{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the sixth post-Atlantean epoch he will no longer be able to believe in the colors of nature. At present the physicists only talk about there being nothing outside us but vibrations, and that it is these that, for example, bring about red in us. What the physicists dream of today will come true. At present they only dream of it, but it will then be true. People will no longer be able to distinguish properly between a red face and a pale one. They will know that all those things are caused by their own organism. They will consider it a superstition that there are colors outside that tint objects. The outer world will be grey in grey and human beings will be conscious of the fact that they themselves put the colors into the world. Just as people today say, “Oh, you crazy anthroposophers, you talk about there being an etheric body, but it is not true, you only dream it into people!” People who then see only the outer reality will say to the others who still see colors in their full freshness, “Oh, you dreamers! Do you really believe there are colors outside in nature? You do not know that you are only dreaming inside yourself that nature has these colors.” Outer nature will become more and more a matter of mathematics and geometry. Just as today we can do no more than speak of the etheric body, and people in the world outside do not believe that it exists, people in the future will not believe that the capacity to see colors in the outer world has any objective significance; they will ascribe it purely to subjectivity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"The I, Will, and Human Evolution's Spiritual Crisis","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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Aber die Menschheit steuert zu einer ganz anderen Art des Wahrnehmens. Sie steuert zu einer viel größeren Ödheit und Leerheit in der äußeren Welt. Heute sieht der Mensch, indem er über die Natur hinblickt, noch so auf diese Natur hin, daß er ihr glaubt, sie sei grün, oder daß er dem Himmelsgewölbe glaubt, es sei blau. Er sieht so hin über die Natur, daß er ihr ihre Farben durch einen natürlichen Vorgang glaubt. In der sechsten nachatlantischen Periode wird er ihr ihre Farben nicht mehr glauben können! Heute sprechen nur die Physiker davon, daß außer uns ja nur Schwingungen vorhanden sind, und die Schwingungen rufen in uns das Rot hervor. Das, wovon heute die Physiker träumen, das wird Wahrheit werden. Heute ist es der Traum der Physiker; dann wird es Wahrheit werden. Die Menschen werden nicht mehr richtig unterscheiden können zwischen einem mehr oder wenig geröteten oder einem mehr oder weniger blassen Gesicht. Das werden sie wissen, daß das alles durch ihre eigene Organisation hervorgerufen wird. Sie werden es für einen Aberglauben halten, daß Farben draußen seien und die Gegenstände tingieren. Grau in grau, möchte man sagen, wird die äußere Welt sein, und der Mensch wird sich bewußt sein, daß er selber die Farben hineinträgt in die Welt. So wie heute die Menschen sagen: Ach, ihr verdrehten Anthroposophen, ihr redet davon, daß ein ätherischer Leib vorhanden ist, das ist aber nicht wahr, den träumt ihr nur in Dinge hinein! - so werden später diejenigen, die nun bloß die äußere Wirklichkeit sehen, zu den anderen sagen, die noch Farben in voller Frische sehen: Ach, ihr Träumer, ihr glaubt, daß draußen in der Natur Farben vorhanden sind? Ihr wißt nicht, daß ihr selber aus eurem Innern heraus diese Farben nur in die Natur hineinträumt. - Immer mehr wird die äußere Natur mathematisiert, immer mehr geometrisiert werden. So wie wir heute nur noch reden können vom ätherischen Leib und wie man uns in der Außenwelt nicht glaubt, daß er vorhanden ist, so wird man in der Zukunft nicht glauben, daß die Möglichkeit, Farben zu sehen, in der äußeren Welt irgendeine objektive Bedeutung hat, sondern man wird ihr nur eine subjektive Bedeutung zuschreiben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":466,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p015"}],"english":["GA 166/1916-02-08/p016","GA 166/1916-02-08/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":466,"en_words":450,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9740,"original_word_count":9892,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Necessity and Freedom","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA166/English/AP1988/19160208p01.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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