{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-08-08/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"At this point, my dear friends, you must enter once more into all that I have now told you. Remember that with the 9th century A.D. the great crisis was accomplished: the Cosmic Intelligence came down among earthly men. This was the objective fact, this was actually taking place. And now transplant yourselves into the Sun-sphere, where Michael and his hosts were holding sway as I have described. For they had perceived the departure of Christ from the Sun and His passage to the earth in the Mystery of Golgotha, and after that, they had experienced how the Cosmic Intelligence descended more and more, to become individual human knowledge. Now there was one important event which made a deep impression, above all, on those who belong to Michael—whom in our last lecture I called the ‘Michaelites.’ It was an altogether outstanding event, which I have often described in other connections, showing the part it played in the unfolding of civilisation on the earth. Now, however, we must describe it as it appeared from the aspect of the Michaelites themselves, namely from the Sun. We must describe it as it is seen from that perspective—when one looks down from the realm of Michael on to the earth. This most significant event took place in the year 869 A.D. At the 8th Ecumenical Council held in that year at Constantinople, it was declared dogmatically that the old conception of Trichotomy, saying that man consists of body, soul and Spirit, is heretical. It was declared: Man has only body and soul, save that his soul possesses certain spiritual qualities. While in the sphere of objective realities the passage of the Intelligence into the single human beings was being accomplished, it was decreed on earth: Trichotomy is a false heresy. It was decreed in such a final and decisive form that no one within European civilisation could venture henceforth to contradict it. Henceforth one was forbidden to say that man has body, soul and Spirit. One might only speak of body and soul, ascribing spiritual qualities and forces to the soul. Something had thus taken place on earth, of which in the realms of Michael they could only say: Now there will enter into the souls of men the conviction that the Spiritual is but a quality of the soul, and not the Divine which holds sway in the great process of mankind's evolution. ‘Look down upon the earth’—such was the language of Michael—‘Look down upon the earth, behold the consciousness of the Spirit vanishing away.’ But you must see, my dear friends, this vanishing of the consciousness of the Spirit was bound up with the main subject of which we wish to speak today.","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":451,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-08-08/p008","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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Ein wichtiges Ereignis, das tiefen Eindruck gemacht hat gerade auf diejenigen, die zu Michael gehören — ich habe das letztemal gesagt «Michaeliten» -, ein wichtiges Ereignis ganz hervorragender Art war dasjenige, was ich in früheren Zusammenhängen schon so charakterisiert habe, wie es sich hineinstellte in den Verlauf der Zivilisationsentwickelung der Erde. Aber jetzt muß es so charakterisiert werden, wie es sich ausnimmt von dem Aspekt der Michaeliten selber von der Sonne aus, wie man es aus der Perspektive sieht, wenn man hinunterschaut aus dem Reiche des Michael auf die Erde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-08-08/p011"},{"locus":"GA 237/1924-08-08/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Dieses wichtige, dieses bedeutungsvolle Ereignis geschah im Jahre 869. Es ist das achte allgemeine, ökumenische Konzil in Konstantinopel, wo dogmatisch konstatiert worden ist: Die alte Anschauung von der Trichotomie — der Mensch bestehe aus Leib, Seele und Geist wäre ketzerisch, der Mensch habe nur Leib und Seele, nur daß die Seele einige geistige Eigenschaften habe. Während sich im Objektiven das vollzog, daß die Intelligenz auf die einzelnen Menschen überging, wurde auf Erden - in so besiegelnder Weise, daß niemand, der in der europäischen Zivilisation stand, dem zu widersprechen wagen konnte dekretiert, die Trichotomie sei falsch, sei ketzerisch. Man durfte nicht davon sprechen, daß der Mensch Leib, Seele und Geist habe, sondern nur von Leib und Seele durfte man sprechen und der Seele geistige Eigenschaften und Kräfte zuschreiben. Damit war etwas auf Erden geschehen, von dem man in den Michael-Reichen nur sagen konnte: Nun wird einziehen in die Seelen der Menschen die Überzeugung, daß das Geistige eine Seeleneigenschaft ist, daß das Geistige nicht das Göttliche ist, das im Fortgang der Menschheitsentwickelung waltet. «Seht hinunter auf die Erde» — das ist die Sprache des Michael -, «da schwindet das Bewußtsein vom Geiste.» Aber, meine lieben Freunde, mit diesem Schwinden des Bewußtseins vom Geiste war ja gerade das verbunden, von dem wir heute vorzugsweise sprechen wollen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-08-08/p012"}],"english":["GA 237/1924-08-08/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":411,"en_words":451,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 237/1924-08-08/p011","GA 237/1924-08-08/p012"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.16,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6477,"original_word_count":5591,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams. 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