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This is an absolutely unavoidable side-effect of modern life, and I want to give a word of warning right at the outset, as the kind of lecture I want to give today can very easily rouse what I would call theosophists' hidden arrogance, which flourishes very well here and there.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/275/1914-12-28/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-12-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":212,"en_words":200,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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I think that in the case of this theosophists' arrogance, it can easily happen that people imagine they must take great care not to expose themselves to these destructive forces; that they must protect themselves from all the influences of modern life; that they must closet themselves in a room containing the right surroundings, with walls of the colour indicated by theosophy, to make sure that modern life cannot reach them in any way that would be harmful to their bodily organisation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":111,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/275/1914-12-28/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-12-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":120,"en_words":111,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Everything of the nature of withdrawing and protecting oneself from the influences of all that we necessarily have to encounter as world karma arises out of weakness. But anthroposophy can only strengthen the human soul (Gemüt), and should develop those forces that inwardly strengthen and arm us against these influences. Therefore, never within the compass of our spiritual movement could any kind of recommendation be given to cut oneself off from modern life, or to turn spiritual life into a kind of hothouse culture. This could never apply in the realm of true spiritual culture. Although it is understandable that weaker natures prefer to withdraw from modern life and go into one or another kind of settlement where they are out of reach of it, the fact remains that this arises not from strength but from weakness of soul. Our task, however, consists in strengthening our soul life by permeating ourselves with the impulses of spiritual science and spiritual research so that we are armed against the onslaughts of modern life, and so that our souls can stand any amount of hammering and knocking and are still capable of finding their way into the divine-spiritual realms right through the hammering and knocking of the ahrimanic spirits.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":217,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/275/1914-12-28/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-12-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p009"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":211,"en_words":217,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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We actually sleep in the daytime as well, only we do not notice our daytime sleep as much as our nighttime sleep. During the night our thought life is dimmed down, and because our soul lives predominantly in our thoughts we are, as a matter of course, more aware of the dimming down of our thought life during nighttime sleep. During the day our life of will is more at rest, yet we are less aware of this because we live less in our will. All the arguing the philosophers have done about the freedom and lack of freedom of the will is due to this. As they have not taken into account that they are investigating the will whilst they are daytime sleepers and therefore cannot arrive at its true nature, they talk a lot of nonsense about free will and unfree will, indeterminism and determinism. In actual fact, whilst we are open to the waking life of day, we are only conscious of our will life to a very small degree; it dips down into the subconscious, into the region that belongs purely to the astral body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":212,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/275/1914-12-28/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-12-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":172,"en_words":212,"ratio":1.23,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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It came on the scene essentially at the beginning of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch.