{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 92/1904-06-24/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This monotheism of the Atlanteans remained with those races that survived the great flood. From this form of religion, which was still spiritual, the fifth root race emerged. These old spiritual forms of religion, the worship of a unified God, gradually degenerated into polytheism. Monotheism only remained among the most highly developed priests. At the beginning of Christianity, the monks behaved cunningly: they said that Baldur had become a human being in Palestine. In the early centuries, one would have found Christianity colorfully mixed with paganism, even in Arian Christianity. This development took place at the same time as a particularly vivid glimmering of religious feeling in the old Mongolian races was being induced by highly developed shamans. We see, as a reaction to polytheism, on the one hand, the emergence of a new unified religion in Arabia through Mohammed. On the other hand, we see, somewhat earlier, an initiated shaman rising up in his Tao consciousness, taking revenge on those who had fallen away from the old monotheistic idea of God. Attila was called “The Scourge of God.” We see the princes he deposed living in splendor and pomp all around his kingdom, but he, the shaman, lived in the greatest simplicity. It is said of him that his eyes glowed and the earth trembled when he raised his sword. This great initiate would have been fully justified in the Atlantean era; in our time, he would look like a criminal. The same power that is an expression of the divine fire in its time appears as divine wrath in another period. Why does this happen? It is necessary in order to make further development possible. If development is to be continue, viewed from a higher plane, the individual threads must once again intertwine harmoniously.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Good and Evil","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-06-24","location":null,"word_count":296,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/92/1904-06-24/p013","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 Occult Truths of Old Myths and Legends","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA092/English/SOL2024/19040624p01.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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The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Sechzehn Vorträge, gehalten in Berlin, Köln und Nürnberg in den Jahren 1904, 1905 und 1907 (Hörernotizen)","evidence_translation":"Sixteen lectures, given in Berlin, Cologne and Nuremberg in 1904, 1905 and 1907 (listeners' notes)","evidence_source":"The volume's subtitle as given in the publisher's description, mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 92); the 2022 catalogue's subtitle omits it. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 92/1904-06-24/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Dieser Monotheismus der Atlantier ist geblieben bei denjenigen Rassen, welche die große Flut überlebt haben. Von dieser Religionsform, die aber noch geistig war, ging die fünfte Wurzelrasse aus. Diese alten spirituellen Religionsformen der Anbetung eines einheitlichen Gottes arteten aber nach und nach zum Polytheismus aus. Der Monotheismus war nur noch bei den höchstentwickelten Priestern vorhanden. Am Anfange des Christentums verhielten sich die Mönche schlau: Baldur, so sagten sie, sei in Palästina Mensch geworden. - In den frühen Jahrhunderten würde man ein mit Heidnischem bunt gemischtes Christentum gefunden haben, auch noch im arianischen Christentum. Diese Entwicklung erfolgte in der Zeit, als ein besonders lebhaftes Aufglimmen des religiösen Gefühls in den alten mongolischen Rassen durch hochentwickelte Schamanen veranlaßt wurde. Wir sehen als Reaktion auf den Polytheismus einerseits das Heraufkommen einer neuen Einheitsreligion in Arabien durch Mohammed. Auf der anderen Seite sehen wir, etwas früher, sich erheben einen initiierten Schamanen in seinem TAO-Bewußtsein, der sich zum Rächer macht gegenüber denjenigen, die abgefallen sind von der alten monotheistischen Gottesidee. Attila wurde «Gottesgeißel» genannt. Wir sehen ringsum in seinem Reich die von ihm abgesetzten Fürsten in Pracht und Prunk leben, er aber, der Schamane, lebt in größter Einfachheit. Von ihm wird gesagt, daß seine Augen glühten und der Erdball erzitterte, wenn er sein Schwert erhob. Dieser große Initiierte hätte seine volle Berechtigung gehabt in der atlantischen Zeit; in unserer heutigen Zeit würde er sich ausnehmen wie ein Verbrecher. Dieselbe Kraft, die zu ihrer Zeit Ausdruck des göttlichen Feuers ist, erscheint in einer anderen Zeitperiode als göttlicher Zorn. Warum geschieht so etwas? Es ist nötig, um überhaupt eine Weiterentwicklung möglich zu machen. Wenn die Entwicklung weitergebracht werden soll, müssen sich - vom höheren Plan aus gesehen - die einzelnen Fäden wieder harmonisch ineinanderschließen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1904-06-24/p013"}],"english":["GA 92/1904-06-24/p013"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":287,"en_words":296,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2087,"original_word_count":2021,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Occult Truths of Old Myths and Legends","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA092/English/SOL2024/19040624p01.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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