{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-11-05/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"So think of Europe, Central Asia and Egypt as sown with the seed of what had developed under the influence of the Initiation Schools. These Initiation Schools sent out from their midst the founder of the Fifth [Fourth] Sub-Race, who had long been prepared in the shelter of the Mysteries. This is the personality who in the Bible is called Abraham. He came from Ur in Chaldaea and developed as an extract of the three older civilisations. The task which was represented in Abraham was to carry into the human realm all that had been held in veneration in the outside world; to create initiates who laid great value on what was human, in order to found the cult of the personality. This brought about personal attributes in the Jewish patriarchs. Here we have to do with duplicity and cunning. Jacob gains his inheritance by employing ruse and cunning in order to take what he wants from his brother. This is the reality out of which our present-day civilisation developed: it is founded on intelligence and possessiveness. In the stories of the Old Testament this is magnificently expressed as a kind of dawning of the new. It would be impossible to present this origin in a more powerful way. Esau is still a hairy man, that means he represents the human type which is still more enmeshed in the physical; Jacob represents one who relies on his intelligence and guile and thereby achieves what is now actually developing in human nature. The overcoming of physical force through intelligence is here inaugurated. The initiators do not always introduce something great into the world, but what must of necessity come about. ‘Israel’ means: He who leads man to the invisible God, who dwells within. Isra-el: El means the goal; Isra = the invisible God. Until then God was visible, whether it was the one who gave the urge towards Good and Evil as with the Persians, whether the God who had his body in the stars, in the Universe: This God was experienced as something visible.","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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Die Aufgabe, die in Abraham repräsentiert wird, ist, in das Menschliche hereinzutragen alles das, was draußen verehrt wurde; Eingeweihte zu schaffen, die einen großen Wert legen auf das Menschliche, um Persönlichkeitskulte zu begründen. Daher treten persönliche Eigenschaften bei den jüdischen Patriarchen auf. Mit List und Verschlagenheit geht es eigentlich her. Ein Jakob erhält die Superiorität dadurch, daß er mit List und Verschlagenheit das, was er will, seinem Bruder abnimmt. Es ist die Wirklichkeit, aus der sich unsere gegenwärtige Kultur entwickelt; sie ist auf den Verstand und die Habsucht gegründet. In grandioser Weise kommt das wie eine Art von Morgendämmerung in den Erzählungen des Alten Testamentes heraus. Eine gewaltigere Darstellung des Ursprungs kann es gar nicht geben. Esau ist noch behaart, das heißt, er stellt den Menschheitstypus dar, der noch mehr im Physischen befangen ist; Jakob stellt den dar, der sich auf seinen Verstand und seine List verläßt und dadurch das erreicht, was sich tatsächlich in der menschlichen Natur jetzt entwickelt. Eine Überwindung der physischen Kraft durch den Verstand wird hier inauguriert. Die Initiatoren setzen nicht immer etwas Großes, sondern das, was notwendig kommen muß, in die Welt. «Israel» bedeutet: der die Menschen zum unsichtbaren Gott führt, der im Inneren lebt. Isra-el: El = das Ziel; Isra = der unsichtbare Gott. Bisher war er ein Sichtbarer, sei es der Schaubare in den großen Visionen der Inder, sei es der zum Guten und Bösen Drängende wie bei den Persern, sei es der, welcher in den Sternen, im Universum seinen Körper hatte: er wurde empfunden als etwas Sichtbares.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":320,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-11-05/p016"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-11-05/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":320,"en_words":344,"ratio":1.07,"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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