{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 128/1911-03-27/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now in order to advance still further in our understanding of the human organism, it will be well for us to-day to proceed for a short while from another direction, so as to direct our attention briefly to the *conscious* life. We know already from the preceding lectures that the conscious life of man employs the instruments of the blood and the nervous system. We have not, however, been able to go into the finer processes; for this investigation is something, we must frankly confess, still liable to startle the outside world which so depends upon present-day customary science. On the other hand, anyone who has a basis of genuine and true occultism will tell you that the tendency of modern science is leading toward a confirmation, in the course of the next few decades, of those things which we are able to bring forward at the present time, though, to be sure, only through occult observations. If I could hold lectures for half a year, instead of this short series, it would be possible out of the findings of modern science alone to bring forward all that is necessary for external proof of what must be only briefly intimated to-day.[^1] As it is, however, I must leave very much to the good will of my audience. It is possible, indeed, in the case of everything stated here, to trace our way to external science which is already in a position, provided it begins with facts and not theoretical prejudices, to discover confirmation, on the basis of its present-day findings, for what may be learned in the sphere of occultism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. 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Aber ein jeder, der auf dem Boden des echten, wahren Okkultismus wahrhaft steht, wird Ihnen sagen, daß die Tendenz der Wissenschaft dahin geht, daß durch sie im Verlaufe von wenigen Dezennien auch diejenigen Dinge bestätigt und anerkannt werden, die wir heute noch nur aus okkulten Beobachtungen heraus sagen können. Wenn ich statt einer so kurzen Reihe von Vorträgen ein halbes Jahr über diese Dinge hier sprechen könnte, so wäre es möglich, aus den Ergebnissen der heutigen Wissenschaft alles das herbeizutragen, was geeignet ist, auch äußerlich zu belegen, was im heutigen Vortrag gesagt werden soll. Aber ich muß da manches schon dem eigenen guten Willen und den Fähigkeiten der verehrten Zuhörer überlassen. Es ist ja überall möglich, die Wege zu suchen zur äußeren Wissenschaft, die, wenn sie nicht von theoretischen Vorurteilen, sondern von den Tatsachen ausgeht, auch heute schon überall Bestätigungen finden kann für das, was auf dem Felde des Okkultismus gesagt wird. 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