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Spiritual science takes the view that the Lemurian man was very imperfect on the outside, but never descended from the ape, but the other way around; he left the apes behind at a lower level.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":73,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-01-18/p015","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19070118p01.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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The astral body or the soul has created the physical body; it is the creator of it, and the important point in time is when this soul was completely outside the body, where, after having made it perfect, this soul now passes from purely external activity to the inner being and becomes the I. An important moment, how in the Lemurian time the incarnation takes place. The Bible expresses this in a grand, powerful and meaningful way when it says: “And God breathed into the man the breath of life, and he became a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7) This indicates the moment when the group soul becomes an individual soul in the human being, the moment of the astral body's entering into the physical body. As a group soul it remained in the spiritual world; the religious expression for this would be: As long as the soul rested in the bosom of the Godhead, it was a group soul. Example: the fingers of the hand; they are members, organs; they stand in exactly the same relation to the physical body as the soul was before it entered the physical body, that is, as a group soul. It was a limb in the great Being, which we may now call God or All-Spirit. In these souls it was the Godhead that acted. Example: water and sponges that fill with water. When these souls moved into the physical body, they became individual drops of water.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":362,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-01-18/p016","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19070118p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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Before, the soul does not feel and act independently, but as the Divine inspires it. This Divine is a part of the common Divine substance. All souls therefore knew something of each other; they had a common consciousness; this now ceased. Individual existence now begins. Before, Divine law was their conductor, now no longer. And with that, selfishness now begins to play a role. God's will was previously the will of one's own soul; now it had to come to its own will, to selfishness. Now it had to come to the birth of selfishness, with it at the same time the birth of self-awareness. The replacement of the world order of wisdom by the world order of love occurred now, that is what spiritual science of all time called it. Love and egoism were not there before.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-01-18/p017","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19070118p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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Example of the fact that love was impossible before: My right hand cannot love my left hand. — So now love entered the world, and in its most subordinate form, in sexual love. Spiritual science tells us that this was also the time of the separation of the sexes. With physical incarnation, they appear simultaneously as male and female with differentiation; and with that, the first impulse is given to utilize the first power for the body. So we have two epochs: one completely dominated by wisdom, the second completely dominated by the development of love, the higher and the lower human being. At that time the body was less developed, the soul more highly developed.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-01-18/p018","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19070118p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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The soul is flawed, sins, and goes astray in the body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-01-18/p019","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19070118p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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At that time, when the human body was occupied by the soul, it was already predisposed to this perfection. Today, this entry of the soul has not yet been fully completed. As much of it as is the group soul has been built up by the physical body. The part that has moved into the body still has to go through this. There is no other way for the human being to develop than to go through the physical body. In the Greek mystery teachings, the soul was therefore called a 'bee'. It absorbs light, it hears, it collects by using the body as an instrument. And what the soul gathers down here on this earth, she will take with her and one day lay on the altar of the deity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-01-18/p020","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19070118p01.