{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 174b/1917-05-11/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Not only Erich Bamler, but also others who are fighting just as “honestly” as he is, have put forward and basically believe that among all sorts of esoteric principles this one would also have been given to them: “Look at everything around you in the light of necessity, as if it were necessary, as a given necessary fate.” It is comforting for a time, as long as one believes oneself to be supported within society, when one has been given such a rule to say: “I am an esoteric disciple, for I meditate continually: ‘See everything around you in the light of necessity’.” But why has this rule been given to those people, why has this rule been advised to them? For the simple reason that they needed it according to the state of their soul! It was a piece of advice that did not encroach on their freedom at all, but a piece of advice whose scope and esotericism you may judge if I point out the following to you: Schopenhauer says in his essay on the freedom of the will, towards the end of his essay, concerning our attitude towards the course of the world and fate: “Everything that happens, from the greatest to the smallest, happens necessarily”; and he speaks of the calming effect of the realization of the inevitable and necessary. So people have been advised to do nothing other than what Schopenhauer himself considers a proven way of overcoming certain forms of depression.","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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Aus dem einfachen Grunde, weil sie es nach ihrer Seelenverfassung brauchten! Es war ein durchaus nicht in ihre Freiheit eingreifender Ratschlag, sondern ein Ratschlag, dessen Tragweite und dessen Esoterik Sie beurteilen wollen, wenn ich Sie auf folgendes hinweise: Schopenhauer sagt in seiner Preisschrift über die Freiheit des Willens gegen den Schluß seines Aufsatzes, unser Verhalten gegen den Weltlauf und das Schicksal betreffend: «Alles was geschieht, vom größten bis zum kleinsten, geschieht notwendig»; und er spricht von der beruhigenden Wirkung der Erkenntnis des Unvermeidlichen und Notwendigen. Es ist also den Leuten nichts anderes angeraten worden als dasjenige, was selbst Schopenhauer für ein erprobtes Mittel hält, über gewisse Seelendepressionen hinauszukommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":218,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1917-05-11/p032"}],"english":["GA 174b/1917-05-11/p032"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":218,"en_words":248,"ratio":1.14,"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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