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We must learn once again out of the piety of the human heart to approach all that to which in modern times the microscope, telescope, roentgen-rays apparatus and such instruments are applied. Then will the growing plant, the rushing stream, the murmuring spring, the lightning and thunder from the clouds, not merely speak to us in an indifferent way. There will speak to us from the flowers of the field, from the lightning and thunder of the clouds, from the shining stars and the radiant sun, there will, as it were, stream into our eyes and into our hearts, as the result of all our observation of nature, words that proclaim nothing else than this: “The divine is revealed in the heights of heaven, and peace shall be among men upon earth who are of good will.” The time must come when our observation of nature sets itself free from the dry, prosaic, non-human method pursued in the laboratories and clinics of today. The time must come when our observation of nature must be irradiated by such life so that the life which can no longer exist in the way it did for the shepherds of Bethlehem will nevertheless be able to speak to us through the voices of the plants and animals, from stars and springs and rivers. For the whole of nature utters what was uttered by the Angel: “The Divine is revealed in the heavenly heights and there can be peace among men on Earth who desire to be of good will”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Mit anderen Worten, wir brauchen die Vertiefung unserer äußeren Naturanschauung durch dasjenige, was das menschliche Herz entwickeln kann an geistiger Anschauung der Natur. Wir müssen wiederum finden, indem wir uns wenden an dasjenige, wofür wir in der neueren Zeit nur Mikroskope und Teleskope und Röntgenapparate und dergleichen haben, wir müssen uns gewöhnen, das wiederum durch jene Kräfte anzusehen, die aus der Frömmigkeit des menschlichen Herzens kommen. Dann werden zu uns nicht nur sprechen die gleichgültig wachsenden Pflanzen allein, der rauschende Strom, der rauschende Quell, der Blitz aus den Wolken, der Donner aus den Wolken, dann werden aus alledem, was die Blümlein auf dem Felde sagen, aus alledem, was die Blitze und die Donner aus den Wolken sagen, aus alledem, was die leuchtenden Sterne und die leuchtende Sonne sagen, aus alledem werden gleichsam wie ein Ergebnis aller Naturbetrachtung die Worte in unsere Augen, in unsere Ohren, zu unseren Herzen hinströmen, die ja auch nichts anderes ankündigen, als: Es offenbaret sich der Gott in den Himmelshöhen, und Friede soll sein unter den Menschen auf Erden, die eines guten Willens sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-23/p021"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-23/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Die Zeit muß kommen, wo die Naturbetrachtung herausdringt aus der trockenen, nüchternen, unmenschlichen Art der Laboratorien und Kliniken, wo die Naturbetrachtung von einem solchen Leben durchstrahlt wird, daß dasjenige, was uns nicht mehr werden kann auf die Art der Hirten von Bethlehem, uns durch die Stimmen wird, die aus Pflanze, aus Tier, aus Sternen, aus Quellen und Strömen heraus zu uns sprechen. 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