{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 199/1920-08-21/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the West, particularly in America, something different is preparing itself. Out of the most diverse, occasionally the most bizarre and trivial religious world conceptions, we see something trying to arise which, although it has quite materialistic forms, is nevertheless connected with. something that will be a part of life in the future, particularly in regard to this world-view of immortality. Among certain sects in America, the belief is prevalent that one cannot survive at all after death if one has made no effort in this earthly life, if one has not accomplished something whereby one acquires this life after death. A judgment concerning good and evil is envisioned after death that does not merely follow the pattern of earthly truth. He who makes no effort here on earth to bear through the portals of death what he has developed in his soul will be diffused and scattered in the cosmic all. What a person wishes to carry with him through death must be developed here. A man dies the second death of the soul—to use the saying of Paul—who does not provide here for his soul to become immortal. This is something that is definitely developing in the West as a world concept in place of the leisurely, passive, awaiting what will happen after death. It is something that is emerging in certain American sects. Perhaps today it is still little noticed, but there is a great deal of feeling in favor of viewing life here in a moral sense, and to arrange the conduct of life in such a manner that by means of what one does here, something is carried through the gate of death.","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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Da sehen wir aus den verschiedensten, manchmal barocksten und trivialsten religiösen Weltanschauungen etwas aufstreben, was zwar ganz materialistische Formen hat, was aber zusammenhängt mit etwas, was Leben der Zukunft sein wird gerade mit Bezug auf diese Weltanschauung der Unsterblichkeit. Es macht sich geltend gerade in gewissen Sekten Amerikas der Glaube, daß man überhaupt nicht leben kann nach dem Tode, wenn man sich hier in diesem Erdenleben nicht angestrengt hat, wenn man nicht irgend etwas getan hat, wodurch man erwirbt dieses Leben nach dem Tode. Nicht bloß nach dem Muster irdischer Wahrheit ins Ewige verlegtes Richten nach Gut und Böse wird gesehen nach dem Tode, sondern derjenige zerfließt, zerflattert im Weltenall, der sich nicht hier anstrengt, damit er seine seelische Entwickelung eben durch den Tod tragen kann. Was man durch den Tod tragen will, das muß hier entwickelt werden. Und derjenige stirbt auch seelisch diesen zweiten Tod — um dieses Paulinische Wort zu gebrauchen -, der hier nicht dafür sorgt, daß seine Seele unsterblich werde. Das ist etwas, was sich allerdings im Westen als Weltanschauung entwickelt, nicht das langsame passive Dahinleben und Zuwarten, was wird nach dem Tode. Das ist dasjenige, was in gewissen Sekten Amerikas hervortritt. Es wird vielleicht heute noch wenig bemerkt, aber zahlreiche Empfindungen streben danach, dieses Leben hier moralisch und auch sonst so anzuschauen, die Lebensführung so einzurichten, daß man durch das, was man hier tut, etwas hindurchträgt durch die Pforte des Todes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":246,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-08-21/p021"}],"english":["GA 199/1920-08-21/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":246,"en_words":278,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6615,"original_word_count":6259,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1986","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA199/English/AP1986/19200821p01.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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