{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Many people embrace so-called pantheism, which as you know I have always rejected. Such people will say: We seek the spirit everywhere. Spirit! Spirit! Everything is spirit and with that they are satisfied. Nowadays this is often called panpsychism because people will have nothing to do with theism. I have often commented on it by pointing out that one would not get very far if this approach was applied to the physical world. It corresponds to someone walking through a meadow and instead of naming the individual flowers as lilies or tulips and so on, just saying “flowers, flowers,” which is an abstraction of them all. So too is it an abstraction to speak of nothing but spirit, spirit and ever more spirit, and yet reject knowledge of real individual spirits. When one speaks about Angels, Archangels and Archai as of individual beings with their own defined spiritual existence just as one speaks of individual beings in the physical world, it is rejected. However, there is a tendency in man to think in a pantheistic way, to simplify everything, always to seek abstractions. That is why the example connected with the gypsy is so interesting, for it illustrates that looking everywhere for abstractions is in a way a gypsy-like trait.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"The I Across Incarnations: Thought, Will, and Hidden Connections","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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Dieser Pantheismus besteht — Sie wissen, ich habe öfters diesen Pantheismus zurückgewiesen — im wesentlichen darin, daß die Menschen sagen: Wir suchen überall den Geist. — Geist, Geist, Geist ist alles, und damit befriedigen sie sich. Pantheismus — manche nennen ihn heute auch Panpsychismus, weil sie den Theismus nicht haben wollen -, ich erläutere das gewöhnlich dadurch, daß ich sage: Der Mensch, der das für die Sinneswelt machen würde, der würde nicht besonders weit kommen. Denn wenn er auf eine Wiese geht und sagt: Blume, Blume, Blume, so ist das eben eine Abstraktion für alles. Er will nicht sagen: Lilie, Tulpe und so weiter. Aber das wäre ganz dasselbe, wenn er da nur immer sagen würde: Blume, Blume, Blume, Blume, als wenn man sagen würde: Geist, Geist, Geist, Geist. Aber das finden die Menschen durchaus nötig, immer nur Geist, Geist, Geist zu sagen; und sie weisen es doch ab, wenn man von wirklichen Geistern, von Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai redet, so wie von einzelnen geistigen Wesenheiten, die ihr bestimmtes, ihr konkretes geistiges Dasein haben, wie man von einzelnen Wesenheiten der Sinneswelt redet. Aber es liegt gewissermaßen etwas im menschlichen Geiste, das dahin zielt, so pantheistisch zu denken, sich alles, alles zu vereinfachen, überall den abstraktesten Gedanken zu suchen. Da ist es interessant, daß wir nun auch ein Zigeunerbeispiel anführen können, welches uns so recht zeigt, wie zigeunerhaft es eigentlich ist, überall diese abstrakten Gedanken zu suchen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":241,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-10/p014"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-10/p018"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":241,"en_words":210,"ratio":0.87,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8241,"original_word_count":8922,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Aspects of Human Evolution","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1987/19170710p01.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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