{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 199/1920-08-21/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This extreme consequence could easily be traced today if it were not for the fact that people never look at the whole context of things, only at the details. Imagine where it must lead if all the actual inner flexible aspects of the ego are eliminated, if the human being is emptied of the very element that can enlighten him in the sense world concerning the spirit. Just think, where must this finally lead? It must result in the human being feeling that he no longer has anything of the actual content of the world. He looks outside at the sense world without realizing the truth of what we said yesterday, namely, that behind the external world of the senses there are spiritual beings. When he gives himself up to illusions, he assumes that atoms and molecules exist outside. He dreams of atoms and molecules. If man has no illusion concerning the external world, he can say nothing but that the whole outer world contains no truth, that it really is nothing. Inwardly, on the other hand, he has found nothing; he is empty. He must talk himself into believing that there is something inside him. He has no grasp of the spirit; therefore, he suggests spirit to himself, developing the suggestion of spirit. He is not capable of maintaining this suggestion without rigorously denying the reality of matter. This implies that he accommodates himself to a world view which does not perceive the spirit but only suggests it, merely persuading itself into the belief of spirit, while denying matter. You find the most extreme Western exponent of this in Mrs. Eddy's Christian Science[^6] as the counterpart of what I described just now for the East. This was bound to arise as the final outcome of such conceptions as those of Locke, David Hume or John Stuart Mill. Christian Science as a concept is, however, also the final consequence of what has been brought about in recent times by the unfortunate division of man's soul life into knowledge and faith.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Eastern Spirituality, Western Economics, and Central European Rights","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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Wenn er sich Illusionen hingibt, ja, dann nimmt er draußen Atome und Moleküle an. Er träumt von Atomen und Molekülen. Wenn er sich keiner Illusion hingibt in bezug auf das Äußere, so kann er nichts anderes sagen als: Dieses ganze Äußere enthält ja keine Wahrheit. Es ist ja eigentlich nichts. — Aber innerlich hat er nichts gefunden. Er ist leer. Er muß sich selber suggerieren, daß irgend etwas in seinem Inneren ist. Er hat den Geist nicht, daher suggeriert er sich den Geist. Er bildet sich die Suggestion des Geistes. Und er ist nicht imstande, diese Suggestion aufrechtzuerhalten, wenn er nicht mit aller Schärfe abweist die Realität der Materie. Das heißt, er lebt sich vollständig ein in eine Weltanschauung, die den Geist nicht erkennt, sondern sich ihn suggeriert, sich bloß den Glauben an den Geist einsuggeriert und die Materie ableugnet. Sie haben den äußersten Ausläufer im Westen, Sie haben das Gegenbild dessen, was ich Ihnen im Osten eben charakterisiert habe, in der Christian Science der Mrs. Eddy. Sie mußte entstehen als die letzte Konsequenz solcher Anschauungen, wie die von Locke oder David Hume oder von John Stuart Mill. 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