{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A German writer, Eduard Bernstein, has an interesting description of an incident which I would like to use as an example of what I want to illustrate.[^7] He will surely not be pleased to know that I regard the experience he describes as mystical. Nevertheless it is a good example of those hidden connections in life which materialists regard as mere chance. Eduard Bernstein relates that, in London, he used to be a frequent guest at the house of Engels, the friend of Karl Marx.[^8] Engels' household was a hospitable one, where many people often met, where in fact an international group would frequently gather. It was here that Bernstein met Sergius Kratschinsky, a writer who had adopted the name Stepniak, by which he is quite well known. Bernstein's description of Stepniak is most interesting; to begin with, he mainly describes the more external aspects saying that Stepniak was","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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Deshalb wird auch der Westen Europas zum Beispiel, der mehr angewiesen ist auf grobe Zusammenhänge, die Seeleneigentümlichkeit des russischen Volkes so außerordentlich schwer verstehen, trotzdem in der Gegenwart auch dieses Verständnis ganz besonders notwendig wäre. Ich möchte sagen, das russische Volk ist heute noch um eine Nuance weniger wach als die westeuropäischen und sogar die mitteleuropäischen Völker. Daher knüpfen sich diejenigen Dinge, von denen wir jetzt sprechen, leichter an das Seelenleben eines russischen als an das Seelenleben eines westeuropäischen Menschen. Sie knüpfen sich schon auch an das Seelenleben eines westeuropäischen Menschen, aber sie sind eben nicht so auffällig, sie fallen einem nicht so auf, möchte ich sagen. Da hat ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Eduard Bernstein, eine ganz interessante Darstellung gegeben, die ich als Beispiel geben möchte. Er würde mir gewiß ganz übelnehmen, wenn ich das, was er erzählt, was er erlebt, für mystisch nähme. Aber deshalb ist das, was ich anführen will, doch ein gutes Beispiel für einen Lebenszusammenhang, der für den materialistisch denkenden Menschen nichts weiter ist als ein gewöhnlicher Zufall. Da erzählt der Betreffende, daß er in London viel verkehrt hat in dem Hause von Engels, des Freundes von Marx. Das Haus von Engels war ein sehr gastfreundliches, wo viele Menschen viel verkehrt haben, wo sich eine internationale Gesellschaft zusammenfand. Und da lernte Eduard Bernstein unter den Menschen, die dort verkehrten, auch den Sergius Kratschinsky kennen, der als Schriftsteller den Namen Stepniak geführt hat. Er ist ja unter diesem Namen sehr bekannt. 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