{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 56/1907-10-10/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"People who say this do not realize that they themselves are the greatest obstacle to the solution of the question of their hearts. They do not realize that through what is to be given to their minds, their souls will receive precisely what they desire. They do not realize that when they speak in this way, they are rejecting precisely what their souls need. There is nothing that instills the divine in the soul as much as the knowledge of world evolution. If we know that, just as the rainbow breaks down into the seven colors of rainbow light, the human being breaks down into seven members, and we do not harden ourselves against these ideas, then these very ideas are the lifeblood for our soul to overcome what stands in the way of immersion in the spiritual. Objections of this kind are encountered above all in those natures who are just as deeply serious as the desire to find deepening of the soul in a comfortable way allows, and who shy away from penetrating into the real depths of the soul. The secret researcher cannot extract the feeling from people's souls, but must lead them into the spiritual world through knowledge, must show them how, through knowledge, the highest deepening can be attained that one can possibly strive for. A longing for satisfaction of the soul is the greatest enemy of the striving human being. But this is precisely what deters many from theosophy and spiritual research: they do not want to engage in this energetic spiritual work, which is at the same time a refreshment for the soul. There is nothing that can lift the soul up to the divine in this way except knowledge, the self-induced deepening into the spiritual world.","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":294,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-10-10/p032","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/p032"},{"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/p032","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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Wenn wir wissen, daß so, wie der Regenbogen in die sieben Farben des Regenbogenlichtes zerfällt, das Menschenwesen in sieben Glieder zerfällt, und uns nicht gegen diese Ideen verhärten, dann sind gerade diese Ideen das Lebensvolle für unsere Seele, um zu überwinden, was sich der Versenkung in das Geistige entgegenstellt. Einwände dieser Art begegnen Ihnen vor allem bei solchen Naturen, die es gerade so tief meinen, als der Wunsch, auf bequeme Weise die Vertiefung der Seele zu finden, es zuläßt, und die sich scheuen, in die wirkliche Tiefe der Seele einzudringen. Der Geheimforscher kann nicht die Empfindung aus der Seele der Menschen herausholen, sondern er muß die Menschen durch Erkenntnis in die geistige Welt hineinführen, muß ihnen zeigen, wie durch Erkenntnis die höchste Vertiefung zu erlangen ist, die man nur irgendwie anstreben kann. Eine Sehnsucht nach Befriedigung der Seele ist für den strebenden Menschen der größte Feind. Aber das ist es gerade, was viele von der Theosophie und von der Geistesforschung abhält: sie wollen nicht hinein in diese energische Geistesarbeit, die zu gleicher Zeit eine Labsal der Seele ist. 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