{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69b/1911-02-13/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And so the followers of Moses now faced the ancient Egyptians: the Egyptians, an ancient people, the followers of Moses, the new people. And this was due to its entire blood composition, intellectually, rationally combining natural phenomena, thinking rationally. Yes, it now comes into consideration that the time for the old instinctive in the state of mind has expired. [And when this time has expired], then the [old] powers come into decline, then they are no longer useful. They were useful in ancient times; then people instinctively sensed the course of natural events and acted accordingly. But this came into decline around the time that Moses was called upon to bring a completely new culture, and there was no longer time for the old instinctive soul powers. And now let us imagine that on the one hand Moses and on the other the ancient Egyptians are confronted with natural events. The ancient Egyptians could not intellectually combine natural phenomena. In ancient times they had felt it instinctively in their souls when the sea level rose again; there was an intimate bond between the soul life and the external natural phenomena. Never would the soul have failed to feel when the sea level receded so that one could cross the dry land. But the ancient times were over. The Egyptians no longer had these ancient, instinctive powers, because the time had come when one should intellectually survey the context of things. Moses was called to do this. He now stood before the sea, and he knew from the course of natural events when to retreat so that he and his people could cross over. Through the newly developed intellectuality, it was possible for him to read this point in time from nature. In ancient times, the Egyptians would have sensed that they could no longer cross, but they were not yet ripe for the new kind of knowledge; they fell prey to the waves because their soul forces had come into decadence, into decay. Thus we see Moses leading his followers across the receding waters by intellectual deduction, and we see the Egyptians falling prey to the floods, because they could only have sensed from their ancient, instinctive strength that the sea was rising again, but they no longer had this instinctive strength.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IX. Moses, His Teaching and His Mission","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-02-13","location":null,"word_count":382,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69b/1911-02-13/p032","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Knowledge and Immortality","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069b/English/SOL2024/19110213p01.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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Aber das kam in Verfall um die Zeit, in der Moses berufen war, eine ganz neue Kultur zu bringen, und da war eben nicht mehr die Zeit da für die alten instinktiven Seelenkräfte. Und jetzt denken wir uns einmal, daß den Naturereignissen gegenüberstehen auf der einen Seite Moses und auf der anderen Seite die alten Ägypter. Die alten Ägypter konnten nicht verstandesmäßig die Naturerscheinungen kombinieren. In alten Zeiten hatten sie es instinktiv in ihrer Seele gefühlt, wenn sich der Meeresspiegel wieder hob; zwischen dem Seelenleben und den äußeren Naturereignissen bestand ein inniges Band. Niemals hätte es die Seele verfehlt, zu fühlen, zu empfinden, wann der Meeresspiegel zurückging, so daß man durch den trockengelegten Boden hinüberkommen konnte. Aber die alten Zeiten waren vorbei. Die Ägypter hatten nicht mehr diese alten, instinktiven Kräfte, denn es war die Zeit gekommen, wo man intellektuell den Zusammenhang der Dinge überschauen sollte. Dazu war Moses berufen. Er stand nun vor dem Meer, und er wußte aus dem Gang der Naturereignisse heraus zu kombinieren, wann der Meeresspiegel zurücktritt, so daß er mit seinem Volk hinüberkommen konnte. Durch die neu entwickelte Intellektualität war es ihm möglich, diesen Zeitpunkt der Natur abzulesen. In alten Zeiten hätten die Ägypter gefühlt, daß sie jetzt nicht mehr hinüber konnten, aber für die neue Art der Erkenntnis waren sie noch nicht reif; sie verfielen, weil ihre Seelenkräfte in die Dekadenz, in den Verfall gekommen waren, den Wogen. So sehen wir Moses, der mit intellektuellem Kombinieren seine Anhänger hinüberführte durch das zurückgegangene Meer, und wir sehen die Ägypter den Fluten verfallen, weil sie nur aus alter, instinktiver Kraft hätten fühlen können, daß das Meer wieder steigt, aber diese instinktive Kraft hatten sie nicht mehr.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":376,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69b/1911-02-13/p033"}],"english":["GA 69b/1911-02-13/p032"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":376,"en_words":382,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7359,"original_word_count":7120,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Knowledge and Immortality","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069b/English/SOL2024/19110213p01.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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