{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 143/1912-05-16/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us illustrate this with a concrete example. Take, for example, the relationship between two people who have different religious beliefs across the earth, let us say Christianity and Buddhism. What we can say with reference to Christians and Buddhists, who provide us only with classical examples, we could of course also say for the world views of two people living side by side in Europe; for what applies on a large scale will also apply on a small scale through spiritual knowledge. If we take the Christian and the Buddhist as they are in the traditional orthodox creeds, how do they relate to each other? Well, in such a way that the Christian actually believes that the Buddhist can only be saved if he accepts Christianity in the form that he has. And so we see the missionary activities of Christians among Buddhists; they take their particular confession there. And the orthodox Buddhist behaves in a very similar way. Suppose both became anthroposophists. How would a Christian, as an anthroposophical Christian, relate to a Buddhist? Well, let us say that he hears what is one of the most important things in Buddhism and what, basically, is only properly understood by someone who lives within Buddhism itself. Today, there are two ways of learning about the content of the various religious beliefs: from people who study comparative religion and from those who learn about the content of the various religious beliefs in a spiritual-scientific way. If we consider those who practice comparative religion, we must say that they are extraordinarily hardworking and active people who endeavor to cultivate the scholarly comparison of different religious beliefs. But when they compare these religious beliefs, something very special comes to light; then what they are looking for, even if they do not admit it, is actually only the untruthfulness of the various religious beliefs. These people are looking for what is not true, what was accepted by the various religious beliefs in childlike times; that is, they are looking for untruth. The person who studies this as a spiritual scientist seeks the main core in the individual religious beliefs; he seeks what is contained in a single nuance, but still as a perceptional nuance, in this or that religious belief. He seeks, therefore, what is true in the individual religious beliefs, not what is false.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Towards a Synthesis of World Views: A Fourfold Mission","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-05-16","location":null,"word_count":392,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-05-16/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Experiences of the Supernatural","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA143/English/SOL2024/19120516p01.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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Nun, so, daß der Christ eigentlich glaubt, der Buddhist könne nur selig werden, wenn er das Christentum in der Form annimmt, wie gerade er es hat. Und so sehen wir die Missionstätigkeiten der Christen unter den Buddhisten; sie tragen ihr spezielles Bekenntnis dorthin. Und in ganz entsprechender Weise benimmt sich auch der orthodoxe Buddhist. Nehmen wir an, beide würden Anthroposophen. Wie kann sich der Christ, als anthroposophischer Christ, zum Buddhisten verhalten? - Nun, sagen wir, er hört das, was zu den hauptsächlichsten Dingen des Buddhismus gehört und was im Grunde genommen nur recht verstanden wird von einem, der im Buddhismus selber drinnen lebt. Man hört ja heute auf zwei Wegen etwas über das, was man die Inhalte der verschiedenen Religionsbekenntnisse nennt: Von Leuten, die vergleichende Religionswissenschaft treiben, und von denen, die in geisteswissenschaftlicher Weise den Inhalt der verschiedenen Religionsbekenntnisse kennenlernen. 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