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From this we can readily lead on to the universal Father-Principle immanent in the world. When the rest of the teaching takes the form I have described, the child is well able to conceive that all things have a divine origin.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":79,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/307/1923-08-15/p030","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-08-15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p053","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p053"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":92,"en_words":79,"ratio":0.86,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Our aim in so doing is to awaken in him first of all a sense of gratitude for everything that happens in the world. Gratitude for what human beings do for us, and also for the gifts vouchsafed by Nature, this is what will guide religious feeling into the right path. To unfold the child's sense of gratitude is of the greatest imaginable significance. It may seem paradoxical, yet it is nevertheless profoundly true that human beings should learn to feel a certain gratitude when the weather is favourable for some undertaking or another. To be capable of gratitude to the Cosmos, even though it can only be in the life of imagination, this will deepen our whole life of feeling in a religious sense. Love for all creation must then be added to this gratitude. And if we lead the child on to the age of nine or ten in the way described, nothing is easier than to reveal in the living world around him qualities he must learn to love. Love for every flower, for sunshine, for rain this again will deepen perception of the world in a religious sense. If gratitude and love have been unfolded in the child before the age of ten, we can then proceed to develop a true sense and understanding of duty. Premature development of the sense of duty by dint of commands and injunctions will never lead to a deeply religious sense. 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Try for a moment to realize what a difference there is if we teach a seven-or-eight-year-old child about the New Testament, or, having first stimulated a consciousness of universal divinity in the whole of Nature, if we wait until he has reached the age of nine or ten before we pass to the New Testament as such. In the latter case right preparation has been made and the Gospels will live in all their super-sensible greatness. If we teach the child too early about the New Testament it will not lay hold of his whole being, but will remain mere phraseology, just so many rigid, barren concepts. The consequent danger is that religious feeling will harden in the child and continue through life in a rigid form instead of in a living form pervaded through and through with feeling for the world. 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Da läßt sich nun leicht der Unterricht hinführen zu dem die Welt durchlebenden, allgemeinen göttlichen Vaterprinzip. Daß alles seinen Ursprung in einem Göttlichen hat, das läßt sich für das Kind, gerade wenn man den übrigen Unterricht so führt, wie ich es geschildert habe, in einer vorzüglichen Weise hinstellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p053"},{"locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p054","passage_number":54,"text":"Und so knüpfen wir an dasjenige an, was das Kind weiß, wissen lernt auf märchenhafte Weise, auf phantasiemäßige Weise über die Natur. An das knüpfen wir an, um das Kind zunächst gegenüber allem, was in der Welt geschieht, zu einer gewissen Dankbarkeit zu führen. Dankbarkeit gegenüber allem, was Menschen uns tun, aber gegenüber allem auch, was uns die Natur gewährt, das ist dasjenige, was das religiöse Empfinden auf den richtigen Weg bringt. Überhaupt ist die Erziehung zur Dankbarkeit etwas unendlich Wichtiges und Bedeutungsvolles.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":83,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p054"},{"locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p055","passage_number":55,"text":"Der Mensch sollte sich dazu entwickeln, wirklich auch ein gewisses Dankesgefühl zu haben, wenn - vielleicht klingt das sogar paradox, und dennoch ist es tief wahr — zur rechten Zeit, wo er dies oder jenes zu tun hat, ihm das geeignete Wetter zuteil wird. Gegenüber dem All, dem Kosmos Dankbarkeit entwickeln zu können, wenn das auch, ich möchte sagen, in einem imaginativen Welterleben nur geschehen kann, das ist dasjenige, was unsere ganze Weltempfindung religiös vertiefen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":76,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p055"},{"locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p056","passage_number":56,"text":"Zu dieser Dankbarkeit brauchen wir dann die Liebe gegenüber allem. Und wir können wiederum leicht, wenn wir das Kind also bis gegen das neunte, zehnte Jahr hinführen, wie es angedeutet worden ist, in all dem Belebten, das wir dem Kind hinstellen, zugleich etwas für das Kind offenbaren, was das Kind liebgewinnen muß. Liebe zu jeder Blume, Liebe zu jedem Baum, Liebe zu Sonnenschein und Regen, das ist dasjenige, was das Weltempfinden wiederum religiös vertiefen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":75,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p056"},{"locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p057","passage_number":57,"text":"Wenn wir Dankbarkeit und Liebe in dem Kinde vor dem zehnten Jahre entwickeln, dann können wir auch in der richtigen Weise dasjJenige entwickeln, was wir die Pflicht nennen. Die Pflicht durch Gebote zu früh entwickeln, führt zu keiner religiösen Innigkeit. Wir müssen vor allen Dingen in dem Kinde Dankbarkeit und Liebe entwickeln, dann entfalten wir das Kind sowohl ethisch-moralisch in der richtigen Weise wie auch religiös.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":66,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p057"},{"locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p058","passage_number":58,"text":"Wer im tiefsten Sinne des Wortes das Kind im christlichen Sinne erziehen will, der hat nötig, darauf zu sehen, daß dasjenige, was sich vor die Welt in dem Mysterium von Golgatha hinstellt, in alledem, was an die Persönlichkeit und Gotteswesenhaftigkeit des Christus Jesus geknüpft ist, sich vor dem neunten und zehnten Jahre nicht in der richtigen Weise vor die kindliche Seele hinstellen läßt. Großen Gefahren setzt man das Kind aus, wenn man es nicht vor diesem Lebensmomente in das allgemein Göttliche einführt, ich möchte sagen: in das göttliche Vaterprinzip; ihm zeigt, wie in allem in der Natur das Göttliche lebt, wie in aller Menschenentwickelung das Göttliche lebt, wie überall, wo wir hinschauen, in den Steinen, aber auch in dem Herzen des anderen Menschen, in jeder Tat, die der andere Mensch dem Kinde tut, überall das Göttliche lebt. Dieses allgemein Göttliche, das müssen wir in Dankbarkeit empfinden, in Liebe das Kind fühlen lehren durch die selbstverständliche Autorität des Lehrers. Dann bereiten wir uns vor, zu diesem Mysterium von Golgatha gerade zwischen dem neunten und zehnten Jahre die richtige Stellung bekommen zu können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p058"},{"locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p059","passage_number":59,"text":"Da ist es so unendlich wichtig, das Menschenwesen auch hinsichtlich seiner zeitlichen Entwickelung verstehen zu lernen. Versuchen Sie es nur einmal, sich den Unterschied klarzumachen, der besteht, wenn man dem Kinde irgend etwas vom Neuen Testament beibringen will im siebenten und achten Lebensjahre, oder —- nachdem man zunächst aus jedem Naturwesen das Gottesbewußtsein im allgemeinen hat anregen wollen — mit diesem Neuen Testament kommt zwischen dem neunten und zehnten Lebensjahre, um es nachher erst als solches dem Kinde zu entwickeln. 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