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And then the excuse will cease: ‘Yes, I thought so; I said it in quite good faith.’ Christ wants more than ‘good faith,’ Christ would fain lead men to the Truth. He Himself has said, ‘The Truth will make you free.’ But where has Christ ever said that when people imagine that they are thinking as He would have them think, this, that, or the other may be shouted out or proclaimed in writing to the world, when they really know nothing about it? Much will be changed! A great deal of modern writing will be unable to exist any longer when men start from the principle of proving themselves worthy of the saying: ‘Not I, but the Christ in me.’ The canker of our decadent civilization will be rooted out when there is a cessation of those voices which, without real conviction, cry everything out into the world, or cover paper with printers' ink irresponsibly, without being first convinced that they are speaking the truth. In this connection we have had to experience many things in the theosophical movement.* [ *Note* *b* *y* *T* *r* *anslator*.—In the following passage reference is made to the expulsion from the Theosophical Society of the German Section, of which Dr. Steiner was General Secretary. Those who are unfamiliar with the facts of the case should read the book by Eugene Levy, *Mrs. Besant and the Present Crisis* *i* *n the Theosophical Soc* *ie* *t* *y,* notably pages 48-50.]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Christ and the Human Soul III","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-07-15","location":null,"word_count":382,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/155/1914-07-15_02/p029","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Henry Collison","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"How the Spiritual World Interpenetrates the Physical","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/SpiritPhys/19140715p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1914-07-15_02/p029"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/155/1914-07-15_02/p029","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Alle die unzähligen Leute, die heute schreiben — oder mit schmutziger Druckerschwärze Papier verunstalten —, indem sie flink hinschreiben das, was sie nicht wissen, die werden sich klar werden darüber, daß sie damit den Christus in der menschlichen Seele schänden. Und aufhören wird die Entschuldigung: Ja, ich habe es so geglaubt, ich habe es im guten Glauben gesagt. Der Christus will nicht bloß den «guten Glauben», der Christus will die Menschen in die Wahrheit leiten. Selbst hat er gesagt: «Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen!» (Johannes 8, 32) Wo aber hätte der Christus einmal gesagt, daß es möglich ist, wenn man in seinem Sinne denkt, dies oder jenes, ohne daß man etwas weiß, in die Welt hinauszuschreien und hinauszuschreiben?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1914-07-15_02/p038"},{"locus":"GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"Vieles wird anders werden! Gewiß wird ein großer Teil unseres heutigen Schrifttums nicht weiter existieren können, wenn die Menschen von dem Grundsatze ausgehen, sich würdig zu erweisen des Wortes «Nicht ich, sondern der Christus in mir.» Aber der Krebsschaden unserer Niedergangskultur wird ausgelöscht sein, wenn aufhören werden die Stimmen zu sprechen, die leichthin, ohne reale Überzeugung alles in die Welt hinausschreien, weißes Papier verunzieren mit Druckerschwärze, indem sie etwas hinausschreiben, ohne daß sie sich davon überzeugt haben, ob es der Wahrheit entspricht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":82,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1914-07-15_02/p039"},{"locus":"GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"Haben wir ja gerade auf diesem Gebiet auch vieles in der theosophischen Bewegung und in bezug auf die theosophische Bewegung erleben müssen. Und wie leicht ist man bei der Hand mit der Entschuldigung: «Ja, der oder die Betreffende waren eben in dem entsprechenden Augenblick davon überzeugt!»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":46,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1914-07-15_02/p040"},{"locus":"GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"Als was erweist sich oftmals eine solche «Überzeugung», meine lieben Freunde? Als der größte Leichtsinn, als die purste Frivolität! Wahrhaftig nicht aus einem persönlichen Grunde, sondern aus dem Ernst der Lage darf vielleicht auch darauf aufmerksam gemacht werden, daß es keine Entschuldigung gibt, wenn an wichtiger Stelle vor der Theosophischen Gesellschaft von der Präsidentin dieser Gesellschaft die frivole Unwahrheit hingestellt wird von dem Jesuitenmärchen. Gewiß, es kann längst abgetan sein, aber zur Charakteristik der Tatsache darf wohl noch einmal darauf hingewiesen werden. Nachträglich haben die Leute gesagt: Die Präsidentin habe es ja zurückgenommen nach wenig Wochen! Um so schlimmer, wenn man an verantwortungsvoller Stelle etwas hinausposaunt, was man in wenigen Wochen zurücknehmen muß, denn da beginnt die Weltbeurteilung und nicht die persönliche Beurteilung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":123,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1914-07-15_02/p041"},{"locus":"GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p042","passage_number":42,"text":"Und fügen wir auch eine solche Erkenntnis hinzu zu jener Unterscheidung, die wir treffen müssen zwischen dem subjektiven, im Ego des Menschen sich abspielenden Karma und dem, was wir als ein Objektives bezeichnen können. Da soll kein Wort verloren werden: es muß jeder Mensch den Schaden, den er mit sich angerichtet hat, auch wieder ausgleichen. Da haben wir nicht hineinzureden, da nehmen wir den Tatbestand, wie Christus ihn nahm bei der Ehebrecherin: er schrieb die Sünde in die Erde. Darauf aber muß aufmerksam gemacht werden, daß der Egoismus überwunden werden muß auf dem Gebiet der geisteswissenschaftlichen Bewegung. Da muß man sich klar sein, daß nicht nur subjektive Beurteilung, sondern eine objektive Beurteilung gegenüber der Welt notwendig ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1914-07-15_02/p042"},{"locus":"GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p043","passage_number":43,"text":"Dasjenige, was man in einem gewissen Sinne christliches Gewissen nennen kann, das wird, wenn der Christus immer mehr und mehr einzieht in die Seelen, auch einziehen; das wird einziehen, wenn die Seelen sich der Anwesenheit des Christus bewußt werden, wenn das Paulus-Wort wahr wird: «Nicht ich, sondern der Christus in mir.»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":51,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1914-07-15_02/p043"}],"english":["GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p029","GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p030"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":616,"en_words":658,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p037","GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p038","GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p039","GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p040"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6436,"original_word_count":6440,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Henry Collison","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"How the Spiritual World Interpenetrates the Physical","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/SpiritPhys/19140715p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p037","GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p038","GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p039","GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p040","GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p041","GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p042","GA 155/1914-07-15_02/p043"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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