{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 169/1916-06-13/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"With my book I tried to show the relevance of great minds such as Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Troxler, Planck, Preuss, Immanuel Hermann Fichte and a few others for our age.[^7] Their works provide a completely different kind of nourishment for the soul than the writings people so often turn to in their sincere but misguided quest for the spirit. With an aching heart I have seen again and again sincerely seeking people reach for this or that book in order to find nourishment for their soul and to find a way into the spiritual world. If they had only turned to works such as Schelling's Klara or Bruno, they would have received infinite nourishment for their soul. Granted, it would have required some effort, but that would have been good for them. A certain naive searching of souls has become more and more lively and urgent in recent times. Yet, most people only reach for the soul-gunk produced by Ralph Waldo Trine or for the stuff you get when you lace some formulation or other of Buddhism, Brahminism, or something like that with a sticky sauce.[^8] One can have the strangest experiences with such things. For example, I used to know a very dear man—he died recently here in Berlin—who was very enthusiastic about my writings interpreting Goethe when I first published them. Then as he grew older, he began translating a number of such soul-gunk writings, not Ralph Waldo Trine but others, from American English into German—his earlier enthusiasm evidently having been only a flash in the pan. For a long time there, people here in Europe thought they needed American-English nourishment for their souls.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Blood and Nerves","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-06-13","location":null,"word_count":276,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/169/1916-06-13/p033","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Sabine H. Seiler","identified_edition":"AP1990","book_title":"Toward Imagination","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA169/English/AP1990/19160613p01.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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Hätte man zu solchen Schriften wie Schellings «Clara» oder «Bruno» gegriffen, unendliche Seelennahrung - allerdings mit einiger Anstrengung, aber die tut gut! — hätte man gewinnen können. Immer lebendiger und lebendiger wurde ja ein gewisses naives Seelensuchen der letzten Zeit, aber das Höchste, zu dem man sich verstieg, war in weiteren Kreisen so etwas wie die Seelensauce von Ralph Waldo Trine oder dergleichen, oder jene geistige Seelensauce, die entsteht, indem man irgendeine Ausgestaltung des Buddhismus oder des Brahmanismus oder ähnliches mit einer Sauce verbrämt. Da hat man die sonderbarsten Erfahrungen machen können. Ich kannte einen ganz lieben Menschen - er ist vor kurzem hier in Berlin gestorben -, der, als ich zuerst veröffentlicht hatte die Schriften, die ich der Interpretation Goethes gewidmet habe, für diese Schriften dazumal enthusiasmiert war. Dann ist er älter geworden und hat nun - daraus sehen Sie, daß der Enthusiasmus nur so ein Sprühfeuer war — gerade in der letzten Zeit eine ganze Menge von solchen Seelensauce-Werken, nicht gerade Ralph Waldo Trine, aber andere aus dem Amerikanisch-Englischen ins Deutsche übersetzt. Man brauchte ja lange Zeit hindurch amerikanisch-englische Seelennahrung hier in Europa.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":278,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/169/1916-06-13/p019"}],"english":["GA 169/1916-06-13/p033"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":278,"en_words":276,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6438,"original_word_count":6487,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Sabine H. 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