{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-08-08/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now you will say: How is it possible that it suddenly occurs to a number of Michael Angels to leave the kingdom of Michael? It does not occur to the others to leave.—This, my dear friends, I must admit, is one of the most difficult questions that can possibly be raised in connection with the modern evolution of mankind. It is a question such that as we enter into it all the inner forces of the human being are called into play. It is a question deeply and intimately connected with the whole life of man. For you see, at the foundation of it there lies a cosmic fact. You know, from lectures I have given here, that what is commonly referred to as a mere physical planet is in reality a gathering of Spiritual Beings. When we look up to a star, that which appears to us physically is but the external aspect. In reality we have to do with a gathering of Spiritual Beings. Now there is a certain contrast. Since the very beginning of earthly evolution, this contrast has existed. It is the contrast between the Intelligences of all the planets and the Intelligence of the Sun. There is indeed on the one hand the Sun Intelligence, while on the other there are the Intelligences of the several planets. And it was always so, that the Sun Intelligence stood paramountly under the dominion of Michael, while the other Planetary Intelligences were subject to the other Archangels. Thus we may say:","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":253,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-08-08/p011","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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Das ist eine Frage, die tief und innig zusammenhängt mit dem ganzen Menschenleben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-08-08/p014"},{"locus":"GA 237/1924-08-08/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Sehen Sie, da liegt in der Tat eine kosmische Tatsache zugrunde. Sie wissen aus meinen Vorträgen, die ich hier von dieser Stelle aus gehalten habe: Alles, was man anspricht als einen physischen Planeten, ist eine Ansammlung von geistigen Wesenheiten. Wenn man hinaufschaut zu einem Stern, so ist das, was physisch erscheint, nur das Äußere; in Wirklichkeit hat man es da zu tun mit einer Versammlung von geistigen Wesenheiten. Nun besteht ein gewisser Gegensatz — der immer bestand, seitdem es eine Erdenentwickelung gegeben hat - zwischen den Intelligenzen aller Planeten und der Sonnenintelligenz. Es ist eben auf der einen Seite die Sonnenintelligenz, auf der anderen Seite sind die Planetenintelligenzen. 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