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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. 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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":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}