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But those who pursue these scientific truths in a false, erroneous way will arrive at a materialistic world that may not yet be so unnerving to humanity today, but will certainly be so to future humanity. That is why it is necessary today to show everyone the way to make appropriate use of these scientific truths, insofar as they are accessible. In earlier centuries, this was not the case. Everyone had to undergo a long period of preparation in which their thinking skills, logic, and character were trained. Today, scientific thinking, when applied correctly, is already a training ground for understanding what is being published from the secret science. This scientific thinking can be a blessing for humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-10-10","location":null,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-10-10/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Knowledge of Soul and Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA056/English/eLib2015/19071010p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/56/1907-10-10/p023"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-10-10/p023","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Wer die naturwissenschaftlichen Tatsachen, die heute jedem zugänglich sind, in richtiger Weise aufnimmt und weiterverfolgt, der kommt direkt in die Sphäre des Übersinnlichen und Unsichtbaren. Wer aber diese naturwissenschaftlichen Wahrheiten in falscher, irrtümlicher Weise weiterführt, der kommt zu der die heutige Menschheit vielleicht noch nicht so sehr, aber die zukünftige Menschheit sicher entnervenden, materialistischen Welt. Deshalb besteht heute die Notwendigkeit, jedem den Weg zu zeigen, um von diesen naturwissenschaftlichen Wahrheiten, soweit sie zugänglich sind, auch den geeigneten Gebrauch zu machen. In früheren Jahrhunderten war es nicht so. Jeder mußte eine lange Vorbereitung durchmachen, in der sein Denkvermögen, seine Logik, sein Charakter geschult wurden. Heute ist das naturwissenschaftliche Denken, richtig angewendet, schon eine Schulung dafür, um das, was aus der Geheimwissenschaft veröffentlicht wird, zu verstehen. 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