{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 183/1918-08-19/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The other golden rule is this—that we men today need some tiling more in our culture for the gifts of the spirit to become fruitful. The first is something that must be wrested from Ahriman. Men today are very clever, Ahriman sees to it that men should be clever—oh, men *are* clever! But they apply their cleverness only to what is of material interest. Men are not merely clever, they are more than clever. We shall speak more of this in our next lectures for you to recognise what an enormous influence this ahrimanic element has at the present time upon human super-cleverness, but there is something else necessary. There is much still to be wrested from another spirit. We do not need only cleverness with which to permeate our gifts of the spirit, but above all we need most urgently—how shall I express it?—we need in the human soul receiving these gifts of the spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, fire, warmth. We have need of men who approach what they receive from the spirit with their whole undivided soul. In the spiritual sphere this is just what must be wrested from the luciferic forces which are so active in the world in other ways!","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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Noch einem andern Geiste ist manches abzuringen. Wir brauchen nicht nur Gescheitheit, mit der das spirituelle Geistesgut durchdrungen werden soll, wir brauchen vor allen Dingen sehr, sehr dringlich — ja, wie soll ich es ausdrücken -, wir brauchen bei den Menschenseelen, an die das spirituelle Geistesgut herankommt, Temperament, Enthusiasmus, Feuer, Wärme. Wir brauchen Menschen, welche mit der ganzen, vollen Seele dasjenige vertreten, was spirituelles Geistesgut ist. Gerade auf spirituellem Gebiete muß den luziferischen Kräften, die sonst so wirksam jetzt sind in der Welt, dieses abgerungen werden. Es gibt einen schönen Anblick: es ist der Anblick desjenigen, der in ruhiger Klarheit, aber mit innerem Feuer und Enthusiasmus, weil es ihm eine Notwendigkeit ist, für das spirituelle Geistesgut sich erwärmen kann. Es gibt einen andern Anblick: das ist der, wo man möglichst versucht, durch das spirituelle Geistesgut eingelullt zu werden, träumerisch zu werden, hingegossen warm zu werden, aufzugehen in die universellen Kräfte, die Seele zu vereinigen mit dem göttlichen All. Das sind Gegensätze, die man in der Gegenwart doch wohl beobachten kann, Gegensätze, die es notwendig ist, zu beobachten. Denn es wird nicht leicht werden, das spirituelle Geistesgut der Menschenkultur einzuverleiben. Und es muß hinein, denn die Menschenkultur braucht es. 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