{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 181/1918-05-21/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There is also another meaning to this Whitsuntide proclamation, and it is the most important—the strengthening of the realization that a man does not lose his value when he allows the other aspect to count; viz, that the spirit is continually flowing into mankind, and that man has to form the instrument for the spirit streaming down into humanity. Man retains his personal value notwithstanding. That is something which we cannot only see theoretically today, but for which it is necessary to draw the consequences for life and to carry over into our way of thinking about the construction of the state, about moral and social life. The point is that a thought should have an *awakening* effect, and an “awakening” it certainly was when the flames descended on the head of each one of the disciples. To be asleep today to the events of the time, a state which is only too prevalent today, is a sinning against the events of the time. But in the cycle of evolution which we are now entering, we cannot possibly be awake to the events if we do not observe them with a certain inner mobility of soul-life, if we are not able to distinguish the essential, the right thing, from what is unessential and wrong. What floods us today, especially in reading the newspapers, cannot be regarded as all of like value; for in the columns of a thousand books and newspapers there may be two lines which are of tremendous fundamental importance, pointing in a highly indicative way to the origin of the “phenomena,” to use the expression of Goethe—to what is really going on. The rest may all be a waste of printer's ink. It is a question of awakening an inner feeling in one's self as to what is important and essential, and what is unimportant and unessential. This feeling arises in the soul, if a man unconsciously acquires a vision for the great world perspectives of the present day, which Spiritual Science can disclose; only he must absorb this into his feeling, must try to gradually feel as he will when Spiritual Science becomes alive in him. It is certainly necessary to create an inner trust in what one feels inwardly, to a much greater degree than men are accustomed to do today. Anyone who expects that what he acquires today points immediately to far-reaching events tomorrow, while not as a rule attaining a true observation. It may be something right and correct, but events may so discount this that perhaps it may only come to expression in a distant future. It is necessary for us to have the right attitude to the world, and have correct ideas as to what is taking place.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. Whitsuntide Lecture","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-05-21","location":null,"word_count":457,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/181/1918-05-21/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRC0049","book_title":"Anthroposophical Life Gifts","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA181/English/LRC0049/19180521p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Darauf kommt es an, daß ein Gedanke weckend ist, und ein Aufwecken war es ja, als sich die Flammen auf das Haupt eines jeden einzelnen der Jünger heruntersenkten. Und ein Verschlafen der Zeitereignisse, das heute nur zu furchtbar verbreitet ist, ist ein Sich-Versündigen gegen die Zeitereignisse. Man kann aber in dem Entwickelungszyklus, in dem wir jetzt angekommen sind, ganz unmöglich zu einem Aufwachen gegenüber den Ereignissen kommen, wenn man nicht mit einer gewissen inneren Beweglichkeit des Seelenlebens die Ereignisse betrachtet, wenn man nicht vermag, Wesentliches, Richtiges zu unterscheiden von Unwesentlichem und Unrichtigem. Was uns heute überflutet, besonders an Zeitungslektüre, das kann nicht so aufgenommen werden, daß alles gleich ist; sondern in tausend Buch- oder Zeitungsspalten können zwei Zeilen sein, die von ungeheurer, wesentlicher Bedeutung sind, die hindeuten urphänomenal bezeichnend — wenn ich den Goetheschen Ausdruck gebrauchen will - auf das, was eigentlich vorgeht. Und das andere kann alles verschwendete Druckerschwärze sein. Worauf es ankommt, das ist, daß man eine innere Empfindung in sich auferwecken muß gegenüber dem Wichtigen und Wesentlichen und gegenüber dem Unwichtigen und Unwesentlichen. Diese Empfindung ergibt sich in der Seele, wenn man unbewußt das gewinnt, was einem in der Gegenwart entgegentritt an großen Weltenperspektiven, welche die Geisteswissenschaft eröffnen kann. Er soll nur dies in sein Empfinden einfügen, soll nur versuchen, allmählich so zu fühlen, wie er fühlen wird, wenn die Geisteswissenschaft in ihm lebendig wird. Es ist dann allerdings notwendig, daß man sich das innere Vertrauen zu dem, was man gewissermaßen innerlich erfühlt, in einem viel größeren Maße verschafft, als es heute die Menschen gewohnt sind. Wer nämlich erwartet, daß sich das, was er heute bekommt, gleich morgen an weithin leuchtenden Ereignissen zeigt, der wird in der Regel nicht zurechtkommen mit einer wahren Beobachtung. Es kann etwas richtig sein, aber es können sich die Ereignisse kaschieren, daß dies vielleicht erst in einer fernen Zukunft zum Ausdruck kommt. Aber dafür ist es notwendig, daß wir uns in einer richtigen Weise in die Welt hineinstellen, dafür ist es wichtig, daß wir richtige Vorstellungen haben über das, was geschieht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":423,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/181/1918-05-21/p011"}],"english":["GA 181/1918-05-21/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":423,"en_words":457,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7132,"original_word_count":7047,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRC0049","book_title":"Anthroposophical Life Gifts","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA181/English/LRC0049/19180521p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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