{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-04-18/p049","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"So you see how truly a spiritual science arises in anthroposophy. You just have to bear in mind that anthroposophy is not about practising superstition. So, for example, when people find something extraordinary reported somewhere about spiritual things, they start saying: That's how it is when a spiritual world betrays itself. - But the spiritual world betrays itself in people! When people sit around a table and make it knock, they say: There must be a ghost in it. But when four people sit around, there are four ghosts! You just have to get to know them! But on the contrary, you'd rather knock people unconscious; there must be a medium among them. Look at the newspaper clipping you gave me a few weeks ago. For example, it describes how somewhere in England people were very much alarmed because during the night things fell off the racks, window panes were smashed, and so on. “Spiritual demons must be at work,” said the people. - What struck me most about the story - even though one can only say more precisely when one has seen it - but what struck me most about the story was that it was also mentioned that the people had a whole army of cats! Now, if you have a whole army of cats, and two or three of them get rabies, you should see how these “ghostly apparitions” all go! But as I said, you would have to know the details first; only then can you go into it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. 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Sie müssen eben beachten, daß gerade Anthroposophie nicht darauf aus ist, Aberglaube zu treiben. Also wenn zum Beispiel die Leute irgendwo etwas Außerordentliches über spiritistische Dinge gemeldet finden, dann fangen sie an zu sagen: Das ist doch so, wie wenn sich eine geistige Welt verraten würde. - Aber im Menschen verrät sich die geistige Welt! Wenn sich die Menschen um einen Tisch herumsetzen und den ins Klopfen bringen, dann sagen sie: Da muß ein Geist drinnensitzen. - Aber wenn vier Menschen herumsitzen, sind ja vier Geister da! Man muß sie nur kennenlernen! Da macht man aber im Gegenteil die Menschen lieber bewußtlos; da muß ein Medium dabei sein. Sehen Sie sich den Zeitungsabschnitt an, den Sie mir vor einigen Wochen gegeben haben. Da ist zum Beispiel beschrieben, wie irgendwo in England die Leute in volle Aufregung gekommen sind, weil in der Nacht die Sachen von den Ständern herunterfielen, Fensterscheiben eingeschlagen wurden und so weiter. Da müssen geistige Dämonen wirken, sagten die Leute. - Mir war am auffälligsten bei der Geschichte - wenn man auch Genaueres erst sagen kann, wenn man es gesehen hat -, aber mir war am auffälligsten bei der Geschichte, daß da auch erwähnt worden ist, daß die Leute ein ganzes Heer von Katzen hatten! Nun, wenn man ein ganzes Heer von Katzen hat, und zwei oder drei davon tollwütig werden, da sollten Sie sehen, wie diese «Geistererscheinungen» alle vor sich gehen! 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