{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-12/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"My dear friends, here stands this Building of ours, here it stands, waiting for the world to take it seriously, with such seriousness as really to perceive that it has been built in the consciousness of a perishing age, and in order to receive and take up the spiritual essence out of this age as it falls. Here we must be swayed by no belief that it is possible to preserve what is old what is ripe to perish and fall away. The faith that must inspire us here is that out of the on-rushing ruin it is possible to save and bring forth the spiritual essence,—one which must be quite unlike the old. A little transformation of our civilisation cannot do it. We have to recognise, and boldly face the recognition, that it is only with the great impulses of civilisation that we can accomplish what will take mankind the necessary step forward towards the future. And we must take counsel with our own selves, how to find strength really to take up these new impulses. We must have courage to make plain to people, as well as we can, what is meant by the earth being in decadence, and that what has lasted on down into our days as civilisation, and which we have grown up with and become used to,—that this, too, is passing away in the ruin; but that out of this ruin we must rescue and bring forth a new spirituality, a spirituality that can be carried on with us into other worlds, when this earth has finally sunk and passed away.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Fundamental Impulses in History","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-10-12","location":null,"word_count":267,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/191/1919-10-12/p037","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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Er steht und wartet, daß er von der Welt ernst genommen werde, so von der Welt ernst genommen werde, daß man wirklich sieht: Er ist mit Bewußtsein hineingebaut in eine verfallende Zeit, aber um aus dieser verfallenden Zeit das Geistige aufzufangen. Kein Glaube sollte hier walten, daß man das Alte, das zum Verfalle, zur Dekadenz reif ist, halten könne. Der Glaube soll hier herrschen, daß aus dem hinrollenden Verfall das Geistige, das ganz unähnlich sein muß dem Alten, herausgeholt werde. Es ist nicht mit kleinen Kulturmetamorphosen zu machen. Es handelt sich darum, daß wir uns ernst der notwendigen Erkenntnis gegenüberstellen sollten, daß nur mit großen Kulturimpulsen dasjenige zu machen ist, was notwendiger Menschheitsfortschritt gegen die Zukunft ist. Mit uns sollten wir zu Rate gehen, um stark zu werden, die neuen Impulse wirklich aufzunehmen. Wir müssen den Mut haben, so viel wir können, den Menschen klarzumachen, was es heißt: Die Erde ist in der Dekadenz, und dasjenige, was sich als Zivilisation bis in unsere Tage herein erhalten hat, worin wir eingewöhnt sind, das geht mit dem Verfall. 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