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At the same time, however, we may not forget that just those men who, it must be admitted, are deeply moved by the earnestness of the times, when it comes to saying: In what do these wise ideas consist that are to succeed the old deluded ideas? It is just such men who immediately fall back on any kind of deluded ideas that have become mere fine words. That is the tragedy, the fearful destiny, of our time, that men indeed became alive to the fact that it is necessary to turn to the spirit, and are then overcome by fear and anxiety when they should turn to it. Then they are at once ready, once more to seize upon the old delusive ideas which have driven mankind to the present fearful destiny. My dear friends, we need only take this example of a widespread tendency in ideas. Were you to ask a law abiding upholder of the Roman Catholic Church whether he was inclined to the belief that the old conceptions have brought us to this time of catastrophe and that they must be got rid of, do you think that he would really be disposed to recognise the necessity for reshaping the ideas that were unable to save men from this dreadful catastrophe? No! He would say that were men to turn again in the right way to Roman Catholicism they would at once became happy. And the reflection would not even enter his head that they have had 1900 years in which to practise their Roman Catholicism and yet have fallen into the catastrophe, that the least we must learn from the catastrophe is the need for a fresh impulse. This is only one example among many. Particularly where this point is concerned it is above all necessary frankly to focus attention on existing conditions.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Und wenn jemand es einmal ausspricht, daß die einzige Rettung der Menschheit in dem Sich-Hinwenden zu einer supremen Weisheitsherrschaft liegt, und nicht zu irgendwelchen andern politischen oder sozialen Quacksalbereien, dann müssen wir eine solche Tatsache, eine solche Gedankenrichtung anerkennen. Aber wir dürfen dabei eben durchaus nicht vergessen, daß gerade solche Menschen, von denen wir zugeben müssen, daß sie in allen Tiefen ihres Wesens ergriffen sind von dem Ernst der Zeitlage, daß gerade solche Menschen, wenn es sich nun darum handelt, zu sagen, worin denn die Weisheitsvorstellungen bestehen, die die alten Wahnvorstellungen ablösen sollen, daß sie dann doch gleich wieder zurückfallen auf irgendwelche, zu schönen Worten gewordene alte Wahnvorstellungen. Denn das ist gerade die Tragik, das ist das furchtbare Schicksal unserer Zeit, daß die Menschen zwar aufmerksam darauf werden: Es ist notwendig, zum Geiste sich hinzuwenden -, daß sie aber immer Furcht und Angst überkommt, wenn sie sich zum Geiste hinwenden sollen; daß sie dann gleich wieder bereit sind, nach den alten Wahnvorstellungen zu greifen, die die Menschheit hineingetrieben haben in das gegenwärtige furchtbare Schicksal. Wir brauchen ja nur das Beispiel einer sehr verbreiteten Vorstellungsrichtung zu nehmen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/188/1919-01-03/p007"},{"locus":"GA 188/1919-01-03/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Glauben Sie, wenn Sie einen richtiggehenden, sagen wir trivial, Vertreter des römisch-katholischen Kirchenbekenntnisses fragen, ob er geneigt sein würde zu glauben, daß die alten Vorstellungen in die katastrophale Zeit hineingeführt haben, daß sie von neuen abgelöst werden müssen, glauben Sie, daß er wirklich geneigt sein würde, an die Notwendigkeit einer Erneuerung derjenigen Vorstellungen zu glauben, welche die Menschheit nicht retten haben können vor dieser furchtbaren Katastrophe? Nein, er würde sagen: Wenn die Menschen nur wiederum richtig römisch-katholisch werden, dann werden sie schon glücklich werden. - Und er wird gar nicht auf den Einfall kommen, sich zu sagen, daß sie doch tausendneunhundert Jahre hindurch Zeit gehabt haben, römisch-katholisch zu sein und dennoch in die Katastrophe hineingekommen sind; daß also zum mindesten die Katastrophe lehren muß, daß man neue Impulse braucht. Das ist nur ein Beispiel für viele. 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