[^1] The beginning of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch actually coincides with the beginning of the modern age. What does modern intellectual culture say about the beginning of the modern age? As we know, modern intellectual culture is proud of the achievements of modern life. It is expressed somewhat like this: Throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages people were incapable of developing a real observation of nature such as could have led to natural science. This did not happen until modern times. And when people talk of modern times like this they are speaking of the time which began with the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. That was when people broke away from the old way of observing nature and observed it impartially, solely according to abstract laws. And it was through this knowledge of the laws of nature that natural science came into the position of opening up the possibility of mastering the forces of nature, and mastering them in an unprecedented way, as we so often hear. Yet this is just what modern technology is. And the characteristic nature of modern technology arose as a result of man acquiring knowledge of natural laws and then proceeding to use the material world to fashion his machines according to these natural laws, machines with which he can then work back on nature and life by filling modern life with them and creating his own technological setting; that is, modern life in its essence and function. 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However if we speak like this we are speaking Ahriman's language for this is using the language of Ahriman. But let us see if we can translate this language of Ahriman into the real and true language that we are trying to acquire again by means of spiritual science, a language where words not only acquire the meaning ascribed to them through observation of external nature, but also acquire the meaning ascribed to them when we look at the cosmos in its entirety, that is, both as nature and as spiritual life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":99,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/275/1914-12-28/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-12-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":96,"en_words":99,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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What is happening in the first place is just work being carried out in two stages. The first stage consists of destroying the interrelationships of nature. We blast out quarries and take the stone away, maltreat the forests and take the wood away, and the list could go on—in short, we get our raw materials in the first instance by smashing and wearing down the interrelationships in nature. And the second stage consists of taking what we have extracted from nature and putting it together again as a machine according to the laws we know as natural laws. 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Looking at it from inside, the matter is like this: When we take things from nature, mineral nature to begin with, we know from previous lectures that this is linked with a certain feeling of well-being belonging to the elemental spiritual beings that are within it. This, however, does not concern us so much now. What is important here is that we cast out of nature the elemental spirits belonging to the sphere of the regular progressive hierarchies who, in fact, are the very spirits who maintain nature. In all natural existence there are elemental spiritual beings. When we plunder nature we squeeze out the nature spirits into the sphere of the spirit. That is, in fact, what is constantly happening during the first stage. We smash and plunder material nature and thus release the nature spirits, driving them forth from the sphere allotted them by the Jehovah gods into a realm where they can fly about freely and are no longer bound to their allotted dwelling places. Thus we can call the first stage the casting out of the nature spirits. The second stage is the one where we put together what we have plundered from nature, according to our knowledge of natural laws. Now when we construct a machine or a complex of machines out of raw material according to our knowledge of natural laws, we put certain spiritual beings into the things we construct.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":248,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/275/1914-12-28/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-12-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":235,"en_words":248,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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In constructing it we make a habitation for other spiritual beings, but these spiritual beings that we conjure into our machines are beings belonging to the ahrimanic hierarchy. Thus at the first stage we encounter nature spirits who are in progressive evolution and cast them out and at the second stage we unite these ahrimanic spirits with our mechanisms or other products of technology. This means that by living in this technological milieu of modern times we create an ahrimanic setting for everything that goes on in us in a sleeping state, by night or day. So it is no wonder that a person at the first stages of initiation, bringing back with him into his waking life all that he has experienced outside in the way of noise and confusion, feels its destructive character when he comes back into his physical and etheric body with this in his ego and his astral body. For he is bringing back into his own organism the results, as it were, of his having been in the company of the ahrimanic elemental spirits. Thus we could say that at the third stage, at the cultural level, we have technology around us, stuffed full of ahrimanic spirits which we have put there. This is what things look like from inside.