{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-12/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There is a great deal of opposition from various quarters to whit this Spiritual Science of Anthroposophy stands for. it will meet with opposition from almost all those people who want to play, to “mysticise,” I should like to call it,—who want to mysticise with the life of Spiritual Science,—“mysticism,” “mysticise”. Those people who want to mysticise will not, in the long run, get on very well with Spiritual Science, because they do not like to be reminded of the seriousness of life. That is why Spiritual Science has so many opponents. To-day, especially, there are numbers of opponents; and to-day, especially, there are numbers of opponents, turning out to oppose it from every sort of mysticising hole and corner. There is now to be a renewed attack made on this Spiritual Science on the ground that it is scientific in character, and that all genuine experiences of the spirit-worlds must come through direct spiritual communication,—that nothing of a scientific nature, no sort of scientific concept, must enter into it, and so forth; there is a fresh attack on foot from the corner where we have done a good bit of work, but which still keeps on pouring out a succession of slimy stuff,—mysticising stuff, in this very direction. Another book has appeared from the Munich quarter,—though possibly from different publishers,—which is at bottom intended as an attack of this sort,—mystical book, called “The Living God.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Fundamental Impulses in History","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-10-12","location":null,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/191/1919-10-12/p034","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LA1963","book_title":"Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA191/English/LA1963/19191012p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Fast alle diejenigen Menschen werden Gegnerschaft üben, die spielen möchten — «mysteln», möchte ich es nennen — mit dem geisteswissenschaftlichen Leben. Mystik: mysteln. Diejenigen, die mysteln wollen, die werden zuletzt mit der Geisteswissenschaft nicht zurecht kommen, weil sie den Ernst des Lebens nicht eigentlich verspüren möchten. Daher gibt es so viele Gegner der Geisteswissenschaft, und insbesondere gibt es viele Gegner, welche aus allerlei Löchern des Mystelos heraus zu Gegnern werden. Neuerdings soll wieder ein Vorstoß losgehen gegen die Geisteswissenschaft, weil man sagt, sie trüge einen wissenschaftlichen Charakter, und dasjenige, was wirkliches Geisteswelten-Erleben ist, das müsse herauskommen aus unmittelbarem Erfahren des Geistigen, da dürfe nicht irgend etwas Wissenschaftliches hineinspielen und dergleichen. Ein neuerlicher Vorstoß kommt soeben aus der Ecke heraus, in der wir ja viel gearbeitet haben, wo aber nach und nach immer mehr mystelndes, schleimiges Zeug herauskommt, gerade nach dieser Richtung hin. Wiederum ist jetzt, wenn auch vielleicht in einem anderen Verlage, aus der Münchner Ecke ein Buch erschienen, das im Grunde einen solchen Vorstoß darstellen will und das sich nennt «Vom lebendigen Gotte», ein mystisches Buch.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/191/1919-10-12/p032"}],"english":["GA 191/1919-10-12/p034","GA 191/1919-10-12/p035","GA 191/1919-10-12/p036"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":260,"en_words":331,"ratio":1.27,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.17,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8353,"original_word_count":7159,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LA1963","book_title":"Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA191/English/LA1963/19191012p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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