{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We must be clear about the fact that those whose thinking merely reflects natural processes, historical events or external social life, develop thoughts which are purely ahrimanic. That does not necessarily mean that they are wrong or incorrect, but they are ahrimanic. 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. Healing will come to our age when the thoughts and ideas that are applied to social conditions and political life are in living contact with spiritual reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. 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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. 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