{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We must consistently realize that those who cling to a viewpoint which only considers outer laws of nature, who direct people towards only considering the merely anthropological, only observing what is physically inherited from one generation to the next, that they will always face more and more riddles. Illusions can be entered into for a long time, regarding such riddles. We can believe in some understanding in the course of humanity but we only enter into such illusions while theory, crammed in from earliest youth, is taken as the basis, until we can gradually only observe what comes visibly to the eye, what expresses itself as physically inherited results. However it will probably eventually happen that someone says: yes, but there are facts after all which cannot be ignored, and which are inexplicable in the context of mere anthropological causality. We need to take into consideration that in some or other generation of some or other nation are souls at present who have come from somewhere else than from the great-great-great grandfathers of this nation. To the nation's egoism that might not sound very good but without it this egotism will dwindle when humanity goes through a similar development in future. It has been pointed out already that the largest part of the European population certainly had been propagated through their ancestral blood, but carry Indian souls amongst then, and that these souls lived here in Europe—a largest part of the same in the time of the Attilas—and who had embraced Christianity, which we now meet over in Asia. Even in some educated souls we can see this through unprejudiced examination. Certainly, so correct, so pedantically abstract as we are used to considering things today, they cannot be considered when we search for the reality as it is meant here. However, when we don't build our concepts as abstractly as we are used to, but if we want to come to the reality, then we must go out from such points of view which are mentioned here. Various things will be discovered which appear paradoxical but which actually clarifies reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-12","location":null,"word_count":350,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p020"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p020","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Es wird durchaus so sein müssen, daß diejenigen Menschen, die sich an eine Weltanschauung klammern, die nur auf die äußere Naturordnung Rücksicht nimmt, die also die Menschheit dazu führt, bloß anthropologisch zu sein, bloß dasjenige in Betracht zu ziehen, was von Generation zu Generation physisch sich weitervererbt, daß solche Menschen immer mehr und mehr vor Rätseln stehen werden. Man kann sich lange Zeit Illusionen hingeben über diese Rätsel. Man kann glauben, daß man irgend etwas versteht von dem Menschheitsverlaufe; aber man gibt sich solchen Illusionen nur hin, weil man die Theorien hat, die einem eingepaukt worden sind seit der frühesten Jugend, so daß man gewissermaßen nur auf das hinschaut, nur für das Augen hat, was in der physischen Vererbungsfolge sich äußert. Aber es werden doch die Menschen nach und nach dazu kommen, sich zu sagen: Ja, aber da gibt es doch Tatsachen, die nicht hinwegzuleugnen sind, und die durchaus nicht erklärbar sind im Sinne dieser rein anthropologischen Ursächlichkeiten. — Wir müssen eben darauf Rücksicht nehmen, daß in irgendeiner Generation irgendeines Volkes der Gegenwart Seelen sind, die von ganz woanders herkommen, als etwa von den Urururgroßvätern desselben Volkes. Dem Volksegoismus mag das nicht gerade außerordentlich angenehm klingen, aber dieser Volksegoismus muß ja ohnedies schwinden, wenn die Menschheit eine entsprechende Entwickelung in die Zukunft durch machen soll. Und es muß schon darauf hingewiesen werden, daß ein großer Teil der europäischen Bevölkerung allerdings das Blut der mittelalterlichen Vorfahren fortpflanzt, aber Indianerseelen in sich trägt, daß diejenigen Seelen, die hier in Europa gelebt haben - ein großer Teil derselben zu Attilas Zeiten -, und die damals das Christentum angenommen haben, daß die uns nun in Asien drüben entgegentreten. Bis in gewisse gebildete Seelen hinein kann ja das bei unbefangener Beobachtung durchschaut werden. Allerdings, so geradlinig, so pedantisch abstrakt, wie man es heute gewohnt ist, darf man die Dinge nicht anschauen, wenn man auf Wirklichkeiten, wie sie hier gemeint sind, kommen will. Aber wenn man eben nicht seine Begriffe so abstrakt bildet, wie man es heute gewöhnt ist, sondern wenn man auf die Wirklichkeit kommen will, dann muß man von solchen Gesichtspunkten ausgehen, wie sie hier erwähnt worden sind. 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