{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-08-08/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"My dear friends, that which goes on externally, which the astronomers describe, is after all only the outer side. You know that approximately every 11 years we have a period of Sun-spots, when in the shining of the Sun upon the earth certain places are darkened, covered with spots or blotches. This was not always so. In very ancient times the Sun shone down as a uniform disc of light. There were no Sun-spots. Moreover, after some thousands of years the Sun will have very many more spots than it has today. The Sun is growing ever more spotted. This again is the outer manifestation of the fact that the Michael Power, the Cosmic Power of Intelligence is still decreasing. In the increase of the Sun-spots in the course of Cosmic Evolution is revealed the Sun's decay; the Sun within the cosmos grows increasingly dim and old. And at the appearance of a sufficiently large number of Sun-spots, the other Planetary Intelligences recognised that they would now no longer be ruled by the Sun. They resolved no longer to allow the earth to be dependent on the Sun, but to make it dependent henceforth on the entire cosmos directly. This took place through the planetary Counsels of the Archangels. Notably under the leadership of Oriphiel, this emancipation of the Planetary Intelligences from the Sun-Intelligence took place. It was a complete separation of Cosmic Powers that had hitherto belonged together. The Sun-Intelligence of Michael and the Planetary Intelligences gradually came into cosmic opposition one with another.","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":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-08-08/p022","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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Jahrhundert, da geschah es eben, daß die planetarischen Intelligenzen Rechnung trugen dem Umstande, daß die Erde sich verändert hatte, daß auch die Sonne sich verändert hatte. Ja, das, was da draußen vor sich geht, was die Astronomen beschreiben, das ist nur die Außenseite. Sie wissen: Alle elf Jahre ungefähr haben wir eine Sonnenfleckenperiode; die Sonne scheint so auf die Erde, daß gewisse Stellen dunkel sind, daß gewisse Stellen fleckig sind. Das war nicht immer so. Die Sonne glänzte in sehr alten Zeiten als eine gleichförmige Scheibe herunter, Sonnenflecken waren nicht da. Und die Sonne wird nach Tausenden und Tausenden von Jahren wesentlich viel mehr Flecken haben als heute, sie wird immer fleckiger. Das ist immer die äußere Offenbarung dessen, daß die Michael-Kraft, die kosmische Kraft der Intelligenz immer mehr abnimmt. In dem Vermehren der Sonnenflecken durch die kosmische Entwickelung zeigt sich der Verfall der Sonne; immer mehr zeigt sich das Matterwerden, das Altwerden der Sonne im Kosmos. Und an dem Auftreten einer genügend großen Anzahl von Sonnenflecken erkannten die anderen planetarischen Intelligenzen, daß sie nicht mehr von der Sonne beherrscht sein wollen. Sie nahmen sich vor, die Erde nicht mehr von der Sonne abhängig sein zu lassen, sondern direkt vom gesamten Kosmos. Das geschieht durch die planetarischen Ratschlüsse der Archangeloi. Namentlich unter der Führung des Oriphiel geschieht diese Emanzipierung der planetarischen Intelligenz von der Sonnenintelligenz. Es war ein vollständiges Trennen von bis dahin zusammengehörigen Weltgewalten. Die Sonnenintelligenz des Michael und die planetarischen Intelligenzen gerieten nach und nach in kosmische Opposition zueinander.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-08-08/p019"}],"english":["GA 237/1924-08-08/p021","GA 237/1924-08-08/p022"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":260,"en_words":290,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"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. Revised by D.S. 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