{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 184/1918-09-13/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now I am not saying that what is taught today is a direct consequence or effect of that council decision; but what was dogmatized at the eighth council in Constantinople was, as a dogma, only the intellectual outflow of deeper events that are hidden beneath the surface of things and continue to this day. And all that wants to dogmatize - no matter whether it was done by the good philosophers of the Council of Constantinople or by the good professors of today's universities - all these conceptual webs are basically only conceptual hallucinations that arise in man and are too thin, I would say, in reality content, to really grasp the reality that prevails beneath them. Because today's human being, in accordance with the constitution of his soul, oscillates to a certain extent between the hallucinatory nature of his conceptual world and the illusory nature of his view of nature, he is therefore in danger of dualism. And he will always be in danger of being able to carry everything he devises as ideas, as ideals, only into the hallucinatory sphere of concepts, which does not reach into reality; or, he will be able to carry what he devises about nature into the illusionary sphere of the view of nature, which in turn has nothing to do with true reality, which is precisely an illusion. Man is simply never predisposed to find directly, or, I might say, comfortably, that which he calls truth – a word. He must start from something that can bring him discord, doubt, skepticism in life, and penetrate to the truth. In today's developmental cycle, man is forced to ascend from oscillating between the hallucination of philosophy and the illusion of the view of nature to the truly real, to that which really is.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Fourth Lecture","site_heading":"Bridging Materialism and Spirituality Through Spiritual Science","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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Und alles dasjenige, was dogmatisieren will - gleichgültig, ob es die braven Philosophen des Konzils von Konstantinopel gemacht haben oder die braven Professoren der heutigen Universitäten -, alle diese Begriffsgespinste sind im Grunde genommen nur begriffliche Halluzinationen, welche aufsteigen in dem Menschen und zu dünn sind, möchte ich sagen, an Realitätsgehalt, um die Wirklichkeit, die darunter waltet, wirklich zu erfassen. Weil der heutige Mensch seiner Seelenkonstitution nach gewissermaßen pendelt zwischen dem Halluzinatorischen seiner Begriffswelt und dem Illusorischen seiner Naturanschauung, deshalb liegt für ihn die Gefahr des Dualismus vor. Und er wird immer in der Gefahr sein, alles, was er als Ideen, als Ideale ausheckt, nur tragen zu können in die halluzinatorische Sphäre der Begriffe, die nicht an die Wirklichkeit heranreicht; oder aber, er wird, was er über die Natur ausheckt, tragen können in die Illusionssphäre der Naturanschauung, die wiederum nichts mit der wahren Wirklichkeit zu schaffen hat, die eben eine Illusion ist. Der Mensch ist eben niemals dazu veranlagt, dasjenige, was er Wahrheit nennt - ein Wort -, unmittelbar zu finden, ich möchte sagen, bequem zu finden. Er muß von etwas, was im Leben ihm Zwiespalt, Zweifel, Skeptizismus bringen kann, ausgehen und zur Wahrheit durchdringen. In dem heutigen Entwickelungszyklus ist der Mensch gezwungen, aufzusteigen von dem Pendeln zwischen der Halluzination der Philosophie und der Illusion der Naturanschauung zu dem wahrhaft Wirklichen, zu dem, was wirklich ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":282,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-09-13/p011"}],"english":["GA 184/1918-09-13/p011"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":282,"en_words":299,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7899,"original_word_count":7625,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Polarity of Duration and Development","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA184/English/SOL2024/19180913p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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