{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 198/1920-07-10/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today I would like to present you with something specific from the whole sequence of ideas on which the considerations presented here are based, in order to expand on it tomorrow from a more general point of view. You have gathered from the reflections that we have been cultivating here for some time that, in order to revive the declining culture of the West, it is necessary to develop a true knowledge of the human being based on spiritual science. This knowledge of the human being has been prevented for a long time. In the form in which it is needed for the future development of humanity, it has been prevented, first of all, by the kind of intellectual life that emerged in the 13th and 14th centuries of the Middle Ages, and then, again, by the intellectual trend of the time from the middle of the 15th century to the present, which has moved more and more towards materialism. On the one hand, we have seen the development of a detached, unworldly, religiously colored way of looking at things, which separated the spiritual from the world, did not allow it to approach the human being and therefore left the human being unexplained in terms of his essence. One might say: In the last centuries of the fourth post-Atlantean period, in the last centuries of the Greek-Latin development up to the middle of the 15th century, humanity increasingly began to look up to a completely unworldly divine-spiritual and lost the opportunity to get to know the human itself in its divine origin. Then came the time when mankind directed its gaze to the subhuman, to what nature principles are, but which only explained everything in the world that is not human, the mineral, the vegetable, the animal , and in this way again left man unexplained, so that in a certain sense in an older time there was a looking up to a foreign spiritual, from the later time to our days a looking at a subhuman material. Man fell through in between. To consider the human being in his entirety, spiritually and soulfully, is the task of our time, and to this end we have tried to bring more and more elements into anthroposophically oriented spiritual science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Thirteenth Lecture","site_heading":"Ideas and Growth Forces: Bridging Prenatal and Posthumous Existence","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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In der Gestalt, wie sie für die zukünftige Entwickelung der Menschheit gebraucht werden wird, ist sie verhindert worden zunächst durch jene Art des Geisteslebens, welche heraufgekommen ist im 13., 14. mittelalterlichen Jahrhundert, dann wiederum durch die immer mehr nach dem Materialismus sich hinbewegende Geistesströmung der Zeit von der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart. Wir haben auf der einen Seite sich entwickeln sehen eine abgezogene, weltfremde, religiös gefärbte Anschauungsart, welche das Geistige von der Welt abtrennte, es nicht herankommen ließ an den Menschen und daher den Menschen seinem Wesen nach unerklärt ließ. Man möchte sagen: In den letzten Jahrhunderten des vierten nachatlantischen Zeitraums, in den letzten Jahrhunderten der griechisch-lateinischen Entwickelung bis zur Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts gewöhnte sich die Menschheit immer mehr und mehr, zu einem ganz weltfremden Göttlich-Geistigen emporzuschauen, und verlor die Möglichkeit, das Menschliche hier selbst in seinem göttlichen Ursprunge kennenzulernen. Dann kam die Zeit, in der die Menschheit den Blick richtete auf das Untermenschliche, auf das, was Naturprinzipien sind, die aber nur alles dasjenige von der Welt erklärlich machten, was nicht Mensch ist, das Mineralische, das Pflanzliche, das Tierische, und auf diese Art wiederum den Menschen unerklärt ließ, so daß also gewissermaßen in einer älteren Zeit dastand ein Hinaufschauen nach einem fremden Geistigen, von der späteren Zeit bis in unsere Tage hinein ein Hinschauen nach einem untermenschlichen Materiellen. Der Mensch fiel zwischendrinnen durch. Den Menschen wiederum geistig-seelisch voll ins Auge zu fassen, das ist einmal die Aufgabe unserer Zeit, und dazu haben wir ja versucht, in der anthroposophisch orientierten Geisteswissenschaft immer mehr und mehr Elemente heranzutragen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":340,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/198/1920-07-10/p003"}],"english":["GA 198/1920-07-10/p003"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":340,"en_words":378,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5786,"original_word_count":5526,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Healing Factors for the Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA198/English/SOL2024/19200710p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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