THE MANIFESTATION OF THE
EGO IN THE DIFFERENT RACES OF MEN
3rd May 1909
In last week's lecture
we became familiar with every day expressions of man's inner life,
namely laughing and weeping, and today we will explore the conditions
in both our immediate and more distant surroundings upon which this
inner being of man, including man's whole evolution, in a certain way
depend. As wide as possible a study of man is what we have been
working at in these group lectures this winter, and we will go on
studying man from as many aspects as possible.
If
you consider what you know of earth conditions, then even if you look
at these relatively superficially you would realise immediately that
man takes on a different form in different regions of the earth.
External bodily characteristics vary according to the different zones
of the earth. You will remember that there are ‘races’,
the black, red, yellow and white race, and that these races were
originally connected with certain regions of the earth. You will also
find this corroborated by history, either in what you learnt at
school from the observation of purely physical, material conditions,
or what we have learnt through anthroposophical science itself.
Looking back into the ancient past, we see how the human soul and
actually the human body too, developed in the different epochs of
earth evolution. In the sphere of spiritual science we have looked
back into ancient India, Persia, Egypt, and so on. And we saw how the
various capacities that mankind has today, developed gradually in the
course of ages. All this gives you an idea of how external conditions
are connected with the unfolding of man's inner being. Now if even
present-day earth conditions bring about such differences among men,
what tremendous human differences must have come about since the very
beginnings of our earth evolution, after it has passed through the
Saturn, Sun and Moon evolution. We have described various details of
this. What we are going to describe today, however, shall be
considered from another point of view. For we shall really get to
know human conditions if we continually consider them from different
points of view.
At
the beginning of earth evolution, earth, sun and moon were, as you
know, still one body. The conditions within our whole evolution must
have been entirely different then. Man, evolving in earthly
evolution, would have been very different whilst the earth was still
one with the sun; and how greatly he had to change as first of all
the sun and then the moon separated from the earth! Now we know that
the epoch after the sun and the moon had separated from the earth is
also the so-called Lemurian evolution, in which man had only just
begun to acquire a form that is anything like our present-day one. We
have often described it by saying that this was actually the time
when man descended from higher regions on to the earth. Although man
was already in a physical body at the time when the sun was still
joined with the earth, it was not like today's body. At that time he
had the kind of physical body like you can imagine if you picture man
today not standing with his feet on the earth, but raising himself
into the air, as though he had no bony elements within him, but still
belonged to the regions of air and water, whereby we must imagine the
water dissolved in the air. He would have been like a transparent
being on the periphery of the earth. A present-day eye would not be
able to distinguish this human being from his environment, just as a
present-day eye cannot distinguish certain sea creatures from their
surroundings, because they look so similar. You can imagine such a
being wafting through the air. Not until after the separation of the
sun and the moon did man become like we know him today. What were the
conditions necessary for man to develop into what he is today? It was
essential that the sun's force should not work from inside but from
outside on to the earth. That was the purpose of the separation of
both sun and moon, that these two cosmic bodies should send their
forces, like the sun sends its light, from outside on to the earth.
Man could only acquire his present-day form because the sun shone on
him not from below, from the centre of the planet, but from the side.
Just imagine, if you care to assume such a hypothesis, that the moon
were to fall back on to the earth, and the sun to reunite with it; if
he wanted to survive in those conditions man would have to re-clothe
himself with a body as airy as it was before, and he would have to be
able to waft through the environment he is familiar with today. Thus
man owes his present existence to the fact that the sun and moon
shine on him from outside. We will disregard all the other forces
today.
