{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-11-15/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But woe betide if man were simply to draw away from the Luciferic element without putting something different in its place. That would bring nothing but evil. For then man would grow together with the earth, that is to say with the particular territory on earth where he is born; and his cultural life would become completely specialised, completely differentiated. We can already see this tendency developing. It has taken root most markedly since the beginning of the nineteenth century; but the tendency to split up into smaller and smaller groups has been all too apparent as a result of the catastrophic world war. Chauvinism is more and more gaining the upper hand until it will finally lead men to split up to such an extent that at last a group will embrace only one single human being! Things could come to the point where individual men would again split into right and left, and be at war within themselves; left would be at loggerheads with right. Such tendencies are even now evident in the evolution of mankind. To combat this, a counterweight must be created; and this counterweight can only be created if, like the old wisdom inherent in Paganism, a *new* wisdom, acquired by the free resolve and will of man, is infused into earthly culture. This new wisdom must again be an *Initiation-wisdom*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Lucifer and Ahriman: Wisdom's Cosmic Struggle","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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Denn dann würde der Mensch ganz mit der Erde, das heißt mit dem einzelnen Erdenterritorium, auf dem er geboren wird, zusammenwachsen. Er würde sich in seiner Kultur vollständig spezifizieren, vollständig differenzieren. Wir sehen ja heute diese Tendenz sich herausentwickeln. Besonders veranlagt war die Sache schon seit dem Beginne des 19. Jahrhunderts; aber wir sehen heute, wie aus der Weltkriegskatastrophe die Tendenz sich herausentwickelt, sich in immer kleinere und kleinere Gruppen zu spalten. Der Volkschauvinismus nimmt immer mehr und mehr überhand, bis er dazu führen wird, daß sich die Menschen in immer kleinere und kleinere Gruppen spalten, so daß schließlich die Gruppe zuletzt nur einen einzelnen Menschen umfassen könnte. Dann könnte es dahin kommen, daß die einzelnen Menschen auch in einen linken und rechten sich spalten würden, und in einen Krieg mit sich selbst kommen könnten, wo sich der rechte Mensch mit dem linken in den Haaren liegt. Viele Anlagen dazu zeigen sich ja auch heute schon in der Entwickelung der Menschheit. Dem muß eben das Gegengewicht geschaffen werden. Und dieses Gegengewicht kann nur geschaffen werden dadurch, daß ebenso wie eine Urweisheit die heidnische Kultur durchdrang und durchsetzte, auch eine neue Weisheit, doch nun aus freiem Menschenwillen heraus, errungen wird, eine neue Weisheit der Erdenkultur überliefert werden wird. Diese neue Weisheit muß wiederum eine Initiationsweisheit sein. 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