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There are many, however, who have a certain interest in encouraging the dissemination of materialism and who make all sorts of arrangements so that a large proportion of human beings believe only in materialism and are totally under its influence. There are brotherhoods that have at their head initiates who have exactly this interest in cultivating materialism and disseminating it. These materialists are well served when there is constant talk that materialism has already been overcome, for it is possible to further some causes by using words with antithetical meaning. How this is handled is often most complicated.","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":223,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/178/1917-11-18/p014","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/p014"},{"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/p014","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 es gibt viele, welche gerade in recht schlimmem Sinne diese Wahrheit ausnutzen. Es gibt heute verführte Materialisten, die glauben, daß das materielle Leben das einzige sei; aber es gibt auch Eingeweihte, die Materialisten sind und die durch Brüderschaften materialistische Lehren verbreiten lassen. Von diesen Eingeweihten dürfen Sie nicht glauben, daß sie etwa auf dem albernen Standpunkte stehen, daß es keinen Geist gibt, oder daß der Mensch nicht eine Seele hat, die von dem Leibe unabhängig sein kann und ohne ihn leben kann. Sie können getrost annehmen, daß derjenige, der in die geistige Welt wirklich eingeweiht ist, sich nie der Albernheit hingibt, an die bloße Materie zu glauben. Aber es gibt viele, welche in einer gewissen Weise ein Interesse daran haben, den Materialismus verbreiten zu lassen, und die allerlei Veranstaltungen treffen, damit ein großer Teil der Menschen an den Materialismus allein glaubt und ganz und gar unter dem Einfluß des Materialismus steht. Nun gibt es Brüderschaften, welche an ihrer Spitze Eingeweihte haben, die eben ein solches Interesse haben, den Materialismus zu pflegen, zu verbreiten. Diesen Materialisten dient es sehr gut, wenn immerfort davon geredet wird, daß der Materialismus eigentlich schon überwunden sei. 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