{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-31/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The sense of sight perceives by means of the light ether the objects around us. There was however a time when everything was dark. Let us go back to the moment of time when sight came into existence and the outer world as such became perceptible to us. Previously the eye was not yet opened to the outer world. We must imagine the same force which the eye receives from outside in the light ether, pouring outwards from within, streaming out through the eye in the opposite direction. If this were the case the being would illuminate the others around him. This was so at a certain time when human beings possessed eyes like the Cyclops. Illumination was brought about through the out streaming light; this light streamed from within outwards. Then man illuminated, as many sea creatures still do today, the objects around him and his own body. At that time he had no consciousness of his own, but he was solely an instrument for the corresponding divine being, in order to illuminate the world for him. The divine being had no means of seeing the surrounding objects other than human eyes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXVIII","site_heading":"Cosmic Evolution of Human Senses and Consciousness","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Man denke sich dieselbe Kraft, die das Auge von außen empfängt im Lichtäther, von innen nach außen ergossen, in der entgegengesetzten Richtung nach außen strömend durch die Augen. Wenn das der Fall wäre, so würde das Wesen die anderen um es herum beleuchten. Solches war vorhanden in einer gewissen Zeit, als die Menschen das Zyklopenauge besaßen. Das Leuchten war durch das ausströmende Licht bewirkt; das strömte von innen nach außen. Der Mensch beleuchtete damals - wie manche Meerestiere noch heute — die Gegenstände ringsherum und seinen eigenen Körper. Dazumal hatte der Mensch noch kein Bewußtsein für sich, sondern er war damals lediglich ein Mittel für die entsprechende Gottheit, um für die Gottheit die Welt zu beleuchten. 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