{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 130/1911-09-19/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There are two main streams. The first is known through the fact that there is a so-called Western philosophy, and that the most elementary concepts of the spiritual world arise out of the purest depths of philosophy. And it is remarkable what we see when we make a survey of what has gradually taken place within the science of Western culture. We see how some people become purely intellectual, whilst others are rooted in the religious life, yet at the same time are filled with what can only be given by the vision of the spiritual world that is behind all existence. On all sides we see spiritual life flowing out of Western philosophy. I will only mention *Vladimir Soloviev*,[^2] the Russian philosopher and thinker, a real clairvoyant, though he only saw into the spiritual world three times in his life: once when he was a boy of nine, the second time in the British Museum, and the third time in the Egyptian desert under the starry heavens of Egypt. On these occasions there was revealed to him what can only be seen by clairvoyant vision. He had a prevision of the evolution of humanity.—there welled up in him what *Schelling*[^3] and *Hegel*[^4] also achieved through sheer spiritual effort. As they stood alone on the heights of thinking, we may now place them on the summit which all educated people will eventually reach. All this was said in the course of previous centuries, particularly the last four centuries. When we survey this and work on it with the methods of practical occultism, as has been done recently, in order to make a special investigation into what the purely intellectual thinkers from *Hegel* to *Haeckel*[^5] have worked out, we can see occult forces at work here too. And a very remarkable thing comes to light: we can speak of pure inspiration in the case of just those people who appear to have least of it. Who inspired all the thinkers who are rooted in pure intellectualism? Who gave the stimulus for this life of thought that speaks out of every book to be found even in the lowliest cottage? Where does all this abstract thought life in Europe come from, that has had such a curious outcome?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Christ Impulse in Historical Development II","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-09-19","location":null,"word_count":376,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/130/1911-09-19/p015","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA130/English/RSP1984/19110919p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Überall sehen wir ein Geistesleben aus der abendländischen Philosophie herausquellen. Ich will nur nennen Wladimir Solowjow, den russischen Philosophen und Denker, einen wirklichen Hellseher, wenn er auch nur dreimal in seinem Leben hineinblicken konnte in die reine geistige Welt: Das erste Mal als neunjähriger Knabe, das zweite Mal im Britischen Museum, und zum dritten Mal, als er in der Wüste in Ägypten war und den ägyptischen Sternenhimmel über sich hatte. Da brach über ihn herein, was nur mit hellseherischem Blick zu sehen ist. Daraus erblühte in ihm dasjenige, was sich ausdrückte als Zukunftssehen der Menschheitsevolution. Es quillt das hervor, was — durch reine Anstrengung des Geistes Schelling und Hegel erreicht haben. Da sie einsam gestanden haben auf den Höhen des Denkens, dürfen wir sie auch hier hinstellen auf den Gipfel, wo nachher stehen werden alle Gebildeten. Das alles ist ja gesprochen worden im Verlaufe der letzten Jahrhunderte und besonders in den letzten vier Jahrhunderten. Wenn wir das überblicken und mit den Methoden des praktischen Okkultismus bearbeiten - und das ist geschehen in der letzten Zeit -, um gerade das zu erforschen, was die rein intellektuellen Köpfe von Hegel bis Haeckel ausgeklügelt haben, so sehen wir auch in dieses hineinwirken die okkulten Kräfte. Und ein ganz merkwürdiges Resultat ergibt sich da: Wir können von einer reinen Inspiration gerade bei denen sprechen, die uns am wenigsten so erscheinen. Wer hat sie inspiriert, alle die Geister, die auf rein intellektuellem Boden stehen? Wer hat dieses Geistesleben angefacht, das aus jedem Buche spricht, das bis hinab in die niederen Hütten geht? Woher kommt alles das, was abstraktes Geistesleben in Europa ist und ein merkwürdiges Resultat darstellt?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":367,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/130/1911-09-19/p015"}],"english":["GA 130/1911-09-19/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":367,"en_words":376,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.09,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5674,"original_word_count":5196,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA130/English/RSP1984/19110919p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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