{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 143/1912-05-08/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The second quality that must be developed by human souls to attract the Christ Impulse is a power of compassion. Whenever the soul is moved to share in the suffering or joy of others, this is a force which attracts the Christ Impulse; Christ unites Himself with the human soul through compassion and love. Compassion and love are the forces from which Christ forms His etheric body until the end of earthly evolution. With regard to compassion and love one could, to put it crudely, speak of a programme which Spiritual Science must carry out in the future. In this connection, materialism has evolved a pernicious science, such as has never previously existed on Earth. The very worst offence committed today is to correlate love and sexuality. This is the worst possible expression of materialism, the most devilish symptom of our time. Sexuality and love have nothing whatever to do with each other. Sexuality is something quite different from and has no connection at all with pure, original love. Science has brought things to a shameful point by means of an extensive literature devoted to connecting these two things which are simply not connected.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Ancient Wisdom and the Heralding of the Christ Impulse","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-05-08","location":null,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-05-08/p033","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Der Materialismus hat es heute auf diesem Gebiete sogar — was niemals vorher auf der Erde geschehen ist — zu einer schändlichen Wissenschaft gebracht. Das Schlimmste, was geleistet wird heute, ist das Zusammenwerfen von Liebe und Sexualität. Das ist der schlimmste Ausdruck des Materialismus, das Teuflischste der Gegenwart. Die Dinge, die auf diesem Gebiet geleistet werden, sie werden erst herausgeschält werden müssen. Sexualität und Liebe haben gar nichts miteinander zu schaffen in ihrer wahren Bedeutung. Sexualität kann zur Liebe hinzukommen, hat aber mit der reinen, ursprünglichen Liebe überhaupt nichts zu tun. Die Wissenschaft hat es bis zur Schändlichkeit gebracht, indem sie eine ganze Literatur aufbrachte, die sich damit beschäftigt, diese beiden Dinge in Zusammenhang zu bringen, die gar nicht im Zusammenhang stehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/143/1912-05-08/p032"}],"english":["GA 143/1912-05-08/p033"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":224,"en_words":194,"ratio":0.87,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7582,"original_word_count":7177,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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