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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Die Geisteswissenschaft steht auf dem Standpunkte, dass der lemurische Mensch äußerlich sehr unvollkommen war, aber niemals vom Affen abgestammt hat, sondern umgekehrt; er hat die Affen auf niederer Stufe zurückgelassen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":66,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-01-18/p015"},{"locus":"GA 68a/1907-01-18/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Die Organisation des physischen Menschen stand damals auf der Höhe der reptilischen Organisation, und seine Seele wohnte noch außerhalb seines Leibes. Heute hat sie der wachende Mensch in seinem Leibe; beim Schlafenden, der nicht durch die Tore der Sinne wahrnimmt, da weiß die Geisteswissenschaft, dass seine Seele außerhalb seines Leibes ist. Der Hellseher sieht den Astralleib und dessen Arbeit am physischen Leib in der Nacht. Je weiter wir nun zurückgehen, sehen wir, wie der astralische Leib tätig ist am physischen. Für die Geisteswissenschaft ist nämlich der geistige Leib der Schaffende für den physischen. In Lemurien sehen wir den physischen Menschen noch umschwebt von dem tätigen Astralleib. Der astralische Leib oder die Seele hat nämlich den physischen Leib geschaffen; er ist der Schöpfer desselben, und der Zeitpunkt ist der wichtige, wo diese Seele ganz außerhalb des Leibes war, wo sie, nachdem sie ihn vollkommen gemacht hat, diese Seele nun von rein äußerlicher Tätigkeit nach innen übergeht und zum Ich wird. Ein wichtiger Moment, wie in der lemurischen Zeit die Menschwerdung vor sich geht. Groß, gewaltig und sinnvoll ist das ausgedrückt, wo die Bibel sagt: «Und Gott blies dem Menschen den Odem ein; und er ward eine lebendige Seele.» (1 Mos 2,7) Damit ist der Moment angedeutet, wo die Gruppenseele zur Individualseele beim Menschen wird, der Zeitpunkt des Einziehens des Astralleibes in den physischen Leib. Als Gruppenseele weilte sie in der geistigen Welt; der religiöse Ausdruck dafür wäre: Solange die Seele ruhte im Schoße der Gottheit, war sie Gruppenseele. Beispiel dafür: die Finger der Hand; sie sind Glieder, Organe; sie stehen genau zum physischen Leib in dem Verhältnis, wie die Seele war vor ihrem Einzug in den physischen Leib, also als Gruppenseele. Sie war ein Glied in dem großen Wesen, das man nun Gott oder Allgeist nennen mag. In diesen Seelen war es die Gottheit, die handelte. Beispiel: Wasser und Schwämmchen, die mit Wasser sich füllen. Mit dem Einziehen in den physischen Leib wurden diese Seelen zu einzelnen Tropfen von Wasser.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":329,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-01-18/p016"},{"locus":"GA 68a/1907-01-18/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"So entreißt in der Entwicklung gleichsam der physische Leib dem Göttlichen die Seele, und was hat das zur Folge? Vorher fühlt und handelt sie nicht selbstständig, sondern wie das Göttliche es ihr eingibt. Dieses Göttliche ist ein Teil der gemeinsamen göttlichen Substanz. Alle Seelen wussten daher etwas voneinander; sie hatten ein gemeinsames Bewusstsein; dieses hörte nun auf. Die individuelle Existenz beginnt nun. Vorher war das göttliche Gesetz ihr Dirigent, jetzt nicht mehr. Und damit beginnt nun der Egoismus, die Selbstsucht, eine Rolle zu spielen. Gottes Wille war vorher der Wille der eigenen Seele; jetzt musste sie zum eigenen Willen, zur Selbstsucht kommen. Nun musste sie zu der Geburt der Selbstsucht kommen, mit ihr zugleich die Geburt des Ichbewusstseins. Die Ablösung der Weltordnung der Weisheit durch die Weltordnung der Liebe trat jetzt ein, so nannte es die Geisteswissenschaft aller Zeiten. Die Liebe und der Egoismus waren vorher nicht da.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-01-18/p017"},{"locus":"GA 68a/1907-01-18/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Die Liebe verlangt, dass Selbstständiges zu Selbstständigem tritt, dass freie Hingabe gegeben wird. Beispiel dafür, dass Liebe vorher unmöglich war: Meine rechte Hand kann meine linke Hand nicht lieben. — Jetzt trat also die Liebe in die Welt, und zwar in ihrer untergeordnetsten Form, in der geschlechtlichen Liebe. Da erzählt nun die Geisteswissenschaft, das war auch der Zeitpunkt der Trennung der Geschlechter. Mit der physischen Menschwerdung treten sie zugleich mit der Differenzierung als männlich und weiblich auf; und damit ist der erste Antrieb gegeben, die erste Kraft für den Leib zu verwerten. So haben wir zwei Epochen: die eine ganz beherrscht von der Weisheit, die zweite ganz beherrscht von der Entwicklung der Liebe, den höheren und den niederen Menschen. Der Leib war damals niederer, die Seele höher entwickelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":128,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-01-18/p018"},{"locus":"GA 68a/1907-01-18/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Auf der heutigen Stufe hat die Seele lange nicht die Vollkommenheit, die der physische Leib als solcher hat. Später wird sich die Seele im selben Maße entwickeln. Beispiel für die wunderbare vollkommene Beschaffenheit des physischen Leibes: der Oberschenkelknochen, der mit kleinstem Materialaufwand eine solche Tragkraft entwickelt, wie sie der genialste Ingenieur nicht auszudenken vermag. Der Geistesforscher weiß, dass dieser Leib der Ausdruck der göttlichen Weisheit ist. Beispiel: Betrachtung des Herzens. — Verkörperte Weisheit ist der physische Leib des Menschen. Wenn wir dagegen die in der Zukunft weit den physischen Leib an Vollkommenheit übertreffende Seele ansehen, so ist sie jetzt sehr unvollkommen. Die Seele ist die Verführerin zu alledem, was die Taten des Menschen sind, nicht der physische Leib. Die Seele fehlt, sündigt, verirrt sich im Leibe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-01-18/p019"},{"locus":"GA 68a/1907-01-18/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"In seiner Art und Vollkommenheit steht heute der Leib höher als die Seele. Zu dieser Vollkommenheit war der Menschenleib damals, als er von der Seele bezogen wurde, schon veranlagt. Heute ist dieser Einzug der Seele noch nicht ganz vollzogen. So viel an ihr Gruppenseele ist, das hat der physische Leib aufgebaut. Der Teil, der eingezogen ist in den Leib, muss das noch durchmachen. Es gibt keine andere Art zur Entwicklung für den Menschen als das Durchgehen durch den physischen Leib. «Biene» wurde die Seele daher in der griechischen Mysterienlehre genannt. Sie saugt das Licht ein, sie hört, sie sammelt durch ein Benützen des Leibes als ein Instrument. 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