{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 272/1916-09-11/p050","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In our field, you can again do some nice studies. How often has it been necessary to repudiate the swelling folly that has developed in our movement over the years, to repudiate the swelling vanity! But vanity does not understand that it must be repudiated. An example: in Frankfurt, when I was there once, I received a telephone call from a man who said he had to speak to me immediately. He then arrived, with extremely long hair that fell down over his shoulders and a corresponding patriarchal beard. He explained that he had been following me for quite some time and that he wanted to reach a kind of compromise between what he has to give to the world and what I represent. Well, you can't help but violate that principle of brotherhood, which considers amateurish stupidity and that which is honestly striven for as equivalent. You have to presume to make that distinction. So, of course, you have to let such people go, you don't have to worry about them any further. You don't have to be rude to them, but you do have to show them what you think of them and that you don't subscribe to the vague principle of equality, that every self-important idiocy must be regarded as equivalent to the other. Well, after some time the person in question appeared here in Switzerland and even announced lectures in various cities against me. He has also caused mischief in other ways, as some of those sitting here know. Thus enmities arise because the personality, which today must push itself into the breach everywhere, must permeate itself with something. But if it cannot do so, it wants to be strong without first making itself strong through the forces that permeate it. One must see through the causes of the conflicts. That is the essential thing. We must really understand the times in which we live, not act arbitrarily. Therefore, the strongest possible assertion of the personality is what our time demands. Fight the Ahrimanic battle against the personality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"15. Goethe's Search for the Depths of Becoming and the Mysteries of the World in His “Faust” The Luciferic and the Ahrimanic Temptation","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-09-11","location":null,"word_count":342,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/272/1916-09-11/p050","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":"Faust, the Striving Human Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA272/English/SOL2024/19160911p01.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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