Now
the sun and moon work in various ways from outside. The way the sun
works in the region of the North Pole is very different from the way
it works at the Equator. We get the impression of tremendous
contrasts that acquired a meaning the moment the sun began to shine
on to the earth from outside. You know, of course, that the nearer we
get to the North Pole the greater are the differences between winter
and summer. And right at the North Pole half the year is day and half
the year night. When you think of these differences, then what
spiritual science has to say about these things will make sense. It
tells us that at the North Pole itself earth conditions in Lemurian
times were the closest to those conditions existing on the earth when
the sun and moon were still united with it. Today, of course, these
conditions are quite different. But even today it is still to a
certain extent true that at the North Pole the strongest influence is
from the earth's centre to its surface, and the influence of the sun
and the moon are at their least. What has made itself felt since
Lemurian times, in the great increase of forces raying in from
outside, has had the least influence of all at the North Pole, so the
effect of the centre of the earth on its surface and everything
living upon it is here at its greatest. On the other hand the
influence of the sun and the moon is strongest around the Equator,
and this was already so in Lemurian times. In the Kashic Record we
can confirm that earth conditions changed to something completely new
with the separation of sun and moon. This, however, led to a quite
definite consequence. Something arose which was of fundamental
importance for the whole of earth evolution. For the reasons we have
given it was in the area of the North Pole least possible for man to
descend, as it were, and to incarnate in a physical human form in
such a way that he could come to best expression within it. Therefore
in ancient Lemurian times it was just at the North Pole that those
beings congregated who, if I may express it this way, laid no claim
as yet to coming right down on to the earth, but who preferred to
remain above in the regions where the air was still interlaced with
vapour. Thus there was at the North Pole in Lemurian times a kind of
spiritual species that did not concern itself very much with the
physical bodies that swarmed about on the earth below. From a
spiritual point of view, seen by a present-day eye, this species
consisted of transparent forms that were therefore not actually
visible, and as such they were highly developed, but regarding their
physical form they showed a lower form of humanity. They lived in an
etheric body and were beings of a more ethereal nature, having only a
loose connection with the primitive bodies developing on the earth
below that still had no density to speak of. These bodies were too
dependent on the earth, and these spiritually more advanced beings
only used them as sheaths to the very smallest extent. If, therefore,
a man of the present, with his powers of perception, had been able to
visit the North Pole in Lemurian times, he would have spoken about
its population much in this way: What peculiar people!
They
are really very little developed with regard to their physical
bodies, but this must point to something special, for as a people
they are skilful and intelligent; it is as though they were being
directed by strings from above! And so indeed it was, for the real
human being did not descend on to the earth's surface. That is why
the people living around the North Pole at that time were in the
highest degree ethereal beings with highly developed etheric bodies
but underdeveloped physical bodies; beings that as it were could
grasp all the wisdom of the world with their etheric bodies, as
though they had great clairvoyant faculties, and who looked out to
the starry Heavens with an understanding of the beings who were
weaving the life of world spaces. But you could almost say that their
physical bodies were sleepy. Yet because they were led as though by
strings from above, the deeds they performed were perfectly
intelligent.
In
the equatorial regions it was different. The influence of the sun and
the moon was becoming more and more active from outside. The air was
interlaced and warmed through by the rays of the sun. All the
phenomena taking place in the region of the air became dependent on
the sun and the moon. And the result of this was that just in ancient
Lemurian times the people of these regions descended deepest into
their physical bodies, and their etheric bodies interpenetrated their
physical bodies most deeply. A present-day man with eyes of the
senses would assume these beings to be the most highly developed
physical human beings, whilst he would reckon the northern peoples to
be underdeveloped. And there was a further difference that is of
special importance.
Where
the sun had least influence men developed in such a way that over
large areas they all looked more or less similar to one another. For
each of these beings that did not descend but was still ethereal
belonged to a number of forms below. Up in the North they were group
souls, whilst the souls around the Equator were more individual
souls, and each human being was much more inside his own body. Thus
the inhabitants of those regions that we find at the North Pole today
had, in Lemurian times, the characteristics of group soul beings to
the greatest imaginable degree. A great number of people looked up to
their group soul. And if we look at these group souls as souls we
will see that they were much more highly developed than the souls
which, in Lemurian times, descended into physical bodies in the
equatorial regions. So we can say that the North Pole was populated
by people that actually lived in the realms of air in a kind of
paradise, and who had not yet descended as far as the earth. What we
thus understand to be a necessary consequence of the foregoing you
can now compare with what you encounter here and there in
anthroposophical literature, namely that those higher beings who were
once the teachers of mankind descended from the cold North! We have
actually found them, the group souls around the North Pole. If they
wanted to become teachers of those people who were inferior souls and
who entered more into physical bodies, then they had to descend
further, too, and oppose the capacity of the clairvoyance of Lemurian
times in their etheric body, or they had to sacrifice themselves and
take on the physical human form of the Lemurian people.
