{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 165/1916-01-16/p040","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In this sense, spiritual science will make many things in human life understandable. In this way, by trying to shine ever deeper light into human interrelationships, into the interrelationships within the whole development of humanity, it is of course quite misunderstood today. For more and more clearly, the time is emerging in the outer world that wants nothing to do with spiritual science, a time in which a deeper understanding of history is no longer sought; in which everyone pursues only what they want to believe to be true according to their subjective beliefs, their personal sympathies or antipathies. Of course, spiritual science is needed precisely in such a time, because the pendulum of development must swing in the other direction. But it is equally obvious that spiritual science will be misunderstood in such a time. And we really must be clear about how much of our time lives in such a way that man does not seek objectivity, the overview, but judges rashly out of his inclinations. It is really the case that, on the one hand, there is a profound necessity to say an extraordinary amount from the spiritual world, but that it is extraordinarily difficult to make oneself understood in our immediate present. Never as strongly as in our immediate present did people live, so to speak, in the general aura, of which they are not even aware. I am deeply convinced, if I may say so, that much in our time must remain unsaid. Many will find it self-evident that they are now suited to hear, perhaps in a smaller circle, what otherwise cannot be said. But this opinion is quite erroneous. Many people may indeed long to hear now something that can perhaps only be said to humanity in years to come. But we must realize that we are living in a time when the judgment is not made only when a word with its meaning approaches our soul, but when the judgment has already been made before the word approaches our soul. In our time, the way in which the word is received is already largely determined by the time the word reaches the ear, and has not yet been received by the soul. There is no longer time to ask about the meaning, so stirred up are people's passions and emotions by the oppressive events we have been plunged into, and many a word could only be tolerated by being spoken in our presence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Second Lecture","site_heading":"Bridging Clairvoyance and Reason: The Trinity's Emergence","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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Selbstverständlich muß gerade in einer solchen Zeit Geisteswissenschaft da sein, denn das Pendel der Entwickelung muß nach der andern Seite ausschlagen. Aber ebenso selbstverständlich ist es, daß Geisteswissenschaft in einer solchen Zeit viel mißverstanden werden wird. Und wir müssen wirklich uns klar sein darüber, wie vieles in unserer Zeit lebt dahingehend, daß der Mensch die Objektivität, den Überblick, die Überschau gar nicht sucht, sondern daß er aus seinen Neigungen heraus vorschnell urteilt. Es ist wirklich so, daß im Grunde genommen auf der einen Seite die tiefe Notwendigkeit vorliegen würde, außerordentlich viel aus der geistigen Welt heraus zu sagen, daß es aber außerordentlich schwierig ist, sich gerade in unserer unmittelbaren Gegenwart verständlich zu machen. Niemals so stark wie in unserer unmittelbaren Gegenwart lebten die Menschen gewissermaßen in der allgemeinen Aura, deren sie sich gar nicht bewußt sind. Ich bin tief überzeugt, wenn ich so sage, daß vieles in unserer Zeit ungesagt bleiben muß: Es werden sich viele finden, die das selbstverständlich finden, daß sie nun dazu geeignet sind, vielleicht in einem kleineren Kreise, dasjenige zu hören, was sonst nicht gesagt werden kann. Allein diese Meinung ist ganz irrtümlich. Gewiß können viele die Sehnsucht haben, jetzt manches von dem zu vernehmen, was vielleicht erst in Jahren möglich ist, der Menschheit zu sagen. Aber man muß sich klar sein, daß wir heute in der Zeit leben, wo das Urteil nicht erst gefällt wird, wenn ein Wort mit seiner Bedeutung an unsere Seele herankommt, sondern wo das Urteil schon gefällt ist, bevor das Wort an unsere Seele herankommt. Die Art, wie das Wort aufgenommen wird, ist in unserer Zeit zum größten Teil schon fertig, wenn das Wort ans Ohr klingt und von der Seele noch nicht aufgenommen ist. Man hat nicht mehr die Zeit, nach der Bedeutung zu fragen, so aufgewühlt sind gegenwärtig die Leidenschaften, die Emotionen der Menschen durch die bedrückenden Ereignisse, in die wir hineinversetzt worden sind, und manches Wort konnte nur geduldet werden dadurch, daß es in unserer Gegenwart ausgesprochen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":428,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/165/1916-01-16/p040"}],"english":["GA 165/1916-01-16/p040"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":428,"en_words":411,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9551,"original_word_count":9343,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"The Conceptual World and Its Relationship to Reality","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA165/English/SOL2025/19160116p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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