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The ahrimanic element must of necessity exist. The whole content of natural science is ahrimanic and will only lose its ahrimanic nature when it becomes imbued with life. This will happen when man's thinking ceases merely to mirror external phenomena in a mechanical way. Thinking must become creative, it must become saturated through and through with spiritual content. Social laws, laws of rights, etc. will be ahrimanic if, when formulating them, one relies solely on that capacity, on that aspect of thinking which mirrors the external events and reflects upon them. When, as in such instances, ahrimanic forces are active in spheres where they do not belong they become destructive. 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The moment one's thinking attains a living grasp of spiritual reality one can no longer avoid the recognition that thoughts, which merely mirror external phenomena, are ahrimanic. This recognition causes fear. It is fear that holds man back from attaining creative thinking. Creative thinking is only attained when man is inspired—even unconsciously—from the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":147,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p032","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1917-07-31","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p025"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 176/1917-07-31/p025"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":423,"en_words":326,"ratio":0.77,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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In this world nothing can be said to be absolute good or absolute evil; it always depends on the aspect from which it is viewed. The important thing is to recognize that in their right place at the right time things are good; shifted out of the right place and time they are no longer good. Nowadays people all too readily take things in a dogmatic or absolute sense, which so easily leads to misunderstanding about such matters. There is no question of levelling criticism at the age as such, only of drawing attention to facts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p033","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1917-07-31","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p026"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":239,"en_words":196,"ratio":0.82,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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I shall mention just two such impulses.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":90,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p034","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1917-07-31","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p027","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p027"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":92,"en_words":90,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Wenn wir nachdenken über die Welt, und nur nachdenken will ja unsere Zeit, das will sie bloß haben, was ich vor vielen Jahren — Sie können darüber nachlesen in meinem Buche «Goethes Weltanschauung» — Tatsachenfanatismus genannt habe; vor einer noch größeren Anzahl von Jahren habe ich es in meiner Einleitung zu Goethes Naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften in Kürschners Nationalliteratur «Dogmatismus der Erfahrung» genannt. Diejenigen, die solches Denken entwickeln, das bloßes Nachdenken der natürlichen Geschehnisse oder der geschichtlichen Ereignisse oder des äußeren sozialen Lebens ist, die entwickeln Gedanken, welche lediglich ahrimanische sind. Deshalb brauchen sie nicht unrichtig zu sein, aber sie sind ahrimanisch. Ahrimanisches muß in der Welt sein. Der gesamte Inhalt der Naturwissenschaft ist ahrimanisch. Er wird erst seiner ahrimanischen Natur entkleidet, wenn er belebt wird, wenn das Denken sich loslöst von dem bloßen Nachdenken, wenn es schöpferisches Denken wird, wenn es durchdrungen, durchflossen wird von dem, was in den geistigen Welten lebt. Will man soziale Gesetze formen, Rechtsgesetze formen, und man stützt sich auf bloßes Nachdenken, so stützt man sich ja bloß auf Ahrimanisches. Ahrimanisches führt aber immer, da wo es nicht sein soll, zur Ertötung desjenigen, in dem es lebt; zum Ersterben, zum Auflösen. Das Heil unserer Zeit kann nur dadurch entstehen, daß gerade mit Bezug auf alles, was das soziale Leben befruchten soll, das Rechtsleben, das Staatsleben, daß mit Bezug auf das alles solche Gedanken eingreifen, die in lebendigem Zusammenhang mit der geistigen Welt stehen. Das aber wollen heute noch wenig Menschen glauben. Denn was müßten sie dann glauben, diese Menschen? Man merkt, wenn man den Menschen heute vom Geiste spricht, daß sie sich wehren. Was sie dann im Bewußtsein haben, das will nicht viel besagen, was aber im Unterbewußten, im Unbewußten lebt, das will recht viel besagen. Was im Unterbewußten lebt, das ist nämlich ein unbewußtes schlechtes Gewissen, ein richtiges schlechtes Gewissen. Die Menschen wollen sich nicht gestehen, daß sie Totes denken, Ahrimanisches denken. Und daher lassen sie es nicht bis zu dem Gedanken kommen. Denn in dem Augenblick, wo man sich zum lebendigen Ergreifen der geistigen Welt aufschwingt mit dem Denken, in diesem Augenblick muß man eben gewahr werden, daß man Ahrimanisches denkt. Davor fürchtet man sich aber. Furcht ist es, was die Menschen heute davon abhält, sich vom bloßen Nachdenken zum produktiven Denken zu erheben, was allein da sein kann, wenn es inspiriert ist - mag es auch unbewußt inspiriert sein —- von den geistigen Welten aus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":423,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p025"},{"locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Daher sehen wir, daß in unserer Zeit hinter allem übrigen Elend noch ein ganz anderes lebt. Nichts Geringeres lebt in unserer Zeit, und wird immer mehr leben wollen, von gewissen Kreisen ausgehend, als der Kampf gegen den Geist selbst. Dieser Kampf gegen den Geist, der wird in unserer Zeit im eminentesten Sinne gefördert durch dasjenige, was man den Zeitgeist nennen könnte. Ich muß sagen, es ist recht schwierig, über solche Dinge zu reden, wie diejenigen sind, auf die wir da kommen; aber auf der anderen Seite ist es auch nicht genügend, auf die Dinge bloß hinzudeuten und sie nicht bei ihrem wahren Namen zu nennen. Denn in der Welt kann man eigentlich nicht sagen: Irgend etwas ist absolut gut oder absolut schlecht oder böse, sondern es kommt überall auf den Gesichtspunkt an. Überall kommt es darauf an, die Dinge so zu erkennen, daß man sich sagen kann: An ihrem richtigen Ort und in ihrem richtigen Zusammenhang sind sie gut. Werden sie aus dem richtigen Zusammenhang herausgeschoben, dann sind sie eben nicht mehr gut. Und weil man heute die Dinge so sehr leicht verdogmatisiert und verabsolutiert, so wird man bei einer solchen Auseinandersetzung, wie ich sie jetzt meine, sehr leicht mißverstanden; man wird sehr leicht so verstanden, als ob man eine Art Kritiker der Zeit sein wollte, ein Mensch, der die Zeit selbst kritisiert. Das will ich ganz und gar nicht sein, sondern ich will nur auf die Tatsachen hinweisen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p026"},{"locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Eine Neigung vom Geiste weg nach dem Ahrimanischen — also eigentlich auch nach einem Geiste, aber nach einem Geiste, der erstorben ist, wo die Materie dem Menschen sich nur offenbart -, ein solches Streben lebt in unserer Zeit. Das Leben aber ist ungeheuer differenziert und wird immer differenzierter und differenzierter. Und wir könnten in der Gegenwart vieles anführen, das in der Differenzierung der einzelnen sozialen Verhältnisse uns aufmerksam machen würde, was für Impulse in der Gegenwart eigentlich leben, in was wir mitten darinnen stehen. Ich will zunächst zwei Impulse unserer Zeit erwähnen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p027"}],"beads":[{"from":[31,32],"to":[25],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[33],"to":[26],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[34],"to":[27],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}