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There were two spiritual currents: one from ancient India, the other, more northern, from ancient Persia. These went alongside one another in the older millennia, flowing together in ancient Greek culture. That is why the pessimism of the ancient Indians is so characteristic. The ancient Indian found it uncanny when he saw spiritual beings behind external things. He called them asuras. The last impulse of this, which was therefore so significant, appeared in Buddha. Through an unspiritual tendency towards the inner, he was transported into Maya, and so he had to come out of it into Nirvana. Nirvana has nothing of what the senses offer. Nirvana is the last great call of the senses as this development of humanity is felt to be a descent. 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In the Dionysian culture, the Greeks felt what was not yet present in the culture transplanted to Greece from ancient India. Zarathustra developed precisely the opposite, the Persians wanted to lend a hand to direct reality, a transition to a new, joyful future for humanity. He had gained something new, new human soul forces. Zarathustra pointed out to the Persian people that the physical world is not only Maya. To him, the outer world was like the garment of a spiritual world, the sensual world like a carpet. The spiritual world lies behind the sensual world; the spiritual world is behind everything. This is not only meant as a pantheistic reference to spiritual wisdom, but as a concrete insight into the spiritual world. Behind the most important sensual reality, the spiritual importance is hidden. And just as the sun has its great aura, so does man have his small aura: Ahura Mazdao, later Ormuzd. He no longer finds the good through mere mystical insight. These are dying forces, therefore the devas are evil to him, the asuras are the right thing.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69e/1911-01-31/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069e/English/SOL2024/19110131f01.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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Both currents came together when the greatest impulse for humanity came, in Christ.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":51,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69e/1911-01-31/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069e/English/SOL2024/19110131f01.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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Es waren zwei geistige Strömungen: eine aus dem alten Indien, die andere, mehr nördliche aus dem alten Persien. Diese gehen nebeneinander in den älteren Jahrtausenden, strömen zusammen in der altgriechischen Kultur. Daher ist der Pessimismus der alten Inder so charakteristisch. Unheimlich fand es der alte Inder, wenn er geistige Wesen hinter den Außendingen sah. Das nannte er Asuras. Der letzte Impuls davon, der darum so bedeutsam war, erschien in Buddha. Durch ungeistigen Hang nach dem Innern war er versetzt in Maya, daher musste er heraus ins Nirwana. Nirwana hat nichts von dem, was die Sinne bieten, Nirwana ist der letzte große Ruf dieser als Abstieg empfundenen Menschheitsentwicklung. Auch dieses ist durchsetzt von pessimistischer Antiwirklichkeitsstummung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":157,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69e/1911-01-31/p006"},{"locus":"GA 69e/1911-01-31/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Im alten Griechenland empfand man dieses Untertauchen nicht gerade so. Der Grieche empfand in der Dionysoskultur, als er noch nicht die Intelligenz hatte, die ins Griechenland verpflanzte altindische Kultur. Zarathustra entwickelte gerade das Gegenteil, der Perser wollte Hand anlegen an die unmittelbare Wirklichkeit, ein Übergang zu einer neuen freudigen Zukunft der Menschheit. Er hatte Neues gewonnen, neue menschliche Seelenkräfte. Zarathustra wies das persische Volk auf die physische Welt als nicht nur Maya. Ihm war das Äußere wie das Kleid einer geistigen Welt, die sinnliche Welt wie ein Teppich. Die geistige Welt liegt hinter der Sinnenwelt, überall dahinter ist die geistige Welt. Das ist nicht nur als ein pantheistischer Hinweis auf die geistige Weisheit gemeint, sondern konkretes Hineinschauen in die geistige Welt. Hinter dem sinnlich Wichtigsten [Wirklichen?] verbirgt sich die geistige Wichtigkeit [Wirklichkeit?]. Und wie die Sonne ihre große Aura hat, so hat auch der Mensch seine kleine Aura: Ahura Mazdao, später Ormuzd. Durch bloß mystisches Hineinschauen findet er nicht mehr das Gute. Das sind absterbende Kräfte, daher sind ihm die Devas das Böse, die Asuras das Richtige.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69e/1911-01-31/p007"},{"locus":"GA 69e/1911-01-31/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"So ist diese Umkehr zu erklären aus der Kulturentwicklung. Ahuras sind die indischen Asuras. Geistiges ist in und hinter allem Sinnlichen, besonders hinter dem Mittelpunkt. Der griechische Apollo ist die griechische Übersetzung der Mazdaokultur. 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