{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These words are symptomatic of important knowledge—knowledge of a more or less negative character, knowledge about present-day natural science. This natural science is meant to treat of nature; it is meant in a certain sense to bring home nature to modern consciousness in a conceptual way. If, however, we look around at these conceptions, which to-day are formed about nature in the most learned way, we find, curiously enough, that human consciousness is merely inventing ghosts; but whereas the people of old invented ghosts to represent the Gods, to-day they are invented to represent the facts of nature. For what modern men conceive as natural science is related to nature as a ghost is related to reality. It was indeed divined by Richard Wahle that the age of the Consciousness Soul had come to this conclusion: We are not after all so superior to our forefathers; they used the forces of consciousness and formed conceptions of ghosts; we too form conceptions of ghosts. The only difference is that they had more beautiful ghosts than those invented by scientific thinkers, which, to speak the truth, are a horrible weaving in abstract concepts. But they are ghosts, just as the ghosts pictured by our forefathers were ghosts. And these ghosts of natural science are related to reality, this ghostly natural science itself is related to reality, in the same way as the ghosts of old were related to divine reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture Four","site_heading":"Christ's Intervention: Preventing Ahrimanic Knowledge Premature Flooding","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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Denn dasjenige, was sich die modernen Menschen als Naturwissenschaft vorstellen, ist nicht die Natur, sondern verhält sich zur Natur wie ein Gespenst zu der Wirklichkeit. Das ahnt nämlich solch ein Mensch wie Richard Wahle, daß das Zeitalter der Bewußtseinsseele darauf kommen muß: Wir sind gar nicht so sehr erhaben über unsere Vorfahren; die verwendeten die Bewußtseinskräfte und bildeten sich Vorstellungen von Gespenstern, und wir bilden uns auch Vorstellungen von Gespenstern. Der Unterschied ist nur der, daß die Vorfahren schönere Gespenster hatten als die Gespenster sind, welche die heutigen naturwissenschaftlichen Denker fabrizieren, und die im Grunde genommen schreckliche Gespinste von abstrakten Begriffen sind. Aber Gespenster sind es, wie die Gespenster unserer Vorfahren Gespenster waren, Und nicht anders verhalten sich diese Gespenster der Naturwissenschaft, verhält sich diese gespenstische Naturwissenschaft selber zur Wirklichkeit, als die alten Gespenster sich zu der göttlichen Wirklichkeit verhielten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":243,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p013"}],"english":["GA 184/1918-10-11/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":243,"en_words":238,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 184/1918-10-11/p013"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6209,"original_word_count":6364,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1985","book_title":"Three Streams in Human Evolution","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA184/English/RSP1985/19181011p02.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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