{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1911-06-07/p052","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is difficult to express; but it can be expressed in something like this: the present culture would lack the necessary gravity. Then only those forces would be at work which wanted to bring man into the spiritual with full force, and men would be only too inclined to abandon themselves to these forces. They would become enthusiasts. Everyone would only want to know about a life that spiritualizes itself as quickly as possible, and the general attitude would be: Why do I need to incarnate again and again? I can't gain anything from that. No, I want to go straight into the spiritual with full wings! - That would give way to infatuation. Just as the most beautiful things can become seducers and tempters of mankind if man follows them one-sidedly, so here there would be a great danger that all possible good aspirations would be brought into fanaticism. As true as it is that humanity is brought forward by its noble impulses, it is equally true that the worst can happen to humanity through the enthusiastic and fanatical representation of the noblest impulses. Only when we strive for the highest in humility and not in fanaticism do we strive for it correctly. So that we may have the necessary gravity on earth, so that we may have understanding for the material, for the things of the physical plan, that is why the wise guidance of the world has left behind those forces which should have completed their development then, and which now secure our view of physical life, which hold us fast and also make us love our material culture.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-06-07","location":null,"word_count":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-07/p052","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19110607s01.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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Es würden dann nur die Kräfte wirken, welche den Menschen mit voller Gewalt ins Geistige bringen wollten, und die Menschen würden nur allzu sehr geneigt sein, sich diesen Kräften zu überlassen. Sie würden Schwärmer werden. Alle würden nur etwas wissen wollen von einem Leben, das so schnell wie möglich sich vergeistigt, und die Gesinnung wäre ganz allgemein: Was brauche ich mich immer wieder und wieder zu inkarnieren? Da kann ich [doch] nichts gewinnen. Nein, ich will gleich mit vollen Flügeln hinein ins Geistige! - So würde die Schwärmerei Platz greifen. Wie die schönsten Dinge zu Verführern und Versuchern der Menschheit werden können, wenn ihnen der Mensch einseitig folgt, so wäre hier die große Gefahr vorhanden, dass alle möglichen guten Bestrebungen in den Fanatismus gebracht würden. So wahr es ist, dass die Menschheit durch ihre edlen Impulse vorwärtsgebracht wird, so wahr ist es, dass durch die schwärmerische und fanatische Vertretung der edelsten Impulse ein Schlimmstes für die Menschheit geschehen kann. Nur wenn wir in Demut und nicht in Schwärmerei nach dem Höchsten streben, erstreben wir es richtig. Damit wir die nötige Schwere auf der Erde haben, damit wir Verständnis haben für das Materielle, für die Dinge des physischen Planes, deshalb hat die weise Weltenlenkung diejenigen Kräfte zurückgelassen, die ihre Entwicklung hätten damals vollenden sollen, und die uns jetzt den Blick sichern für das physische Leben, die uns festhalten und uns auch unsere materielle Kultur lieb gewinnen lassen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1911-06-07/p052"}],"english":["GA 246/1911-06-07/p052"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":257,"en_words":272,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7602,"original_word_count":7380,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19110607s01.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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