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I have always resisted this urge for the simple reason that the point of anthroposophical literature is not to give people articles of faith that they can accept at will in a lightly veiled form, but rather to call on them to use their own powers of judgment and search their own souls. Anyone who wants to can see that this is the case throughout all of this anthroposophical literature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Ninth Lecture","site_heading":"Soul's Independence and Spiritual Science's Defense Against Slander","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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Das ist, daß alles darauf ausgeht, der Menschenseele dasjenige zu bringen, wonach diese Menschenseele vor allen Dingen in der Gegenwart verlangen muß: Selbständigkeit, Urteilskraft aus dem eigenen Inneren heraus. Ich habe öfter dem Drängen widerstehen müssen, das von dieser oder jener Seite an mich gestellt worden ist, populär zu schreiben. Ich habe diesem Drängen immer widerstanden, aus dem einfachen Grunde, weil es sich nicht darum handeln kann, innerhalb der anthroposophischen Literatur den Menschen Glaubensartikel zu geben, die sie, wenn sie wollen, in leichtgeschürztem Verständnis entgegennehmen, sondern weil es sich nur darum handeln kann in dieser Literatur, eigene Urteilsfähigkeit, das eigene Seelensuchen aufzurufen. 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