{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-03-27/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If nothing more had been heard of the story, all kinds of plausible theories might have been advanced to explain why this remarkable prince of the Church sought to prevent the Cardinals from swearing an oath, still required of them at that time, to preserve the fund which was so important to the Holy See. And all these plausible theories might have been perfectly logical, but they broke down in the face of certain pertinent facts that were known only to Cardinal Acton, namely, that since 1797 the fund no longer existed, for it was already exhausted. The Cardinals therefore had been permitted to swear an oath to preserve a treasure that no longer existed. Acton refused to be a witness to the deception. Thus all the ingenious arguments that might have been advanced by those who were unaware that the fund was already exhausted would have collapsed.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Reality-Based Thinking and the Spirit's Suppression","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1917-03-27","location":null,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/175/1917-03-27/p005","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. 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Im Jahre 1839 unter der Regierung des Papstes Gregor XVI. hat der spätere Kardinal Acton gegen diesen Schwur Einspruch erhoben; er wollte die Kardinäle nicht mehr schwören lassen, daß sie diesen Schatz bewahren wollen. - Wenn man nun von dieser Geschichte nichts anderes hört, so könnte man alle möglichen schönen Hypothesen aufstellen darüber, warum denn dieser merkwürdige Acton die Kardinäle nicht schwören lassen will, wie es in der damaligen Zeit noch verlangt wurde, den Schatz, der für die päpstliche Regierung so wichtig sein könne, zu bewahren. Und alles, was man darüber sagt, könnte viel Logik enthalten. Aber alles, was man eventuell sehr schön sagen könnte darüber, wird verschwinden gegenüber dem, was Acton durch gewisse Tatsachenzusammenhänge wußte, und die Kardinäle nicht wußten. Er wußte nämlich, daß dieser Schatz seit dem Jahre 1797 gar nicht mehr vorhanden war, daß er bereits weg war. So hatte man die Kardinäle schwören lassen, daß sie einen Schatz bewahren werden, der aber gar nicht mehr da war, und Acton wollte sich einfach nicht herbeilassen, einen Schwur über etwas, was gar nicht vorhanden ist, ablegen zu lassen. 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