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We have to warn particularly against approaching the ideas of spiritual science—in many respects a new acquisition of humanity—with old ways of thinking and old habits of soul. For instance, we must not approach such conceptions as “ahrimanic” and “luciferic” with all the usual feelings and ideas these words evoke. We need only picture how the name Lucifer in southern regions brings up the concept of demons prevailing there. However, when we arrive at the spiritual scientific view of Lucifer, we should not have the same negative ideas and feelings connected with the old idea of demons. 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The beam of a scale does not come to rest in a straight horizontal position just because it is a beam, but only because equal weights hang down from it on both sides and balance each other out. It is the same with everything in our world. 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They study how events follow each other and how they are connected in time through the law of cause and effect—at least that's what people think. What happens immediately after one event is taken as its consequence, and people try to explain the latter on the basis of what preceded it. However, as a rule people's memory these days is very short, as we can see from the fact that for nearly two years now people have been talking about historical events, the events leading to this terribly tragic war, as if the world had only begun in July of 1914! They forget so easily what happened before that. From our reading we know people have forgotten what happened prior to that date. But aside from that, when people look at history at all, they link events to the ones that preceded them, and those in turn they connect with other preceding events. 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Although events do indeed follow upon one another, one of them may be far more important than another. Sometimes a particular event taking place at a particular time may mean much more for the understanding of what follows than other events happening at the same time. The point is to find the right events, the right facts. I have often called this way of looking at history a symptomatic view of history, in contrast to the merely pragmatic view so popular nowadays. 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Instead, he saw events as significant for the course of human history depending on whether the spiritual revealed itself in them to a greater or lesser extent. Someday people will write the history of the current tragic conflicts by describing certain specific events of recent decades, and from these they will understand why the current situation has come about. Today is not the time to explain these facts; they would only be misunderstood. But in the future historians will report events that people now ignore when they read about them. 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So ist es insbesondere notwendig, daß man an solche Vorstellungen wie das «Ahrimanische», das «Luziferische» nicht herangehe mit all den gewohnten Empfindungen und Vorstellungen, die man einfach hegt, wenn man die betreffenden Worte bildet. Wir brauchen uns ja nur vorzustellen, wie in südlicheren Gegenden eine Dämonen-Vorstellung herrscht, die wir mit unseren Empfindungen treffen, wenn wir den Namen Luzifer aussprechen. Wir sollen aber nicht, wenn wir die geisteswissenschaftliche Vorstellung von Luzifer bekommen, dieselben, ich möchte sagen, durchaus abweisenden Vorstellungen und Empfindungen haben, wie man sie bei den alten Dämonenvorstellungen hatte. Ebensowenig dürfen wir die Vorstellungen, die in der Menschenseele auftauchten, wenn die mittelalterlichen Teufelsvorstellungen erweckt wurden, ohne weiteres auf unser Ahrimanisches anwenden. Wir müssen uns klar sein, daß die Welt, so wie sie vor uns steht, gewissermaßen ein Gleichgewichtszustand ist. Der Waagebalken ruht horizontal nicht dadurch, daß wir ihn einfach als Waagebalken haben, sondern daß links und rechts Gewichte daranhängen, die sich das Gleichgewicht halten. So ist es mit allem, was in unserer