{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 182/1918-04-29/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we endeavor from one day on to learn something about the spiritual worlds, to feel something about the spiritual worlds: we actually bring it out of ourselves. The other is just a suggestion. We get it out of ourselves. Whatever you have ever said to yourself about spiritual science, you have drawn from within yourself, because it is within your deepest inner being and wants to come out. And it is meant to come out, and it is a sin against the order of the world to leave the spirit within mere flesh, because there it goes astray; there we abandon it to a fate that it should not take. We liberate the spirit by bringing it out of the flesh. And by consciously permeating ourselves with the spirit, we release that which wants to be released from the underground of existence. One will understand this more and more. It will be increasingly recognized that materialism does not simply prevent the emergence of a [different] theory or allow a false theory to emerge, but that materialism consists in allowing that which wants to enter into the knowledge and perception of the human soul to flow down into coarse matter and to proliferate in coarse matter. This is the question that humanity must decide in the near future: whether it wants to let the spirit proliferate in matter – in which case the spirit becomes a deformity, it leads to diabolical, devilish, Ahriman delusion, or whether humanity will want to transform the spirit into thoughts, into feelings, into impulses of will: then the spirit will live among people and achieve what it wants to achieve by entering into the life of the earth through people. For that is what the spirit wants: to enter into the life of the earth through man. We should not hold it back. And every time we resist becoming acquainted with the spirit, we hold it back: it must, as it were, plunge down into matter, must make matter worse than it is. For the spirit has its allotted task: it is to enter into earthly life through the development of the human soul; there it has a beneficial effect. If it is pushed back into matter, then it has a devastating effect in matter, then it has a bad effect.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. 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Und indem wir uns bewußt durchdringen mit dem Geiste, erlösen wir dasjenige, was erlöst sein will, aus dem Untergrund des Daseins heraus. Das wird man immer mehr und mehr einsehen. Man wird immer mehr einsehen, wie der Materialismus nicht darin besteht, daß er einfach eine [andere] Theorie nicht heraufkommen läßt, oder daß er eine falsche Theorie heraufkommen läßt, sondern wie der Materialismus darin besteht, daß er dasjenige, was ins Wissen, in die Empfindung der Menschenseele einziehen will, herunterströmen läßt in die grobe Materie und in der groben Materie wuchern läßt. Das ist dasjenige, worüber sich die Menschheit in der nächsten Zukunft zu entscheiden hat: ob sie den Geist in der Materie wird wuchern lassen wollen dadurch wird der Geist zur Mißbildung, dadurch kommt er in diabolischen, in teuflischen, in ahrimanischen Wahn hinein -, oder ob die Menschheit den Geist wird verwandeln wollen in Gedanken, in Gefühle, in Willensimpulse: dann wird der Geist unter den Menschen leben und das erreichen, was er erreichen will, indem er durch die Menschen in das Leben der Erde einziehen will. Denn der Geist will das ja: durch die Menschen in das Leben der Erde einziehen. Wir sollen ihn nicht zurückhalten. Und jedesmal, wenn wir uns wehren gegen das Kennenlernen des Geistes, halten wir ihn zurück: er muß gewissermaßen hinuntertauchen in die Materie, muß die Materie schlechter machen als sie ist. Denn der Geist hat seine zugeteilte Aufgabe: er soll durch die menschheitliche seelische Entwickelung ins Erdenleben eintreten; da wirkt er dann segensreich. 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