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/275/1914-12-28/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-12-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":233,"en_words":228,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Derjenige, welcher, ich will sagen, die ersten Schritte des Initiiertenlebens gemacht hat, durchlebt in anderer Art die Erfahrung, die gemacht werden kann, wenn wir in einem Eisenbahnzug oder auf einem Dampfschiffe eine Nacht zubringen, insbesondere wenn wir in dem Eisenbahnzug oder auf dem Dampfschiffe schlafen. Der Unterschied, der da vorliegt mit Bezug auf den in den Anfangsstadien des Initiiertenlebens Stehenden und demjenigen, der nicht irgendwie in Zusammenhang gekommen ist mit diesem Initiiertenleben, besteht darinnen, daß bei dem ersteren die Erlebnisse bewußt werden, daß er erkennen lernt, was da eigentlich mit ihm geschieht, wenn er eine Nacht, insbesondere schlafend, auf einem Dampfschiffe oder in einem Eisenbahnzuge fahrend zubringt. Die Einflüsse, die auf den ganzen menschlichen Organismus von einem solchen Erleben ausgehen, erfährt selbstverständlich auch derjenige, der die Dinge nicht durch Initiation kennenlernt, genauso wie der andere, der von diesen Einflüssen durch die Initiation wissen lernt. In bezug auf die Gesamtwirkung auf die menschliche Natur ist natürlich kein Unterschied.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p005"},{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Wenn wir verstehen wollen, was mit diesen Andeutungen eigentlich gemeint ist, dann müssen wir uns ins Gedächtnis zurückrufen eine uns allerdings bekannte geisteswissenschaftliche Wahrheit, nämlich diese, daß, während wir schlafen, wir mit unserem Ich und unserem astralischen Leibe außerhalb unseres physischen und Ätherleibes sind. Wir sind tatsächlich zunächst wegen gewisser Beschränkungen, die uns kosmische Gesetze naturgemäß auferlegen, mit unserem Ich und unserem astralischen Leibe in einem solchen Falle vorzugsweise in unmittelbarer Nähe unseres physischen und Ätherleibes, so daß wir mit unserem Ich und Astralleibe, wenn wir in einem Eisenbahnwagen fahrend schlafen, im Grunde genommen ganz darinnen sind in alldem Gebremse, Gerolle und Getöse, das mit den Rädern und der Maschinerie des Zuges und so weiter zusammenhängt. Ebenso ist es auf dem modernen Dampfschiff. In alledem, was da um uns herum vorgeht, stecken wir darinnen. In diesen wahrhaft nicht gerade musikalischen Erfahrungen unserer Umgebung stecken wir darinnen, und man braucht nur die allerersten Schritte der Initiation durchgemacht zu haben, dann kann man beim Aufwachen merken, wie das in den physischen und Ätherleib zurückkehrende Ich mit dem astralischen Leibe noch mitbringen, was sie erlebten in dem Gepreßtwerden durch die Maschinerie, in der sie wirklich steckten und durch die sie in dem Momente vor dem Aufwachen durchgingen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p006"},{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"All das disharmonische Gepresse und Gezerre nimmt man mit in den physischen und Ätherleib, und wer jemals aufgewacht ist mit dem Nachklingen desjenigen, was ein Dampfschiff oder ein Eisenbahnzug mit ihren Maschinerien in seinem Ich, in seinem astralischen Leibe angerichtet haben, wer sich das hereingebracht hat in sein tagwaches Bewußtsein, der merkt, wie wenig zusammenstimmend das ist, was man da hereinbringt, mit dem, was im Inneren des Menschen abläuft als eine Art Erlebnis des Ich und des astralischen Leibes von der inneren Gesetzmäßigkeit des physischen und ätherischen Leibes. Man bringt tatsächlich die herbste Unordnung, das greulichste Getöse hinein, ein Gezerre, Gequietsche und Geknarre, und das wirkt auf den Ätherleib tatsächlich so, wenn man eine feinere Empfindung für die Sache hat, wie wenn man - das ist natürlich ein grober Vergleich, aber Sie werden ihn nicht mißverstehen - mit dem physischen Leib, das andere wirkt aber auf den Ätherleib, in einer Maschine zerquetscht und zerteilt würde. Dies ist eine ganz notwendige Begleiterscheinung des modernen Lebens, und ich möchte gleich von vornherein eine, ich möchte sagen, warnende Bemerkung machen, weil solche Auseinandersetzungen wie diejenigen, die ich heute zu machen gedenke, sehr leicht wachrufen dasjenige, was ich nennen möchte den verborgenen Hochmut der Theosophen, einen gewissen verborgenen Hochmut, der ja da und dort reichlich blüht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":212,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p007"},{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Ich sage das selbstverständlich ohne die geringste auch nur allgemeine, geschweige denn speziellere Anspielung, denn wenn man so etwas auseinandersetzt wie das, was heute auseinandergesetzt worden ist, so ruft man gleich Urteile hervor. Ich meine, bei dem angedeuteten Hochmut der Theosophen kann es leicht der Fall sein, daß man sich sagt: Da muß ich mich recht sehr hüten, mich diesen zerstörenden Mächten mit meiner eigenen Leiblichkeit auszusetzen, da muß ich mich recht sehr hüten gegenüber all den Einflüssen des modernen Lebens, da muß ich mich hübsch abschließen in ein Kämmerchen mit der richtigen Umgebung, mit den durch die Theosophie ratsamen farbigen Wandungen, so daß ja nichts mich berührt, was meine leibliche Organisation betrifft, von alledem, was das moderne Leben