Welt ist. Sie ist nicht durch die Ruhe, sie ist nicht durch das Nichts, sie ist durch das Gleichgewicht, welches bewirkt wird dadurch, daß auf der einen Seite die Möglichkeit vorhanden ist, daß nach der luziferischen Seite ein radikales Ablenken von dem Rechten und Guten stattfindet, und dadurch, daß nach der anderen, der ahrimanischen Seite ein Ablenken stattfindet. Wer nun einfach sagt: Ich muß mich hüten vor allem Ahrimanischen oder Luziferischen -, der ist in dem gleichen Falle, wie einer, der sagt: Eine Waage will ich schon haben, aber keine Gewichte auf die beiden Waagschalen legen! Wir wissen ja, daß wir zum Beispiel zu gar keiner Kunst kommen könnten, wenn nicht das Luziferische in der Welt eine Rolle spielte. Wir wissen auf der anderen Seite, daß man zu keiner Anschauung der äußeren Natur kommen könnte, wenn nicht das Ahrimanische eine Rolle spielte. Es handelt sich nur darum, daß im Menschengemüte der Gleichgewichtszustand herbeigeführt wird. Und weil das so ist, kann man dem Ahrimanischen und dem Luziferischen verfallen, gerade wenn man glaubt, alles Ahrimanisch-Luziferische abzuweisen. Gegen die Wirklichkeit läßt sich zwar sündigen, aber die Wirklichkeit läßt sich nicht unterdrücken! So wird jemand, der sich vor dem Ahrimanischen hüten will, sehr leicht dem Luziferischen, jemand, der sich vor dem Luziferischen hüten will, sehr leicht dem Ahrimanischen verfallen. Die Sache ist die, daß wir das Gleichgewicht finden, daß wir vor keinem zurückschrecken, daß wir als Menschen Mut genug haben, sowohl, sagen wir, der ahrimanischen Furcht, wie der luziferischen Hoffnung oder Lust entgegenzutreten. Aber unsere Zeitkultur liebt dieses nicht. Unsere Zeitkultur liebt, ohne daß sie es weiß und selbstverständlich ohne daß sie es will, in gewisser Beziehung das Ahrimanische und das Luziferische. Sie glaubt sich davor zu hüten, verfällt ihm aber erst recht!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":504,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/169/1916-07-04/p004"},{"locus":"GA 169/1916-07-04/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"So im Allgemeinen, in Abstraktem herumreden führt eigentlich in der Regel zu gar nichts. Wir kommen nur zu etwas, wenn wir solch bedeutsame Lebensfragen ganz konkret anfassen. Und deshalb wähle ich so viele besondere Beispiele, an denen man sehen kann, wie der Mensch das Gleichgewicht im Leben finden kann, die Ausgleichung zwischen Ruhe und Bewegung, zwischen Einheit und Mannigfaltigkeit. Es gibt Philosophen oder Weltanschanungsleute, die sagen, sie streben nach der Einheit. Das ist schön, aber es ist rein luziferisch! Andere streben nach der Mannigfaltigkeit, wollen nichts wissen von einer Einheit. Auch das kann heute Früchte bringen, ist aber ahrimanisch. Nur derjenige, der die Einheit in der Mannigfaltigkeit, und wiederum die Mannigfaltigkeit so sucht, daß sich durch die Mannigfaltigkeit die Einheit offenbart, strebt nach dem Gleichgewichte. Es handelt sich nur darum, daß man die Möglichkeit findet, dies in der Wirklichkeit zu tun. Ich kann immer nur einzelne Versündigungen gegen das Gleichgewicht anführen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/169/1916-07-04/p005"},{"locus":"GA 169/1916-07-04/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Eine solche Versündigung geschieht in unserer Zeit hauptsächlich dadurch, daß man Geschichte in einer ganz bestimmten Weise betrachtet. Wie betrachtet man heute Geschichte? Man studiert, wie die Ereignisse aufeinander folgen, wie die Ereignisse in der Zeit, wie man glaubt, nach Ursache und Wirkung zusammenhängen. Das Nächstfolgende nimmt man, versucht es aus dem unmittelbar Vorhergehenden zu erklären, wobei allerdings zu bemerken ist, daß ja heute das Gedächtnis der Menschen in der Regel sehr kurz ist. Wir können es ja bemerken, daß seit fast zwei Jahren die Menschen so sprechen über die Ereignisse der Geschichte, über die Ereignisse, die zu diesen gegenwärtigen, furchtbar tragischen Konflikten geführt haben, als ob die Welt überhaupt erst ihren Anfang genommen hätte im Juli 1914. Die Menschen vergessen so leicht, was vorher geschehen ist. In zahlreichen Betrachtungen finden wir heute, wie