{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68a/1908-02-20/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This force has also its good task. It hinders man falling into, as it were, a primeval mash of love. Just as man had to be prepared for love, so earlier they had to be prepared for wisdom. Thus this luciferic principle is to be seen as the principle of illumination of independence. So we have two forces which lead humanity in two different directions and therewith we have the principle of the independent I which consolidates itself out of this conflict. Without this independence love would not be possible; without this independence the origin of evil would not be possible; love makes evil necessary. Hence comes the principle of love which arises from the spirits of love, and the principle of wisdom which arises from the spirits of wisdom. Both lead us from soul to soul, spirit to spirit, I to I. Evil rests on this spiritual fact. The possibility of evil was given with the possibility of love. Only because the God of the earth is the God of Love, and beings became independent I-men was the origin of evil possible. Love made evil possible.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"39. 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So bekam das Ich eine Kraft, die es jetzt in Selbstständigkeit verwandeln soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1908-02-20/p032"},{"locus":"GA 68a/1908-02-20/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Erst in dem Maße, als das Christusprinzip hervorleuchtete, wurde das Ich fähig, sich in Einklang zu versetzen mit allen Kräften seiner Umgebung auf der Erde. Bevor diese Annäherung an das Ideal des Christus erreicht ist, setzen sich immer wieder solche Wesenheiten fest im Menschen, welche die entgegengesetzte Kraft des Ich sind. Die Kraft ist eine trennende Kraft, welche das Ich zu früh abtrennen will. Gegen alles das, was die Menschen zusammenführt, führen die luziferischen Wesenheiten einen Kampf. Diese Kraft hat auch ihre gute Aufgabe, sie verhindert, dass die Menschen sozusagen in einen Urbrei von Liebe zusammenfallen. Ebenso wie die Menschen auf die Liebe vorbereitet sein mussten, mussten sie früher auf die Weisheit vorbereitet werden. So ist dies luziferische Prinzip als das Prinzip der Erleuchtung, der Selbstständigmachung anzusehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1908-02-20/p033"},{"locus":"GA 68a/1908-02-20/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Nun haben wir die zwei Kräfte, welche nach zwei verschiedenen Richtungen hin die Menschheit leiten, und damit haben wir auch das Prinzip des selbstständigen Ich, das aus diesem Kampf heraus sich festigt. Ohne diese Selbstständigkeit wäre die Liebe nicht möglich, ohne diese Selbstständigkeit wäre der Ursprung des Bösen nicht möglich; die Liebe macht das Böse nötig. Und daher kommt das Prinzip der Liebe, welches herrührt von den Geistern der Liebe, und das Prinzip der Weisheit, welches herrührt von den Geistern der Weisheit, welche beide uns von Seele zu Seele, Geist zu Geist, Ich zu Ich führen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1908-02-20/p034"},{"locus":"GA 68a/1908-02-20/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Auf dieser geistigen Tatsache beruht das Böse. Mit der Möglichkeit der Liebe war die Möglichkeit des Bösen gegeben. Nur dadurch, dass der Gott der Erde der Gott der Liebe ist und die Wesen selbstständige Ichmenschen wurden, nur dadurch war der Ursprung des Bösen möglich. Die Liebe machte das Böse möglich. Erst durch die luziferischen Kräfte gelangt der Mensch zur freien Liebe und zur wahren Größe, und nur dadurch nimmt er die Kräfte des Bösen in sich auf. 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