{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-28/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These words were uttered by John the Evangelist when he was an old man, and it has often been said that in these four words, “Children, love one another!” is contained the extract of the deepest and most practical moral wisdom. Hence many might say: “What more is wanted, provided these good, sublime and moral ideals can be so simply fulfilled as in the sense of the words of the Evangelist John?”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Moral Impulses and Spiritual Sources of Ethics","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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Was aber gesagt werden muß gegenüber diesem Vorwurfe, das ist, daß wir uns diesem Gebiete, gerade wenn wir die ganze Bedeutung und Tragweite theosophischen Lebens und theosophischer Gesinnung in uns empfinden, nur in heiligster Scheu nähern dürfen, so daß wir uns bewußt sind, daß, wenn es im richtigen Sinne betrachtet sein will, es den Menschen so nahe berührt als nur irgend möglich und die ernstlichste, die allerwürdigste Vorbereitung erfordert.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":118,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1912-05-28/p004"},{"locus":"GA 155/1912-05-28/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Der Vorwurf, der gegen uns von jener Seite in der eben charakterisierten Art erhoben wird, könnte vielleicht in die folgenden Worte gekleidet werden. Es könnte gesagt werden: Wozu lange Weltbetrachtungen? 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