{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 239/1924-04-05/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But even to men who, comparatively speaking, are kindly disposed, Spiritual Science still seems strange and foreign. One cannot read without a certain irony what a man, who is in other respects so promising, says about me as the founder of Anthroposophy. In *The Great Secret*, Maurice Maeterlinck[^6] seems unable to deny that the introductions to my books contain much that is reasonable. He is struck by this. But then he finds things which leave him in a state of bewilderment and of which he can make absolutely nothing.—We might vary slightly one of Lichtenberg's remarks, by saying: “When books and an individual come into collision and there is a hollow sound, this need not be the fault of the books!” But just think of it—Maurice Maeterlinck is certainly a high light in our modern culture and yet he writes the following—I quote almost word for word: ‘In the introductions to his books, in the first chapters, Steiner invariably shows himself possessed of a thoughtful, logical and cultured mind, and then, in the later chapters he seems to have gone crazy' (See note, p109). What are we to deduce from this? First chapter—thoughtful, logical, cultured; last chapter—crazy. Then another book comes out. ‘Again, to begin with, thoughtful, logical, cultured; and finally—crazy!' And so it goes on. As I have written quite a number of books I must be pretty expert at this sort of thing! According to Maurice Maeterlinck a kind of juggling must go on in my books But the idea that this happens voluntarily ... such a case has yet to be found in the lunatic asylums!","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-04-05/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Man kann doch nicht ohne eine gewisse Ironie dasjenige lesen, was ein sonst so hoffnungsvoller Geist wie Maurice Maeterlinck über mich selbst als den Begründer der Anthroposophie unter dem Titel «Das große Rätsel» sagt. Maurice Maeterlinck scheint nicht leugnen zu können, daß immer in den ersten Einleitungen meiner Bücher etwas ganz Vernünftiges steht. Das fällt ihm auf. Aber dann, dann kommt er in etwas hinein, was ihn ungeheuer verwirrt, wo er nicht durch kann. Nun, man könnte ja ein Wort Lichtenbergs variieren: Wenn Bücher und ein Mensch zusammenstoßen, und es hohl klingt, muß das ja nicht gerade vom Buch abhängen. Aber es ist eben so - Maurice Maeterlinck ist gewiß eine Hochblüte unserer gegenwärtigen Kultur -, denken Sie doch, es findet sich bei ihm fast wörtlich der Satz: In den Einführungen seiner Bücher, in den ersten Kapiteln, da zeigt Steiner immer einen abwägenden, logischen, weiten Geist; dann in den weitern Kapiteln ist es, als ob er wahnsinnig würde. - Ja, nun, meine lieben Freunde, was hat denn aber das für eine Konsequenz? Das hieße ja: Erstes Kapitel: abwägender, logischer, weiter Geist. Letztes Kapitel: wahnsinnig. Nun ist das Buch fertig, nun kommt ein neues. Wiederum zuerst: abwägender, logischer, weiter Geist, zuletzt: wahnsinnig. Ich habe eine ganze Anzahl von Büchern geschrieben, so daß ich also diese Prozedur mit einer gewissen Virtuosität durchmachen würde: Erstes Kapitel: abwägender, logischer, weiter Geist; dann: verwirrt, verbohrt. Und so wird in meinen Büchern, nach Ansicht Maurice Maeterlincks, jongliert. 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