{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-10/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"My dear friends, the Europeans have known how to express the earth's environment in terms of mathematics; but they have not known how, from the earth's environment, to extract a real science. For the times in which he lived, Giordano Bruno was a remarkable figure, a great personality; but to-day we need to realise that where he could only perceive a mathematical order, there a spiritual order reigns, reality reigns. The American does not really believe in this purely mathematical world, in the purely mathematical cosmos. His particular civilisation leads him to reach out to a knowledge of the supersensible forces beyond, even though he is, as yet, on the wrong road. In Europe, there was no sort of knowledge that they did not pursue; and yet when Goethe, in his own way, really put the question: “What is scientific knowledge?” there was no getting any further; for Europe had not got the power to take what can be learnt from the study, say, of Man, and widen it into a cosmogony, a science of the universe. Goethe discovered metamorphosis, the metamorphosis of plants, the metamorphosis of animals, the metamorphosis of man. The head, in respect of its system of bones, is a vertebral column and spinal marrow, transformed. So far, so good; but you need to follow it up and develop it, until you realise that this head is the transformed man of the previous incarnation, and that the trunk and limbs are the man in the initial stage of the coming incarnation. Real science must be cosmic, otherwise it is not science. It must be cosmic, must be a cosmogony, otherwise this science is not something that can. give inward human impulses which will carry man on through life. The man of modern times *cannot* live instinctively; he must live consciously. He needs a cosmogony; and he needs a freedom that is real. He needs more than a lot of vague talk about freedom; he needs more than the mere verbiage of freedom; he needs that freedom should actually grow into his immediate life and surroundings. This is only possible along paths that lead to ethical individualism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Das Neue aber, das darf weder aus dem bloßen griechischen oder römischen Landbewußtsein, noch aber aus dem Erdenbewußtsein des neuzeitlichen Menschen, sondern muß hervorgehen aus dem Weltenbewußtsein des Zukunftsmenschen, aus jenem Weltenbewußtsein, das wiederum von der Erde hier hinweg aufblickt zu dem Kosmos. Aber wir müssen dahin kommen, diesen Kosmos so anzusehen, daß wir nicht bloß Kopernikanismus, Galileismus treiben. Die Europäer haben es verstanden, die Umgebung der Erde zu mathematisieren; aber sie haben es nicht verstanden, eine wirkliche Wissenschaft von der Umgebung der Erde zu erringen. Für seine Zeit war gewiß Giordano Bruno eine große Erscheinung, eine große Persönlichkeit; aber heute brauchen wir das Bewußtsein, daß da, wo er nur mathematische Ordnung gesehen hat, spirituelle Ordnung herrscht, Wirklichkeit herrscht. Der Amerikaner glaubt in Wirklichkeit nicht an die bloß mathematische Welt, an den bloß mathematischen Kosmos. Er strebt aus seiner Zivilisation heraus nach einem Wissen von übersinnlichen Kräften, wenn er auch noch auf falschem Wege ist. Man hat verstanden, in Europa allerlei Wissen zu treiben. Aber als Goethe in seiner Art die Frage gestellt hat: Was ist Wissenschaft? — war nicht weiterzukommen; denn es konnte dieses Europa nicht die Möglichkeit gewinnen, dasjenige, was man erforschen kann, sagen wir über den Menschen, zur Kosmogonie zu erweitern. Goethe hat die Metamorphose gefunden: die Metamorphose der Pflanzen, die Metamorphose der Tiere, die Metamorphose des Menschen. Das Haupt in seinem Knochensystem, es ist ein umgewandeltes Rückgrat und Rückenmark. Das alles ist schön. Aber das alles muß ausgebildet werden zu einem Bewußtsein davon, daß dieses Haupt der umgestaltete Mensch der vorigen Inkarnation ist, und daß der Gliedmaßenmensch die Vorbereitung der nächstfolgenden Inkarnation ist. Kosmisch muß die wirkliche Wissenschaft sein, sonst ist sie keine Wissenschaft. Kosmisch, eine Kosmogonie muß die Wissenschaft sein, sonst ist diese Wissenschaft nicht etwas, was innerliche menschliche Impulse gibt, was den Menschen trägt durchs Leben. Der Mensch der neueren Zeit kann nicht instinktiv leben; er muß bewußt leben. Er braucht eine Kosmogonie, und er braucht eine wirkliche Freiheit. Er braucht nicht bloß ein Herumreden über die Freiheit, er braucht nicht bloß alles dasjenige, was die Phraseologie der Freiheit ist; er braucht ein wirkliches Einleben der Freiheit in das unmittelbare Dasein. 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