{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 174b/1917-05-11/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These are just a few examples of how it is done, my dear friends! These things may well be pointed out. Attention must be paid to them, because they show the means by which, on the one hand, we make use of what is growing on our soil and, on the other, how we fight it. It may well be said that perhaps never before have worse means been used to fight against anything than are now being used to fight against us, especially against anthroposophically oriented spiritual science! You will therefore understand that we have been forced, as it were, to resort to the only means of averting the disaster, although it may not bring about any improvement if everyone joins forces to cause the greatest possible difficulties for the personalities associated with the matter. But one thing must be considered: too much has been said about this matter, but always actually for deaf ears. Therefore, there is no other choice than to submit to a certain iron necessity in order to serve the matter, to which we must all be devoted, in an appropriate way. This iron necessity simply arises. Suppose spiritual science were to appear as literature, were there as literature. It would then be quite impossible – in theory it is possible, but in view of the concrete facts it would be quite impossible – for all these things to attach themselves to spiritual science, as they have done and will continue to do in the most terrible and unworthy manner. What we have to distinguish from the spiritual science movement, which wants to be a pure knowledge movement, a world view movement of the present day, is the Anthroposophical Society. The idea of the Anthroposophical Society is a good one, but in practice, as I see it, it is developing in many ways, not as I see it, but as the facts teach us, in many ways, so that every day we are confronted with things that show, and this is no exaggeration, how within this Anthroposophical Society, cliques develop with a certain ease, especially personal interests for and against, in the most extensive way. It is difficult to separate personal interests from purely factual ones in the context of a society. But think that precisely through the social activities, the floodgates are opened to those people who do not want to confront spiritual science through honest discussion, but who want to bring down spiritual science by the detour of personal defamation, through personal slander. Because one can say this: they want to bring down spiritual science.","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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Daher werden Sie es begreiflich finden, wenn, gewissermaßen einer eisernen Notwendigkeit folgend, zu dem einzigen Mittel gegriffen wird, das die Sache zwar nicht abwenden, aber vielleicht einige Besserung bringen kann, wenn auch alles sich zusammentun wird, um den Persönlichkeiten, die mit der Sache verknüpft sind, die denkbar größten Schwierigkeiten zu machen. Allein das eine muß doch bedacht werden: Geredet ist über diese Sache zuviel worden, aber immer eigentlich für taube Ohren. Daher bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als - um der Sache, der wir ja alle ergeben sein müssen, in entsprechender Weise zu dienen — sich einer gewissen eisernen Notwendigkeit zu fügen. Diese eiserne Notwendigkeit ergibt sich einfach. Nehmen Sie an, Geisteswissenschaft würde als Literatur auftreten, würde da sein als Literatur. Es wäre dann ganz unmöglich — in der Theorie ist es möglich, aber gegenüber den konkreten Tatsachen wäre es ganz unmöglich -, daß sich all diese Dinge an die Geisteswissenschaft anschlössen, die sich angeschlossen haben, und die sich in wahrhaft schlimmster, unwürdigster Weise anschließen werden. Dasjenige, was wir unterscheiden müssen von der geisteswissenschaftlichen Bewegung, die eine reine Erkenntnis-, eine Weltanschauungsbewegung der Gegenwart sein will, ist die Anthroposophische Gesellschaft. In der Idee ist diese Anthroposophische Gesellschaft sehr gut, aber in der Praxis entwickelt sie sich — nicht wie mir scheint, sondern wie die Tatsachen lehren — vielfach so, daß jeden Tag Dinge an uns herantreten, welche zeigen, es ist dies keine Übertreibung, wie innerhalb dieser Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft sich mit einer gewissen Leichtigkeit Cliquenwesen, speziell persönliche Interessen pro und kontra, in der ausgiebigsten Weise entwickeln. Es ist schwierig, die persönlichen Interessen von den rein sachlichen zu trennen auf dem Boden einer Gesellschaft. Aber denken Sie, daß gerade durch den gesellschaftlichen Betrieb Tür und Tor geöffnet wird denjenigen Leuten, die nicht durch ehrliche Diskussion der Geisteswissenschaft entgegentreten wollen, sondern die auf dem Umwege der persönlichen Anschwärzung, durch persönliche Verleumdungen Geisteswissenschaft zu Fall bringen wollen. 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