עברית 'It would depend on the fact that in our circles the Strader machine would be invented in the next twenty years [1918-1938] because otherwise the Ahriman counter-image would be developed, which only serves destructive purposes.’
The Centenary of the Lost Michaelic Century
Rudolf Steiner, 30 March, 1925-2025
This sentence was deleted in the publication of this lecture in Volume 186 of the Gesamtausgabe of Rudolf Steiner’s lectures. (Reported in Der Europäer Jg. 7 / Nr. 9/10 / Juli/August 2003, 41)
It would depend on the fact that in our circles the Strader machine would be invented in the next twenty years [1918-1938] because otherwise the Ahriman counter-image would be developed, which only serves destructive purposes.’
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The sentence in brackets is deleted in the Gesamtausgabe of Rudolf Steiner’s lectures:
‘Beginning with this fifth post-Atlantean age, definite forces will become prominent in the evolution of humanity. Human evolution is, of course, moving forward. [It would depend on the fact that in our circles the Strader machine would be invented in the next twenty years, because otherwise the Ahriman counter-image would be developed, which only serves destructive purposes.] Every knowing member of these secret circles is aware that, solely by means of certain capacities that are still latent but evolving in Man, and with the help of the law of harmonious oscillations, machines and mechanical constructions and other things can be set in motion. A small indication is to be found in what I connected with the person of Strader in my Mystery Dramas.
These things are at present in process of development. They are guarded as secrets within those secret circles in the field of material occultism. Motors can be set in motion, into activity, by an insignificant human influence through a knowledge of the corresponding curve of oscillation.
The capacity to set motors in motion according to the laws of reciprocal oscillations will develop on a great scale among the English-speaking peoples. This is known in their secret circles, and is counted upon as the means whereby the mastery over the rest of the population of the Earth shall be achieved even in the course of the current fifth post-Atlantean age.
The Challenge of the Times : The Mechanistic, Eugenic and Hygienic Aspects of the Future
1 December 1918, Dornach (GA 186)
The decisive sentence in brackets [...] was omitted in the German publication.
Beginning with this fifth post-Atlantean age, definite forces will become prominent in the evolution of humanity. Human evolution is, of course, moving forward. [It would depend on the fact that in our circles the Strader machine would be invented in the next twenty years, because otherwise the Ahriman counter-image would be developed, which only serves destructive purposes.]
Within the limits of the brief span of time that comes under the survey of anthropology or history in the field of external materialistic science, it is never possible to form a judgment regarding the forces manifest in the evolution of humanity. Little in the external process of development has undergone any change within this limited span of time. On the basis of this knowledge no one knows, for example, how utterly different things looked, even in the second age, not to mention the first or others still farther back. This can be known only through spiritual science. Only through spiritual science, likewise, is it possible to indicate the forces that will develop in future in a wholly elemental manner out of the nature of Man. The fact that such forces, which will transform life on Earth, will develop out of the human being is known in those secret societies. It is this that is concealed from the East by people in the West who intend to retain it themselves. It is known, moreover, that these capacities, possessed by Man today only in their very first beginning, will be threefold in their nature. They will evolve out of the nature of Man in the same way in which other capacities have come into existence in the course of humanity's evolution.
This threefold capacity, of which every knowing person within these secret circles speaks — these three capacities that will evolve in human nature, I must make intelligible to you in the following way.
First, there are the capacities having to do with so-called material occultism. By means of this capacity — and this is precisely the ideal of British secret societies — certain social forms at present basic within the industrial system shall be set up on an entirely different foundation. Every knowing member of these secret circles is aware that, solely by means of certain capacities that are still latent but evolving in Man, and with the help of the law of harmonious oscillations, machines and mechanical constructions and other things can be set in motion. A small indication is to be found in what I connected with the person of Strader in my Mystery Dramas.
These things are at present in process of development. They are guarded as secrets within those secret circles in the field of material occultism. Motors can be set in motion, into activity, by an insignificant human influence through a knowledge of the corresponding curve of oscillation. By means of this principle it will be possible to substitute merely mechanical forces for human forces in many things. The number of human beings on the Earth today in actual fact is 1,400,000,000. Labor is performed however, not only by these 1,400,000,000 persons — as I once explained here — but so much labor is performed in a merely mechanical way that we say the Earth is really inhabited by 2,000,000,000 persons. The others are simply machines. That is, if the work that is done by machines had to be done by people without machines, it would be necessary to have 600,000,000 more persons on the Earth.
If what I am now discussing with you under the name of mechanistic occultism enters into the field of practical action, which is the ideal of those secret centers, it will be possible to accomplish the work not only of 500,000,000 or 600,000,000 but of 1,080,000,000 persons. The possibility will thus come about of rendering unnecessary nine-tenths of the work of individuals within the regions of the English-speaking peoples. Mechanistic occultism will not only render it possible to do without nine-tenths of the labor still performed at present by human hands, but will give the possibility also of paralyzing every uprising attempted by the then dissatisfied masses of humanity.
The capacity to set motors in motion according to the laws of reciprocal oscillations will develop on a great scale among the English-speaking peoples. This is known in their secret circles, and is counted upon as the means whereby the mastery over the rest of the population of the Earth shall be achieved even in the course of the current fifth post-Atlantean age.
Something else is known also in those circles. It is known that there are two other capacities that will likewise develop. One, which I shall venture to call the eugenic capacity, will evolve primarily among people of the East, of Russia and the Asiatic hinterland. It is also known in those secret circles of the West that this eugenic occultism will not evolve out of the inborn potentialities of the English-speaking peoples, but only of the inborn potentialities belonging precisely to the Asiatic and the Russian populations. These facts are known in the secret circles of the West. They are taken into account and are looked upon as constituting certain motive forces that must become active in future evolution.