{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 275/1914-12-28/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The structure we make is by no means without its spiritual beings. 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,"title":"I. Technology and Art","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-12-28","location":null,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/275/1914-12-28/p016","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Pauline Wehrle and Johanna Collis","identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA275/English/RSP1984/19141228p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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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. 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