{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 182/1918-04-29/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"That is one thing: spiritual science appeals to the power in human nature that frees us from narrow-mindedness and enables our thinking and imaginative life to grasp not only a little but a great deal. I meant it very seriously when I said in a public lecture in Stuttgart these days: For the spiritual researcher, it makes no difference whether one is a materialist or a spiritualist; that is not the point, that is irrelevant. What is important is to develop sufficient spiritual strength to make real progress. Those who have this strength, this spiritual power, may be materialists, they find the spirit in matter and its processes if they are only consistent. And those who are spiritualists do not stop at saying: spirit and spirit and spirit...! but they delve into material life, into practical life as well, they allow their thinking to bear fruit even in their actions. Versatility, as demanded by today's life - and the life of the future will demand it even more - versatility is what will become of spiritual science in the near future. And that is what humanity needs as it works towards the future. Anyone who is familiar with life today and looks at the catastrophic events that are happening around us knows that one of the deeper causes of today's catastrophe is that people have become one-sided, despite all their high scientific education, that they lack the opportunity to penetrate things in a versatile way. They lack the flexibility of mind to immerse themselves in reality. Versatility is what is gained through spiritual science for the imagination.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. 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Wer diese Kraft hat, diese Geisteskraft, der mag Materialist sein, er findet in der Materie und ihren Vorgängen den Geist, wenn er nur konsequent ist. Und derjenige, der Spiritualist ist, bleibt auch nicht dabei stehen, zu sagen: Geist und Geist und Geist ...! sondern er taucht unter in das materielle Leben, in das praktische Leben auch, er läßt sein Denken bis in die Handgriffe fruchtbar werden. Vielseitigkeit, wie es das heutige Leben verlangt - und das Leben der Zukunft wird es noch mehr tun -, Vielseitigkeit ist dasjenige, was zunächst aus der Geisteswissenschaft den Menschen wird. Und das braucht die Menschheit, die der Zukunft entgegenwirkt. Wer das Leben heute kennt und sich die katastrophalen Ereignisse, die um uns herum sind, anschaut, der weiß, daß zu den tieferen Ursachen der heutigen Katastrophe das gehört, daß die Menschen einseitig geworden sind, trotz aller hohen wissenschaftlichen Bildung, daß ihnen die Möglichkeit fehlt, vielseitig in die Dinge einzudringen. Es fehlt ihnen die Beweglichkeit des Geistes, um unterzutauchen in die Wirklichkeit. 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