{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 199/1920-09-18/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now let us look from this point of view at the lies of today's world. We hear it proclaimed from the pulpits that the human soul is immortal; we hear it proclaimed from the universities that matter and energy are everlasting. Then come the cowardly compromisers who try to fit these two concepts together. It would only be honest if those who believe in the eternity of matter would say that there is no immortality of the soul, and if those who believe in the soul's immortality would deny the eternity of matter. They would then have to confess to the truly Christian saying, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words”—meaning, the content of my soul—“will not pass away!” The two concepts are incompatible; if people had courage, the materialistic university professors would admit that Christianity has no validity for them. Those whose task it is to proclaim Christianity would have to fight against the materialism of the universities for the sake of Christianity. The fact that this is not done, that people try to glue the two viewpoints together—this is the great lie in our time regarding life. Where the attitude of falsehood prevails, its seeds come up; the germ of lying proliferates and creeps into the other aspects of life. It has done so extensively in the course of time because men did not try to appeal along with postexistence to a knowledge that would unconditionally point to preexistence, to a life before birth. All untruthfulness of life, prevalent today in so many areas, springs from the fact that so many wished to speak only of postexistence—something that appeals merely to soul egotism, not to knowledge. The spirit of untruthfulness cannot be halted if it takes hold of the best in us, namely, our innermost conviction.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XVII","site_heading":"Prenatal Existence and the Spiritual Foundations of Human Development","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 hören wir von den Kanzeln herab verkündigen, die Menschenseele sei unsterblich, da hören wir auf den Universitäten verkündigen, der Stoff und die Kraft seien ewig, und dann kommen die feigen Kompromißmenschen und wollen die beiden Dinge zusammenleimen. Ehrlich wäre nur, wenn diejenigen, die an die Ewigkeit des Stoffes glauben, sagen würden: Es gibt keine Ewigkeit der Seele — und diejenigen, die an die Ewigkeit der Seele glauben, die müssen die Ewigkeit des Materiellen leugnen, die müssen sich zu dem wahrhaft christlichen Wort bekennen: Himmel und Erde werden vergehen, aber meine Worte, das heißt der Inhalt meiner Seele, werden nicht vergehen! — Beide Dinge sind miteinander unvereinbar. Würde man mutig sein, so würden die materialistischen Universitätslehrer sagen, das Christentum gilt für uns nicht. Und diejenigen, die das Christentum zu verkündigen haben, würden um des Christentums willen den Materialismus der Universitäten bekämpfen müssen. Daß man es nicht tut, daß man die Dinge zusammenleimen will, das ist die große Lebenslüge unserer Zeit. Und wo die Gesinnung der Lügenhaftigkeit herrscht, da dehnt sich die Saat, da dehnt sich der Keim des Lügens aus, da schleicht er in die andern Lebensverhältnisse hinein. Das hat er genügend getan im Laufe der Zeit, weil man nicht neben der Postexistenz an Erkenntnis appellieren wollte, die unbedingt zur Präexistenz, zum vorgeburtlichen Leben hinweist. Weil man bloß von Postexistenz reden wollte, was nur an den Seelenegoismus, nicht an die Erkenntnis appelliert, daraus entspringt alle Unwahrhaftigkeit des Lebens, die heute auf so vielen Gebieten herrscht, weil sich der Geist des Unwahren nicht aufhalten läßt, wenn er unser Bestes, unsere innerste Überzeugung ergreift.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-09-18/p018"}],"english":["GA 199/1920-09-18/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":275,"en_words":300,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6369,"original_word_count":5930,"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/AP1986/19200918p01.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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