Primal Turanians

The primal Turanians were, according to Rudolf Steiner, the fourth subrace [1] of ancient Atlantis. In the meantime, the Atlantians had gained great power over the life forces. This fullness of power was now put more and more into the service of personal self-love:

„This was done in full measure by the fourth sub-race (the primal Turanians). The members of this race, who were instructed in the mastery of the aforementioned powers, frequently used them to satisfy their self-willed desires and lusts. Used in this way, however, these powers destroy each other in their effect on each other. It is as if a man's feet were obstinately moving him forward while his upper body wanted to move backwards.

Such a destructive effect could only be stopped by the development of a higher power in the human being. And that was the power of thinking. Logical thinking has a restraining effect on selfish personal desires. We have to look for the origin of this logical thinking in the fifth subrace (the primal Semites).“ (Lit.:GA 11, p. 39f)

Out of their personal abundance of power, the primal Turanians turned to black magic.

„The fourth race, the primal Turanians, was the first to descend. They snatched the secret of vril power and became black magicians.“ (Lit.:GA 90a, p. 205)

„There are times when it is particularly dangerous to penetrate the occult world by external sorcery. This was the case in the Atlantean period, in its fourth sub-race, with the primal Turanians. That is when the real black magic developed. That is why the priests had to keep part of the wisdom secret. The other epoch is our present time. We are the fifth subrace in the Aryan [post-Atlantean] epoch. All external means today are more likely to bring people down. Therefore it is necessary that today a number of people make themselves acquainted with the intimate ways that lead into the spiritual world.“ (Lit.:GA 265, p. 239f)

In particular, the primal Turanians became acquainted with the elementary beings who inhabit the lower astral world, know no moral principle and are in descending development.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Cosmic Memory, translated by Karl E. Zimmer, Harper & Row Publishers 1981, ISBN 0-06-067572-1 rsarchive.org

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Aus der Akasha-Chronik, GA 11 (1986), ISBN 3-7274-0110-9 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Bewußtsein – Leben – Form , GA 89 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-0890-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Selbsterkenntnis und Gotteserkenntnis I, GA 90a (2017), ISBN 978-3-7274-0900-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Grundimpulse des weltgeschichtlichen Werdens der Menschheit, GA 216 (1988), ISBN 3-7274-2160-6 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Zur Geschichte und aus den Inhalten der erkenntniskultischen Abteilung der Esoterischen Schule von 1904 bis 1914, GA 265 (1987), ISBN 3-7274-2650-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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