{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Without these two frames of mind,—dread and fear of the infinite emptiness of existence and the overcoming of this fear it is impossible to have the faintest conception of the ancient Saturn existence underlying our own world. Neither of these feelings is much cultivated by people in themselves. Hence in literature we find but few descriptions of this condition. It is naturally only known to those who in course of time endeavour to seek the origin of things by means of clairvoyant forces. In external literature, however, whether written or printed, you will find but few indications of man having felt anything like the dread of the infinite emptiness or the overcoming of this. In order to obtain a sort of insight into this, I have tried to investigate some of the more modern literature where the consciousness of this dread of the immeasurable emptiness might be found. The philosophers are as a rule extremely clever and speak in clear concepts—they avoid speaking of the mighty, awe-inspiring impressions; it will not be easy to find anything of the sort in their writings. Now I shall not speak of those in which I have found nothing. But I once found one small echo of these feelings, and this was in the Day-Book of Karl Rosenkrantz, the writer on Hegel, in which he sometimes describes intimate feelings produced in him by engrossing himself in the Hegel philosophy. I came upon a remarkable passage, which is simply expressed and noted in his Day-Book. It had become clear to Karl Rosenkrantz that this philosophy proceeds from pure being. This ‘pure being’ of Hegel is much discussed in philosophical literature of the 19th century but we must say that it was very little understood. We might almost say, though of course this can only be mentioned in the most intimate circles, that the philosophy of the second half of the 19th century understood just as little of the ‘pure being’ of Hegel as the ox understands of Sunday, when he has eaten grass all the week. This concept of the ‘pure being’ of Hegel is one that has been sifted again and again, (not existing but Absolute Being); it is a concept which indeed is not quite what I have described as the dreadful emptiness into which flows fear. But all space in Hegel's sense is tinged with the quality containing nothing that can be experienced by man; it is infinity filled with ‘being.’ Karl Rosenkrantz once felt this to be as a dreadful shuddering recoil from a coldness, tinged with nothing but ‘being.’","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. 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