the universal Cosmic Intelligence which is common to all. And when he dies, when he passes through the gate of death, the Intelligence that was his returns to the universal Intelligence, flows back again. Thus all the thoughts, conceptions and ideas which man possesses in the life between birth and death flow back into the common reservoir of the universal Intelligence. One cannot therefore say that the thing of outstanding value in man's soul, namely his Intelligence, is subject to personal immortality. Indeed it was actually taught by the Spanish, Moorish scholars that man does not possess personal immortality. True, he lives on, but, said these scholars, the most important thing about him during his life is the fact that he can unfold intelligent knowledge, and this does *not* remain with his own being. We cannot therefore say that the intelligent being possesses personal immortality. You see, this was the very point in the fury of the battle which was waged by the Schoolmen of the Dominican Order. It was to maintain and uphold the personal immortality of man. And in that time, such a striving could appear in no other way than it did when the Dominicans declared: Man is personally immortal, and the teaching of Averroes on this subject is *heresy*, absolute heresy. Today we have to put it differently, but for that time one can understand that a man like Averroes in Spain, who did not assume the personal immortality of man, was declared a heretic. Today we have to study the matter in its reality. We have to say: In the sense in which man has become immortal, as to his Spiritual Soul, he has indeed attained immortality—the continued consciousness of personality after passing through the gate of death—but he has attained this only since the time when a Spiritual Soul took up its abode in earthly man. If therefore we had asked Aristotle or Alexander what were their thoughts about immortality, what would have been their answer? The words of course are not the point. But if, being asked, they had answered in our Christian terminology, they would have said: Our soul is received by Michael and we live on in the communion of Michael. Or they would have expressed it cosmologically. Above all in a community such as that of Alexander or Aristotle, they would have spoken thus in cosmic terms, and indeed they did speak thus: The soul of man is intelligent on earth, but this Intelligence is a drop out of the fulness of what Michael pours forth like a rain of Intelligence, flowing out over mankind. This rain proceeds from the Sun, and the Sun receives the human soul back again into its own being. The human soul as it exists between birth and death is rayed down to Earth from the Sun. Thus on the Sun they would have looked for the dominion of Michael, and such would have been their answer, cosmologically speaking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Evolution of the Michael Principle Throughout the Ages — The Split in the Cosmic Intelligence","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-08-08","location":null,"word_count":674,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-08-08/p005","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams. Revised by D.S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1977","book_title":"Karmic Relationships  III","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA237/English/RSP1977/19240808p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Stirbt dann der Mensch, geht er durch die Pforte des Todes, so geht das, was er als Intelligenz gehabt hat, zurück in die allgemeine Intelligenz, fließt zurück. So daß, was der Mensch während des Lebens zwischen Geburt und Tod an Gedanken, Begriffen, Ideen hat, in das allgemeine Reservoir der allgemeinen Intelligenz zurückfließt und man nicht davon sprechen kann, daß dasjenige, was der Mensch als besonders Wertvolles in seiner Seele trägt, seine Intelligenz, einer persönlichen Unsterblichkeit unterliegt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-08-08/p006"},{"locus":"GA 237/1924-08-08/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"![237-09](images/237-09.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-08-08/p007"},{"locus":"GA 237/1924-08-08/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Das war auch durchaus gelehrt von den spanisch-maurischen Gelehrten, daß der Mensch eine persönliche Unsterblichkeit nicht hat. Er lebt weiter, aber es ist ja das Wichtigste an ihm - so sagten die Gelehrten -, daß er während des Lebens intelligentes Wissen entfalten kann. Das geht aber nicht mit seinem Wesen mit. Also kann man nicht sagen, daß das intelligente Wesen eine persönliche Unsterblichkeit hat. Sehen Sie, das war, ich möchte sagen, der Furor des Kampfes der Scholastiker unter den Dominikanern, der Furor, geltendzumachen die persönliche Unsterblichkeit des Menschen. Es konnte das in jener Zeit nicht anders auftreten als so, daß diese Dominikaner geltend machten: Der Mensch ist persönlich unsterblich, und das, was Averroes lehrt, ist Ketzerei, ist Häresie. Das müssen wir heute anders sagen. Aber für die damalige Zeit ist begreiflich, daß man einen Menschen, der die persönliche Unsterblichkeit nicht annahm, wie Averroes in Spanien, für einen Häretiker erklärte. Heute müssen wir die Sache der Wirklichkeit, der Realität gemäß betrachten. Wir müssen sagen: In dem Sinne, wie der Mensch unsterblich geworden ist seiner Bewußtseinsseele nach, hat er sich diese Unsterblichkeit — dieses fortdauernde Bewußtsein von der Persönlichkeit -, nachdem er durch die Pforte des Todes durchgegangen war, erst errungen seit der Zeit, da eine Bewußtseinsseele im Erdenmenschen Platz greift. Wenn man also Aristoteles oder Alexander gefragt hätte, wie sie über Unsterblichkeit denken, wie würden sie geantwortet haben? Auf Worte kommt es nicht an, aber wenn sie gefragt worden wären und wenn sie in christlicher Terminologie geantwortet hätten, würden sie gesagt haben: Unsere Seele wird aufgenommen von Michael, und wir leben fort in der Gemeinschaft des Michael. — Oder sie würden es kosmologisch ausgedrückt haben; gerade aus einer solchen Gemeinschaft heraus, wie die des Alexander oder des Aristoteles war, würde man kosmologisch gesagt haben, und man hat es auch gesagt: Die Seele des Menschen ist intelligent auf Erden, aber diese Intelligenz ist ein Tropfen aus der Fülle dessen, was Michael ergießt wie einen intelligenten Regen, der die Menschen überströmt. Und dieser Regen geht von der Sonne aus, die Sonne nimmt in ihr eigenes Wesen wiederum zurück des Menschen Seele, und die Menschenseele, die da besteht zwischen Geburt und Tod, sie strahlt aus der Sonne auf die Erde nieder. Michael-Herrschaft hätte man auf der Sonne gesucht. 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