{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 174b/1917-05-11/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is easy to fabricate slanderous stories about what is said in private conversations with individual members, if these slanderous stories reach the point where, for example, it is said here or there that this or that member has been hypnotized. Now, my dear friends, in the face of these things I shall have to take a different line altogether, from which you will see — and I am really speaking out of a simple sense of duty towards our movement — that I am now and in this matter, in the very bitterest seriousness, for the sake of the sanctity of spiritual science. If a movement like this is based simply on the principle of not encroaching on anyone's sphere of freedom, and if this is strictly observed, if everything that encroaches on a person's sphere of freedom is strictly rejected, and if one then proceeds with these very things, then it is necessary that one day everything that is to grow on our soil will grow in the full light of day. When things grow in full public view, then the ground will be cut from under the slanderers. But there will be no other method in the future. Therefore, I will strive, as far as it depends on me, to ensure that in the future anthroposophically oriented spiritual science will increasingly take place in the full light of the public. It does not have to shy away from the public. And today I declare explicitly: With regard to the private conversations that have taken place with members for years, I release everyone from the promise not to speak about the content of the conversation. Everyone can share, as much as they themselves find appropriate, what has ever occurred in a private conversation with a member. Nothing will be found that should be kept from the light of day. Then one will no longer be able to pussyfoot around with things that are on the following ground. I will give you an example of how these things can be used against the most blatant ignorance and the will to be most blatantly ignorant.","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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Wenn einer Bewegung wie dieser einfach als Prinzip zugrunde liegt, in niemandes Freiheitssphäre einzugreifen, und wenn dies streng befolgt wird, wenn alles streng abgelehnt wird, was in eines Menschen Freiheitssphäre eingreift, und man dann gerade mit diesen Dingen krebsen geht, dann ist es notwendig, daß einmal das eintrete, daß alles, was auf unserem Boden wachsen soll, im vollsten Lichte der Öffentlichkeit wächst. Wenn die Dinge in voller Öffentlichkeit wachsen werden, dann wird den Verleumdern der Boden entzogen werden. Aber eine andere Methode gibt es in der Zukunft nicht mehr. Daher werde ich, soweit es an mir ist, danach trachten, daß die anthroposophisch orientierte Geisteswissenschaft sich in der Zukunft immer mehr und mehr im vollen Lichte der Öffentlichkeit abspielt. Sie hat die Öffentlichkeit nicht zu scheuen. Und am heutigen Tage erkläre ich Innen ausdrücklich: In bezug auf diejenigen Privatgespräche, die seit Jahren mit den Mitgliedern stattgefunden haben, entbinde ich jeden des Versprechens, nicht über den Inhalt des Gespräches zu sprechen. Jeder kann, soviel ihm selber lieb ist, dasjenige mitteilen, was jemals vorgekommen ist in einem Privatgespräch mit einem Mitglied. Nichts wird sich finden, was das Licht der Öffentlichkeit zu scheuen hätte. Dann wird man auch nicht mehr krebsen gehen können mit Dingen, die etwa auf dem folgenden Boden stehen. Ich will Ihnen ein Beispiel sagen, wie man diese Dinge brauchen kann vor der krassesten Unwissenheit und dem Willen zur krassesten Unwissenheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":319,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1917-05-11/p031"}],"english":["GA 174b/1917-05-11/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":319,"en_words":355,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9678,"original_word_count":9444,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19170511p01.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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