dasjenige, was vorhergegangen ist, einfach vergessen wird. Aber davon noch ganz abgesehen, wenn man Geschichte schon einmal betrachtet, so wird das Folgende an das Vorhergehende angereiht, das Vorhergehende wiederum an das Nächstvorhergehende. Man macht das so, daß man immer, ich möchte sagen, die einzelnen Tatsachen aneinanderreiht, wie die einzelnen Perlen einer Perlenkette. Das nennt man dann Geschichte. Dadurch aber kann man niemals die Wahrheit finden, mindestens kann man nicht eine solche Wahrheit finden, daß sie uns als geschichtliche Wahrheit für das Leben helfen kann. Denn die Ereignisse folgen zwar aufeinander, eines auf das andere, aber das eine Ereignis ist viel wichtiger als das andere. Und zuweilen zeigt sich an einem bestimmten Ereignisse, das in einer bestimmten Zeit stattfindet, viel mehr für das Verständnis des nächstfolgenden, als durch andere Ereignisse. Es handelt sich darum, daß man die richtigen Ereignisse, die richtigen Tatsachen findet. Solch eine Geschichtsbetrachtung nannte ich oftmals vor Ihnen eine symptomatische Geschichtsbetrachtung, im Gegensatz zu der bloß pragmatischen, die man heute vielfach sucht, eine Erkenntnis des inneren, des geistigen Werdeganges aus Symptomen, wobei man an gewissen Stellen Ereignisse findet, die die Ereignisse ihrer Umgebung an Bedeutung überragen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/169/1916-07-04/p006"},{"locus":"GA 169/1916-07-04/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Diese Betrachtungsweise ist vorzugsweise eine Goethesche; denn Goethe hat das in seine ganze Betrachtungsweise eingeführt, nicht einfach jedes Ereignis so neben das andere hinzustellen, sondern die Ereignisse nach dem, wie sich das Geistige in ihnen mehr oder minder offenbart, als bedeutsam für den Gang der Menschheitsereignisse hinzunehmen. Es wird einmal eine Geschichtsschreibung kommen über die gegenwärtigen tragischen Konflikte, da wird man ganz bestimmte einzelne Tatsachen der letzten Jahrzehnte erzählen, und man wird aus diesen Tatsachen erkennen, wie sich alles ergeben hat, so daß das Heutige gekommen ist. Heute ist nicht die Zeit, solche Tatsachen zu erzählen, es würde nur mißverstanden werden. Aber man wird Tatsachen erzählen, die heute, wenn sie jemand liest, einfach übergangen werden, aus denen aber, wenn ich so sagen darf, die Wahrheit ausstrahlt. Ich habe das im Laufe der Jahre immer so gemacht: Ich habe Ihnen mannigfaltige Tatsachen erzählt, niemals ohne die Absicht, durch diese Tatsachen über den wahren geistigen Gang der Ereignisse zu sprechen. Nun, über diese Sache mußte ich mehr abstrakt sprechen, denn wollte ich auf einzelne Tatsachen eingehen, welche.klärend wirken können gerade für die Gegenwart, so würde ich wahrscheinlich doch Dinge besprechen müssen, die heute nicht besprochen werden können, weil man sie nicht hören will. Derjenige, der nicht so Geschichte betrachtet, sie nicht symptomatisch betrachtet, der findet nicht das Gleichgewicht zwischen Ahrimanischem und Luziferischem, er verfällt einer ahrimanischen Geschichtsbetrachtung. Daher ist die heutige Geschichtsbetrachtung zum großen Teil ahrimanisch. Es werden die Tatsachen nicht bewertet. Die Leute glauben zwar, die Tatsachen zu bewerten, sie tun es aber nicht. Sie kennen sogar die wichtigsten zumeist nicht, weil sie die wichtigen Tatsachen für das Unbedeutendste halten. Aber das Umsgekehrte findet auch statt, und darüber können wir schon genauer sprechen. Das Umgekehrte ist, wenn der Mensch nun gar nicht auf die Tatsachen Rücksicht nimmt, sondern sich aus seinem Herzen, aus seiner Seele heraus allgemeine Wahrheiten formt, die gelten sollen, die er sozusagen mit sich durch das Leben trägt, und die er überall anbringen will. Da kann er dann in dieser Lebenslage und in der entgegengesetzten Lebenslage sein: Überall wird er dieselbe Wahrheit anbringen. Das ist mehr eine luziferische Ausschreitung. Aber die Menschen lieben sie heute. Sie möchten sozusagen eine Art Essenz der Wahrheit haben, und für diese soll sich ihnen nirgends mehr etwas anderesergeben, die soll sie durch alle, alle Einzelheiten tragen, das ist ihnen angenehm. 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