{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-06-22/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The clairvoyant can tell you exactly that which must occur if materialism is not counter-balanced by a sound spiritual conception. Mental diseases would in that case become epidemical and even newly born children would suffer from symptoms of trembling and from other nervous disturbances, while the further result of the materialistic mentality would be a race without any power of concentration; in fact, we can see this already to-day. About three decades ago, this thought—how mankind would fare without spiritual remedy against the effects of materialism—led to the inauguration of the spiritual-scientific movement. Many discussions may arise regarding a remedy, yet no objections can be of much avail in the face of the chief argument: its efficacy. It is the same with the efficacy of spiritual science as a remedy, for it is a preventive against that which would inevitably occur if men continue along the path of materialism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The Law of Karma","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-22","location":null,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-22/p034","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"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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Geisteskrankheiten würden epidemisch werden, ebenso würden Kinder schon bei ihrer Geburt an Nervosität und Zittererscheinungen leiden, und die weitere Folge der materiellen Gesinnung ist ein solcher nicht in sich konzentrierter Menschenschlag, wie wir ihn heute schon sehen. Damals, vor nun etwa drei Jahrzehnten, war es vor allem dieser Gedanke und diese Voraussicht, wie es der Menschheit gehen würde, wenn nicht ein geistiges Heilmittel gegen diese Auswirkung des Materialismus angewandt würde, die zur Inaugurierung der theosophischen Bewegung führte. Man kann ja viel streiten über ein Heilmittel, aber alle Einwendungen können wenig genieren; die Hauptsache ist, daß es hilft. Und so ist es auch mit der Heilwirkung der TTheosophie. 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