bringt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p008"},{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Diese Wirkung möchte ich mit meinen Auseinandersetzungen wahrhaftig nicht hervorrufen. All das Sich-Zurückziehen, das gewissermaßen Sich-bewahren-Wollen vor den Einflüssen desjenigen, was das Weltenkarma notwendigerweise über uns bringen muß, entspringt einer Schwäche. Die Anthroposophie aber kann einzig das menschliche Gemüt stärken, soll diejenige Kraft entwickeln, welche uns innerlich wappnet und stärkt gegenüber diesen Einflüssen. Daher könnte auch niemals auf dem Felde unserer geistigen Bewegung erblühen irgendwelche Anempfehlung eines Sich-Zurückziehens von dem modernen Leben, eines Bildens einer gewissen Treibhauskultur des geistigen Lebens. Darum kann es sich auf dem Boden wahrer Geisteskultur niemals handeln. Obwohl es zu begreifen ist, daß schwächere Naturen sich gern zurückziehen aus dem modernen Leben in diese oder jene Kolonien, in denen sie nicht berührt werden von dem modernen Leben, so muß doch gesagt werden, daß das nicht entspringt einer Stärke, sondern einer Schwäche der Seele. Unsere Aufgabe aber besteht darin, daß wir die Seele stark machen durch das Sich-Durchdringen mit den Impulsen, die aus der Geisteswissenschaft und Geistesforschung kommen, damit sie gewappnet ist gegen die Einflüsse des modernen Lebens, so daß die Seele es aushalten kann, wenn es auch noch so sehr um sie hämmert und klopft, daß sie dennoch imstande ist, ihren Weg in die geistig-göttlichen Gebiete zu finden durch das Hämmern und Klopfen der ahrimanischen Geister hindurch.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":211,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p009"},{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Eines müssen wit beachten, worauf auch schon oftmals von mir hingedeutet worden ist. Wir schlafen als Menschen nicht nur in der Nacht. Wir schlafen tatsächlich auch bei Tage, nur merkt man den Tagesschlaf weniger als den Nachtschlaf. In der Nacht ist das Gedankenleben des Menschen herabgedämmert, und weil der Mensch zunächst vorzugsweise seelisch in seinen Gedanken lebt, so merkt er naturgemäß das Herabgedämmertsein des Gedankenlebens während des Nachtschlafes mehr. Bei Tage ruht mehr das Willensleben, das merkt man weniger, weil man weniger in dem Willen lebt. Eine Folge dessen ist all das Streiten der Philosophen über die Freiheit und Unfreiheit des Willens, weil sie nicht beachten, daß sie als Tagschläfer den Willen untersuchen und daher auf seine wahre Natur nicht kommen können, so daß sie viel ungereimtes Zeug sprechen über den freien und den unfreien Willen, über Indeterminismus und Determinismus. Tatsächlich, während wir unser breites, tägliches Leben entfalten, ist unser Willensleben nur in sehr geringem Grade uns bewußt, es taucht hinunter in das Unterbewußte, in die rein dem astralischen Leibe angehörige Region.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p010"},{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"So nehmen wir auch während des tagwachen Lebens teil an alledem, was das moderne Leben rings um uns herum an Gepresse und Gehämmere der modernen Technik hervorgebracht hat. Bei Nacht versenken wir uns mehr in dieses Gepresse und Gehämmere mit unserem Gefühls- und Gedankenleben, bei Tag mehr mit unserem Willens- und Gefühlsleben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":52,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p011"},{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Nun liegt die Sache so, daß ja dasjenige, was wir so modernes Leben nennen, nicht immer vorhanden war in dem Entwickelungsgange der Menschheit. Das ist erst heraufgekommen, und zwar im wesentlichen heraufgekommen seit dem Beginne der fünften nachatlantischen Kulturepoche. Mit dem Beginne der fünften nachatlantischen Kulturepoche fällt auch zusammen der Beginn dieses modernen Lebens. Wie spricht die äußere Geisteskultur über das Heraufkommen dieses modernen Lebens? Die moderne Geisteskultur ist ja, wie wir wissen, stolz auf das, was sie sich errungen hat mit diesem modernen Leben. Sie sagt etwa so: Das ganze Altertum und das ganze Mittelalter hindurch waren die Menschen nicht fähig, eine wirkliche Naturbetrachtung zu entwickeln, die zu einer Naturwissenschaft hätte führen können. Erst in neuerer Zeit ist dies eingetreten. - Und wenn man so von der neueren Zeit spricht, so fällt das eben zusammen mit dem Beginne der fünften nachatlantischen Kulturepoche. Da hat man sich frei gemacht von dem alten Naturbeobachten und betrachtet die Natur unbefangen, rein ihrer abstrakten Gesetzmäßigkeit nach. Dadurch ist die Naturwissenschaft auch in die Lage gekommen, durch die Erfahrung der Naturgesetze in einer unerhörten Weise — man hört dieses Wort recht oft - die Beherrschung der Naturkräfte für sich möglich zu machen. Das aber ist die moderne Technik, und das, woraus die moderne Technik besteht, ist dasjenige, was dadurch entstand, daß der Mensch die Naturgesetze kennenlernte und wiederum die Materie nach diesen Naturgesetzen zu seinen Maschinen formte, mit denen er dann auf die Natur und das Leben wirkt, indem er das moderne Leben überhaupt dadurch maschinell durchzieht und sich sein technisches Milieu schafft, also dasjenige, was das moderne Leben um uns herum ist und was es schafft. So sieht man: Die neuere Zeit hat erst die wahre Naturwissenschaft