{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is easy to speak of what is often called *dogma* in occultism—something that is accepted in blind faith and given out as gospel truth. Let me suggest to you that it would be quite simple for someone to come forward and say, “This fellow has published a book on Occult Science, speaking in it about Saturn, Sun and Moon evolutions, and there is no way of controlling these statements. They can only be accepted as dogma.” I could understand such a thing being said, because it corresponds to the superficial nature of our age; and there is no getting away from it, our age *is* superficial. Indeed, under certain conditions this objection would not be without foundation. It would be justified, for example, if you were to tear out of the book all the pages that precede the chapter on the Saturn evolution. If anyone were to begin reading the book at this chapter it *would* be nothing but dogma. If, however, the author prefaces it with the other chapters, he is by no means a dogmatist because he shows what paths the soul has to go through in order to reach such conceptions. That is the point, that it has been shown in the book how every individual man, if he reaches into the depths of his soul, is bound to come to such conceptions. Herein all dogmatism ceases.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Soul Upheaval and the Birth of Abstract Thought","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-05-29","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p024"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":260,"en_words":266,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Das kann man nicht kontrollieren, das kann man nur als Dogma hinnehmen. — Ich würde es begreifen, wenn so etwas gesagt würde, denn begreiflich ist so etwas aus der Oberflächlichkeit unserer Zeit heraus; denn oberflächlich ist unsere Zeit doch. Ja, es ist unter gewissen Voraussetzungen sogar wahr, aber nur unter der Voraussetzung, daß man aus dem Buche alle Seiten wegreißt, die dem Kapitel über die Saturnentwickelung zum Beispiel vorangehen. In dem Augenblick ist dieses Kapitel Dogma, wenn jemand mit diesem Kapitel das Buch beginnen würde. Würde direkt in diesem Buch bei der Saturnentwickelung begonnen, so wäre der Schreiber ein Dogmatiker. Wenn er aber voraussetzt die andern Kapitel, so ist er ganz und gar kein Dogmatiker, denn er zeigt, welchen Weg diese Seele durchzumachen hat, um zu solchen Anschauungen zu kommen. Darauf kommt es an. Es kommt darauf an, daß gezeigt wird, wie jede einzelne Seele, wenn sie sich in den Tiefen erfaßt, zu solchen Anschauungen kommen muß. 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