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He is thus the one who gives people the opportunity to emerge from the state in which they used to be, where the ego brooded dull down in the sentient soul. Man was to develop his I more and more. It is a correct observation that everything to do with fire, for example, is somehow connected with human forethought. Travelers described how, in areas where they had made a fire, the monkeys, for example, came and warmed themselves, but it never occurred to the monkeys to stoke the fire themselves; that is, these animals of the highest species are not able to envision the future. These higher animals, which are closest to humans, certainly felt the pleasant warmth of the fire; they may also have felt some kind of thought in a dull form, but they still did not think the thought through to the point of maintaining the fire by adding wood, much less to think of further practical applications. It is precisely because man has mastered the element of fire that he has been enabled to make his ego the starting point of thinking ahead, [and thereby gradually to lead his ego to a higher level in ever-increasing measure].","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXXI. 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Prometheus tritt dem Zeus entgegen. Er bringt nach der Sage dem Menschen das Feuer, auch die Sprache, die Schrift. Er ist es dadurch, der den Menschen die Möglichkeit gibt, aus dem Zustand, in dem sie früher waren, wo das Ich dumpf unten brütete in der Empfindungsseele, heraufzukommen. Immer mehr und mehr zur Entfaltung des Ichs sollte der Mensch kommen. Es ist eine richtige Beobachtung, dass alles, was zum Beispiel mit dem Feuer zu tun hat, in irgendeinem Zusammenhang steht mit dem menschlichen Vordenken. Reisende beschrieben es, wie in Gegenden, in die sie gekommen sind, in denen sie sich Feuer gemacht haben, die Affen zum Beispiel gekommen sind und sich gewärmt haben, wie es den Affen aber gar nicht eingefallen ist, das Feuer selber zu schüren; das heißt, diese Tiere höchststehender Art bringen es nicht dahin, die Zukunft vorzudenken. 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