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Thus, the path of materialism, which began in the first third of the fourteenth century, was preceded by that other path of materialism already expressed in the turn to the East, the eastward journey to the physical Jerusalem. This tragedy was experienced by modern humanity; human beings had to and still have to undergo this tragedy in order to comprehend themselves inwardly and to turn properly into people asking questions. Modern mankind had to and still has to experience the tragedy that the light that once had approached from the East had not been recognized as spiritual light. The spiritual light had been rejected, and instead people set out to find a physical country, the physical materiality of the Orient. In the Middle Ages, humanity began to seek the physical East after the spiritual East had been rejected at the close of antiquity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"The Holy Grail Mystery and Europe's Materialistic Turn","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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Einsame Menschen, vereinzelte Menschen, Menschen in der «Dumpfheit», nicht gerade in der Weisheit, wie der Parzival, waren es, welche Wege antraten zu dem Heiligen Gral, aber sie verstanden es im Grunde genommen auch nicht richtig, die entsprechende Frage zu stellen. Und voran ging schon dem geistigen Materialismusweg, der dann in dem ersten Drittel des 14. Jahrhunderts begann, der andere Materialismusweg, der im Grunde genommen schon in der Wendung nach dem Osten hinüber war, nach dem physischen Jerusalem. Und diese Tragik erlebte die moderne Menschheit, die eben durch diese Tragik hindurchgehen mußte und muß, um sich in dieser Tragik innerlich zu ergreifen und so recht zu Fragenden zu werden. Diese Tragik mußte und muß die moderne Menschheit erleben, daß das Licht, das ihr einstmals aus dem Osten gekommen war, nicht erkannt wurde als spitituelles Licht, daß das spirituelle Licht zurückgeschoben worden ist und dafür gesucht worden ist das physische Land, die physische Materialität des Orients. Den physischen Orient fing man an im Mittelalter zu suchen, nachdem man im Ausgang des Altertums den spirituellen Orient zurückgestellt hatte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":264,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/204/1921-04-16/p017"}],"english":["GA 204/1921-04-16/p025"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":264,"en_words":285,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.11,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5250,"original_word_count":4746,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA204/English/AP1987/19210416m01.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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