{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 147/1913-08-25/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This love, which one can call egoistic love, must also exist. It really has to be present in mankind. Everything we can love in the spiritual world, all the spiritual facts, everything that love can cause to live in us as a longing for and an impulse upwards into the spiritual world, to comprehend the beings of the spiritual world, to perceive the spiritual world: all this springs naturally from a sentient love for that world. This love for the spiritual, however, must—not *may* but *must*—come about necessarily for our own sake. We are beings whose roots are in the spiritual world. It is our duty to make ourselves as perfect as we can. For our own sake we must love the spiritual world in order to draw as many forces as possible out of it into our own being. 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Über diese Liebe im weitesten Sinne muß man das Folgende sagen: Wenn diese Liebe in der physisch-sinnlichen Welt auftritt und wirkt innerhalb des menschlichen Lebens, dann ist sie absolut geschützt vor jedem unberechtigten luziferischen Eingriff, wenn sie so auftritt, daß der Mensch das Wesen, das er liebt, um dieses Wesens willen liebt. -— Nicht wahr, wenn uns irgendein Wesen, ein anderer Mensch oder ein Wesen anderer Naturreiche in der physisch-sinnlichen Welt entgegentritt, so tritt es uns mit bestimmten Eigenschaften entgegen. Wenn wir eine freie Empfänglichkeit, eine Eindrucksfähigkeit für diese Eigenschaften haben, dann nötigen uns diese die Liebe ab, dann können wir nicht anders, als dieses Wesen lieben. Wir werden durch das Wesen veranlaßt, es zu lieben. Diese Liebe, wo die Ursache der Liebe nicht in dem Liebenden liegt, sondern im geliebten Wesen, das ist diejenige Art, diejenige Form von Liebe in der Sinneswelt, die absolut gefeit ist vor jedem luziferischen Einfluß. Aber nun können Sie, wenn Sie das menschliche Leben betrachten, bald ersehen, daß auch eine andere Art von Liebe hereinspielt in das menschliche Leben, diejenige Liebe, wo man liebt, weil man selber gewisse Eigenschaften hat, die sich befriedigt, entzückt, erfreut fühlen, wenn man dieses oder jenes Wesen lieben kann. Man liebt dann um seinetwillen,; man liebt, weil man so oder so geartet ist, und diese besondere Artung ihre Befriedigung fühlt dadurch, daß man das andere Wesen liebt. Sehen Sie, diese Liebe, die man eine egoistische Liebe nennen könnte, muß auch da sein. Sie darf nicht etwa fehlen in der Menschheit. Denn alles, was wir in der geistigen Welt lieben können, die geistigen Tatsachen, alles das, was in uns durch Liebe als Sehnsucht, als Drang hinauf in die geistige Welt leben kann, zu umfassen die Wesenheiten der geistigen Welt, die geistige Welt zu erkennen: es entspringt natürlich auch der sinnlichen Liebe zur geistigen Welt. 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