{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-29/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us suppose we have before us a criminal, a man whom we call especially immoral; on no account must we think that this immoral man is devoid of moral impulses. They are in him and we shall find them if we delve down to the bottom of his soul. There is no human soul—with the exception of black magicians, with whom we are not now concerned—in which there is not the foundation of what is morally good. If a person is wicked, it is because that which has originated in the course of time as spiritual error overlies moral goodness. Human nature is not bad; originally it was really good. The concrete observation of human nature shows us that in its deepest being it is good and that it was through spiritual errors that man deviated from the moral path. Therefore moral errors must in course of time once more be made good in man. Not only must the mistakes be made good but their results as well, for where evil has such mighty after-effects that demons of disease have been produced, super-moral forces such as were in Francis of Assisi must be also active.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Moral Impulses: From Atlantean Fall to Francis of Assisi","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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Sie war ursprünglich wirklich gut, und gerade eine konkrete Betrachtung der Menschennatur zeigt uns, daß sie im tiefsten Wesen gut ist, und daß die geistigen Verirrungen es waren, die den Menschen von dem moralischen Pfade abgebracht haben. Daher müssen die moralischen Verirrungen im Laufe der Zeit bei den Menschen wieder gut gemacht werden. Die Verirrungen selber und auch ihre Wirkungen müssen wieder gut gemacht werden. 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