{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 178/1917-11-18/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We know that we actually live in the age of materialism. We know that since the middle of the nineteenth century this materialism has reached its climax. In reality, however, polarities must converge. It is exactly this climax of materialism within the evolution of humanity that must converge with the intensification in human evolution that leads to truly beholding Christ in the etheric. One can grasp that just the announcement of the mystery of beholding Christ, of this new relationship with humanity into which Christ will enter, would arouse ill-will and resistance from some human beings. These would be members of certain brotherhoods who wished to exploit the event of the twentieth century, this event of the appearance of the etheric Christ, who wished to use it for their own purposes and not allow it to become general human knowledge. There are brotherhoods, and brotherhoods always influence public opinion by allowing this or that to be publicized by such means as would be least noticed by people. There are certain occult brotherhoods who spread the message that the age of materialism has almost run its course, that in a certain way it is already past. These poor, pitiable, “clever people”—in quotation marks, of course—spread the doctrine in numerous assemblies, books, and societies that materialism has exhausted itself, that one can already grasp again something of spirit, but they can offer people nothing more than the word spirit and single phrases. These people are more or less in the service of those who have an interest in saying what is not true, that materialism has been “ruined by bad management,” as it were. This is not true; on the contrary, materialistic thinking is in the process of growing. It will thrive most when people deceive themselves by believing that they are no longer materialists. The materialistic way of thinking is in the process of increasing and will continue to increase for about four or five centuries.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 1","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-11-18","location":null,"word_count":325,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/178/1917-11-18/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Gilbert Church and Alice Wulsin","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReapChrist/19171118p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-18/p009"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/178/1917-11-18/p009","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Aber in der Wirklichkeit müssen Gegensätze zusammenfallen. Gerade der Höhepunkt des Materialismus in der Menschheitsentwickelung muß auf der andern Seite zusammenfallen mit jener Verinnerlichung der Menschheitsentwickelung, die dazu führt, daß der Christus wirklich ätherisch geschaut wird. Man kann begreifen, daß gerade die Bekanntmachung dieses Geheimnisses von dem Schauen des Christus, von diesem neuen Verhältnis, das der Christus mit der Menschheit eingehen soll, Mißstimmung und Widerwillen hervorruft bei jenen Menschen, welche als Angehörige gewisser Brüderschaften dieses Ereignis vom 20. Jahrhundert, dieses Ereignis der Erscheinung des ätherischen Christus ausnutzen wollen in ihrem Sinne und es nicht zu einem Gemeingut der allgemeinen menschlichen Erkenntnis machen wollen. Es gibt Brüderschaften - und Brüderschaften beeinflussen immer die öffentlichen Meinungen, indem sie dies oder jenes zum Beispiel gerade durch solche Mittel verbreiten lassen, durch die es am wenigsten den Menschen auffällt -, es gibt gewisse okkulte Brüderschaften, die lassen verbreiten, daß die Zeit des Materialismus bald abgelaufen sein werde, ja, daß sie in einer gewissen Weise schon abgelaufen sei. Die armen, bemitleidenswerten «gescheiten Leute» — das «gescheite Leute» ist jetzt selbstverständlich in Gänsefüßchen gestellt —, die heute in so zahlreichen Versammlungen und Büchern und Vereinen die Lehre verbreiten, daß der Materialismus abgewirtschaftet habe, daß man schon wiederum etwas vom Geiste begreife, aber die den Leuten nicht mehr geben können als das Wort Geist und einzelne Phrasen, diese Leute stehen mehr oder weniger im Dienste derjenigen, die ein Interesse daran haben, zu sagen, was nicht wahr ist, zu sagen, der Materialismus habe abgewirtschaftet; denn wahr ist dieses nicht, sondern im Gegenteil, die materialistische Gesinnung ist in Zunahme begriffen, und sie wird am besten gedeihen, wenn sich die Leute einbilden werden, daß sie nicht mehr Materialisten seien. 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