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Because we in the West have to live in a much more conscious way than men of the East, we must not adopt the attitude which says: “Whether or not humanity will eventually master this world of Imagination through natural processes can be left to the future.” No—this world of Imagination, because we have passed into the stage of conscious evolution, must be striven for consciously; there must be no coming to a standstill at certain stages. For what happens then? What happens then is that the ever-increasing spread of scepticism from East to West is not met with the right counter-measures, but with measures ultimately due to the fact that the spirit-and-soul unconsciously has united too radically, too deeply, with the physical body and that too firm a connection is made between the spirit-and-soul and the physical body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Und geradeso wie der Morgenländer an seinen Mantren empfunden hat das Hineingehen in die geistige Welt des Außeren, so muß der Abendländer über alle Assoziations-Psychologie hinaus das Hineinschreiten des Menschen in seine eigene Wesenheit dadurch lernen, daß er zur imaginativen Welt kommt. Nur dadurch, daß er zur imaginativen Welt kommt, wird er eine wahre Menschheitserkenntnis erringen. Und diese wahre Menschheitserkenntnis, die muß zum Fortschritte der Menschheit errungen werden. Und weil wir in einer viel bewußteren Weise leben müssen, als die Orientalen gelebt haben, so dürfen wir nicht einfach etwa sagen: Nun, wir können es ja der Zukunft überlassen, ob nicht durch natürliche Vorgänge sich allmählich die Menschheit diese imaginative Welt aneignet — nein, diese imaginative Welt muß, weil wir in das Stadium der bewußten Entwickelung der Menschheit getreten sind, auch bewußt angestrebt werden, und man darf nicht bei gewissen Etappen stehenbleiben. Denn, was geschieht, wenn man auf gewissen Etappen stehenbleibt? Dann setzt man nicht das Richtige dem immer mehr überhandnehmenden Skeptizismus, der von Osten nach Westen zieht, entgegen, sondern dann setzt man dasjenige entgegen, was doch davon herrührt, daß das Geistig-Seelische zu gründlich, zu tief, unbewußt sich verbindet mit dem physischen Leibe, daß gewissermaßen eine zu dichte Verbindung entsteht des Geistig-Seelischen mit dem physischen Leibe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/322/1920-10-02/p018"}],"english":["GA 322/1920-10-02/p034"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":215,"en_words":205,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 322/1920-10-02/p018"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6167,"original_word_count":6029,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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