{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-29/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The foundation for the improvement of a human being always consists in taking away his spiritual error. And what is necessary to this end? Gather together what I have told you into a fundamental feeling; let the facts speak to you, let them speak to your feelings and perceptions, and try to gather them together into one fundamental feeling, and then you will say: What is the attitude which a man needs to hold regarding his fellow-man? It is that he needs the belief in the original goodness of humanity as a whole, and of each single human being in particular. That is the first thing we must say if we wish to speak at all in words concerning morality; that something immeasurably good lies at the bottom of human nature. That is what Francis of Assisi realised; and when he was approached by some of those stricken with the horrible disease we have described, as a good Christian of that day, he said somewhat as follows:-- “A disease such as this is in a certain way the consequence of sin; but as sin is in the first instance spiritual error and disease the result it must therefore be removed by a mighty opposing power.” Hence Francis of Assisi saw by the sinner how, in a certain way, the punishment of sin manifests itself externally; but he also saw the good in human nature, he saw what lies at the bottom of each human being as divine spiritual forces. 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Fassen Sie jetzt dasjenige, was ich Ihnen erzählt habe, in eine Grundempfindung zusammen. Lassen Sie die Tatsachen sprechen, lassen Sie sprechen Ihre Gefühle und Ihre Empfindungen, und versuchen Sie dieselben in einer Grundempfindung zusammenzufassen, dann werden Sie sich sagen: Was braucht der Mensch dem Menschen gegenüber zu seinem Verhalten? Das ist es gerade, daß er den Glauben braucht an das ursprünglich Gute des Menschen und einer jeglichen menschlichen Natur! Das ist das Erste, was wir sagen müssen, wenn wir überhaupt in Worten von Moral sprechen wollen, daß es ein unermeßlich Gutes ist, was auf dem Grunde der Menschennatur vorhanden ist. Das sagte sich Franz von Assisi. Und wenn ihm dann entgegentraten einige derjenigen, die mit der charakterisierten schrecklichen Krankheit behaftet waren, dann sagte sich Franz von Assisi als guter Christ der damaligen Zeit etwa das Folgende: Eine solche Krankheit ist in gewisser Beziehung Folge der Sünde, aber weil Sünde geistige Verirrung ist, weil die Krankheit Folge geistiger Verirrung ist, daher muß sie durch eine starke und große entgegengesetzte Kraft aufgehoben und weggeschafft werden. Daher sah Franz von Assisi an dem Sünder, wie in gewisser Beziehung die Strafe der Sünde sich äußerlich zeigt. Er sah aber auch das Gute der Menschennatur, sah, was an göttlich-geistigen Kräften auf den Grund jeder Menschennatur gelegt ist. 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