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Now the young people who come want to experience, to live everything in deeds, in the true understanding of nature. One cannot remain with that, however. I would like to emphasize this especially strongly. It has been said that the sword of Michael has been forged, but this is connected with something else. 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You must have the strong but at the same time the modest self-conviction as young people that you are karmically called upon to carry the sword of Michael out into the world, to search for it and find it. Then you will have received what you are searching for in gatherings such as the one today. Then you will also be able to recognize what I had to say to you about anthroposophy, about all the difficulties of those people who were dangling between their doctoral examinations and retirement certificates. And you will recognize it in a truly instinctive-pictorial way, so that the spirit of abstraction, that frightful Ahrimanic spirit, is not able to touch you too. Think in mighty pictures of the fact that two words have connected themselves with the striving of youth—words that in the nineteenth century were no longer understood. 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One must first find the way from the abstract conception of Wandervogel to Wotan, who weaves in wind and clouds and waves of the earth-organism, to the hidden language of the birds, with which one must become acquainted by reviving in oneself the Siegfried-recollection and the Siegfried-sword, which was only the prophetic precursor of the sword of Michael.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":367,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/217a/1924-06-17/p038","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-06-17","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 217a/1924-06-17/p031","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/217a/1924-06-17/p031"},{"locus":"GA 217a/1924-06-17/p032","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/217a/1924-06-17/p032"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":495,"en_words":451,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Es kam die Zeit, die sich in den tiefer angelegten Jugendseelen, gerade auch der Proletarier, auslebte, jenes wärmste Jugendstreben zu entfalten, wo sich aber die junge Menschheit wie durch einen Abgrund getrennt fühlte von der alten Menschheit. Der Abgrund, der ja wirklich in denen heute steckt, die im Beginne des 20. Jahrhunderts die Menschheit erreicht haben zwischen dem fünfundzwanzigsten und achtundvierzigsten Lebensjahr. Da war so recht die Gelegenheit dazu geboten, wenn man in dem beginnenden Jahrzehnt des 20. Jahrhunderts die Lebenszeit durchmachte zwischen . dem fünfundzwanzigsten und dem achtundvierzigsten Lebensjahre, nicht mehr Mensch zu bleiben. Man hatte nur noch Kleider. Das spätere Mittelalter bildete schon eine Art Abgrund. Bei der jetzigen Jugend kommt es nicht auf die Art an, daß Anthroposophie immer mehr und mehr in Abstraktionen verwandelt wird, immer mehr und mehr in Ideen, Begriffe und sogar in Wissenschaften umgewandelt wird. Nun kommt die Jugend, die all das wiederum nur empfinden, leben will: in Taten - im Begreifen der Natur. Man kann aber nicht dabei stehenbleiben. Das möchte ich heute mit besonderer Stärke betonen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":212,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/217a/1924-06-17/p030"},{"locus":"GA 217a/1924-06-17/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Man sagte, man schmiede das Michael-Schwert. Es handelt sich auch noch um etwas anderes. Es handelt sich darum, daß nun einmal diese Tatsache in dem okkulten Teil der Welt besteht, daß dasjenige, was als Michael-Schwert hergerichtet werden muß, daß das wirklich im Schmieden auf einen Altar getragen werde, der eigentlich äußerlich nicht sichtbar sein könnte, der unter der Erde liegen müßte, wirklich unter der Erde liegen müßte. Naturgewalten unter der Erde kennenzulernen führt dazu, zu verstehen, daß das Michael-Schwert im Schmieden auf einen Altar getragen werden muß, der unter der Erde ist. Da muß es von empfänglichen Seelen gefunden werden. Es kommt darauf an, daß Sie mittun, indem Sie dazu beitragen, daß von immer mehr und mehr Seelen das Michael-Schwert gefunden werde. Und nicht allein damit ist es getan, daß es geschmiedet werde, sondern es ist damit erst etwas getan, daß es gefunden werde. Haben Sie das starke und zugleich bescheidene Selbstvertrauen als junge Menschen, daß Sie ja karmisch dazu berufen sind, das Michael-Schwert herauszutragen, es zu suchen und zu finden. Dann werden Sie gerade dasjenige haben, was Sie bei solchen Versammlungen, wie der heutigen, suchen. Dann werden Sie auch erkennen dasjenige, was ich Ihnen von der Anthroposophie sagen mußte, von den Schwierigkeiten sagen mußte, die diejenigen hatten, die zwischen dem Doktorexamen und dem Pensionsdekret standen. Und Sie werden daran erkennen, aber nun in recht instinktiv-bildhafter Art, so daß der Geist der Abstraktion, dieser furchtbare ahrimanische Geist, nicht auch Sie berühren kann — denken Sie in mächtigen Bildern daran -, daß zwei Worte sich verbunden haben in dem Streben der Jugend, die eigentlich im 19. Jahrhundert nicht mehr verstanden wurden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":270,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/217a/1924-06-17/p031"},{"locus":"GA 217a/1924-06-17/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Wenn man so das. Wort «Wandervogel» hört, so kommt einem aus diesem Wort das Gefühl: weiß denn heute überhaupt ein gereister Mensch, was in alten Zeiten das Wandern war, was der Wanderer war? Zu bildhaftem Seelenerleben müssen wir wieder zurück. Weiß denn heute ein Mensch noch, wenn er der Vogelwelt gegenübersteht, daß man erst das durchmachen muß, was Siegfried durchmachen mußte, um die Sprache der Vögel zu verstehen? Wandervögel - Wotan, Siegfried: das ist dasjenige, was man erst wieder empfinden, verstehen muß. Man muß erst den Weg finden von der abstrakten Auffassung des Wandervogels zu dem in Wind und Wolken und Wellen des Erdorganismus webenden Wotan und zu der verborgenen Sprache der Vögel, die man kennenlernen muß, indem man zuerst das Siegfried-Erinnern und das Siegfried-Schwert in sich rege macht, das nur die prophetische Vorausnahme des Michael-Schwertes war. Man muß den Weg finden vom Wanderer zu Wotan, den Weg finden, wie man leichten Herzens sich öffnend wieder glauben kann an die verborgene Sprache der Vögel. Sie alle empfinden den Weg vom Wandervogel zum Wotan, zum Siegfried. Und kann man das in seiner Seele tief empfinden, so wird man auch die Möglichkeit finden, die Natur zu empfinden, und wissen um diese Dinge. Und gewinnt man dann die Möglichkeit, auch noch ein wenig träumen zu können, so wird man mit den himmlischen Träumen in der Natur leben können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/217a/1924-06-17/p032"}],"beads":[{"from":[36,37],"to":[30],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[38,39],"to":[31,32],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}