{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-05/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We need to make the leap from the innermost grasp of our humanity to the spiritual in freedom. We cannot do this by twisting spiritual phrases, by talking about the spirit; we can only do it by thinking spiritually. And it is spiritual when we say: knowledge is connected with the forces of the sun, will with the forces of the moon. When human bodies are formed here on earth through the currents of heredity, it is not something earthly that works, but something solar in the male force, something lunar in the female force. The earth is covered and permeated with solar-lunar forces, and these forces are related to the powers of knowledge and will. The spiritual permeates the physical, the physical expresses itself spiritually. Synthesis, the uniting of soul and body, is what must be sought today, must be sought unconditionally. It does not include those shadowy concepts that have been developed in recent times since the mid-15th century – they are only thoughts that have been developed in recent times since the 15th century. But a spiritual life that has been experienced is only one that can also have a practical effect at the same time. We have had a basically impractical spiritual life for long enough. As I have already said, people have talked a great deal over a long period of time about being good, being fraternal, and practicing love for one's neighbor. But these were concepts that remained in a certain sphere and had no impact on practical life. Just think: a real modern merchant, a real modern industrialist or, let us say, a civil servant – so that we have all three types – he can, and this also happens, even be a pious man. But there is a significant difference between what a merchant may experience inwardly in his soul as his religious confession and that activity of life that finds its expression in his account books! That which lives in his religious life has no power to penetrate into the account books. And the civil servant is not prepared to be a human being, but rather to be a civil servant. What he has learned as a civil servant, what does that have to do with what he may inwardly profess religiously? — Religious life is a current, so-called life practice is the second current. Because the concepts and ideas have become weak and cannot penetrate down into the practice of life, we cannot find such vivid, strong concepts that lead into social life today. For this, they need to be refreshed by spiritual science, so that the concepts become strong enough to penetrate not only as far as the concepts of a Sunday afternoon preacher, which evoke warm feelings in the heart, inward soul voluptuousness, but do not penetrate into the activity that finds expression in the account book. The concepts that are derived from the spiritual must penetrate further into practical life. Concepts are not spiritual if they do not penetrate through their inner power to the deepest essence of matter. This is precisely the spirituality of the concepts: that the concepts are strong and penetrate to the deepest essence of matter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Third Lecture","site_heading":"Cosmic Forces and Social Understanding Through Spiritual Thinking","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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Die Erde übersät und bedeckt sich mit Sonnen-Mondenkraft auch in der Menschheits-Fortpflanzung, und diese Menschheits-Fortpflanzung ist wiederum verwandt mit Erkenntnis- und Willenskräften. Das Geistige durchdringt das Physische, das Physische drückt sich geistig ab. Die Synthesis, die Zusammenfassung des Seelischen und des Leiblichen, das ist erst dasjenige, was heute gesucht werden muß, unbedingt gesucht werden muß. Dazu gehören nicht jene Schattenbegriffe, die die neuere Zeit seit der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts ausgebildet hat — es sind ja nur Gedanken, die die neuere Zeit seit dem 15. Jahrhundert ausgebildet hat -, dazu gehören nicht innerlich erdachte Begriffe, dazu gehört innerlich erlebtes Geistesleben. Aber erlebtes Geistesleben ist nur dasjenige, das auch zugleich praktisch wirken kann. Wir haben lange genug ein im Grunde unpraktisches Geistesleben gehabt. Die Menschen haben, wie ich Ihnen schon sagte, durch lange Zeiten viel gesprochen darüber, wie man gut ist, wie man brüderlich ist, wie man Nächstenliebe übt. Aber das waren Begriffe, die in einer gewissen Sphäre geblieben sind, die nicht Stoßkraft ins praktische Leben hinein gehabt haben. Denken Sie nur einmal: So ein richtiger moderner Kaufmann, ein richtiger moderner Industrieller oder, sagen wir, ein Staatsbeamter — damit wir alle drei Sorten haben -, er kann, das kommt ja auch vor, sogar ein frommer Mann sein. Aber es ist ja doch ein erheblicher Unterschied zwischen dem, was ein Kaufmann vielleicht als sein religiöses Bekenntnis innerlich in der Seele erlebt, und jener Lebensbetätigung, die ihren Ausdruck in seinen Kontobüchern findet! Dasjenige, was in seinem religiösen Leben lebt, das hat keine Stoßkraft, hineinzudringen in die Kontobücher. Und der Staatsbeamte, er wird vorbereitet nicht zum Menschen, sondern eben zum Beamten. Das, was er als Beamter gelernt hat, was hat das zu tun mit dem, was er vielleicht innerlich religiös bekennt? — Das religiöse Leben ist eine Strömung, die sogenannte Lebenspraxis ist die zweite Strömung. Weil die Begriffe, die Ideen schwach geworden sind und nicht hinunterstoßen können in die Lebenspraxis, deshalb können wir heute keine so lebendigen, so starken Begriffe finden, die ins soziale Leben hineinführen. Dazu bedarf es der Auffrischung durch die Geisteswissenschaft, damit die Begriffe stark genug werden, damit sie nicht nur so weit dringen wie die Predigerbegriffe eines Sonntagnachmittag-Predigers, die warmes Gefühl im Herzen hervorrufen, innerliche Seelenwollust hervorrufen, aber die nicht hineindringen in die Betätigung, die im Kontobuch ihren Ausdruck findet. Weiter hineinstoßen in das praktische Leben müssen die Begriffe, die aus dem Geistigsten hervorgeholt sind. Denn die Begriffe sind nicht geistig, die nicht durch ihre innere Kraft bis in das tiefste Wesen der Materie herunterdringen. 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