If
we had taken a journey in Lemurian times from the Equator to the
North Pole, we should have found a spiritualising of the earth
population. In those times we can distinguish as it were a twofold
population: one kind that had still remained spiritual, and whose
earthly bodies appeared really to be only an addition to their
spiritual being, and another kind that had already descended into
matter, into the physical. What would have happened if no change had
occurred with earth evolution? The best souls of the polar regions
would not have been able to descend at all into physical bodies. And
on the other hand the equatorial population would have more or less
died out. Having descended too soon into a physical body, they fell
into those wicked and immoral practices that led to the downfall of
Lemuria. And this resulted in the best section of the population
migrating to those regions lying between the Equator and the northern
lands. For in Lemurian times we find the members of mankind with the
greatest chance of survival living in the countries between the
Equator and the North Pole. The human bodies that could become
bearers of the most advanced human souls developed best in those
regions of ancient Atlantis known today as the temperate zones.
Now
all the various stages of evolution leave so-called stragglers behind
and there are also stragglers left from these ancient times. What we
call the Lemurian population of the earth, that remarkable people of
the North with strongly developed etheric bodies and less developed
physical bodies, and that other equatorial population with strongly
developed physical bodies and less developed etheric bodies, of these
people nothing remains, they became extinct. For these bodies were of
such a nature that we cannot even find remains; the substance was so
soft that there can be no question of there being any remains. Of
paramount importance in their Atlantean descendants was that the germ
of the ego, the consciousness of Self, the foundations of which were
already basically there from ancient Lemurian times on, went through
a progressive development on the earth. If mankind had not to a large
extent migrated to Atlantis, the active development of the ego would
not have come about. For the Lemurian population would have gradually
died out, having to succumb to passions, and the best souls of the
North would not have descended to earth at all, for they would not
have been able to find suitable bodies. The underdeveloped bodies of
earlier times would not have provided them with the possibility of
developing a strong consciousness of self within the bodily nature.
Through the fact that the better sections of the Lemurian population
migrated to Atlantis, the human body evolved its form to the extent
that it could become the bearer of self-consciousness in a harmonious
way. And it was only in the course of time that the human body
acquired this form in the regions corresponding to the present
temperate zones. For in this period of evolution the human body was
still evolving. In Atlantean times the human body was not yet
confined to rigid forms, and the highly developed human beings, those
of great spiritual significance, were physically small in those days,
whereas a person who was not very significant spiritually had in
Atlantean times a gigantically developed physical body. And if you
had met such a giant in those days, you could have concluded: He is
not on a very high level spiritually, for he has rushed into his body
with his whole being! Everything that refers to ‘giants’
in legends is absolutely based on a knowledge of the truth. If,
therefore, a real memory of these times is preserved in the Germanic
myths, we feel it to be absolutely correct, from the spiritual
scientific point of view, that the giants are stupid and the dwarfs
very clever. This is entirely based on what could be said of the
Atlantean population: Where the people are small we find great
intelligence, and a race of large men are all stupid! Where human
intelligence ran to flesh there was not much mind left. So that
physical size expressed the inability to retain the spiritual. In
those days the body was still to a certain extent perfectly capable
of transformation. Just at the time when Atlantis began to sink there
was a great contrast between men who were good as to their qualities
of soul, and were a race of little men, and the giant forms who were
wicked and in whom everything had turned to flesh. You might even
find echoes of these facts in the Bible, if you cared to look for
them.
So
we see that in Atlantean times the human body could still form itself
according to spiritual characteristics. Therefore it could also take
on the form which enabled it to mould all the organs, heart, brain,
and so on, in such a way that they could become the expression of an
actual ego being, a being with self-consciousness. These capacities
and characteristics, however, developed on innumerable different
levels. There were people whose inner nature was correctly balanced
and who were normal, for they had not developed egoism to too great
an extent, nor had they developed their ego-feeling solely on a lower
level. With them, devotion to the outer world and ego-feeling
maintained a balance. Such people were scattered about everywhere.
