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'''Manu''' ({{Sanskrit|मनु, m.|manu}} "man, humanity") in the most comprehensive sense is the name given to spiritual leaders of [[humanity]] who spiritually guide not only individual cultural epochs but entire [[main ages]] (also called [[root races]]). The term is derived from [[manas]], the [[spirit self]], which these high [[initiate]]s have already developed to an outstanding degree {{GZ||142|59}}.
'''Manu''' ({{Sanskrit|मनु, m.|manu}} "man, humanity") in the most comprehensive sense is the name given to spiritual leaders of [[humanity]] who spiritually guide not only individual cultural epochs but entire [[main ages]] (also called [[root races]]). The term is derived from [[manas]], the [[spirit self]], which these high [[initiate]]s have already developed to an outstanding degree {{GZ||142|59}}.
== Human and Superhuman Manus ==
The Manus of the Lemurian and Atlantean times, and also the tribal Manu of our [[fifth root race]], are superhuman individualities who have gone through their great school, through which they could become the leaders of humanity, on other planets. They are also called "[[Sons of the Fire Mist]]".
{{GZ|They called the second race of men the Hyperboreans. They lived around the North Pole, in Siberia, Northern Europe including the areas that have become sea. And if you think of this land with a kind of tropical temperature, you get approximately the idea of what the land was like at that time. It was originally populated by people who wandered around as single individuals like dream beings. If they had been left to themselves, they would not have been able to do anything. There was, so to speak, wisdom in the air, in the atmosphere.
It was not until the Lemurian period that the marriage of wisdom with the soul took place, so that before that we have to imagine the whole spirituality of man in a misty way. These were the germs of the misty spirit and the germs of the light spirit. The spirituality which arose as a germ in the sons of the fire-mist, which still seems familiar to us, is to be sought in the southern regions, in Lemuria. In the regions to the north of us lived people, peoples, who were endowed with a dream consciousness that was clearer than the Pitri consciousness.|92|37f}}


==Literature==
==Literature==

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Manu (Sanskrit: मनु, m. manu "man, humanity") in the most comprehensive sense is the name given to spiritual leaders of humanity who spiritually guide not only individual cultural epochs but entire main ages (also called root races). The term is derived from manas, the spirit self, which these high initiates have already developed to an outstanding degree (Lit.:GA 142, p. 59).

Human and Superhuman Manus

The Manus of the Lemurian and Atlantean times, and also the tribal Manu of our fifth root race, are superhuman individualities who have gone through their great school, through which they could become the leaders of humanity, on other planets. They are also called "Sons of the Fire Mist".

„They called the second race of men the Hyperboreans. They lived around the North Pole, in Siberia, Northern Europe including the areas that have become sea. And if you think of this land with a kind of tropical temperature, you get approximately the idea of what the land was like at that time. It was originally populated by people who wandered around as single individuals like dream beings. If they had been left to themselves, they would not have been able to do anything. There was, so to speak, wisdom in the air, in the atmosphere.

It was not until the Lemurian period that the marriage of wisdom with the soul took place, so that before that we have to imagine the whole spirituality of man in a misty way. These were the germs of the misty spirit and the germs of the light spirit. The spirituality which arose as a germ in the sons of the fire-mist, which still seems familiar to us, is to be sought in the southern regions, in Lemuria. In the regions to the north of us lived people, peoples, who were endowed with a dream consciousness that was clearer than the Pitri consciousness.“ (Lit.:GA 92, p. 37f)

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
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