{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-11-05/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A further initiation advanced towards the Near East: to Egypt, to the Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, these forefathers of the Arabs. There the Third Sub-Race was developed. This Third Sub-Race was such that it now sought to bring both directions—the inner nature of man and the outer world—into harmony with each other. Whether you look for the fundamental conception of this Third Sub-Race in Chaldea or Egypt, everywhere you will find a pronounced awareness of the connection between human work and the forces of Nature. This is an essential difference when compared with the Persian Race. In Persia you have two powers, the good and the evil, which do battle with one another. Now man tries to bring the different nature forces or beings into his service. What developed as Persian religion was mainly built up on human morality and industry. Now in the Third Sub-Race the consciousness developed that one does not master nature only by means of bodily strength and moral behaviour, but best of all through knowledge. In those lands where a skillful agriculture was pursued as in Egypt and Chaldea, there developed a co-ordination of heavenly-spiritual powers with what was carried out by human work. Knowledge of the meteorological environment and the heavenly bodies evolved there. Strength for work was sought for in the knowledge of Nature. So it came about that man directed his gaze to the stars, and astronomy was brought into connection with humanity on the Earth. Man's origin was sought for in the stars. Thus, in this sense we have for the first time to do with science. Now in the Third Sub-Race, instead of inner perception, we have practical knowledge. So we hear of great initiates who taught geometry, the practice of surveying, technical skills. The fructification of human activity with cosmic wisdom brought down from the spiritual world makes its appearance in the Third Sub-Race. With this, something was given which translated the whole conception of human life into a kind of heavenly science. With the different peoples this found expression in various ways. In the case of the Egyptians, Osiris, Isis and Horus were conceived of as representatives of astronomical phenomena.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXXI","site_heading":"Root Races and Sub-Races: From Atlantis to Fifth Root-Race","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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Ob Sie die Grundanschauung dieser dritten Unterrasse in Chaldäa oder Ägypten suchen, überall finden Sie ein starkes Bewußtsein von dem Zusammenhang der menschlichen Arbeit mit den Naturkräften. Das ist ein wesentlicher Unterschied im Vergleich zu der persischen Rasse. In Persien haben Sie die zwei Mächte, das Gute und das Böse, die den Kampf miteinander bestehen. Jetzt versucht der Mensch, die verschiedenen Naturkräfte oder Wesenheiten in seinen Dienst zu bringen. Was sich als persische Religion herausbildete, war vorzüglich auf die menschliche Tüchtigkeit gebaut. Jetzt, innerhalb der dritten Unterrasse, trat das Bewußtsein auf, daß man nicht nur durch körperliche Kraft und moralisches Verhalten, sondern am besten durch Kenntnisse die Natur bewältigen könne. In solchen Ländern, wo ein kunstvoll gehegter Ackerbau betrieben wurde, wie in Ägypten und Chaldäa, entwickelte sich dieses Zusammenbringen der himmlischgeistigen Mächte mit dem, was der Mensch arbeitet. Kenntnis der meteorologischen Umgebung und der Gestirne entwickelte sich da. Der Mensch suchte Kraft für die Arbeit in der Erkenntnis der Natur. So kam es, daß er den Blick nach den Sternen lenkte und daß Astronomie in Zusammenhang gebracht wurde mit dem Menschen auf der Erde. Des Menschen Ursprung wurde in den Sternen gesucht. So kam es, daß wir es in diesem Sinne zum erstenmal mit Wissenschaft zu tun haben. Jetzt, in der dritten Unterrasse, haben wir statt innerer Anschauung praktisches Wissen. Daher hören wir von großen Eingeweihten, welche die Geometrie, die Kunst des Feldmessens, technische Fähigkeiten lehrten. Die Befruchtung des menschlichen Tuns mit der vom Himmel herabgeholten Weltanschauung tritt in der dritten Unterrasse auf. Damit war etwas gegeben, was die ganze Auffassung des menschlichen Lebens in eine Art Himmelskunde rückte. Bei den verschiedenen Völkern kam dies verschieden zum Ausdruck. Bei den Ägyptern wurden Osiris, Isis und Horus als die Vertreter astronomischer Erscheinungen aufgefaßt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":348,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-11-05/p012"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-11-05/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":348,"en_words":361,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.18,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4205,"original_word_count":3571,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051105p01.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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