begründet und damit die rechte Beherrschung der Natur und ihrer Kräfte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":295,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p012"},{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"So ähnlich hört man sehr häufig reden. Wenn man aber so redet, spricht man die Sprache Ahrimans, denn dies ist in der Sprache Ahrimans gesprochen. Wir wollen einmal versuchen, diese Sprache Ahrimans in jene wirkliche, wahrhaftige Sprache zu übersetzen, die wir versuchen, uns durch die Geisteswissenschaft wieder anzueignen, und durch die den Worten nicht bloß die Bedeutung gegeben wird, die ihnen gegeben werden kann aus der Betrachtung der äußeren Natur, sondern auch jene Bedeutung, die ihnen zukommt, wenn wir den Kosmos in seiner Ganzheit, das heißt gleichzeitig in seiner Natur und in seinem geistigen Leben betrachten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p013"},{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Nehmen wir zunächst ganz äußerlich das, was geschieht, wenn wir die moderne Technik ausbilden. Was da geschieht, ist ja nichts anderes zunächst, als, ich möchte sagen, ein Arbeiten in zwei Etappen. Die erste Etappe besteht darin, daß wir den Zusammenhang der Natur zerstören. Wir zerklopfen die Steinbrüche, holen aus ihnen heraus die Steine, wir malträtieren die Wälder, holen aus ihnen heraus das Holz man könnte das noch weiter ausführen -—, kurz, man schafft zunächst Rohmaterialien, indem man den Naturzusammenhang zerklopft und zermürbt. Und die zweite Etappe besteht darinnen, daß das, was man so aus der Natur herausgeschlagen hat, wieder zusammengefügt wird zu einer Maschine nach den Gesetzen, die man erkannt hat als Naturgesetze. Das sind die zwei Etappen, wenn man die Sache äußerlich betrachtet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p014"},{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Aber wie ist die Sache innerlich betrachtet? Innerlich betrachtet ist die Sache so: Wenn wir die Natur zermürben, zunächst die mineralische, so ist dies — wir wissen es aus früheren Betrachtungen - verknüpft mit einem gewissen Wohlgefühl, welches das geistige Elementarische darinnen empfindet. Das soll uns aber hier weniger bekümmern. In dem aber, was da vorgeht, ist das wichtig, daß wir aus der Natur austreiben die die Natur zusammenhaltenden Elementargeister, welche zu dem Reiche, der Sphäre der regelrecht fortschreitenden Hierarchien gehören. In allem Naturdasein sind elementare geistige Wesen. Indem wir die Natur zermürben, pressen wir in das Reich des Geistigen hinaus die Naturgeister. Das ist in der Tat dasjenige, was mit der ersten Etappe fortwährend verknüpft ist. Wir zerschlagen, zermürben die materielle Natur und lösen dadurch heraus aus dieser Natur die Naturgeister, die wir gewissermaßen aus ihrer, ihnen von den, ich möchte sagen, Jahvegöttern angewiesenen Sphäre hinausjagen in das Reich, wo sie frei flattern können und nicht mehr gebunden sind an den ihnen angewiesenen Wohnplatz. Also die erste Etappe können wir auch nennen die Austreibung der Naturgeister. Die zweite Etappe ist diese, wo wir zusammenfügen nach den von uns erkannten Naturgesetzen das, was wir aus der Natur herausgemürbt, herausgemartert haben. Ja, wenn wir nach einem Naturgesetze, das wir erkannt haben, aus Rohmaterialien eine Maschine oder einen Zusammenhang von Maschinen bilden, dann versetzen wir wiederum gewisse geistige Wesenheiten hinein in das Gebilde, das wir also formen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":235,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p015"},{"locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Das Gebilde, das wir also formen, ist keineswegs ein geistloses. Indem wir es formen, schaffen wir das Bett für andere geistige Wesen, und diese geistigen Wesen, die wir jetzt aber in unsere maschinellen Gebilde hineinzaubern, sind die Wesenheiten, die zur ahrimanischen Hierarchie gehören. Also in der ersten Etappe treffen wir die Naturgeister an, die in fortlaufender Entwickelung sind, treiben sie heraus, und in der andern Etappe vereinigen wir diese ahrimanischen Geister mit dem, was wir als Mechanismen oder sonstige Werke der Technik . aufbauen. Das aber bewirkt, indem wir in diesem technischen Milieu in der neueren Zeit darinnen leben, daß wir uns für dasjenige, was wir entweder bei Nacht oder bei Tag in uns schlafend haben, durchaus eine ahrimanische Umgebung schaffen. Es ist daher kein Wunder, daß der, welcher auf der ersten Stufe der Initiation steht, wenn er beim Aufwachen dasjenige hereinbringt, was er erlebt hat draußen in dem Gebrause, Gezerre und Getöse, es als ein Zerstörendes empfindet, wenn er mit demselben in seinem Ich und seinem astralischen Leibe in den physischen und ätherischen Leib hineinkommt. Denn er bringt sich ja sozusagen die Folge eines Zusammenlebens mit den ahrimanischen Elementargeistern mit hinein in seinen eigenen Organismus. Wir können sagen: Als dritte Etappe jetzt, als Kulturetappe, haben wir das von der uns umgebenden Technik, daß wir uns mit ahrimanischen Geistern ausstopfen, so recht mit ihnen durchstopfen. — So sieht sich die Sache innerlich an.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p016"}],"beads":[{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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