{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 199/1920-08-14/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You can see from a number of newspaper reports of the last few days[^2] the effect made on the world by what issues forth from Dornach, how certain aspects of it are received by a number of persons. We should give these matters serious consideration, recognizing that every word we utter today must be well thought out. We should not say important things without assuming the obligation to inform ourselves about the course of world affairs in what is currently a most complicated organism. At the earliest opportunity I shall have to go into additional matters that have a bearing here; today I only wish to introduce the subject by saying that because of the connections of our movement with general world affairs it is above all else our duty to acquire a full understanding of the fact that we can no longer indulge in any sectarianism whatever in our movement. I have often mentioned this. The present time makes it necessary for us to rely on each individual co-worker, but each one bearing the full responsibility for what he represents in reference to our movement. This responsibility should take the form of an obligation never to say anything that does not appear through inner reasons to have the right relationship to the general course of contemporary world events. Sectarian activities are least of all in harmony with present-day world events. What is to be advocated today must be of a nature that can be represented before the whole world. It must be free in word and deed of any sectarian or dilettante character. We should never allow fear to deter us from sailing between Scylla and Charybdis.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Spirit and Matter: Overcoming Materialism Through Initiation","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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Auf Dinge, die hier in Betracht kommen, wird mir noch obliegen, in der allernächsten Zeit einzugehen; aber ich möchte heute einleitend doch dieses bemerken, daß gerade durch die Verknüpfungen unserer Bewegung mit dem allgemeinen Weltengange es uns vor allen Dingen obliegt, wirklich ein volles Verständnis dafür zu erwerben, daß wir nicht mehr unsere Bewegung irgendwie sektenmäßig betreiben dürfen. Ich habe über dieses Faktum des öfteren gesprochen. Durchaus ist heute die Zeit gekommen, wo wir nötig haben, jeden einzelnen Mitarbeiter zu übernehmen, aber jeden einzelnen Mitarbeiter mit der breiten vollen Verantwortung für dasjenige, was er im Sinne unserer Bewegung vertritt. Und diese Verantwortung sollte doch so gestaltet sein, daß sie eben verknüpft ist damit, sich verpflichtet zu fühlen, nichts zu sagen, was nicht durch innere Gründe in rechtem Zusammenhang erscheint mit dem allgemeinen Gang der heutigen Weltereignisse. Am wenigsten im Einklang mit den heutigen Weltereignissen ist ein sektiererisches Treiben. Was heute vertreten werden soll, muß durchaus im Angesichte der ganzen Welt vertreten werden können und darf weder einen sektiererischen noch einen dilettantischen Charakter tragen, gleichgültig, ob es Gesprochenes oder ob es Getanes ist. 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