{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 210/1922-02-18/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Satan sets about this task. Human beings find it difficult to understand why Satan—who is, of course, an exceedingly clever being—is ever and again prepared to tackle tasks at which he has repeatedly failed. This is a fact. But however clever we might consider ourselves to be, this is not the way in which to criticize a being as clever as Satan. We should rather ask ourselves what it could be that again and again persuades a being as clever as Satan to try his luck at bringing ruin on human beings. For of course ruin for human beings would have been the result if Satan had succeeded in—let me say—winning over Christian justice in order to bring her to Cyprianus. Well—so Satan sets about his task, but he fails. It is Justina's disposition to feel nothing but revulsion for Satan. 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Die Menschen können schwer begreifen, weil natürlich Satanas ein sehr gescheites Wesen ist, daß er immer wieder an Aufgaben geht, an denen er schon so und so oft gescheitert ist. Aber das ist eben eine Tatsache. Wir mögen uns noch so gescheit dünken, wir können in dieser Weise nicht ein so gescheites Wesen wie Satanas kritisieren. Man müßte sich sagen, es muß doch etwas geben, was ein so gescheites Wesen immer wieder dazu bringt, das Glück aufs Neue zu versuchen, um die Menschen auf diese Weise zu verderben. Denn natürlich würde Verderbnis der Menschen eingetreten sein, wenn es Satan gelungen wäre, die christliche Gerechtigkeit — wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf - herumzukriegen, um sie an Cyprianus heranzubringen. Also Satan macht sich daran, aber es gelingt ihm nicht. 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