{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 165/1916-01-16/p042","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I would like to say these words to explain why some things have only been hinted at, especially in the last lectures. But I would like to add one more thing. Precisely when it is true – and it is true – that we live in a time when the word has already led to judgment before it has even reached the soul, then many can learn a great deal from the events of the present with the tools of what spiritual science already gives them. Much can be learned from what is happening around us, if we look at it more deeply, if we see how today outer humanity has almost completely lost the ability to judge according to any kind of objectivity, how judgments flow only from the emotions, permeating everything in the cultural world. And if you look for the reason why this is so, if you see this reason buzzing in the human aura of the present and then know how the word is already a judgment before it enters the soul, then you can also learn a lot from the events of the present with the instrument of spiritual science. And we should learn if we are to be able to become a tool in reality - as a society for this spiritual science. The example that was given today, how a person who wants to meet our society quotes a fourth verse and omits the third, yes, my dear friends, when you look for the reasons for the opposition that arises against us: they can be found everywhere. They must be sought everywhere in superficiality, in the most enormous superficiality. Everywhere, so to speak, a fourth verse has been seen and a third verse overlooked, figuratively speaking. Only many of us still do not believe that. Many of us still believe that they are doing well when they go to this or that person and tell him: I have become so spiritual through our spiritual science that I even read to my husband fighting out there in the field, and I know that it helps him. – Then, of course, people come and use that against us. Or when people are told what we had to hear, what was passed on as the 'Nathanael story' and so on. That such things should happen at all, that these things should really be passed on from our midst, seems at first to be done with the best of intentions, but with a good will that is connected with a certain naivety, but a naivety that is boundlessly arrogant because it does not recognize and does not want to recognize, but takes himself as a person so seriously that he considers it the most necessary thing in the world to want to convert this or that person – whom, if he were not so naive, he would know cannot be converted. This is so infinitely important that one can understand how, at times, naivety can feel endowed with boundless arrogance and a sense of mission. And as a rule, no one resents the naive person more than the naive person himself, who believes he is doing the very best when, out of a certain enthusiasm, he does the absurd.","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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Gerade aus dem, was um uns herum geschieht, kann viel gelernt werden, wenn man es tiefer ansieht, wenn man sieht, wie heute der äußeren Menschheit fast ganz abhandengekommen ist die Möglichkeit, nach irgendeiner Objektivität zu urteilen, wie nur aus den Emotionen heraus die Urteile erfließen, die dasjenige durchziehen, was durch die Kulturwelt gegeben ist. Und wenn man nach dem Grund sieht, warum dies so ist, wenn man diesen Grund schwirren sieht in der Menschenaura der Gegenwart und dann weiß, wie das Wort eben schon ein Urteil ist, bevor es in die Seele kommt, dann kann man gerade mit dem Instrument der Geisteswissenschaft auch aus den Ereignissen der Gegenwart viel lernen. Und lernen sollen wir, wenn wir in die Lage kommen sollen, in Wirklichkeit ein Werkzeug zu werden -als Gesellschaft für diese Geisteswissenschaft. Das Beispiel, das heute angeführt worden ist, wie ein Mensch, der unsere Gesellschaft treffen will, eine vierte Strophe zitiert und die dritte wegläßt, ja, meine lieben Freunde, wenn Sie nach den Gründen der Gegnerschaften, die sich gegen uns erheben, suchen: überall sind sie zu finden. Sie müssen überall in der Oberflächlichkeit gesucht werden, in der ganz ungeheuren Oberflächlichkeit. Überall ist sozusagen eine vierte Strophe gesehen und eine dritte Strophe übersehen, bildlich gesprochen. Nur viele unter uns glauben das noch immer nicht. Viele unter uns glauben noch immer, daß sie gut tun, wenn sie zu dem oder jenem gehen und ihm erzählen: Ich bin doch so geistig geworden durch unsere Geisteswissenschaft, daß ich selbst meinem draußen im Felde kämpfenden Mann vorlese, und ich weiß, daß ihm das hilft. - Dann kommen die Leute selbstverständlich und verwenden das gegen uns. Oder wenn man den Leuten erzählt, was wir hören mußten, was hinausgetragen wurde als die «Nathanaelgeschichte» und so weiter. Daß solche Dinge überhaupt geschehen, daß wirklich aus unserer Mitte diese Dinge hinausgetragen werden, das geschieht zunächst scheinbar aus gutem Willen heraus, aber aus einem guten Willen, der mit einer gewissen Naivität verbunden ist, aber einer Naivität, die grenzenlos hochmütig ist, weil sie sich als Naivität nicht erkennt und nicht erkennen will, sondern sich als Person so wichtig nimmt, daß sie es für das Allernötigste hält, den oder jenen — von dem sie, wenn sie nicht so naiv wäre, wüßte, es ist nichts zu machen — bekehren will. Das ist so unendlich wichtig, daß man einsehen kann, daß zuweilen die Naivität sich in grenzenlosem Hochmut mit einer Mission begabt fühlt. Und niemand nimmt einem in der Regel etwas mehr übel als der Naive, der glaubt, das Allerbeste zu tun, wenn er aus einer gewissen Schwärmerei heraus das Absurde tut.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":509,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/165/1916-01-16/p042"}],"english":["GA 165/1916-01-16/p042"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":509,"en_words":542,"ratio":1.06,"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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