{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 170/1916-08-28/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What is consciously achieved in these corrupt occult circles, namely, a pact with Ahriman on the one side and with Lucifer on the other, enables Ahriman and Lucifer to work into the unconscious regions of man's being. And much of the criticism which must be directed against the character of the fifth Post-Atlantean epoch in the way it is expressing itself in the world, is to be traced to Ahrimanic and Luciferic impulses. That there is so much lying, direct and indirect, that so much is said with utter indifference as to whether it agrees with the objective reality or not but simply for the sake of satisfying some feeling or passion—all these things are directly traceable to the fact that Ahrimanic and Luciferic influences have gripped the world to-day and are causing chaos in human affairs. For at our present stage of evolution we should not be capable of making statements as the outcome of passion without any attempt to discover whether they are really in accordance with reality or not, if we only lent ourselves to the Powers of Good! During the Atlantean epoch and even afterwards—at any rate up to the middle of the fourth post-Atlantean period—the forces in man's own inner being enabled him to ensure agreement between his ideas and the corresponding objective realities. This faculty, as we know, has been lost. And our present phase of evolution is there precisely in order that men may learn to observe the *outer* world, to investigate it—not to make statements which are merely instigated by their own passions! To-day, when conclusions well up from the inner life and no attempt is made to ensure their agreement with objective reality, a Luciferic influence is mingling with an Ahrimanic influence, the one inducing misplaced consciousness, and the other, lying and untruthfulness. These things are very widespread at the present time. Many souls to-day ignore the necessity of ensuring that an idea shall absolutely accord with objective reality. Moreover, few enough efforts are made in this direction. When they *are* made they are not understood and cause, to say the least, a considerable amount of surprise! Least of all does one find understanding when one tries to give such characterisations of reality as are supported by what actually exists, simply taking the things of the world as they are and reproducing them in ideas. People do not understand that this is something radically different from things that are done and said as the outcome either of personal or national passion. Here lies the radical difference which is unobserved to-day. Statements are made and conclusions are formed by men in accordance with their own lines of thought and without regard as to whether such statements and conclusions agree with the facts or not. That statements should agree with objective facts—upon this the fate of our age depends. For only so can we hope to pass onwards to an epoch wherein the spiritual world can be perceived in its true nature. Unless we acquire the faculty for the perception of truth in this physical world we shall never be able to unfold it in regard to the spiritual world. The capacity to find our true bearings in the spiritual world must be developed here in the physical world. It is for this purpose that we are placed in the physical world, where it behoves us to seek agreement between idea and objective reality, in such a way that this may become natural to us, may become a *habit* and a *faculty* which we then carry with us into the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Cosmic Metamorphosis: The Body's Incarnational Transformation","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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Daß so vieles gesagt wird, was direkt verlogen oder gelogen ist, daß aber auch so vieles gesagt wird, nicht deshalb, weil zuerst geholt wird die Berechtigung, etwas zu sagen aus der Übereinstimmung mit der Objektivität, sondern weil man es sagen will, weil es der Emotion, der Leidenschaft entspricht, das ist darauf zurückzuführen, daß wirklich in chaotischer Weise ahrimanische und luziferische Strömungen gegenwärtig sehr stark die Welt ergriffen haben. Denn wir würden in der heutigen Menschheitsentwikkelung nicht können aus einer Leidenschaft heraus Behauptungen tun, ohne zu untersuchen die Übereinstimmung mit der Objektivität, wenn wir uns nur den guten Mächten überlassen würden. Der atlantische Mensch und der nachatlantische höchstens bis in die Mitte der vierten nachatlantischen Periode hinein konnte noch aus seinem Inneren heraus Wahrheiten in Übereinstimmung mit der bezeichneten Objektivität finden. Aber das, wissen wir ja, ist verlorengegangen. Es ist ja gerade unser Zeitenzyklus da, damit die Menschheit lernen kann, die Außenwelt zu beobachten, die Außenwelt zu untersuchen, und nicht aus den Leidenschaften heraus sich Behauptungen zu formen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":240,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/170/1916-08-28/p030"},{"locus":"GA 170/1916-08-28/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Wenn also heute dennoch Wahrheiten geformt werden aus dem Inneren heraus, ohne daß gesucht wird die Übereinstimmung mit der Außenwelt, so ist das eine luziferische Strömung, die sich verschwistert mit ahrimanischen Strömungen, wobei das eine nicht ein richtiges Bewußtsein, das andere Gelogenheit oder Verlogenheit erzeugt. - Und sehr, sehr verbreitet ist das, was hier bezeichnet wird, schon in der Gegenwart. Denn es ist heute vielen Seelen das rechte Bewußtsein abspenstig gemacht worden von dem, was überhaupt Übereinstimmung ist der Vorstellung mit der Objektivität. Es wird gar nicht gesucht in dieser Richtung. Und wenn versucht wird, gerade diese Übereinstimmung der Vorstellung mit der Objektivität zu finden, dann versteht man das gar nicht, dann sieht man das von vielen Seiten als etwas an, was, ja, was eigentlich —- man kann schwer ein Wort dafür finden -, was überraschend ist, daß es so getan werden kann. Gerade am wenigsten findet man in den Kreisen dann Zustimmung, wenn man versucht, solche Charakteristiken der Wirklichkeit zu geben, die sich stützen auf das, was da ist, die einfach die Dinge der Welt nehmen und sie in der Vorstellung wiederholen. Das versteht man zuweilen sehr wenig. Man versteht gar nicht, daß das etwas anderes, etwas ganz radikal anderes ist als das, was jemand macht, wenn er gerade diese oder jene Leidenschaft hat, sei es persönliche Leidenschaft, sei es nationale Leidenschaft, und nach dieser Leidenschaft einfach seine Behauptungen formt. Aber da liegt der radikale Unterschied, den man heute noch gar nicht bemerkt. Man formt vielfach Behauptungen nach dem, wie man schon denkt, nach der Richtung seines Denkens, und sieht dabei nicht, ob solche Behauptungen mit den Tatsachen übereinstimmen. Aber darauf kommt es heute an, daß unsere Behauptungen mit den Tatsachen übereinstimmen. Denn sonst können wir niemals hoffen, in eine Epoche überzugehen, wo die geistige Welt in der richtigen Weise angesehen werden kann. Eignen wir uns nicht in der physischen Welt eine Gesinnung für Tatsächlichkeit an, so werden wir sie nicht finden können für die geistige Welt. In der richtigen Weise sich in die geistige Welt hineinleben zu können, muß angeeignet werden hier in der physischen Welt. Deshalb sind wir in die physische Welt hereingestellt, wo wir angewiesen sind, die Übereinstimmung der Vorstellung mit der Objektivität zu suchen, damit wir dieses uns aneignen, damit dieses eine Gewohnheit werde, und wir dieses hineintragen können in die geistige Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":388,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/170/1916-08-28/p031"}],"english":["GA 170/1916-08-28/p039"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":628,"en_words":599,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 170/1916-08-28/p030","GA 170/1916-08-28/p031"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4953,"original_word_count":5217,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"APC1948","book_title":"Memory and Habit","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA170/English/APC1948/19160828p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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