{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-03-27/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When we study the history of Europe from the rise of Christianity onwards, we are no longer satisfied with that “fable convenue” which passes for history and which is the hidden cause of so much misery today. And when we have sufficient courage to reject this parody of history, we shall develop a feeling which will serve as a guiding principle in our enquiries into the evolution of Christianity today. We shall discover that nothing has met with so many hindrances, so much incomprehension and misrepresentation as the evolution of Christianity. And nothing has been so difficult as its propagation. When one speaks of miracles, there is no greater miracle than this, namely, that Christianity has survived. Not only has it established itself, but we live in an age when it must prevail, not only against those who would abolish the spirit, but also against those who would abolish the soul. And it will prove victorious, for Christianity will develop its greatest strength in face of bitterest opposition. By actively resisting the abolition of the soul we shall develop the power to perceive the spirit once again. When, under the influence of the spirit prevailing today (you will forgive the misuse of the word in this context) laws will be promulgated declaring those who regard the spirit as a reality to be of unsound mind—of course these laws will not be couched in specific terms, but under the brutal impact of the modern scientific outlook they will find their way on to the statute book—when this new modernized version of the decree of the eighth Ecumenical Council appears, then the time will have come for the spirit to be restored to its rightful place.","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. 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Nichts ist so schwierig geworden als das, daß sich das Christentum fortgepflanzt hat. Und daraus entsteht dann die weitere Empfindung, daß es überhaupt, wenn man von Wundern sprechen will, kein größeres Wunder gibt als dieses, daß das Christentum sich erhalten hat, daß das Christentum da ist. Aber es ist nicht bloß da, sondern wir leben heute in einer Zeit, wo sich dieses Christentum zwar durchzusetzen haben wird auch gegen die Abschaffung der Seele, nicht nur gegen die Abschaffung des Geistes, wo es sich aber durchsetzen wird! Denn gerade zur Zeit des größten Widerstandes wird das Christentum seine größte Kraft entwickeln! Und in dem Widerstande, der entwickelt werden muß gegen die Abschaffung der Seele, wird auch die Kraft gefunden werden, den Geist wieder zu erkennen. Wenn aus dem Geiste - verzeihen Sie jetzt die uneigentliche Anwendung des Wortes -, wenn aus dem Geiste, der die Gegenwart beherrscht, jene Gesetze entstehen werden, wodurch diejenigen Menschen, welche die Seele als etwas Wirkliches ansehen, für nicht vollsinnig erklärt werden — natürlich werden die Gesetze nicht so lauten, daß derjenige für nicht vollsinnig erklärt wird, der die Seele anerkennt, aber sie werden so sein, daß unter der brutalen naturwissenschaftlichen Weltanschauung solches stattfindet -, wenn dieser moderne verwandelte, metamorphosierte Konzilsbeschluß da sein wird, dann wird auch die Zeit da sein, dem Geiste wiederum sein Recht zu verschaffen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":335,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-03-27/p030"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-03-27/p029"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":335,"en_words":284,"ratio":0.85,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6812,"original_word_count":7035,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"A. 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