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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).

10(2/6/1920, Dornach) p. 151 3984 196-04There was knowledge of reincarnationup to the year 1860 B.C

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: After 1860 B.C., it wasknown only as an instinctive feeling throughout all of Egypt, the Near East and Greco-Roman areas.

13(2/13/1920, Dornach) 185ff. 3990 196-05thinking-feeling-willing / social life / planetary stages / realms of nature

Human soul-life:memoryis dependent on the bodily constitution, intelligence is less andsense-activity least dependent on it. Steiner emphasizes: Higher sense-organsare notthere to transmit sense processes; they are there so that the ego can know of senseprocesses. I.e. the eyes are there not for seeing but that the ego knows something aboutthe processes in the eye.

Memory has developed from the dreamlike Imaginationconsciousness of the old Moon.The angeloiare active in it. Intelligence goes back to the dormant Inspirationthe humanbeing possessed on the Sun, and sense-activity goes back to the dull Intuition of theSaturn stage. In intelligence (in the active thought) the archangeloiand in sense-activitythe archaiare active. On the justification of the old view that the human body is a templeof the gods.

The different ages of sense-organs: hearing Saturn, eyes Sun, sense of touch (dullIntuition 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 aregerms 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 consumethe 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 theactually social ones warming up the upper capacities. The more the physical body isdrying up (since the 15

th 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 196-06Europe / social threefolding

The different talents of the French, German, and Anglo-American nations alreadyindicate the direction of a kind of threefolding which should be developed: the judicial-political talent of the French, the inclination to cultural life of the Germans and the talent forthe economic life of the Anglo Americans.

17(2/21/1920, Dornach) 253ff. 3997 196-07On the phrase-like symbolism of the Freemasons. The fact that in true lodges social andreligious differences do not play any role allots an particularly powerful spirituality to suchsocieties. That is why the Catholic Churchlost influence, the more it set great store by auniform 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.