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1616) was the same as that for Jacob Bhme (1575-1624) and the poet Jacob Balde (Jacobus Baldus, 1604-1668) **). *) starting from the same initiated personality. See 236/2(4/12/1924, Dornach). **) see reference to this poet in 141/3(12/3/1912, Berlin).

196-04 10(2/6/1920, Dornach) p. 151 3984 There was knowledge of reincarnation up to the year 1860 B.C.: After 1860 B.C., it was known only as an instinctive feeling throughout all of Egypt, the Near East and GrecoRoman areas.
13(2/13/1920, Dornach) 185ff. 3990 196-05 thinking-feeling-willing / social life / planetary stages / realms of nature Human soul-life: memory is dependent on the bodily constitution, intelligence is less and sense-activity least dependent on it. Steiner emphasizes: Higher sense-organs are not there to transmit sense processes; they are there so that the ego can know of sense processes. I.e. the eyes are there not for seeing but that the ego knows something about the processes in the eye. Memory has developed from the dreamlike Imagination consciousness of the old Moon. The angeloi are active in it. Intelligence goes back to the dormant Inspiration the human being possessed on the Sun, and sense-activity goes back to the dull Intuition of the Saturn stage. In intelligence (in the active thought) the archangeloi and in sense-activity the archai are active. On the justification of the old view that the human body is a temple of the gods. The different ages of sense-organs: hearing Saturn, eyes Sun, sense of touch (dull Intuition in the body) and sense of smell earth [see 96-04, 96-05, 170-08]. Lecture 14(2/14/1920): The "lower" soul capacities of feeling, desiring, and wanting are germs of capacities to come: feeling becomes fully conscious Imagination on Jupiter, desiring fully conscious Inspiration on Venus, and wanting fully conscious Intuition on Vulcan. The forces of feeling will consume the mineral realm of the earth, so that on Jupiter the kingdom of plants will be the lowest physical realm. The forces of desire will also consume the kingdom of plants on Jupiter and the forces of wanting the animal kingdom on Vulcan, so that on the Vulcan the human realm will be the lowest one. The lower abilities are the actually social ones warming up the upper capacities. The more the physical body is drying up (since the 15th century) the more the danger exists that social life will be organised with the help of the "higher" capacities dried up then. 15(2/15/1920, Dornach) 223ff. 3994 196-06 Europe / social threefolding The different talents of the French, German, and Anglo-American nations already indicate the direction of a kind of threefolding which should be developed: the judicialpolitical talent of the French, the inclination to cultural life of the Germans and the talent for the economic life of the Anglo Americans. 17(2/21/1920, Dornach) 253ff. 3997 196-07 On the phrase-like symbolism of the Freemasons. The fact that in true lodges social and religious differences do not play any role allots an particularly powerful spirituality to such societies. That is why the Catholic Church lost influence, the more it set great store by a uniform creed, and had to support its power by political means. References to lectures of CW 196 in 155-01, 176-01, 176-02, 189-08, 204-23.

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