{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 184/1918-09-13/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is, in a somewhat deeper sense, the basis of the dualism in man, this dualism that must be bridged, but that cannot be bridged by merely turning to theories, but that can only be bridged by turning to the facts themselves, to the facts of spiritual life, by knowing that our intellect originates in the world differently than our will. Our intellect and our will are like placing a child and an old man side by side, and artificially deceiving oneself by positing the abstractum man, which is just a mere abstractum, and saying: The child is a man, and the old man is a man. Such concepts are, of course, to the liking of people today, who mix everything up. Thus, for example, the assertion of the unified soul is made today, and it is believed that the soul as such arises in the same way with intellectual thinking as with loving volition, whereas, in the way I have just indicated, if one really, actually wants to understand the human being, one must distinguish. What we think through mere intellect as a world view can therefore never approach reality, but remains hallucination, because it comes from our intellect being permeated with a spiritual essence that does not belong to this world: with Ahrimanic spiritual essence that does not belong to the world order into which we look with our eyes. Likewise, on the other hand, it is in relation to the will, which is permeated with Luciferic essence.","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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Mit unserem Intellekt und unserem Wollen ist es so, wie wenn man ein Kind und einen Greis nebeneinanderstellt und sich künstlich täuschen würde, indem man das Abstraktum Mensch aufstellt, das eben ein bloßes Abstraktum ist, und sagt: Das Kind ist ein Mensch, und der Greis ist ein Mensch. — Solche Begriffe liegen ja den heutigen Menschen, indem sie alles durcheinanderwerfen. So auch stellt man heute die Behauptung von der einheitlichen Seele auf und glaubt, die Seele als solche urstände in gleicher Weise mit dem intellektuellen Denken wie mit dem liebenden Wollen, während man in der Weise, wie ich es eben angedeutet habe, wenn man den Menschen wirklich, tatsächlich verstehen will, unterscheiden muß. Das, was wir durch bloßen Intellekt als Weltanschauung denken, kann daher niemals an die Wirklichkeit heran, bleibt Halluzination, weil es herkommt von einem Durchsetztsein unseres Intellekts mit geistiger Wesenheit, welche nicht zu dieser Welt gehört: mit ahrimanischgeistiger Wesenheit, die nicht zu der Weltenordnung gehört, in die wir mit unseren Augen hinausblicken. Ebenso ist es auf der andern Seite in bezug auf das Wollen, das durchsetzt ist mit luziferischer Wesenheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-09-13/p030"}],"english":["GA 184/1918-09-13/p030"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":245,"en_words":250,"ratio":1.02,"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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