{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 240/1924-07-18/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Alanus ab Insulis spoke to the following effect to a narrow circle of his initiated pupils:—‘As we contemplate the universe to-day, we still regard the Earth as the centre, we judge everything from the Earth, as the centre. If the terrestrial conception which enables us to unfold our pictures and our imaginations... if this conception alone were to fertilise the coming centuries, progress would not be possible for mankind. We must come to an understanding with the Aristotelians who bring to humanity the intellect which must then be spiritualised so that in the twentieth century it may shine forth in a new and spiritual form among men. We, in our time, regard the Earth as the centre of the Cosmos, we speak of the planets circling around the Earth, we describe the whole heaven of stars as it presents itself to physical eyes as if it revolved around the Earth. But there will come one who will say: Let us place the Sun at the spatial centre of the cosmic system! But when he who will thus place the Sun at the centre of the spatial universe has come, the picture of the world will become arid. Men will only calculate the courses of the planets, will merely indicate the positions of the heavenly bodies, speaking of them as gases, or burning, luminous, physical bodies; they will know the starry heavens only in terms of mathematical and mechanical laws. But this arid picture of the world that will become widespread in the coming times, has, after all, *one* thing—meagre, it is true, yet it has it none the less. ... We look at the universe from the *Earth*; he who will come will look at the universe from the standpoint of the *Sun*. He will be like one who indicates a “direction” only—the direction leading towards a path of majestic splendour, fraught with most wonderful happenings and peopled by glorious Beings. But he will give the direction through abstract concepts only.’ (Thereby the Copernican picture of the world was indicated, arid and abstract yet giving the direction...) ‘For,’ said Alanus ab Insulis, ‘everything we present through the Imaginations that come to us must pass away; it must pass away and the picture men now have of the world must become altogether abstract, hardly more than a pointer along a path strewn with wonderful memorials. For then, in the spiritual world, there will be One who will use this pointer—which for the purposes of world-renewal is nothing more than a means of directive—in order that, together with the prevailing intellectualism, he may then lay the foundations of the new spirituality ... there will be One who will have this pointer as his only tool. This One will be St. Michael! For Him the ground must be made free; he must sow the path with new seed. And to that end, nothing but lines must remain—mathematical lines!’","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Chartres School Platonists and Dominican Aristotelians","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Wenn wir jetzt die Erde als den Mittelpunkt des Kosmos anschauen, wenn wir die Planeten als um die Erde kreisend, wenn wir den ganzen Sternenhimmel, wie er sich zunächst auch für das physische Auge darbietet, so beschreiben, als wenn er sich drehen würde um die Erde, so wird aber doch einer kommen und wird sagen: Stellen wir einmal die Sonne räumlich in den Mittelpunkt des Weltensystems! Dann aber, wenn dieser kommt, der die Sonne räumlich in den Mittelpunkt des Weltalls stellt, dann wird die Weltanschauung veröden. Die Menschen werden dann nur noch die Bahnen der Planeten ausrechnen, werden nur noch die Orte der Himmelskörper angeben. Die Menschen werden von den Himmelskörpern nur sprechen wie von Gasen oder physischen Körpern, die da brennen und brennend leuchten; sie werden nur ganz mathematisch-mechanisch etwas von dem Sternenhimmel wissen. Aber das, was da als öde Weltanschauung sich ausbreiten wird, das hat doch eines- ein Armseliges —, aber eines hat es: Wir schauen von der Erde aus die Welt an; der, der da kommen wird, wird von der Sonne aus die Welt anschauen. Er wird sein wie einer, der nur die «Richtung» angibt, die Richtung auf einen großartig bedeutsamen, mit den wunderbarsten Ereignissen und wunderbarsten Wesenheiten ausgestalteten Weg. Aber er gibt nur die abstrakte Richtung an — damit war auf die kopernikanische Weltanschauung hingedeutet, in ihrer Ode, in ihrer Abstraktheit, aber als Richtung -, denn alles das muß zuerst fort, was wir mit unseren Imaginationen vertreten, so sagte Alanus ab Insulis; das muß fort, und gewissermaßen ganz abstrakt muß das Weltbild werden, fast nur wie ein Meilenzeiger auf einem Wege mit wunderbaren Denkmälern. Denn da wird in der geistigen Welt einer sein, der diesen Meilenzeiger, der für die Erneuerung der Welt nichts anderes haben wird als Richtung, nehmen wird, damit er dann, mit dem Intellektualismus zusammen, die neue Spiritualität begründen kann, einer, der nichts wird brauchen können als diesen Meilenzeiger. Das aber wird sein, wie Alanus ab Insulis sagte, Sankt Michael! Für ihn muß das Feld frei werden; er muß den Weg mit neuen Saaten besäen. 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