{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When history is studied in this way, when we try to glean from the Mysteries and from secrets of the Cosmos what is happening on the Earth, I do not think that the Earth's history loses significance thereby. Prosaic professors may always be insisting that it is much more to the point to depict Goethe as the man he actually was in life, than to waft him away into a higher sphere! In richer epochs of evolution, when instinctive clairvoyance still survived, men spoke, openly as well, of how life in the heavens is revealed through human acts and human existence. In this respect we must get away from that abstract mentality which makes us think we are mere worms looking upwards from the Earth, believing only what the astronomers and astro-physicists have to say about the stars. In our civilisation and culture, with all their heavy trials, it is urgently necessary to understand the battle that is being waged between men who strive for the Spirit in order to comprehend spiritual law in the Cosmos, and men who have no desire for such knowledge, who limit themselves to the Earth, not only in the sphere of natural science but also in what is called ‘cultural’ or ‘spiritual’ history at the universities where documents alone are studied—for documents too are records only of happenings in the physical, material world. A decision will most certainly have to be taken in the course of Earth-evolution. Either degeneration of the spiritual life will intensify, and an illness of which I have been speaking for years—even in public lectures—will become more and more widespread. Very little is said about it as yet in medical literature, but it will none the less exist in life—its name is *Dementia professoralia* (Academic dementia)— *or* the human being will have to unfold enthusiasm for knowledge of the Supersensible. And this will also lead him to realisation of the connection between the Cosmos and the life of man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"Cosmic Karma: Planetary Spheres and Human Destiny","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. 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Wir müssen zurückkommen, wir müssen aus dieser Abstraktheit herauskommen, wo wir glauben, wir seien solche Regenwürmer, die da auf der Erde stehen und hinaufschauen und nur dasjenige sehen, was die Astronomen und Astrophysiker von den Sternen sagen. Und dieser Kampf wird schon unbedingt verstanden werden müssen, der in unserer so schwergeprüften Zivilisation und Kultur vor sich geht zwischen den Menschen, die nach dem Geiste ringen, um den Kosmos in seiner Geistgesetzmäßigkeit zu durchschauen, und denjenigen Menschen, die nichts wissen wollen davon; die sich auf die Erde beschränken nicht nur in Naturwissenschaft, sondern auch in dem, was die Leute an den Universitäten Geisteswissenschaft nennen: da studiert man Dokumente, also auch dasjenige, was nur physisch-sinnlich da ist. Es wird schon eine Entscheidung kommen im Laufe der Erdentwickelung. Entweder geht unser Niedergang im Geistigen immer weiter und weiter vor sich, und eine Krankheit, von der ich seit Jahren spreche, auch in öffentlichen Vorträgen gesprochen habe, eine Krankheit wird sich immer mehr und mehr ausbreiten - es steht noch nicht viel von ihr in medizinischen Büchern, aber um so mehr im Leben: die «dementia professoralis» —, oder aber der Mensch wird sich bequemen müssen, aufzunehmen in seinen Enthusiasmus die Erkenntnisse des Übersinnlichen. 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