{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 251/1922-05-21/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The elemental spirits live in the elements, we are surrounded by them, they are just as present in earthly existence as we ourselves are. These elemental spirits want something. These elemental spirits are not as unfeeling, as stubborn, as closed to the incoming spiritual wave in our age as people often are. People only want to persist in observing the sensual and in thinking about the intellectual aspects of this spiritual world, which underlies the natural elements. These elemental spirits do not close their eyes to the spiritual waves breaking into the earthly, which are everywhere today, to the spirituality that wants to come in. And when I said, for example, that the elemental spirits of the earthly firmament are preferably shrewd and even intellectual, it is only natural that they have no sympathy for a spiritual wave entering the present day. But even if they have no particular sympathy, they do pay attention! They notice that this spirituality is breaking in today and that it carries on its waves a truly deepened knowledge of Christ, a truly deepened knowledge of the mystery of Golgotha. Even the clever beings of the earthly kingdom can see that. But they decide: if people remain stubborn towards the incoming spiritual world, then we will do our part, which would have been futile so far. For in the period from the fifteenth to the end of the nineteenth century, when people mainly developed their intellect, the gnome-like intellectual spirits of the solid, earthly realm could not do anything special, so to speak! They could use their cunning to peek into the earthly world here and there; and those who have perceptions of this peeking know this. But now that humanity is to meet the spirituality that wants to enter, the time has come when the intellect, having fallen into corruption, is only passed down as an inheritance and no longer has any fruitful suggestions - for the intellect decays over time, and if you look at it impartially, you can see it everywhere; if you compare today's scientific work with that of forty years ago in terms of the intellect that prevails in science, one can already speak of the decline of the intellect. Now the time has come when the other beings, who are there just as we humans are, by becoming aware of the incoming spiritual wave, say to themselves:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"39. On the Character of the Present Day","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-05-21","location":null,"word_count":398,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/251/1922-05-21/p031","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The History of the Anthroposophical Society 1913–1922","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA251/English/SOL2024/19220521s01.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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Diese elementarischen Geister sind es, welche nicht so unfühlend, so halsstarrig sich verschließen vor der hereinbrechenden Geisteswelle in unserem Zeitalter, wie das die Menschen vielfach ja zumeist tun. Die Menschen wollen nur Verharren in der Beobachtung des Sinnlichen und in dem Ausdenken des Verstandesmäßigen dieser geistigen Welt, die da den Naturelementen zugrunde liegt. Diese Elementargeister verschließen ihre Augen nicht vor den in das Irdische hereinbrechenden geistigen Wellen, die heute überall sind, vor der Spiritualität, die da hereinwill. Und wenn ich zum Beispiel gesagt habe, dass die Elementargeister des irdisch Festen vorzugsweise schlau, selbst überverständig sind, so ist es ja natürlich, dass sie für eine in die Gegenwart hereinkommende spirituelle Welle keine Sympathie haben. Aber wenn sie auch keine besondere Sympathie haben, Aufmerksamkeit haben sie! Sie beachten, dass diese Spiritualität heute hereinbricht und dass sie auf ihren Wogen trägt eine wirklich vertiefte Christus-Erkenntnis, eine wirklich vertiefte Erkenntnis des Mysteriums von Golgatha. Das sehen selbst die schlauen Wesen des Erdenreiches. Sie aber beschließen: Wenn die Menschen dabei stehen bleiben, halsstarrig zu sein gegenüber der hereinbrechenden Geisterwelt, dann tun wir das Unsrige, was ja bisher aussichtslos gewesen wäre. Denn in der Zeit, in der vom fünfzehnten bis zum Ende des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts die Menschen vorzugsweise den Intellekt ausgebildet haben, in dieser Zeit konnten sozusagen die gnomenhaften Intellektual-Geister des Festen, Irdischen nichts Besonderes anfangen! Sie konnten mit ihrer Schlauheit da oder dort in die irdische Welt hereinlugen; und die, welche Wahrnehmungen haben für dieses Hereinlugen, wissen das. Aber jetzt, da die Menschheit der hereinwollenden Spiritualität etwas entgegengehen soll, jetzt ist die Zeit gekommen, wo, indem der Intellekt in die Verderbnis hineingerät, wo er nur noch als Erbschaft weitergeführt wird und keine fruchtbaren Anregungen mehr hat - denn der Intellekt verfällt mit der Zeit, und wer es unbefangen betrachtet, sieht es ja überall; wer den wissenschaftlichen Betrieb von heute mit demjenigen von vor vierzig Jahren vergleicht in Bezug auf den Intellekt, der in der Wissenschaftlichkeit herrscht, wird auch von dem Verfall des Intellektes schon sprechen können -, jetzt ist die Zeit gekommen, wo die anderen Wesen, die ebenso da sind wie wir Menschen, indem sie aufmerksam werden auf die hereinbrechende Geisteswelle, sich sagen:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":385,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/251/1922-05-21/p031"}],"english":["GA 251/1922-05-21/p031"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":385,"en_words":398,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8564,"original_word_count":8348,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The History of the Anthroposophical Society 1913–1922","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA251/English/SOL2024/19220521s01.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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