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Whilst at other times our look is directed towards the future, whilst at other times we are willing to place our best powers at the disposal of the future, to strengthen and increase all faith in the future, here, on such festival days, we seek just to live in remembrance, to draw towards us as though incarnated the old thoughts teaching us at the present time that we can think truly in our way of what lies in the spiritual at the foundation of the external world; but that in earlier times—in a different way, it is true, but not less right, not less magnificent and significant—the True and Sublime was thought and experienced through the realisation of the oneness of humanity and the high possibilities that then lay ahead of humanity. This is our anthroposophical ideal, to be able to feel one with that which the men of old produced—often from the most hidden depths of the soul. These festivals, particularly the great ones, encourage this, if we can only through the anthroposophical truths imprint in our souls the significance of the hieroglyphic signs written in the path of time.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. 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Während sonst unser Blick der Zukunft zugewendet ist, während wir sonst willig sind, unsere besten Kräfte der Zukunft zur Verfügung zu stellen, allen Glauben an die Zukunft zu kräftigen und zu stärken, versuchen wir gerade an solchen Festtagen in Erinnerungen zu leben, die alte Gedanken wie verkörpert zu uns herübertragen, die uns lehren, daß wir zwar gegenwärtig nur in unserer Art denken können, was der äußeren Welt im Spirituellen zugrunde liegt, daß aber noch in der Vorzeit - in anderer Art zwar, aber nicht minder richtig, nicht minder grandios und bedeutend — das Wahre, das Erhabene gedacht und empfunden worden ist durch das Sich-Einsfühlen mit der Menschheit, mit allem, was die Menschheit zu ihren Höhen tragen soll. Das ist unser geisteswissenschaftliches Ideal, daß man sich eins fühlen kann mit dem, was die Menschheit der Vorzeit geschaffen hat, manchmal aus den verborgensten Seelentiefen herauf. 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