{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 157/1915-01-19/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The question therefore arises: How do we offer resistance to this Ahrimanic element in our age, the way resistance was offered to the Luciferic element at the time of Joan of Arc? We offer resistance to the Ahrimanic element by taking exactly the path that has been so emphatically pointed out over and over again within our stream of spiritual science—the path towards a spiritualization of human culture, of man's ability to form ideas and concepts. This is why it has been stressed again and again that there is a way in which everything spiritual science can give us, even if to begin with it is largely presented to us from the spiritual world, can truly and wholly and utterly be grasped with the intellect, the reason man has been gifted with from the 16th century to this day. And if we say we do not understand, then that is only because we listen to the prejudices current in the materialism of our age. We must stop listening ever and again to the voice of present-day materialism, a voice that speaks loudly at times and then again in the faintest of whispers. Instead we must try and firmly focus our mind on such powers of understanding as we have. Then the things spiritual science produces for us will one day appear to be perfectly understandable, as something that can be understood just as well as some event or other in the outside world can be understood. We generate the great strength we need to offer resistance to the Ahrimanic forces by approaching the spirit not merely through the inmost powers of revelation and of faith, as in the case of Joan of Arc, but by trying to concentrate our powers of understanding most intensely on what spiritual science has to give. If we do this, the hour, the moment, will come when we have to say to ourselves: What comes to us out of spiritual science is the only thing that is rational and at the same time makes the world around us understandable, filling it with light. And when we are taken hold of in this way we are taken hold of by what the spirit has to give in our time so that we shall indeed be strong enough to face the Ahrimanic forces.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Spirit Serving It—II","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-01-19","location":null,"word_count":386,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/157/1915-01-19/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna R. 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Daher haben wir es immer wieder und wieder betont: Es gibt eine Möglichkeit, alles, was uns die Geisteswissenschaft bringt, wenn es auch zunächst und zumeist aus der geistigen Welt heraus gegeben ist, wirklich mit dem der Menschheit heute seit dem sechzehnten Jahrhundert zugeteilten Verstande, mit der Vernunft restlos zu begreifen. Und wenn wir sagen, wir begreifen es nicht, so ist das nur aus dem Grunde der Fall, weil wir hinhören auf die Vorurteile, die uns aus dem landläufigen Materialismus der Zeit geboten werden. Wer nicht immer wieder und wieder auf das hinhört, was zum Teil laut, zum Teil aber auch im feinsten leisen Flüstern aus dem Materialismus unserer Zeit heraustönt, sondern wer streng ins Auge zu fassen versucht, was wir in den Verstehenskräften haben, für den erscheint eines Tages das, was die Geisteswissenschaft hervorbringt, als etwas durchaus Begreifliches, als etwas, was ebenso begriffen werden kann, wie irgendein Ereignis der äußeren Welt begriffen werden kann. Aber nur dadurch erzeugen wir in uns die starke Kraft, die wir brauchen, um den ahrimanischen Kräften Widerstand zu leisten, daß wir jetzt nicht bloß durch die intimsten Offenbarungs- und Glaubenskräfte, wie bei der Jungfrau von Orleans, an den Geist herankommen, sondern daß wir versuchen, unsere Verstehenskraft in der intensivsten Weise auf das zu konzentrieren, was aus der Geisteswissenschaft kommt. Wenn wir das tun, dann kommt die Stunde, der Augenblick, wo wir uns sagen müssen: Was uns aus der Geisteswissenschaft entgegentritt, ist das einzig Vernünftige und zugleich das, was uns die Welt um uns herum begreiflich und lichtvoll macht. Und wenn wir also ergriffen werden, dann werden wir so ergriffen werden von dem, was der Geist uns in unserer Zeit gibt, daß wir wirklich stark genug sind gegenüber den ahrimanischen Kräften.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":346,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-01-19/p022"}],"english":["GA 157/1915-01-19/p024"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":346,"en_words":386,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 157/1915-01-19/p022"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.16,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8321,"original_word_count":7169,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna R. 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