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The freedom of people
In GO 222 explanes Rudolf Steiner how people got in former days ideas automatically whereas he the world contemplated. Since the 4th century a.C. is that changed. Then the "governing board" has proceeded of the world ideas of the hierarchy of the Exousiai (spirits of the form) towards the hierarchyof the Archai (spirits of individuality). As a result, people have got the possibility in the 5thafter-after-Atlantic culture period - the period of the consciencesoul - inner human freedom of reaching. Because where he got in former days the ideas automatically, he must reach now by own inner ziele-arbeid ideas. A verwikkeling has, however, acted. A part of the beings of the hierarchy of the Exousiai had not beenprepared that transfer "governing board" of the cosmic world ideas tothe Archai. Up to on the day of today these Exousiai continue ' lagged behind 'manage thus a part of the ideas, , as it happens, the ideas which people get automatically because heis in a certain people or nation born. It is to people make a choice: or he to the backward Exousiai and continues he continues aim itselfput in a out of place nationalism, or he chooses for the correct Archai and at the same time for freedom.

[ ... ] the humanity in former times felt that she got its moral ideas ofthe gods. That was in the time then exactly the Exousiai, the spirits of the form, people whispered ideas, therefore also the moral ideas. People knew that realy, even if the ground would go at under in warmte-dood, that in the future nevertheless divine-priest-mental beings would bewhich the world ideas from entire cosmos have. People knew: not I make ideas, but the ideas which there are, just like nature is there. Just like everything what takes place in nature, also ideas have existed indefinitely.

One must well realise that today the day a lot of people continuouslymore with difficulty have to it a correct find proportion to living. Some want that to admit - that is perhaps still the besten -, others want that do not admit, but by their actions that general world chaos arises in which we havecome now rightly. But everything what there is today as world chaos, as a world disorder, that is the effective consequence of this inner quartering, this niet-weten that the moral world order a reality is. People kindest of already indifferently want establish itself t.o.v. the large world questions because they cannot bring himself there toadmit where quartering lies actual. Kindest they would forget that. With that what one calls today our external civilisatie, with that can be remedied there to that quartering nothing. Those are solve only on the basis of a mental world consideration suchas those by the anthroposophy are gezocht. And then one can realise just how it are the Archai that now incosmos, in the cosmic control, the task have got for the ideas of the people, that now isolated, by inner labour in the soul arise, really everywhere to link with the world events, to place that overal in an order. And on massive, terrible manner retrieves people the basis for the moral world order, correctly this way. How does he find that? Welnu, people could not free become as long as he could not develop thefeeling: gij develop themselves your ideas from your own individualiteit; gij zijt the maker of your ideas. But with that we tear at the same time the ideas apart from cosmos. In old times it was more or less this way: if I sign here the sea of the cosmic ideas (yellow), and there people (red), then I must that which influxes in every people if share of the cosmicideas zó signs (yellow). People hung fixed to the cosmic idea world, those descended to in him. That this could be this way, were due to the activity of the spirits of the form. In the course of the humanity development is that differently become. We have here the sea of the cosmic ideas (yellow), the "governing board" has proceeded on the Archai. If I sign now there below separate people, then is that what is their ideas, afgesnoerd; it no longer coincides with the cosmic ideas. That must be this way. because people could a free being never become if he had not detachedits idea world of cosmos. He must detach him, to tear to become a free being; but must be tied up then that. What therefore necessary is, that is the management of those ideas - which in the first place notfor human living, but for cosmos it is important (green) - by the Archai, the spirits of individuality. But lets consider our ideas now those once with moral gezinning, and we let feel how this idea becomes from moral gezinning, that we can say: we, if we enter the mental world - or when we have gone by the poort ofdeath, or somewhere else or in the ground future - we will encounter thespirits of individuality, the Archai. Then we will observe what they have been possible do with our ideas, that for the wille of our freedom in our isolated were. And we our value as people and learn know our human dignity to whatthe Archai from our ideas have been possible make. And the cosmic idea aims himself directly to the moral gezinning, towards moral pulse strength. As anthroposophy in the correct manner it is taken then can from thattoday very certainly everywhere moral pulse strength ontspringen. Anthroposophy must be grasped or with entire people. If we hold that idea, the idea of responsibility t.o.v. the normally developed Archai, if we assess our mental proportion in cosmos correctly, then we become just real people of our time. And then we will look at in the correct manner to what our alwayssurrounds: not only a sensual world but also a mental world. We will be surprised to those mental beings, the Archai, with respect to which people responsible must become if he are in thecorrect manner worthy humanity development wants undergo in the courseof the ground times. We will see how the current time is faced still with what has remainedto spirits of the form which want control still the ideas in the oldmanner. And that is the most important civilisation task! That is the actual deeper tasks for people: by its correct proportion to the Archai, to the spirits of the individuality, free become, so that he finds as a result also the correct proportion to thespirits of the form which want today do still the same with the ideassuch as what they did in former days, in former days correct, but now total wrongfully. And of the one side we will find that what makes living in the worldtoday difficult, but we will weigh also everywhere to find to attain from thosedifficulties. Only we must zoeken those ways as free people. Because if we do not have the will to free idea development, what do have start do the Archai then with our? Where it arrives on in our time, that is that people want a free being be really. In most of the cases he wants that not yet. He must still learn that want. It falls him the same day difficult itself wants as a free being. Kindest he in fact that he could wish what he gladly and that then thecorrect spirits would be which to be would fulfil wishes in aninvisibly supernatural manner. Then he would feel himself perhaps rather, decent feeling! We must let pass only one couple reïncarnaties, not even such for a long time, this way around the year 2800 or 3000, and then we it will be able forgive himself in a followingincarnation - where we might look back automatically on formerincarnations - that we ever human freedom have exchanged with approachof the human freedom sigh by accomodating gods! This two matters exchange people present: freedom and inschikkelijkheid of goedhartige gods t.o.v. the human freedom sigh, t.o.v. easy human wishes. That wants today nevertheless a lot of people, that there good gods are those their wishes fulfil without having dosomething themselves. Said as, we must but to wait up to the year 2800 or 3000 and in a followingincarnation we that highly scorn. But correctly when we develop good moral gezinning today, then must be that also linked with a certain moral sterkte whichfreedom real wíl - to inner freedom start; external itself or in the correct manner develop as the will to innerfreedom there once is. To this end is, however, necessary that one can observe in the correctmanner where backward spirits everywhere those of the form are active. Now, they are everywhere active. I can present myself - human intellect has such a luciferischeinclination - that people is there that now says: yes, it nevertheless much would be more judicious are because of the divineworld order if those backward spirits of the form would be not busy, if they even not at all existed! - People who think this way Council I to for, as judicious people for that to once state itself they would feedhimself without the bowels are filled at the same time with unpleasantsubstances. The one is not possible without the other. And this way it is not in the world also possible that the thingswhich allows human dignity in a massive and terrible manner, there are without their in accordance with correlaat. Where can we can see those backward spirits of the form busy? In the first place we they see today in national chauvinisms whichspread themselves concerning the entire world, there where the ideas of people are not developed from their innerstecentral core, but from blood, from what from the instincts flows." [ ... ]

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