{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 206/1921-08-05/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But the human beings acquired the habit of restricting themselves to the world of the senses. This habit, to be sure, also produced excellent things, for the human beings acquired the tendency to become thoroughly absorbed in the facts of the sensory world. It suffices to consider that spiritual science, the spiritual science which is orientated towards Anthroposophy, sees in the sensory world an image of the super-sensible world; what we encounter in the sensory world really contains the images of the super-sensible world. If we consider this, we shall be able to appreciate fully the importance of penetrating into the sensory material world. We must emphasize again and again and we should continually lay stress upon the fact that the other form of materialism which has come to the fore in spiritism, which seeks to cognise the spirit in a materialistic manner, is unfruitful, because the spirit can, of course, never be seen through the senses. and the whole method of spiritism is, therefore, a humbug. On the other hand, we should realise that what we observe through our ordinary, normal senses and what we elaborate from out this sensory observation, with the aid of the intellect which has developed in the course of human evolution, is in every way an image of the super-sensible world, and consequently the study of this image can, in a certain way, lead us into the super-sensible world far better than, for instance, spiritism. In earlier times, I have often expressed this by saying: Some people are sitting around a table in order to “summon spirits”; yet, they completely overlook the fact that there are *so and so many spirits sitting around the table!* They should be conscious of their own spirit. Undoubtedly this spirit sets forth what they should seek; but owing to the fact that they forget their own spirit, that they are unwilling to grasp their own spirit, they seek the spirit in a materialistic, external manner, in spiritistic experiments which ape and imitate the experiments made in laboratories. Materialism, which works within the images of the super-sensible world, without being aware of the fact that it is dealing with images of the super-sensible world, this materialism has, after all, achieved great things through its methods of investigation, it has achieved great and mighty things.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Dual Forms of Cognition in the Middle Ages","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-08-05","location":null,"word_count":385,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/206/1921-08-05/p032","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA206/English/Singles/19210805p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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Während man immer wieder betonen muß, daß jene andere Art des Materialismus, die als Spiritismus hervorgetreten ist und die auf materielle Art den Geist erkennen möchte, etwas Unfruchtbares ist, weil der Geist natürlich niemals sinnlich anschaulich werden kann und daher die ganze Methodik schon ein Humbug ist, muß man sich klar sein darüber, daß dasjenige, was mit den gewöhnlichen normalen Sinnen des Menschen beobachtet und mit dem in der Menschheitsentwickelung herangebildeten Intellekt erkombiniert worden ist aus dem sinnlichen Beobachten, durchaus eben Abbild der übersinnlichen Welt ist, und daß daher ein Studium dieses Abbildes in einer gewissen Beziehung durchaus besser in die übersinnliche Welt hineinführt als zum Beispiel der Spiritismus. Ich habe das in früheren Zeiten oftmals so ausgedrückt, daß ich sagte: Da setzen sich die Menschen um einen Tisch herum und zitieren Geister und sehen ganz ab davon, daß so und so viel Geister ja um den Tisch herumsitzen! Sie sollen sich bewußt sein ihres eigenen Geistes: der stellt ganz gewiß dasjenige dar, was sie suchen sollen. Aber weil sie diesen eigenen Geist vergessen, weil sie nicht diesen eigenen Geist erfassen mögen, suchen sie den Geist auf eine äußerlich materielle Weise durch allerlei den Laboratoriumsversuchen nachgeäffte spiritistische Experimente. — Dieser Materialismus, der also arbeitet in den Bildern des Übersinnlichen, ohne daß er sich dessen bewußt ist, daß er es mit Bildern des Übersinnlichen zu tun hat, dieser Materialismus hat mit Bezug auf seine Forschungsmethodik eben doch Großes geleistet, Großes und Gewaltiges geleistet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":335,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-08-05/p028"},{"locus":"GA 206/1921-08-05/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Gewiß, es war niemals bei den eigentlichen Sensualisten oder Materialisten das Bestreben vorhanden - und bei Czolbe sieht man das schon ganz genau -, das Sinnenfällig-Gegebene auf ein Übersinnliches irgendwie zu beziehen; aber es war das Bestreben vorhanden, das Sinnliche als solches in seiner Struktur, in seiner Gesetzmäßigkeit zu erkennen. Wenn man vergleicht, was noch in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts vorhanden ist an Zusammenfassung von sinnlichen Tatsachen, so muß man sagen, es ist noch Stückwerk gegen die Arbeit, die etwa von den vierziger Jahren im 19. Jahrhundert ab geleistet wird. 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