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For wherever you look you find instances bearing independent witness to what I might describe as the present necessity for spreading this idea of the “threefold” in our social organism. And one of the most important spheres of all lies in the knowledge and understanding of the being of man himself. But where do we find science—so proud of its abstraction—turning its attention to the concrete?—The Greeks were still distinctly conscious that when they gave rein to their feelings the divine revealed itself to them. And we must acquire the faculty for bringing down spiritual forces of the soul from the spiritual heights; they must reveal nature to us, show us what nature is. In other words we must grow to realise that we cannot learn to know nature by perceiving it outwardly, but only with sense-organs strengthened by what comes from above—with an eye made keen by Imagination, an ear sharpened through Inspiration, and a sense of warmth through Intuition—that is to say, through selfless experience of the things and processes surrounding us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Knowledge as a Source of Healing I","site_heading":"Knowledge as Healing: Restoring Spiritual Science to Society","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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Diejenigen, die da glauben, mit ihrem bißchen Logik, wenn sie einmal von dieser Dreigliederung hören, irgend etwas nicht gleich verstehen zu können oder es mit irgend etwas in Widerspruch zu finden, die sollten warten, bis sie sich genauer mit der Sache bekanntmachen. Dann werden sie sehen, daß es nicht einen Beweis oder eine Beweisströmung für die Notwendigkeit der Dreigliederung gibt, sondern unzählige. Denn wohin man schaut, überall gibt es Beobachtungen, die unabhängig von den anderen dasjenige beweisen, was ich nennen könnte: notwendiges Auftreten der Idee von der «Dreigliederung des sozialen Organismus» in unserer heutigen Gegenwart. Und eine der allerwichtigsten Ecken ist doch die Erkenntnis, die Erfassung der Menschenwesenheit selber. Aber wo ist denn die heutige Wissenschaft, die so stolz auf ihre Abstraktion ist, geneigt, auf das wirklich Konkrete einzugehen? Noch der Grieche hatte ein deutliches Bewußtsein davon: Wenn er aufsteigen läßt seine Emotionen, so offenbart sich ihm ein Göttliches. -— Wir müssen erlangen die Fähigkeit, herabzuholen aus geistigen Höhen die geistigen Seelenkräfte, und sie müssen uns eine Natur offenbaren, sie müssen uns zeigen, wie die Natur ist. 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