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But put a small child down: it cannot move from the spot, cannot feed itself and the like, it cannot do anything! For this, higher beings had to take care of them when humans still had this soft brain. And the consequence of this was that people in those days had no freedom, had no free will. These people had great wisdom, but no free will at all. But in human evolution, free will gradually emerges. For this, the bones and the brain must harden. But with this hardening, the old knowledge takes its downfall. We would not have become free human beings if we had not become stubborn, hard-skulled, and had skulls with hard brains. But we owe our freedom to that. And so the downfall of the old knowledge comes with freedom. That's it. Is it understandable? 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But materialism is not the truth. Therefore, we must come to spiritual knowledge again, even though we have a denser brain today than primitive people did. We can only do this through anthroposophical spiritual science, which comes to knowledge that is independent of the body, that is recognized by the soul alone. The ancient people had their knowledge because their brain was softer, that is, more similar to the soul; and we have our materialism because our brain has become hard and no longer absorbs the soul. Now we have to gain spiritual knowledge with the soul alone, which is not absorbed by the brain. This is what spiritual science does. One comes back to spiritual knowledge. But we are now living in the age in which humanity has bought its freedom through materialism. Therefore, one cannot say that materialism, even if it is untrue, is something bad. 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Aber setzen Sie oder legen Sie einmal ein kleines Kind hin: es kann sich nicht von der Stelle rühren, sich nicht selber ernähren und dergleichen, es kann nichts! Dafür mußte von höheren Wesen gesorgt werden, als die Menschen noch dieses weiche Gehirn hatten. Und die Folge davon war, daß die Menschen dazumal keine Freiheit hatten, keinen freien Willen hatten. Diese Menschen hatten große Weisheit, aber gar keinen freien Willen. Aber in der menschlichen Entwickelung kommt allmählich der freie Wille heraus. Dazu müssen sich die Knochen und das Gehirn verhärten. Aber mit der Verhärtung nimmt wiederum die alte Erkenntnis ihren Untergang. Wir wären keine freien Menschen geworden, wenn wir nicht Dickschädel geworden wären, Hartschädel, Schädel mit den harten Gehirnen bekommen hätten. Aber dem verdanken wir unsere Freiheit. Und so kommt eigentlich der Untergang des alten Wissens mit der Freiheit. Das ist es. Ist es verständlich? (Antwort: Ja) Es kommt mit der Freiheit!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/353/1924-06-25/p031"},{"locus":"GA 353/1924-06-25/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Jetzt aber haben die Menschen, während sie sich auf der einen Seite die Freiheit errungen haben, das alte Wissen verloren, sind dem Materialismus verfallen. Aber der Materialismus ist nicht die Wahrheit. Daher müssen wir wieder zur geistigen Erkenntnis kommen, trotzdem wir heute ein dichteres Gehirn haben als die Urmenschen. Das können wir eben nur durch die anthroposophische Geisteswissenschaft, die zu Erkenntnissen kommt, die vom Körper unabhängig sind, die mit der Seele ganz allein erkannt werden. Die alten Menschen hatten ihre Kenntnise dadurch, daß ihr Gehirn weicher war, das heißt, seelenähnlicher war; und wir haben unseren Materialismus, weil unser Hirn hart geworden ist, die Seele nicht mehr aufnimmt. Nun müssen wir eben mit der Seele allein, die nicht vom Hirn aufgenommen ist, geistige Erkenntnisse gewinnen. Das tut die Geisteswissenschaft. Man kommt wiederum zurück zu den geistigen Erkenntnissen. Aber wir leben jetzt in dem Zeitalter, wo sich die Menschheit durch den Materialismus die Freiheit erkauft hat. Deshalb kann man nicht sagen, daß der Materialismus, wenn er auch die Unwahrheit ist, etwas Schlechtes ist. Der Materialismus, wenn er nicht übertrieben wird, ist eben nichts Schlechtes, sondern durch den Materialismus lernte die Menschheit sehr viel kennen, was sie früher nicht kannte. Das ist es.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/353/1924-06-25/p032"}],"beads":[{"from":[31],"to":[31],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[32],"to":[32],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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