{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 165/1916-01-16/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We can do nothing else in our presence than to make this clear to ourselves again and again, that it is essential that a number of people are found who stand firmly on the ground of what we have already attained; who stand firmly and faithfully on this ground and can cherish the hope that this firm and loyal standing on the ground of spiritual science can become important and essential for the development of humanity in a certain period of time. The time will surely come when — since many passions have already been stirred up — something like a great question will permeate the atmosphere in which our spiritual-scientific movement lives. This question will not be clearly heard, but perhaps the effects will be clear. Nor will the answers be given clearly in words, but in relation to external events they will perhaps be very clear. Something will be whispered through the spiritual-scientific current without being expressed in words, such as: Should I go with them or should I not go with them? And the answer will also speak of what has driven people out of sensationalism, out of sympathy with the general feelings that arise from spiritual science. It will arise from many secondary feelings, which will push towards an answer that will not be clearly formulated, that will not simply express itself by saying: I liked spiritual science, now other feelings have mixed in, now I no longer like it. Instead, people will appear in masks and seek all kinds of reasons, which they may discuss from many sides. The essential thing will be that one used to like spiritual science, but no longer likes it, which has a lot to do with enthusiasm, sensation, all kinds of sensual lustful feelings and so on. In a sense, precisely out of the emotions of the present, something will arise more and more, such as: I go with - and: I do not go with. - Alone in the inner being, our spiritual science is invincible, completely invincible. And what we have to look for is that at least some are found in whose hearts it is firmly anchored, but anchored not out of sympathy and preference, out of favor and sensation, out of vanity and enthusiasm, but because the soul is connected with it as with its truth, and because the soul does not shy away from difficulties in entering the core of truth in the world. Much will fall away completely; but perhaps what remains afterwards will be all the more significant and certain. This must be borne in mind when it is necessary to emphasize again and again that, until more peaceful times come to our civilized countries, we must renounce much that might be very useful precisely for understanding our present time, but which, because of the nature of our time, really cannot be brought before humanity at this time.","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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Es wird gewiß die Zeit kommen, wo — da nun einmal schon viele Leidenschaften aufgerührt sind - etwas wie eine große Frage die Atmosphäre, in der unsere geisteswissenschaftliche Strömung lebt, durchziehen wird. Man wird diese Frage nicht deutlich vernehmen, aber vielleicht werden deutlich die Wirkungen sein. Auch die Antworten werden nicht deutlich in Worten gegeben werden, aber in bezug auf die äußeren Geschehnisse werden sie vielleicht sehr deutlich sein. Es wird so etwas, ohne in Worte gefaßt zu sein, durch die geisteswissenschaftliche Strömung raunen, wie: Soll ich mitgehen oder soll ich nicht mitgehen? — Und mit in der Antwort wird das sprechen, was die Menschen getrieben hat aus der Sensation heraus, aus der Sympathie mit den allgemeinen Empfindungen, die aus der Geisteswissenschaft kommen. Aus vielen Nebenempfindungen heraus wird das kommen, was zu der Antwort drängen wird, die nicht klar gefaßt sein wird, die nicht sich einfach ausspricht dadurch, daß man sagen wird: mir hat die Geisteswissenschaft gefallen, jetzt haben sich mir andere Empfindungen hineingemischt, jetzt gefällt sie mir nicht mehr -, sondern man wird in Masken auftreten und allerlei Gründe suchen, die man vielleicht an vielen Seiten auseinandersetzen wird. Das Wesentliche wird daran sein, daß einem früher die Geisteswissenschaft gefallen hat, jetzt nicht mehr gefällt, was sehr viel mit Schwärmerei zu tun hat, mit Sensation, mit allerlei seelischen Wollustgefühlen und so weiter. In einem gewissen Sinne wird schon gerade aus den Emotionen der Gegenwart heraus immer mehr sich so etwas ergeben, wie: Ich gehe mit — und: Ich gehe nicht mit. — Allein im Inneren ist unsere Geisteswissenschaft unbesiegbar, ganz unbesiegbar. Und das, worauf wir zu sehen haben, ist, daß sich wenigstens einige finden, in deren Herzen sie fest verankert ist, aber verankert nicht aus Sympathie und Vorliebe, aus Gefallen und Sensation heraus, aus Eitelkeit und Schwärmerei heraus, sondern deshalb, weil die Seele mit ihr als mit ihrer Wahrheit verbunden ist, und weil die Seele keine Schwierigkeiten scheut, in den Wahrheitskern der Welt einzutreten. Manches wird ganz abfallen; aber vielleicht wird das, was danach bleibt, um so bedeutsamer und sicherer sein. Dieses ist zu bedenken, wenn jetzt immer wieder betont werden muß, daß wir, bis friedlichere Zeiten über unsere kultivierten Länder heraufziehen, auf sehr vieles verzichten müssen, was vielleicht gerade zum Verständnis unserer Gegenwart sehr nützlich wäre, was aber aus der charakterisierten Art unserer Zeit eben wirklich jetzt nicht vor die Menschheit gebracht werden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":474,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/165/1916-01-16/p041"}],"english":["GA 165/1916-01-16/p041"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":474,"en_words":486,"ratio":1.03,"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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