{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 183/1918-08-19/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Never was there more necessity than in our fifth post-Atlantean epoch for men to exert themselves more and more to attain what is of particular value, namely, the understanding of what is known as Spiritual Science. For there is no doubt that there are men able to do this. It is certainly a necessity for the knowledge of Spiritual Science to be sought by seeing into the spiritual world clairvoyantly. It goes without saying that there must be clairvoyants to penetrate into the spiritual world, that there must be those who strive after supersensible knowledge. This is, first, something obvious and, secondly, something that is not so important as for people to find the intellectual power to understand the matter, where the knowledge of Spiritual Science, is concerned. Today it is particularly necessary to have a reasoning, intellectual grasp of Spiritual Science, for it is this by which the opposing cultural powers can be overcome. Man's intellect today is so great that if the desire is only there the whole of Spiritual Science can be understood. And to strive for just this understanding is not an egoistic cultural interest but one that is universal and human. For this understanding can be our goal when those intellectual forces applied today in scientific spheres on all kinds of pedantry, when those intellectual forces applied so fruitlessly in the modern economic sphere and, finally, those forces used in soul-destroying technics—when all these forces will be suitably applied and men are no longer misguided from their earliest childhood. Then will be seen how easily spiritual gifts of the spirit can be brought to the understanding of the human being! This is one side.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Soul Boundaries and Future Human Evolution","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Der von mir hier gemeinte Schlaf der Menschheit, der nur überwunden werden kann durch ein Eindringen in die geistigen Welten, der ist außerordentlich schwer zu überwinden, der Schlaf der Menschen. Und mit Bezug auf die Verbreitung des geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisgutes hat man es vielfach gerade mit diesem Schlaf zu tun als dem Gegner. Ich will dabei gar nicht von einer einzelnen Erscheinung sprechen, sondern in der ganzen Kulturbewegung ist gegenwärtig etwas Schläfriges gegenüber den eigentlichen Impulsen, die überall, an allen Stellen den Menschen über den Kopf hinauswachsen. Zwei Dinge sind notwendig, die man sich wie goldene Regeln eigentlich einschreiben müßte in seine Seele: Niemals war mehr als in unserem fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum die Notwendigkeit vorhanden, daß die Menschen sich immer mehr und mehr bemühen - und daß Menschen da sind, die das können, daran ist nicht zu zweifeln —, gerade das zu erreichen, was besonders wertvoll ist: geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu verstehen. Gewiß, geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse müssen gesucht werden durch hellsichtiges Eindringen in die geistige Welt; das ist eine Notwendigkeit. Aber das ist eine Selbstverständlichkeit, daß es Hellseher geben muß, die eindringen in die geistige Welt, daß es Leute geben muß, die übersinnliche Erkenntnisse anstreben. Zweitens aber ist besonders wichtig, daß sich für diese geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse, für diese in übersinnlichen Welten gesuchte Erkenntnis Leute finden, die kraft des Intellekts die Sache verstehen. Das vernünftige, verständige Begreifen der Geisteswissenschaft, das ist heute ganz besonders notwendig, denn das ist dasjenige, wodurch die widerstrebendsten Kulturmächte gerade überwunden werden. Der Intellekt der Menschen ist heute so groß, daß die ganze Geisteswissenschaft verstanden werden kann, wenn man nur will. Und gerade dieses Verständnis anzustreben, ist ein allgemein-menschliches, nicht ein egoistisches Interesse der Kultur. Denn dieses Verständnis kann angestrebt werden, wenn jene intellektuellen Kräfte, die heute verwendet werden auf naturwissenschaftlichen Gebieten an allerlei Kleinkram, wenn jene intellektuellen Kräfte, die heute volkswirtschaftlich recht fruchtlos verwendet werden, und endlich, wenn jene Kräfte, die in einer fruchtlosen, vielleicht sogar menschenmörderischen Technik verwendet werden, entsprechend angewendet würden, und die Menschen nicht verzogen würden von frühester Kindheit an. 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