{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This indicates an important point in human development. Spiritual Science is here to open the understanding of men to these new faculties which will be developed in the world of men. Anthroposophy has not come into the world because a few people are in sympathy with it and would like to make it further known; it has come because it is wanted if people wish to understand what will take place in the first half of this century. For it is only by means of that which Spiritual Science can give mankind that it will become capable of understanding this. When people become capable of perceiving in the spirit that which will then occur, they will also be incapable of confusing that event with their mistaken representations. For as materialism spreads further, it will extend even to the spiritual conception of the world where it will have a particularly evil influence. In that realm it might tend to prevent men from understanding what should be spiritually comprehended. What should really be grasped in the spirit they will seek in the world of matter. Because we are to enter into a new relation to Christ in the course of the first half of our century, it must over and over again be emphasised during the next decades and until the event occurs, that false Messiahs, false Christs will arise who will knock at the doors of those who are only able to be materialists in the realms of Spiritual Science, and can only imagine a new relation to Christ if they see Him before them in the flesh. A number of false Messiahs will turn this to their own use, saying: ‘Christ has reappeared in the flesh!’","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. 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Nicht weil einzelne Menschen Lust und Sympathie haben, die Ergebnisse der Geistesforschung zu verbreiten, gibt es eine Geisteswissenschaft in der Welt, sondern weil Geist-Erkenntnis notwendig ist, wenn die Menschen verstehen wollen, was in der ersten Hälfte unseres Jahrhunderts geschieht. Denn nur durch das, was eine Geisteswissenschaft dem Menschen geben kann, wird man fähig werden zu begreifen, was in der ersten Hälfte unseres Jahrhunderts geschehen wird. Und wenn man fähig werden wird, dasjenige im Geiste zu erkennen, was dann geschehen wird, dann wird man auch imstande sein, die Ereignisse nicht zu verwechseln mit ihren irrtümlichen Darstellungen. Denn dadurch, daß der Materialismus sich immer mehr verbreitet, verbreitet er sich auch in die geistigen Weltanschauungen hinein, und da wirkt er besonders schlimm. Da könnte er dazu führen, daß die Menschen nicht verstehen werden dasjenige, was im Geiste erfafst werden soll, auch wirklich im Geiste zu erfassen, daß sie es suchen werden in der materiellen Welt. Und weil eine neue Beziehung zu dem Christus eintreten soll in der ersten Hälfte unseres Jahrhunderts, so wird in den nächsten Jahrzehnten, bis das Ereignis geschieht, immer wieder betont werden, daß falsche Messiasse, falsche Christusse sich finden werden, die pochen werden auf diejenigen, welche auf den Gebieten der Geisteswissenschaft nur Materialisten werden können, und die sich eine neue Beziehung zu dem Christus nur so vorstellen können, daß sie ihn im Fleische vor sich haben werden. 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