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You know that man has passed through a long sequence of evolution before arriving at the stage where he stands today, and that we have passed the mid-point of this evolution. The midpoint of the whole of human evolution lies roughly in the middle of the Atlantean epoch, which preceded our own epoch. Now we have already gone past this mid-point. Because of that we are the first missionaries of the second half [of evolution], the first apostles of an ascending arc: whereas man was in a descending arc until the time of Atlantis, was involved in a kind of descending evolution until he had submerged himself in the uttermost depths of material life. Now he is climbing back again towards spiritual development.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1905-06-05/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"John M. 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Now we cannot talk about good and evil in the subordinate kingdoms of nature. It would be ridiculous to discuss whether a mineral wanted to crystallise or not; it crystallises if the appropriate conditions are present. It would be equally ridiculous to ask whether the lily wants to blossom or not; or to ask the lion to abstain voluntarily from killing and devouring other animals. Only with man, only in our phase of evolution, do we speak about what we call freedom of choice. Only to human beings do we ascribe the capacity to distinguish between good and evil. How man got this capacity is described in the Bible, in the great symbol of the Fall, in the scene of the temptation, where the Devil or Lucifer appears to Eve and persuades her to eat of the Tree of Knowledge. Through that, man obtained free will; with it he began the second part of his evolutionary path. 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Sie wissen, daß der Mensch eine lange Entwickelungsreihe durchgemacht hat, bevor er auf der Stufe angelangt ist, auf der er heute steht, und daß wir die Mitte der Entwickelung überschritten haben. Ungefähr in der Mitte der atlantischen Rasse, die unserer Rasse voranging, liegt auch die Mitte der ganzen menschlichen Entwickelung. Jetzt haben wir diese Mitte bereits überschritten und dadurch sind wir die ersten Missionare der zweiten Hälfte, die ersten Sendboten eines aufsteigenden Bogens. Während die Menschheit bis in die atlantische Zeit hinein auf dem absteigenden Bogen, in einer Art absteigenden Entwickelung begriffen war, bis sie sich am tiefsten hineinversenkte in das materielle Leben, steigt sie jetzt wieder hinauf zur geistigen Entwickelung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":146,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93/1905-06-05/p007"},{"locus":"GA 93/1905-06-05/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Was wir Menschen vor der Mitte unserer Erdenentwickelung nicht besaßen, war die Wahlfreiheit zwischen Gut und Böse. Bei den untergeordneten Naturreichen können wir auch nicht von Gut und Böse sprechen. Lächerlich wäre es, davon zu sprechen, ob sich das Mineral kristallisieren will oder nicht. Es kristallisiert sich, wenn die Bedingungen dazu vorhanden sind. Lächerlich wäre es auch zu fragen, ob die Lilie blühen will oder nicht, oder auch beim Löwen zu fragen, ob er freiwillig davon absehen will, andere Wesen zu fressen und zu töten. Erst beim Menschen und erst in unserer Entwickelungsphase sprechen wir von dem, was wir Wahlfreiheit nennen. Ein Unterscheidungsvermögen zwischen Gut und Böse schreiben wir nur dem Menschen zu. Und wie der Mensch nun dieses Unterscheidungsvermögen erhielt, das wird in der Bibel dargestellt in dem großen Symbol des Sündenfalles, in dem Verführungsakt, wo der Eva der Teufel oder Luzifer erscheint und sie überredet, von dem Baum der Erkenntnis zu essen. Dadurch ist die Wahlfreiheit über den Menschen gekommen und damit hat er den zweiten Teil seines Entwickelungsweges beschritten. So wenig wie wir beim Mineral, bei der Pflanze und beim Tier nach Gut und Böse fragen können, so wenig können wir beim Menschen vor jener Mitte der Weltentwickelung nach Freiheit, nach Gut und Böse fragen. 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