And these were the men that the Atlantean initiates could do most
with. On the other hand there were other men who had developed a
tremendously strong ego-feeling, much too soon, of course; for human
beings had not yet reached the point when they could make of their
bodies an instrument for a strongly developed ego-feeling. This made
the body hardened in egoism as it were, and it became impossible for
it to develop beyond a certain point. There were other people again
who had not reached anything like a normal ego-feeling because they
were more susceptible to influences from the outer world than they
should have been; peoples who had completely surrendered themselves
to the outer world. Thus it was the normal human beings that were the
best material for the initiates to use for the evolution of the
future, and they were also the ones that the great sun initiate,
Manu, gathered around him as being most capable of evolving. Those
peoples whose ego impulse was developed too strongly, so that it
permeated their whole being and made it a manifestation of egohood,
these people gradually wandered to the West and became the nation the
last survivors of which appeared as the Red Indians of America. Those
people whose ego-feeling was too little developed migrated to the
East, and the survivors of these people became the subsequent Negro
population of Africa. If you look at those things in a really
spiritual scientific way you will see evidence of them right into the
physical characteristics. If a man brings his whole inner being to
expression in his physiognomy and on the surface of his body, then it
permeates his external being with the colour of his inner nature as
it were. Now the colour of egohood is red or copper or a yellowish
brown. And an overpowering feeling of ego arising from offended
self-respect can even nowadays turn a man as it were yellow with
rage. They are absolutely connected, these two phenomena: the red
colour of those peoples that migrated to the West and the yellow
colour of the man whose ‘blood boils’ as we say, and
whose inner nature is showing itself right into his skin. Those
people, however, who had developed their ego being too little, and
who were too exposed to the influences of the sun, were like plants:
they deposited too many carbonic constituents beneath their skin and
became black. This is why the Negroes are black. Thus both east of
Atlantis in the black population and west of Atlantis in the red
population we find survivors of the kind of people who had not
developed their ego-feeling in a normal way. The human beings who had
developed normally lent themselves best to progress. Therefore they
were the ones chosen to infiltrate the various other regions from the
place we know of in Asia.
Now
between the little group of people Manu gathered round him and the
extreme cases there were obviously innumerable intermediary stages of
development. These were also turned to account, of course. To some
extent these intermediary levels were extraordinarily suitable for
the further evolution of earth civilisation. Thus for example, in the
migration from West to East a people remained behind in parts of
Europe who had developed their ego-feeling to a marked degree, but
who were at the same time not very open to influences from the
environment. Think what a peculiar mixture was bound to result in
Europe. Those people who migrated to the East and became the black
race were very susceptible to external influences, especially that of
the sun, just because they had so little ego-feeling. But other
peoples migrated into these parts, or at least in this direction, who
had a strong ego-feeling. These were peoples who had preferred as it
were going East to going West, and they are a milder red than they
would have been had they gone West. They gave rise to the race of
people who had a strong ego-feeling which nevertheless kept a balance
between this and their devotion to the outer world. Those are the
peoples of Europe of whom we were able to say in the last public
lecture that their strong feeling of personality was from the
beginning their essential feature.
Thus
we see how man's outer surroundings work on his inner situation, and
how the earth, through the different positions in which the areas of
its surface are exposed to the sunlight, gave rise to innumerable
levels of soul development. All according to the direction in which
the souls looked, they found a different possibility for developing
themselves in a physical body. It is very important that we realise
the connection between the sun's influence on the earth and man's
evolution. If some day you follow up these matters with me as far as
the details of later times you will see how much becomes
comprehensible through the fact that all these possible shades of
colouring arose. Thus for example there was that particular part of
the population that stayed in Europe whose characteristics were as I
have described, and they led an independent existence up till much
later times. They did not concern themselves about other people; but
those that migrated into the regions already colonised by peoples
with various shades of dark skin, and mixed with them, acquired every
possible shade of skin colour. Look at the colours to be found in
Asia, from the Negroes to the yellow races. Hence you have bodies
that are sheaths for every possible level of soul, from the
completely passive Negro soul entirely given up to the outer world of
physical existence, to the other levels of passive souls in every
possible part of Asia.
Various
characteristics of the evolution of the Asiatic and African peoples
will now be comprehensible to you: they present various combinations
of surrender to the environment and the external manifestation of
ego-feeling. So fundamentally we have two groups of people
representing combinations: those on European soil, forming the root
stock of the white population, who had predominantly developed the
feeling of personality, but who did not migrate to where the feeling
of personality permeated the whole body, but to where the ego-feeling
became more inward. Therefore in western Asia and partly in North
Africa and the countries of Europe, too, in earlier times, you find a
people with a strong inner ego-feeling, but who on the whole were not
given to losing themselves in the outer world; their inner character
was strong and firm, but it did not set its imprint on the bodily
nature. On the other hand there are those peoples in Asia with
passive, self-effacing natures in whom just this passivity expresses
itself in the highest degree. This makes the people dreamy, and the
etheric body penetrates very deeply into the physical body. That is
the fundamental difference between the European and the Asiatic
peoples.
