{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We know that the innermost core of our being meets us in what we call our Ego. This ego, the innermost core of our being, is, in reality, for people of the present day an absolutely super-sensible and imponderable entity. This can be seen in the fact that there are to-day teachings regarding the soul, so-called official psychologies which no longer have the slightest inkling that such an ego is to be alluded to. I have often drawn your attention to the fact that in the German psychology of the 19th century the following expression has come into use, ‘Soul-teaching without soul.’ In the celebrated School of Wundt, which is considered decisive not only in German countries, but everywhere where psychology is discussed, it is mentioned with great respect. This school was well known for the ‘soul-teaching without soul’ although it did not coin the expression. This teaching insisted, without taking an independent soul-being into consideration, that all the qualities of the soul are gathered into a sort of focus,—into the ego. It would be impossible to think of greater nonsense, yet the psychology of the present day is absolutely under the influence of this nonsense. This ‘soul teaching without soul’ is to-day famous throughout the world. Future writers on the history of civilisation will have much to do to make it appear plausible to our successors that in the 19th century and well on into the 20th it was possible that such a thought could have arisen as the greatest production of the psychological field. This is only mentioned to point out how vague is official psychology respecting what we designate as the central point of the human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Inner aspect of Saturn-Embodiment of Earth.","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-10-31","location":null,"word_count":280,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/132/1911-10-31/p007","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"GC1989","book_title":"Evolution in the Aspect of Realities","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA132/English/GC1989/19111031p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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