{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 322/1920-10-03_02/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"For it is far less agreeable to see the true nature of reality with senses that are developed truly spiritually than to read the accounts given by voluptuous mysticism—the only term for it—which in the final analysis only gratifies a refined, inward-looking egotism of soul. As I say, much as this mysticism is to be admired—and I do admire it—the true spiritual scientist must realize that it stops halfway: what is manifest in the splendid poetic imagery of Mechthild of Magdeburg, St. Theresa, and the others is really only what is smelt, tasted, and touched before breaking through into the actual inner realm. Truth is occasionally unpleasant, and at times perhaps even cruel, but modern humanity has no business becoming rickety in soul by following a nebulous, imperfect mysticism. What is required today is to penetrate into man's true inner nature with strength of spirit, with the same strength we have achieved in a much more disciplined way for the external world by pursuing natural science. And it is not in vain that we have achieved this. Natural science must not be undervalued! Indeed, we must seek to acquire the disciplined and methodical side of natural science. And it is precisely when one has assimilated this scientific method that one appreciates the achievements of a nebulous mysticism at their true worth, but one also knows that this nebulous mysticism is not what spiritual science must foster. 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Wie gesagt, so bewundern, wie sie nur irgend sonst bewundert wird, kann ich schon diese Mystik auch, aber wissen muß man als wirklicher Geistesforscher, daß diese Mystik auf halbem Wege stehenbleibt, daß dasjenige, was in den schönen poetischen Bildern der Mechthild von Magdeburg und so weiter zum Vorschein kommt, der heiligen Therese, in Wirklichkeit doch nichts anderes ist als dasjenige, was man erriecht, erschmeckt, ertastet, bevor man zum wirklichen Inneren vordringt. Die Wahrheit ist unter Umständen unangenehm, vielleicht zuweilen grausam. Aber der heutigen Menschheit ziemtes sich nicht, seelisch rachitisch zu werden durch eine nebulose, unvollkommene Mystik. Der heutigen Zeit ziemt es sich allein, mit starker Geisteskraft in das wirkliche, menschliche Innere hineinzukommen, mit jener Stärke, die wir nicht umsonst für die äußere Welt viel mehr diszipliniert erlangt haben in der Naturwissenschaft. Diese Naturwissenschaft wird nicht verkannt. Diese Naturwissenschaft wird aufgenommen gerade nach ihrer disziplinierenden und methodischen Seite hin. 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