Manu,
with his group of normal men, was wedged in between them. He had to
bring the right form of culture to each different shade of the
population, and he had to colour this wisdom and teaching to suit the
external conditions of the people. Thus we see that the peoples of
Asia were given instruction of the kind to satisfy them in their
passivity and self-effacement. The Afro-Asiatic peoples do not
emphasise the ego. The Negro would to some extent not lay stress on
the ego at all. When these people looked up to the divine, they said:
I do not find my innermost being within me, I find it in Brahma by
flowing out of myself and surrendering myself to the universe!
A
teaching such as this would not have been understood in Europe.
Europe was situated much too near the North Pole for that, and the
countries have kept a certain similarity right down the ages. Let us
remind ourselves that it was at the North Pole that we previously
found the peoples that did not descend right into physical bodies but
whose physical bodies were actually to a certain extent stunted. In
fact the European peoples had not as yet quite descended into their
physical bodies. They turned their feeling of personality inward. And
we would find this more and more the further back we went. Just think
how this feeling of personality has been preserved right into later
times, when people perhaps no longer saw any reason for it. Someone
who belonged to the East would have said: I unite myself with the
one, all-embracing Brahma! Thou unitest thyself with Brahma! The
other man unites himself with Brahma, they all unite themselves with
the one Brahma! With whom did the European unite himself, if he had
to acknowledge this as an acceptable idea? He united himself with the
one valkyrie, with the one higher soul. And the valkyrie, one might
say, was there for each one at the moment of death. It was all an
individual, personal matter. And it was only at the border of these
two regions that such a thing as the Moses-Christ religion could
arise. It could only come right in the middle between East and West.
And whilst it could not take root over in the East where the idea of
God was that of a unity, but at a previous stage, it could assert
itself as the idea of a personal God, which Jehovah is and which
Christ is, among those people who already bore the feeling of
personality within themselves. Therefore it spread to the West, and
we see it meeting with understanding, when envisaged as the idea of a
God people could think of as a person. That is why we see it
developing in this way almost as a necessity just in this particular
belt. The feeling of personality was there, but it was still inward,
still spiritual, just as with the ancient Lemurians everything was
still spiritual, and the bodily nature was only developed to a small
degree. The bodily nature was certainly developed here, but the
personal element, which man prized so highly, was inward, and man
also wanted to conquer what was external by means of the inner being.
Thus it was here that they best understood a God who had the greatest
wealth of inner nature permeating his outer nature, namely the
Christ. In Europe everything was prepared for the Christ. And because
these were regions in which in earlier times men had not descended
entirely on to the earthly scene, and therefore some kind of last
remnants of spiritual perception existed, there was still something
remaining of the vision of spiritual beings, of the old European
clairvoyance.
This
old European clairvoyance had also led to there being an ancient
image of God throughout Europe and also as far as Asia, which
present-day scholars, perhaps, will only get to know of if they
discover it in the myths of certain isolated districts of Siberia. A
remarkable description emerged there long before Christian times,
when nothing was known as yet of what was going on in the South,
namely what is described in the Old Testament, the Greco-Roman
evolution and that of the East. A remarkable idea emerged there which
possibly led to the name that has now more or less died out, the
‘Ongod’; and Ongod is a name that is still echoed as it
were in the idea of the ‘One God’. The Ongod would be
something like the divine we perceive in all spiritual beings. So
according to this way of thinking the idea of a personal God was
something that was absolutely familiar to the people that lived in
this particular belt of the earth. Therefore we can understand that
it was just here that this particular outlook bore its chief fruit.
For this belt of the earth and its inhabitants had so to speak solved
the mystery of the ego. Strictly speaking all evolution since
Atlantean times consists either of peoples who maintained the
ego-feeling in just the right proportion, or of peoples who developed
the ego too much or too little. Nothing special could come of the
peoples who had developed the ego in too great or too little a
degree. The peoples we have just described as the peoples of the Near
East, and also the peoples of certain parts of Africa and especially
of Europe, had developed the ego in a unique way.
