{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 196/1920-02-08/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"All these phenomena must be judged today from the standpoint of the laws of human development. In general, it is not pleasant to judge humanity according to its peculiarities, and above all, it is not in people's nature today to respond to other people. That is why people today are happy to be labeled. There is no inclination to go to the trouble of meeting a person to find out if they have abilities, if something lives in their soul that has possibilities for effect. People do not want to get involved in judging people in this way, through direct impressions drawn from life. They need other possibilities. Someone has graduated, he has a doctorate – so he must be a wise man. You don't need to get to know him first, you just need to know: He has passed exams, or he is – I don't know whether one should say: he was – a government councilor. That's nice, he is someone to respect, you don't need to worry about whether he has any possibilities for action in his soul. A government has made one a councilor, with a C, not a fifth wheel on the wagon, with a D. So you need external possibilities. In the future, we will need a truly direct relationship from person to person. No one will acquire this who does not develop his human spiritual powers in an appropriate way. This appropriate way is through spiritual science. For example, if you read my “Secret Science,” you can read what is in it and absorb the content. If you take it in so that you can then recite it quite well by heart, then I would almost find it more useful if you read a cookbook, or if you are not women, some treatise on collective agreements or the like; it will be more useful than if you read my “Secret Science”. This “occult science” only has its significance when reading if, through the special formation of thoughts - which so annoys people that they refuse to deal with what they call “badly stylized” - this way of writing and thinking has an educational effect on the soul's entire makeup, when the how, not the what, shapes the soul. Anyone who allows the “Occult Science” — it could, of course, also be another book — to take effect on them, then goes out into life, will see that he has actually strengthened his inner vision, so that he gains knowledge of human nature from it. Things become something quite different from a mere scholastic assimilation of the subject! Nowadays, when people have read a book, they imagine that they have done what is necessary when they have the content within them, that is, they have it within them in such a way that they can possibly pass an exam. But spiritual-scientific books are never meant in this way. There the most essential thing is not done when one can count the content on the fingers, but there the necessary thing is only done when the things have passed over into the whole soul constitution, into the whole soul condition, when one has thereby developed suitable soul powers for life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Twelfth Lecture","site_heading":"Consciousness Evolution: Atlantean Divergence and Christian Incarnation","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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Man will sich auch gar nicht darauf einlassen, in dieser Weise durch den unmittelbaren aus dem Leben stammenden Eindruck den Menschen zu beurteilen. Man braucht andere Möglichkeiten. Es ist einer graduiert, er ist im Besitze eines Doktordiploms - also ist er ein weiser Mann. Da braucht man ihn nicht erst kennenzulernen, man braucht bloß zu wissen: Er hat einmal Prüfungen gemacht, oder er ist - ich weiß nicht, ob man nicht sagen soll: er war — Regierungsrat. Schön, da ist er etwas, was man zu respektieren hat, man braucht sich nicht weiter darum zu kümmern, ob er irgendwelche Wirkungsmöglichkeiten in seiner Seele hat. Eine Regierung hat einen zum Rat gemacht, mit t geschrieben, nicht zum fünften Rad am Wagen, mit weichem d geschrieben. Also man braucht von außen kommende Möglichkeiten. In der Zukunft wird man ein wirklich unmittelbares Verhältnis von Mensch zu Mensch brauchen. Niemand wird sich das erwerben, der nicht seine menschlichen Geisteskräfte in entsprechender Weise ausbildet. Diese entsprechende Weise ist die durch die Geisteswissenschaft. Wenn Sie zum Beispiel meine «Geheimwissenschaft» lesen, so können Sie das lesen, was darinnensteht, Sie können das, was darinnensteht, dem Inhalte nach aufnehmen. Wenn Sie das dem Inhalte nach aufnehmen, so daß Sie es dann gedächtnismäßig ganz gut hersagen können, dann fände ich es fast nützlicher, Sie lesen ein Kochbuch, oder wenn Sie nicht gerade zufällig Frauen sind, irgendeine Abhandlung über Tarifverträge oder dergleichen; es wird nützlicher sein, als wenn Sie meine «Geheimwissenschaft» lesen. Diese «Geheimwissenschaft» hat nur dann bei der Lektüre ihre Bedeutung, wenn durch die besondere Formung der Gedanken - welche die Menschen so ärgert, daß sie es ablehnen, sich mit dem, was sie «schlecht stilisiert» nennen, zu befassen — diese Art zu schreiben und zu denken erzieherisch wirkt auf die ganze Seelenverfassung, wenn das Wie, nicht das Was die Seele gestaltet. Wer so die «Geheimwissenschaft» - es kann natürlich auch ein anderes Buch sein — auf sich wirken läßt, dann ins Leben geht, der wird sehen, daß er tatsächlich sein innerliches Schauen verstärkt hat, so daß ihm Menschenkenntnis daraus wird. Es wird etwas ganz anderes aus den Dingen als ein bloßes schulmäßiges In-sich-aufgenommen-Haben der Sache! Heute hat man, wenn man ein Buch gelesen hat, die Vorstellung, man habe das Nötige getan, wenn man den Inhalt in sich hat, das heißt, ihn so in sich hat, daß man eventuell ein Examen ablegen kann. So sind geisteswissenschaftliche Bücher niemals gemeint. 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