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Awakening Spiritual Thoughts","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-05-05","location":null,"word_count":125,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/154/1914-05-05/p038","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Christian von Arnim","identified_edition":"AP1990","book_title":"The Presence of the Dead on the Spiritual Path","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA154/English/AP1990/19140505p01.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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Man brachte sie den Göttern zum Opfer. Ich will heute nicht über den Sinn des Opfers sprechen. Aber fühlen werden Sie den Sinn dieses Opfers, wie es in neuer Zeit vorhanden sein soll. Als die Menschen hingegangen sind mit den Früchten und sie den Göttern geopfert haben, da haben sie, trotzdem sie die Früchte des Feldes geopfert haben, die anderen genossen, nachdem sie die Erstlingsfrüchte den Göttern zum Opfer hingetragen haben. Wahrhaftig, nicht von falscher Askese geht Geisteswissenschaft aus. Nicht wird sie sich der Unmöglichkeit schuldig machen, zu donnern gegen die moderne Kultur mit allen ihren materiellen Segnungen. Die erkennt sie an. 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