These
were the basic conditions necessary for the coming civilisation that
has developed roughly since the beginning of our era. The ego had to
reach a certain point of development, as it were, but not overdo it
in either direction. And it is our task today to understand this in
the right way. For all spiritual science has in a certain respect to
appeal to what we call the development of a higher ego from out of
the lower. When we look back over the ages we can learn from the fact
that certain sections of the earth's inhabitant's did not find it
possible to keep pace with earth evolution in the development of
their ego, how many mistakes can be made in regard to the development
of the higher ego out of the lower. In ancient Atlantis, for
instance, there were peoples who dropped out of the earth population
so to speak, and they became Red Indians. What would they have said
if they had been able to put the facts of their development into
words? They would have said: Above all I want to develop my inner
being, which I find to be the highest thing within men when I look
within myself. And they developed this ego so strongly that it
affected even the colour of their skin, and that is how they became
red. Their development led them into decadence. Among the people of
Atlantis in whom everything still went directly into the body, these
were the ones who cultivated what we might call inner brooding upon
the ego, and they were so to say convinced that they could find
within themselves everything that had to be developed. At the other
extreme were those people who said: Oh, the ego is of no
significance. The ego must lose itself entirely, it must dissolve
altogether, and only listen to what the outside world says! They did
not really say this, because they did not reflect in this manner. But
those are the peoples who denied their ego to such an extent that
they went black, because the external forces coming from the sun to
the earth made them so. Only those peoples that were capable of
holding the balance with regard to their ego could develop into the
future.
Now
let us look at our present earth population. There are still people
today who say: Oh, the anthroposophists talk of a spiritual world
which they seek within themselves. We, however, look back to our good
old religious traditions that have been handed down to us externally.
We rely on what comes to us from outside and are not very concerned
about a higher world! Of course everything is more spiritual today
than it was in Atlantis. Nowadays you no longer go black if you rely
merely on traditions, and say: Those to whom we have entrusted the
welfare of our souls will take care of us, those who do the job, and
whose business it is to see that our souls reach Heaven! Nowadays
this no longer makes you black. But we do not wish to deny
everything, for in parts of Europe people still say today that if you
think in this way you will go ‘black’! Everything happens
to be more spiritual today! That then is the one type. The others are
those who, without taking the trouble to go into all the details of
spiritual science — investigations in the Kashic Record, the
nature of reincarnation and karma, the principles of man's being, and
so on — which require an effort to be understood, are so
easy-going that they say: What do I want all that for? I look within
myself, that is my higher ego, the divine man within me is there!
Such a way of thinking often arises, even in theosophical circles.
These people do not want to learn anything, or really develop
themselves and be prepared to wait until the ego has taken hold of
the various parts of their nature, but run around waiting for the
divine man to speak out of them, talking incessantly about the higher
ego. Indeed, there are even certain books that tell you: You do not
need to learn at all! Just let the God within you speak! Today, when
everything is more spiritual, this no longer makes people red. But
they succumb to the same fate as did the peoples that were always
boasting of their ego.
What
we need is an ego that keeps itself mobile, neither losing itself in
external physical observation or in external physical experience, nor
remaining stationary at one point, but really advancing in spiritual
development. That is why the great masters of wisdom and of harmony
of the perceptions have not been telling us all the time in the
theosophical movement that we should let the divine man within us
speak; on the contrary they have given us quite specific impulses for
finding the wisdom of the world in all its different aspects. And we
are not pupils of the great masters by only wanting to let the God
within us speak, or by imagining that each individual carries his own
master within himself, but by wanting to get to know the structure of
the world in all its aspects. Anthroposophical development is a
striving to know all the subtle aspects of cosmic happenings. We
attain our higher ego by evolving upwards from stage to stage. Our
ego is there outside, manifest in the wonders of the world. For we
are born out of the world and want to live our way back into it.
Thus
we see that conditions which a man can fall into today are only so to
speak modern, more spiritual versions of what we met with in
Atlantean times. Even then men came under these three categories:
There were those who really wanted to develop their egos, and who
were always taking in new things, and by so doing they really became
the bearers of post-Atlantean civilisation. Then there were those who
only wanted to let the divine speak in them, and their egos made them
red. And the third group turned their minds exclusively outwards, and
these people became black.
We
must learn the right lesson from these phenomena of earth evolution,
then in the anthroposophical movement we shall really find the right
impulse. What happens has always in a certain way already happened,
but it happens again in ever new forms. The anthroposophical movement
is something so great and significant because it is carrying further
in the various regions of the earth something that developed visibly
in Atlantis, but now is more invisible. Thus man is hastening forward
from a civilisation of the visible towards a cultural epoch of the
invisible and ever more invisible.
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