{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 239/1924-04-05/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In Dornach recently I was able to call attention to another connection of karma, one which caused me repeatedly during the War, and especially at the end of the War, to warn people against allowing themselves to be blinded by a certain outstanding figure of modern times. In the Helsingfors[^4] lectures of 1913 I had already spoken of the very limited abilities of the person in question. This was because the connection between Muawiyah,[^5] a follower of Mohammed in the 7th century, and *Woodrow Wilson*, was clear to me. All the fatalism which characterised the personality of Muawiyah, came out in the otherwise inexplicable fatalism of Woodrow Wilson—in his case, fatalism of will. And if anyone wants to find corroboration, to discover the origin of the well known Fourteen Points, he has only to turn to the Koran. Such are the connections. These things must be kept absolutely free from sympathy or antipathy; it is not a question of criticism but only of the purest objectivity. But this very objectivity leads from one point in history at which a soul has appeared, to another such point. When humanity outsteps in some degree the still surviving heritage of materialism, people will be willing to listen to such things and observe for themselves. And then they will feel quite differently about their place in modern civilisation because they will be able to see it not in a dead but in a living setting. That is the important point. The whole process of historical development will be imbued with life. And if man is to get beyond the blind alley in which he is now standing in his civilisation, he needs the *living* spirit and not the dead spirit of abstract concepts and ideas.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Karma Across Incarnations: Garibaldi, Byron, Marx","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1924-04-05","location":null,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-04-05/p014","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Alles, was an Fatalismus dazumal lebte in dieser Persönlichkeit des Muawija, kam in diesem ja sonst ganz unerklärlichen Fatalismus, der nur ein Fatalismus des Willens sein wollte, zum Vorschein, im Fatalismus des Woodrow Wilson. Und man möchte sagen, wer suchen will nach einer Bekräftigung, nach einem Ursprung der bekannten vierzehn Punkte, der wird sie schon im Koran finden können. So sind die Zusammenhänge, meine lieben Freunde! Bei diesen Dingen darf nicht das geringste von Sympathie und Antipathie walten, bei diesen Dingen darf nichts von Kritik walten, da muß reinste Objektivität sein. Aber diese Objektivität führt eben dazu, von einem Punkte der Geschichte, wo eine Seele auftritt, zu einem anderen Punkte hinzuleiten. Und man darf schon sagen, wenn die Menschheit ein wenig hinaus sein wird über dasjenige, was heute noch aus der materialistischen Zeit da ist, dann wird man auf solche Dinge hinhören und hinschauen. Und dann wird man ganz anders sich fühlen innerhalb der modernen Zivilisation, weil man sie in ihren Zusammenhängen sehen wird; nicht nur nach solchen Dingen, die tot sind, sondern nach solchen Dingen, die lebendig sind. Darauf kommt es an. Das ganze geschichtliche Werden wird lebendig werden. Und der Mensch braucht, wenn er über den toten Punkt der Entwickelung, auf dem er jetzt steht, in seiner Zivilisation hinauskommen will, den lebendigen Geist und nicht den abstrakten, toten Geist der bloßen Ideen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":318,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-04-05/p014"}],"english":["GA 239/1924-04-05/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":318,"en_words":291,"ratio":0.92,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5642,"original_word_count":5468,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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