{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 254/1915-10-17/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But in very many circles where mediums were used, revelations of a quite different kind were made. If you peruse the mass of literature compiled from the communications of different mediums, you will discover—especially when these mediums were guided by the souls of living persons—that everything has a strongly tendentious character. Descriptions of the life after death were given which, if you compare them with what was said in the Vienna lectures, are entirely false. You will perceive, too, the tendency in the different mediums to allow nothing concerning repeated lives on Earth to come to light. Wherever the mediums alleged that the dead had spoken to them, they described the life after death in such a way that the conclusion was: there can be no repeated Earth-lives! In the development of mediumship there was the tendency to make false assertions precisely about the most important aspects of the life between death and a new birth—especially to make assertions which preclude the fact of reincarnation. It was desired to speak to this effect through mediums. That is to say, certain people who exploited this tendency in pursuance of their special aims, desired that revelations indicating that there are no repeated Earth-lives should be proclaimed through the mediums. The desire, therefore, was to use the mediums in order to oppose the teaching of repeated Earth-lives.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Materialism, Mediumship, and the Distortion of Occult Truth","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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Sie werden dann auch sehen, daß die Tendenz in den verschiedenen Medien war, nichts aufkommen zu lassen darüber, daß es wiederholte Erdenleben gibt. Die Medien schilderten überall, wo sie vorgaben, daß die Toten zu ihnen sprächen, das Leben nach dem Tode so, daß daraus hervorging: es könne nicht wiederholte Erdenleben geben. Die Tendenz liegt einmal in der Entwickelung des Mediumismus, gerade in seinen wichtigsten Punkten, falsche Angaben zu machen über das Leben zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt, und zwar solche Angaben zu machen, welche geradezu die sogenannte Reinkarnation ausschließen. Man wollte also durch Medien so sprechen. Das heißt, gewisse Leute, welche eben diese Tendenz verfolgen vermöge ihrer Sonderrichtung, wollten durch die Medien solche Offenbarungen in die Öffentlichkeit kommen lassen, welche darauf hindeuten, daß es keine wiederholten Erdenleben gibt. Man wollte also die Lehre von den wiederholten Erdenleben durch die Medien bekämpfen. Das war eine sehr auffällige Tatsache, eine Tatsache, vor der die am weitesten nach rechts stehenden Okkultisten am allermeisten erschrecken konnten, da sie mit heraufbeschworen hatten den ganzen Mediumismus und dasjenige, was der Mediumismus anrichtete, der im Dienste einer Tendenz war und nicht im Dienste der unbefangenen Wahrheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":290,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/254/1915-10-17/p010"}],"english":["GA 254/1915-10-17/p011","GA 254/1915-10-17/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":290,"en_words":271,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 254/1915-10-17/p010"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6934,"original_word_count":6826,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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