{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93/1904-05-23/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The other intuition was the basis upon which the ancient Persian mysticism was founded, and this led to the veneration of beings who were also only twofold in their nature: the Asuras. They, too, possessed what we call soul, but the soul organ was enclosed within a physical body developed in sublime and titanic fashion. The Indian view of the world, which clung to the Deva worship, looked upon the Asuras as something inferior; whereas those who inclined to the viewpoint of the Northern peoples adhered to the Asuras,[^13] to physical nature. Thus there developed in the Northern Zone more especially the impulse towards controlling the things of the sense world in a material way, towards an ordering of the world of realities by means of the highest technical advancement, through physical arts and so on. Nowadays there is nobody who still persists in Asura worship, but there are many among us who still have something of this within them. Thence comes the tendency towards the materialistic side of life and that is the basic tendency of the Northern peoples. Whoever acknowledges purely materialistic principles can be sure that he has something of the Asuras in his nature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Whitsuntide—Festival of the Liberation of the Human Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-05-23","location":null,"word_count":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1904-05-23/p012","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. 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Daher hatte sich auch hier besonders der Drang ausgebildet, die Welt der Sinneserscheinungen in materieller Weise zu beherrschen, die Welt der Wirklichkeit durch die bis ins Höchste gehende Vervollkommnung der Technik, durch physische Künste und dergleichen zu beherrschen. Heute gibt es keine Menschen mehr, die an der Asuraverehrung festhalten; aber viele unter uns gibt es noch, die etwas von dieser Natur in sich haben. Von daher rührt der Zug nach der materiellen Seite des Lebens und das ist der Grundzug des nördlichen Weltanschauungsgürtels. 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