{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 273/1919-01-19/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, my dear friends, with what I have said compare three different passages in the second part of Goethe's Faust that you can now have the opportunity on witnessing. Think of the sublime moment when Faust appears before Manto. Goethe is trying here to shed over the whole incident the inner repose of the human soul called forth by experiencing equilibrium. Faust would like, on the one hand, to avoid the sentimentality of the abstract mystic, and one of his last speeches is “O, could I from my path all magic ban”. He did not want external magic, he wanted to find the inner path to the supersensible world. He is near it, and then again far from it. As I explained yesterday Goethe is perfectly honest when Faust is standing before Manto. But Faust, my dear friends, does not hold to this abstract repose; he is tossed from pillar to post. Hence from the one side he is continually thrown to the opposite, where man loses himself through the will. Compare all this with what happens to Faust in the scenes where he is developing his life with Mephistopheles. There you have always the Faust of will, who, however is continually losing himself by his impulses being seized by Mephistopheles. This is where a man goes astray in his willing, where he will lose himself; here you have all the dangers that threaten man's moral impulses. And this is expressed with tremendous depth in Goethe's *Faust*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. In Place of Homunculism and Mephistophelianism","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-01-19","location":null,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/273/1919-01-19/p026","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams","identified_edition":"UNK1930","book_title":"The Problem of Faust","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA273/English/UNK1930/19190119p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/273/1919-01-19/p026"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/273/1919-01-19/p026","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Goethe ist, wie ich das gestern ausführte, durchaus ehrlich in dem Augenblicke, wo Faust vor der Manto steht. Aber Faust wird auch nicht bloß in abstrakter Ruhe gehalten, sondern durch die Gegensätze hin- und hergeworfen. Daher wird er auf der einen Seite immerfort wiederum in den Gegensatz hineingeworfen, wo der Mensch sich verliert, indem er sich im Wollen zu erfassen versucht. Vergleichen sie alles das miteinander, was dem Faust passiert in den Szenen, in denen er selbst mit dem Mephisto zusammen sein Leben entfaltet. Da haben Sie immer den Willens-Faust, der aber sich immer verliert, indem eigentlich der Mephisto seine Impulse ergreift. Da haben Sie dasjenige, wo der Mensch abirrt in dem Willen, wo er sich verlieren will. Da haben Sie all die Gefahren, die den moralischen Impulsen des Menschen drohen. 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