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So the ability to speak a particular language among all peoples can be traced back to the presence of such great enlighteners who were angelic beings who had remained behind and were far higher than the people in their immediate surroundings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":119,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-07/p034","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19110607s01.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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Certain beings are held back in their development because they have a different task in development. 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Sie können nun daraus sehen: Wenn es bloß diese Entwicklung gegeben hätte, so würde das ganze Menschengeschlecht im Grunde genommen eine große Einheit geblieben sein; über die ganze Erde hin würde man einheitlich gesprochen und gedacht haben. Die Individualität, die Mannigfaltigkeit hätte sich nicht ausbilden können - und damit auch nicht die menschliche Freiheit. Dass jeder Mensch eine Individualität werden konnte, dazu mussten Spaltungen in der Menschheit eintreten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":101,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1911-06-07/p033"},{"locus":"GA 246/1911-06-07/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Die Verschiedenheit der Sprache, dass in den verschiedensten Gegenden der Erde die Sprachen verschieden wurden, dass eine Differenzierung in den Sprachen eintrat, das rührt her von der Lehre solcher Lehrer, in denen eine luziferische Wesenheit inkarniert war. Solche inkarnierten sich zum Beispiel bei den Ägyptern, bei dem persischen Volke und so weiter. Je nach dem diese oder jene - zurückgebliebene - Engelwesenheit dort inkarniert war, konnte sie in dieser oder jener Sprache die Menschen unterweisen. Also die Fähigkeit, eine besondere Sprache zu sprechen, führt bei allen Völkern zurück auf das Vorhandensein solcher großen Erleuchter, die zurückgebliebene Engelwesen waren und weit höher waren als die Menschen ihrer unmittelbaren Umgebung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":108,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1911-06-07/p034"},{"locus":"GA 246/1911-06-07/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Was zum Beispiel geschildert wird als die ursprünglichen Heroen der griechischen oder sonstigen Führer, die in menschlicher Gestalt wirkten, das sind solche, in denen eine zurückgebliebene Engelwesenheit inkarniert war. Wir dürfen also diese Wesenheiten durchaus nicht etwa bloß als «böse» Wesenheiten bezeichnen. Im Gegenteil, sie haben den Menschen das gebracht, was sie über den ganzen Erdball hin zu freien Wesen machte, was dasjenige differenzierte, was sonst ein gleichförmiges Ganzes über die ganze Erde hin gebildet hätte. So ist es bei den Sprachen, so ist es bei vielen Gebieten des Lebens. Die Individualisierung, die Differenzierung, die Freiheit - können wir sagen - kommt von diesen Wesenheiten, die zurückgeblieben waren auf dem Monde. Zwar war es die Absicht der weisen Weltenführung - könnte man sagen -, alle Wesenheiten in der planetarischen Entwicklung bis zu ihrem Ziele zu bringen; aber dann würden gewisse Dinge nicht erreicht. Es werden gewissen Wesenheiten in ihrer Entwicklung zurückgehalten, weil diese eine andere Aufgabe in der Entwicklung haben. 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