{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 187/1918-12-28/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This present-day development demands of us that we strip away all that is out of date in current science, and really find our way into new thought-forms, so that in them we may reach not antiquated visions, but imaginations built up with all our will, which we may then offer to the objective process of the spiritual world and receive back verified. This is so completely, so radically different from all earlier methods of gaining supersensible knowledge that the numerous individuals who depend upon the earlier methods resist it with all their might. For something is demanded of persons seeking to gain supersensible knowledge, something that is radical, primal, elementary, that intends to penetrate to sources, something that must be reconciled with all that is, consciously or unconsciously, antiquated. That is the reason why the spiritual science presented here attaches so little value to all that is traditional. These traditional things are certainly worthy of respect, but the fact remains that we stand at the turning-point of human evolution; and we must fully recognize that the traditional is obsolete, and that something new must be won. Hence, in a spiritual science that takes today's conditions into account, there can be no thought of faith in the old sense, nor any inclination toward the so-called Master Builder of all worlds. For both pertain only to external consciousness. When one attains a consciousness that is outside the body and outside the course of life, that is really in the spiritual world, then will and conceptions flow together again into one reality. And what was mere architecture, mere form—lifeless forms and lifeless symbols—receives inner life. Empty, obscure faith becomes knowledge, concrete self-transforming knowledge. The two unite and become a living thing. This is what must be experienced by humanity. The ancient symbols and ancient rites must be felt to be out of date. The whole earlier mode of thought must be felt as something antiquated; and the rigid forms in that mode of thought must be given life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. The Change in the Human Soul Constitution","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-12-28","location":null,"word_count":335,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/187/1918-12-28/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Olin D. Wannamaker, Frances E. 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Das ist ein so radikaler Unterschied gegenüber allem früheren übersinnlichen Erkennen, daß sich die zahlreich vorhandenen, auf früheres übersinnliches Erkennen stützenden Menschen mit Händen und Füßen sträuben gegen diese absolute Umwandlung alles übersinnlichen Erkennens. Denn es ist etwas verlangt von Menschen, die Übersinnliches erkennen wollen, was radikal, ursprünglich und elementar ist, was zu den Quellen vordringen will und was Abrechnung halten will und muß mit alldem, was nut — bewußt oder unbewußt - antiquiert ist. Daher wird so wenig Wert gelegt innerhalb derjenigen Geisteswissenschaft, die hier vorgetragen wird, auf all das Überlieferte. Dieses Überlieferte ist gewiß ein Ehrwürdiges, aber wir stehen halt einmal an dem Wendepunkt der Menschheitsentwickelung, wo wir in bezug auf solche Sachen gründlich erkennen müssen, daß das Überlieferte sich ausgelebt hat und daß Neues erworben werden muß. Daher kann innerhalb einer wirklich mit den heutigen Verhältnissen rechnenden Geisteswissenschaft nicht die Rede sein von dem alten Glauben, noch kann die Rede sein von der Hinlenkung zum sogenannten Baumeister aller Welten. Denn beides gehört eben nur dem äußeren Bewußtsein an. Kommt man zu demjenigen Bewußtsein, das außerhalb des Leibes und außerhalb des Lebenslaufes erworben wird, das wirklich im Geistigen drinnensteht, dann fließen Wille und Vorstellung wieder zusammen zu einer Realität. Und dasjenige, was nur Architektur ist, das heißt nur Form, was leblose Formen, leblose Symbole sind, das erhält innerliches Leben. Und dasjenige, was finsterer bloßer Glaube ist, das wird Wissen, konkretes sich wandelndes Wissen. Beides vereinigt sich, beides wird etwas Lebendiges. Das ist dasjenige, was von der Menschheit erlebt werden muß. Die alten Symbole, die alten Riten, sie müssen als antiquiert empfunden werden, die ganze alte Denkweise muß als antiquiert empfunden werden. Denn dasjenige, was da starre Formen sind, muß Leben empfangen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":348,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/187/1918-12-28/p024"}],"english":["GA 187/1918-12-28/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":348,"en_words":335,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6193,"original_word_count":6343,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Olin D. Wannamaker, Frances E. 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