The "Aryan Race" in GA 121

Daniel Hindes (March 13th, 2004):

Can you point me to a discussion of the Aryan _RACE_ in GA 121 (I can find only one reference to Aryan _PEOPLES_ which seems to me to be more of a linguistic designation).

Peter Staudenmaier (March 14th, 2004):

Peoples and languages are different things. Mixing up the two was a primary root of the Aryan myth. In any case, this is how the passage reads in the English edition of Steiner's book: "Here is the seat of those forces which determine the particular racial character of those races belonging to the Jupiter humanity. This apples more or less to the Aryans, to the peoples of Asia Minor and Europe whom we regard as members of the Caucasian race." (p. 106) By my reading, Steiner very clearly includes the Aryans among "those races belonging to the Jupiter humanity."