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The leaves have withered and are falling from the branches of the trees, the plants are fading away, life is being mineralised. All the fresh young sprouting life that we saw in the earlier part of the year is receiving death into itself, death and decay, and is fast undergoing mineralisation. Now must the Michael power well up from man's inner being; now must man recognise how, just where the physical and material grows weak and faint and tends to die away,—just there the *spiritual* enters in! The Autumn Festival of Michaelmas at the end of September should become a festival filled with life and impulse. It has to express how man, while he stands right within the decaying processes of Nature, grows correspondingly active in his soul. When the Michael Festival shall have this character, then all human activity will be fructified from it. And how sore is the need to-day for such fructification! 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All manner of facts about language were collected, but the whole effort was completely lacking in spirituality. It was really so. There you had a group of young people, straight from school. At school of course, they had not yet woken up, but *now*—they are going to “study language”! They begin to plan it all and think how it will be when they have gone on studying for some time; a dazzling picture floats before their eyes of the fruit of all their labours. Actually all the preliminary steps are there; they could quite well have gone on to a recognition of the great miracle that unfolds before us when we look away from the present-day *language of thought*, through the *language of feeling*, to the *language of will*, and behold there the wonderful working and weaving of the Divine Archangels, behold too how their working and weaving stirs even yet in the language corpses of to-day. 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Die Blätter fallen, welk geworden, von den Bäumen, die Pflanzen werden welk, verdorren, das Leben mineralisiert sich. Dasjenige, was der Mensch im vorhergehenden Jahreslaufe gesehen hat als Sprießendes, Sprossendes, als Lebendiges, nimmt den Tod, das Untergehende in sich auf, das sich Mineralisierende. Da muß im Menschen die Michael-Kraft, die Willenskraft ersprießen, welche sich klar ist darüber, daß das Geistige dort Platz nimmt, wo das Physisch-Materielle abgelähmt wird und nach und nach erstirbt. Ein Fest der Impulsivität müßte als ein Abbild des in das welkende Naturgeschehen hineingestellten, seine Seele aber zu um so größerer Aktivität bringenden Menschen das herbstliche Michael-Fest Ende September werden. Und wird es das, dann wird alle menschliche Tätigkeit befruchtet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-04-13/p037"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-04-13/p038","passage_number":38,"text":"Was kann man doch heute alles erfahren! Man braucht nur auf ganz kurze Zeiten zurückzugreifen. Da gibt es Erfahrungen in Hülle und Fülle, die einem die Menschen entgegenbringen. Auf allen Gebieten, zum Beispiel auf dem Gebiete der Sprache, sagen einem die Menschen: Ja, ich soll die Sprachen studieren, aber da kommt gar nichts dabei heraus, da steht alles so nebeneinander, da ist gar nichts Geistiges darin.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":66,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-04-13/p038"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-04-13/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"Also es ist wirklich so, gerade wenn Menschen in ihrer Jugend, sagen wir, vom Gymnasium kommen; nun ja, da sind sie noch nicht so weit erwacht, aber jetzt sollen sie nachdenken, jetzt sollen sie an die Universität gehen und sollen Sprachen studieren. Und nun überlegen sie sich, wie dann das fortgehen wird, was sie schon im Studium der Sprachen aufgenommen haben: da wird ihnen schwummelig vor den Augen vor dem, was ihnen da blüht. Ja, alle Ansätze sind dazu vorhanden, jene Wunder kennenzulernen, die man kennenlernt, wenn man hinaufschaut von der heutigen Gedankensprache durch die Gefühlssprache zu der Willenssprache, wenn man da das Göttliche, das Erzengelartige waltend und webend schaut, wenn man es schaut, wie es heute, ich möchte sagen, in den Leichnamen der Sprachen sich zeigt. Wenn da wiederum das Leben der Ürbeginne hineinflösse, das gäbe etwas Großartiges!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-04-13/p039"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-04-13/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"Der Michael-Gedanke ist nicht so etwas, daß sich ein paar Leute vornehmen können: Wir machen halt so ein Herbstfest; das ist sehr schön, dann sind wir die ganz Fortschrittlichen. - Der Michael-Gedanke ist etwas, was mit den innersten und stärksten Impulsen des menschlichen Willens rechnen muß, und das Fest kann nur ein solches sein, was ebenso dem menschlichen Leben einen mächtigen Ruck gibt, wie in älteren Zeiten, wo man noch die festesbildenden Kräfte hatte, wo die Einsetzung des Weihnachtsfestes oder des Osterfestes den Menschen einen Lebensruck gab.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-04-13/p040"}],"beads":[{"from":[33],"to":[37],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[34],"to":[38,39],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[35],"to":[40],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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