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Of course, this will naturally be dismissed as fantasy – that may be – but it is nevertheless true that what I described the day before yesterday as the three foundations of true, non-fantastical, non-superstitious clairvoyant consciousness in imagination, inspiration and intuition, that this is added to by following the development of humanity on earth from within, by looking inwardly. Then, not guided by external documents but examining the life of the soul through inner spiritual vision, one goes further back than the seventh or eighth century BC. One goes back to a time that took hold a few millennia earlier. One goes back to those periods of time that follow that significant catastrophe in the earth's history, which geology reports as the Ice Age, which various folk traditions report as the Flood, which of course must be dated much further back than tradition says; one goes back into ancient times, into which no external document, no literary monument, but into which spiritual vision reaches - today I can only hint at the results - one comes back into an ancient past, where a culture existed from which that which emerged later, but in a much later time, existed as the culture of ancient India. Sanskrit literature reports on this, but it is a later product than what I actually mean here in the development of mankind. One goes back to an age in which the human soul worked under completely different conditions.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Man and the Historical and Moral Life of Humanity according to the Results of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-05-03","location":null,"word_count":312,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/71b/1918-05-03/p041","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Being as a Spirit and Soul Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA071b/English/SOL2024/19180503p01.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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Man wird [das] selbstverständlich gerade natürlich als Phantasterei verschreien - das mag sein —, aber wahr ist es doch, dass dasjenige, was ich vorgestern hier geschildert habe als die drei Grundlagen des wahren, nicht phantastischen, nicht abergläubischen hellsehenden Bewusstseins in Imagination, Inspiration und Intuition, dass das dazu kommt, von innen schauend die Entwicklung der Menschheit auf der Erde zu verfolgen. Da kommt man dann, jetzt nicht an der Hand äußerer Dokumente, sondern das Seelenleben prüfend, durch inneres geistiges Anschauen noch weiter zurück als in eine solche Zeit, die im siebten, achten Jahrhundert vor Christus liegt, kommt man zurück zu einer Zeit, die wiederum ein paar Jahrtausende vorher Platz gegriffen hat, man kommt zurück zu denjenigen Zeiträumen, die sich anschließen an jene bedeutsame Katastrophe im Erdengeschehen, von denen die Geologie berichtet als der Eiszeit, von denen die verschiedenen Volkstraditionen berichten als der Sintflut, die natürlich viel weiter zurückgelegt werden muss, als die Tradition sagt; man kommt in uralte Zeiten zurück, in die kein äußeres Dokument, kein literarisches Denkmal mehr reicht, aber in die geistiges Schauen reicht - ich kann heute nur die Ergebnisse andeuten -, man kommt in eine uralte Vergangenheit zurück, wo eine Kultur gelebt hat, aus der dann später dasjenige hervorgegangen ist, aber in viel späterer Zeit, was als Kultur des alten Indiens bestanden hat. Darüber berichtet die Sanskritliteratur, was aber ein späteres Produkt ist als das, was ich hier eigentlich meine in der Menschheitsentwicklung. 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