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This dim clairvoyance is connected with other conditions in the development of mankind, and if we want to characterize this development that has taken place in the transition to our present object consciousness, then we have to point to an external event that has taken place in our physical world and that is an expression of this transformation of that consciousness into our present one. This found expression in what we can call the transition from near-marriage to distant-marriage. In ancient times, among the most diverse peoples, there was an age in which what we call consanguineous marriage was common practice, a matter of course. People lived in small tribes and married within these small tribes, and it was considered somewhat immoral and incorrect to marry outside one's tribe; so in those times, related blood mixed with related blood, and those times these times of close marriage prevailed were also the times when the last remnants of a dim form of clairvoyance were present.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"32. 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Nicht durch jenes abstrakte Ding das man kindlich schaffende Volksphantasie nennt, sind diese Mythen und Sagen entstanden, sondern aus den Resten dieses ehemaligen Hellsehens heraus, als ein Wiedergeben dessen, was ein ursprüngliches, dämmerhaftes Hellsehen bei allen, allen Völkern, von denen die heutigen Menschen abstammen, ursprünglich gesehen hat. Dieses dämmerhafte Hellsehen, das ist verknüpft aber mit anderen Verhältnissen in der Menschheitsentwicklung, und wollen wir charakterisieren diese Entwicklung, die stattgefunden hat bei dem Übergang zu unserem gegenwärtigen Gegenstandsbewusstsein, dann müssen wir hindeuten auf ein äußeres Ereignis, das sich vollzogen hat auf unserer physischen Welt, und das ein Ausdruck ist für diese Verwandlung jenes Bewusstseins in unser gegenwärtiges. Dies fand einen Ausdruck in dem, was wir nennen können den Übergang von der Nah-Ehe zur Fern-Ehe. In allen alten Zeiten war bei den verschiedensten Völkern ein Zeitalter vorhanden, in dem dasjenige gang und gäbe war, eine selbstverständliche Tatsache war, was wir heute nennen die Blutsverwandtenehe. Die Menschen lebten in kleinen Stänmen und man heiratete innerhalb dieser kleinen Stämme, und es galt als etwas Unsittliches und Unrichtiges, über seinen Stamm hinaus zu heiraten; so mischte sich in jenen Zeiten verwandtes Blut zu verwandtem Blute, und diejenigen Zeiten, in denen diese Nah-Ehe herrschte, diese waren zugleich diejenigen, in denen die letzten Reste eines dämmerhaften Hellsehens vorhanden waren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":310,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-05-24/p011"}],"english":["GA 68a/1907-05-24/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":310,"en_words":307,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7525,"original_word_count":7243,"may_be_abridged":false},"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/SOL2024/19070524p01.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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