{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-06-22/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let me now tell you something which contributed to he founding of the spiritual-scientific world-conception: Karma influences not only individual men, but also nations, and even humanity as a whole. Those who pursue the course of history in the spiritual life of Europe know that materialism came to the fore during those last 400 years or so. The most innocent aspect of materialism is to be found in science, for there every mistake can always be perceived and corrected. The influence of materialism is far more harmful in practical life, where everything is viewed from the angle of material interests. But materialism would never have entered practical life, had men not had a predilection for it. The influence of of materialism is most harmful of all in the sphere of religious life, that is to say, in the Church: The Church above all has been heading towards materialism for centuries. In which way? If you go back to the days of early Christianity, you would never have heard people say, for instance that the seven days creation was actually accomplished in seven *days*, as we so often hear to-day, nor was the “seventh” day imagined in such a way that after a hard piece of work someone sits down and rests. The materialistic age has lost all knowledge of the reality underlying this work of seven days.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. 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Aber nie hätte der Materialismus Platz gegriffen im praktischen Leben, wenn nicht die Menschen dazu eine Vorliebe gehabt hätten. Es hätte auch keinen Büchner und so weiter gegeben, wenn nicht der Mensch vorher das Materielle so geliebt hätte. Am allerschädlichsten wirkt sich aber der Materialismus aus auf dem Gebiete des religiösen Lebens, das heißt in der Kirche; gerade sie steuert seit Jahrhunderten auf den Materialismus hin. Wieso? Wenn Sie zurückgehen in die ursprünglichen Zeiten des ersten Christentums, hätten Sie nie gehört, daß man angenommen hätte, daß sich das Siebentagewerk wirklich in sieben Tagen vollzogen hätte, wie es ja heute tatsächlich vielfach angenommen wird, und daß man unter dem «siebenten Tag» sich so etwas vorstellen kann, als ob sich einer nach einer schweren körperlichen Arbeit auf einen Stuhl setzt und ausruht. Von der Wirklichkeit dieses Siebentagewerkes weiß das materialistische Zeitalter nichts mehr. Der Theosophie ist es erst wieder vorbehalten, der Menschheit über den wahren Sinn dieser alten Urkunde, der Genesis, Aufklärung zu geben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":261,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/100/1907-06-22/p024"}],"english":["GA 100/1907-06-22/p029","GA 100/1907-06-22/p030","GA 100/1907-06-22/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":261,"en_words":286,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4787,"original_word_count":4729,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1942","book_title":"Theosophy and Rosicrucianism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA100/English/ANS1942/19070622p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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