{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-08-01/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But it is just as though someone were to say: here is Goethe's *Faust*. Why do people make so much fuss of it? It only consists of A, B, C, D, E, F, ... to Z. Nothing else is there in the book, only A, B, C, D ... Z in various combinations and permutations. Certainly one who cannot read, and takes Goethe's *Faust* in hand, will not perceive the greatness that is contained in it. He will only see A, B, C, D ... to Z. One who does not know how the A, B, C, D, are to be combined, who does not know how they are related to one another, cannot read Goethe's *Faust*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VIII. Ahriman's Fight Against the Michael Principle — The Message of Michael","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-08-01","location":null,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-08-01/p038","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams. Revised by D.S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1977","book_title":"Karmic Relationships  III","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA237/English/RSP1977/19240801p01.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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Warum soll man sich denn für zehn solche allgemeine Begriffe: Sein, Haben, Werden und so weiter, warum soll man sich denn dafür echauffieren? — Das ist aber gerade so, wie wenn jemand sagen würde: Da ist der Goethesche «Faust», da machen die Leute ein Wesen aus dem Goetheschen «Faust»! Der besteht doch nur aus a, b, c, d, e, f bis z! Es ist nichts anderes drinnen in dem Buch, nur in verschiedenen Kombinationen, als a, b, c, d, e, f bis z. Und einer, der nicht lesen kann und den Goetheschen «Faust» in die Hand nimmt, der wird nicht darauf kommen, was für eine ungeheure Größe darinnen ist, sondern wird immer nur a, b, c, d, e, f bis z sehen. 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