{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 193/1919-09-13/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Other impulses have formed the Eastern view of the world, and an Oriental would say: \"I look at what is going on in the external world: I see what my senses convey to me, what I use as an instrument for transforming the world around, what shines down on me from the stars, and what I myself am as to my bodily nature—what is it all? It is Maya! What then is reality, and not illusion? Only what is experienced in the human soul—that is reality!\" One who does not translate in terms of a dictionary, but according to the inner meaning, knows that the words \"Maya\" in the East and \"Ideology \" in the West mean one and the same thing. For thousands of years the Oriental has regarded the outer world which affects the senses—including economics—as Maya. The Westerner, on the other hand, sees his reality in what for the Oriental is \"Maya,\" and what arises in his soul is for him \"Ideology.\" Both views of the world have developed to a certain point. Talk with the leading men in the socialist parties especially in those places where the first Revolution (known here as the \"November \" Revolution) has not yet taken place, and it is evident that this revolution altered their ideas somewhat, but not their feelings. You hear the same views as obtained right up to the war, that it is not necessary to contribute anything from *the will* towards transforming, revolutionizing the world, but that all that will happen *of itself*. Something fatalistic has appeared in the West. People are convinced that they need only wait until the means of production are sufficiently developed, and then by a natural metamorphosis all that is concentrated in private capital will pass over into other forms. Thinking of this sort is as sensible as saying: \"This room is full of bad air. I cannot breathe. The window could be opened, but I am not going to open it; I am waiting until the air improves of itself.\"","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Spiritual Connection and the Crisis of Modern Consciousness","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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