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Whereas the physical body still gave something to men on earth up to the end of the 18th century because of the elemental beings which are living in it, men must now get their virtues and everything productive that they will find inwardly from the spiritual world; this is mankind as a whole, not individual human beings. So that a crossing of the threshold is occurring in the evolution of mankind as a whole, which appears to the Apocalypticer before he has his vision of the sun-illuminated woman with the dragon under her feet, because it actually precedes it in time. Here the Apocalypticer has another vision that clearly reflects what he wants to say: The time is coming when the whole of humanity, or at least its civilized parts will have to cross the threshold. And a triad appears which is the cosmic Imagination of what mankind is going through. There will be ever more men who will have the feeling: My thoughts want to run away from me, and my feet are being pulled down by the earth's gravity; this is in addition to other feelings that men can develop when these things become more pathological. Many people today have the strong feeling that their thoughts are running away from them and that their feet are being pulled down to the earth too much. 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Then there are people today who act as if they only had a hypertrophically developed will; their thinking and feeling are stunted; they charge like bulls and act in accordance with direct, outer impulses,—they're the fiery footed men.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":159,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/346/1924-09-18/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-09-18","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 346/1924-09-18/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/346/1924-09-18/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":164,"en_words":159,"ratio":0.97,"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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Wir können sagen: Die sich entwickelnde Menschheit, die lebt ja in dem Unterbewußtsein jedes einzelnen Menschen, aber das steigt eben nicht in das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein herauf, und sie macht ähnliche Etappen ihrer Entwickelung durch wie der einzelne Mensch. Und eben jetzt in unserem Zeitalter wird im Entwickelungsgang der Menschheit so etwas durchgemacht wie der Übergang über die Schwelle und die Spaltung in drei. Dasjenige, was für den einzelnen Menschen das Vorbeigehen an dem Hüter der Schwelle ist, das muß der Mensch im Bewußtseinsseelenzeitalter sich aneignen, wenn er es haben will. Die Menschheit aber geht, für den einzelnen unbewußt für unser Zeitalter, an dem Hüter der Schwelle vorbei. Die ganze Menschheit macht das durch, was der Übergang über die Schwelle ist. Während die physische Leiblichkeit bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts herauf noch immer durch die ihr innewohnenden elementarischen Wesen dem Menschen etwas gegeben hat auf Erden, muß der Mensch in der Zukunft alles das, was er produktiv innerlich finden wird, auch seine Tugenden, aus der geistigen Welt herausholen, nicht als einzelner Mensch, sondern als Menschheit. So daß ein Schwellendurchgang vorliegt in der Entwickelung der ganzen Menschheit, der, weil er auch der Zeit nach davor liegt, dem Apokalyptiker erscheint, bevor ihm die Vision sich vor Augen stellt von dem sonnenbekleideten Weibe, das den Drachen unter ihren Füßen hat. Da hat er die andere Vision, jene Vision, welche deutlich wiedergibt, daß der Apokalyptiker sagen will: Die Zeit kommt, wo die ganze Menschheit in ihrem zivilisierten Teile über die Schwelle zu treten hat, wo eine Dreiheit erscheint als die kosmische Imagination desjenigen, was die Menschheit durchmacht. Immer mehr Menschen wird es geben, die neben dem Gefühl, das der Mensch entwickeln kann, wenn das Gesunde an das Pathologische angrenzt, die andere Empfindung haben werden: Meine Gedanken wollen mir davonlaufen, meine Füße werden durch die Erdenschwere nach unten gezogen. — Es gibt in der Gegenwart viele Menschen, die eigentlich dieses Gefühl sehr stark haben, ihre Gedanken fliegen ihnen davon, ihre Füße werden von der Erde übermäßig angezogen. Nur wird so etwas durch unsere heutige Zivilisation dem Menschen ebenso ausgeredet, wie es den Kindern ausgeredet wird, wenn sie irgendwelche Visionen haben, die auf realer Grundlage beruhen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":393,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/346/1924-09-18/p012"},{"locus":"GA 346/1924-09-18/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Dasjenige aber, was in unserer Zeit stark lebt, erscheint vor dem hellseherischen Auge des Apokalyptikers als jene Figur, die sich aus Wolken herausbildet, sonnenähnliches Gesicht hat, in einen Regenbogen übergeht, und feurige Füße hat, von denen der eine auf dem Meer, der andere auf der Erde steht (Apk. 10, 1 u. 2). Man möchte sagen, das ist in der Tat die bedeutsamste Erscheinung, die sich die gegenwärtige Menschenseele vor Augen stellen soll. Denn in dem, was oben wolkengeborenes Antlitz ist, liegen die Gedanken, die dem Geisterlande angehören; in dem, was Regenbogen ist, liegt die Gefühlswelt der Menschenseele, die der Seelenwelt angehört; in den feurigen Füßen, die aus der Kraft der meerüberdeckten Erde heraus ihre Kraft erhielten, liegt das, was im Leibe des Menschen enthalten ist, der mit der physischen Welt zusammengehört.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/346/1924-09-18/p013"},{"locus":"GA 346/1924-09-18/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Wir werden da, ich möchte sagen, auf das eigentliche Kulturgeheimnis der Gegenwart hingewiesen, das sich ja zunächst so äußert, daß die Menschen nicht gleich dreigespalten erscheinen, sondern so erscheinen - was ja in unserer jetzigen Zeit nun mit Händen zu greifen ist —, daß wir Wolkenmenschen haben, die nur denken können, während verkümmert sind die beiden anderen Teile: Regenbogen und Feuerfüße, daß wir Regenbogenmenschen haben, bei denen vorzugsweise das Gefühl ausgebildet ist, die auch zum Beispiel die Anthroposophie nur mit dem Gefühl erfassen können, nicht mit dem Verstande. Aber sie sind nicht nur in der anthroposophischen Gesellschaft, sondern auch draußen in der Welt vorhanden. Diese Menschen können die Welt nur mit dem Gefühl erfassen; bei ihnen ist verkümmert Denken und Wille, aber das Gefühl ist besonders ausgebildet. Dann gibt es heute Menschen, die eigentlich so handeln, wie wenn sie bloß den Willen hypertrophiert ausgebildet hätten. Verkümmert ist ihr Denken und Gefühl: Stiermäßig handelnde Menschen, nur den unmittelbar äußeren Impulsen hingegeben - die feuerfüßigen Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/346/1924-09-18/p014"}],"beads":[{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"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)."}}