{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p026-p032","extent":"range","passage_number":26,"through":32,"paragraph_count":7,"first_locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p026","last_locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"III. The Mission of Truth","date":"1909-10-22","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"C. Davy and C. von Arnim","identified_edition":"RSP1983","book_title":"Metamorphoses of the Soul I","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA058/English/RSP1983/19091022p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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He had no interest in going beyond the beautiful to that which manifests through it. So his aesthetics were as one-sided as Solger’s. Every striving for truth can be vitiated if the seeker fails to recognise that he must first endeavour to get away from himself. This can be achieved only gradually; but the primary, inexorable demand is, that if we are to advance towards truth we must leave ourselves out of account and quite forget ourselves. 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Whenever he wants to force on others something he thinks right and loses his temper over it, that is an expression of his self-seeking. This self-seeking must be subdued before he can attain to truth. Truth is something we experience in our most inward being—and yet it liberates us increasingly from ourselves. Of course, it is essential that nothing save the love of truth should enter into our striving for it. If passions, instincts and desires, from which the Sentient Soul must be cleansed before the Intellectual Soul can strive for truth, come into it, they will prevent a man from getting away from himself and will keep his Ego tied to a fixed viewpoint. In the search for truth, the only passion that must not be discarded is love.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/58/1909-10-22/p027","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-10-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":230,"en_words":151,"ratio":0.66,"partial":true},"correspondence":"partial","note":"PARTIAL CORRESPONDENCE. The aligner paired 1 German passage(s) with 1 English, but the English side holds only ~66% of the German side's length (151 vs 230 words). One or more of the German passages above is likely NOT represented in this translation at all. Do not treat the English as carrying their content: read the German passages directly, and if you need to quote, quote the German. 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It is only in the realm of mathematics that humanity in general has reached the goal of truth, for here men have curbed their passions and desires and kept them out of the way. Why are all men agreed that three times three makes nine and not ten? Because no emotion comes into it, Men would agree on the highest truths if they had gone as far with them as they have with mathematics. The truths of mathematics are grasped in the inmost soul, and because they are grasped in this way, we possess them. We would still possess them if a hundred or a thousand people were to contradict us; we would still know that three times three makes nine because we have grasped this fact inwardly. If the hundred or thousand people who take a different view were to get away from themselves, they would come to the same truth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/58/1909-10-22/p028","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-10-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p020"},{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":337,"en_words":270,"ratio":0.8,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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We understand one another in the field of reckoning and counting because here we have met the conditions required. Peace, concord and harmony will prevail among men to the extent that they find truth. That is the essential thing: that we should seek for truth as something to be found only in our own deepest being; and should know that truth ever and again draws men together, because from the innermost depth of every human soul its light shines forth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/58/1909-10-22/p029","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-10-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p020"},{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":337,"en_words":270,"ratio":0.8,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Truth is a precursor we must cherish, while the other precursor, anger, that we came to know yesterday, must be overcome if we are to be led by it away from selfishness. That is the mission of truth: to become the object of increasing love and care and devotion on our part. Inasmuch as we devote ourselves inwardly to truth, our true self gains in strength and will enable us to cast off self-interest. Anger weakens us; truth strengthens us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/58/1909-10-22/p030","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-10-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":234,"en_words":191,"ratio":0.82,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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If man fails to get away from himself and his desires and prefers something else to her, she takes immediate revenge. The English poet Coleridge has rightly indicated how a man should stand towards truth. If, he says, a man loves Christianity more than truth, he will soon find that he loves his own Christian sect more than Christianity, and then he will find that he loves himself more than his sect.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":91,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/58/1909-10-22/p031","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-10-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":234,"en_words":191,"ratio":0.82,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Directly man prefers himself and his own opinions to the truth, he becomes anti-social and alienates himself from the human community. Look at people who make no attempt to love truth for its own sake but parade their own opinions as the truth: they care for nothing but the content of their own souls and are the most intolerant. Those who love truth in terms of their own views and opinions will not suffer anyone to reach truth along a quite different path. They put every obstacle in the way of anyone with different abilities, who comes to opinions unlike their own. Hence the conflicts that so often arise in life. 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Er hatte nur einen Sinn für das, was sich ergab an Symmetrie und Antisymmetrie, an Einklang und Mißklang. Er hatte keinen Sinn dafür, von dem Schönen zurückzugehen auf dasjenige, was in dem Schönen erscheint. So wurde seine Ästhetik ebenfalls einseitig, ähnlich der Ästhetik Solgers. Alles Wahrheitsstreben kann leiden dadurch, daß der Mensch nicht Rücksicht nimmt darauf, daß er zum Wahrheitsstreben von sich loskommen muß. Von sich loskommen kann der Mensch nur nach und nach. Aber das ist das Auszeichnende der Wahrheit, daß sie im strengsten Sinne fordert, daß man von sich ganz absieht und alles vergißt, wenn man durch sie weiterrücken will. Sie hat also eine Eigenschaft, welche sie unterscheidet von allem übrigen, nämlich die, daß man ganz in sich sein kann, in seinem Ich leben kann, in seinem Wahrheitsstreben, und dennoch etwas gewinnt in seinem Ich — wenn man dieses Leben im Ich durchmacht -, was im Grunde genommen mit dem egoistischen Ich nichts zu tun hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p018"},{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Wenn der Mensch in seinem Streben in der Welt etwas hat, wo er sich durchsetzen will, dann ist es sein Egoismus. Wenn er etwas tun will, was er für das Richtige hält und das gegen jemand durchsetzen will und dabei in Zorn entflammt, dann ist das ein Ausdruck der Selbstsucht. Dieser Ausdruck der Selbstsucht muß gebändigt werden, wenn er zur Wahrheit aufsteigen will. Wahrheit ist also etwas, was wir im Innersten erleben. Und dennoch, obwohl wir sie in uns selbst erleben, kommen wir dadurch immer mehr und mehr los von unserem Selbste durch sie. Dazu ist allerdings nötig, daß in das Streben nach Wahrheit sich wirklich nichts anderes hineinmischt als die Liebe zur Wahrheit selber. Wenn sich Leidenschaften, Triebe und Begierden, von denen die Empfindungsseele erst geläutert und gereinigt werden muß, bevor die Verstandesseele nach Wahrheit streben kann, hineinmischen, so kann der Mensch nicht los von sich; denn diese machen es, daß sein Ich sich auf einen bestimmten Gesichtspunkt stellt. Daher wird sich die Wahrheit nur dem ergeben, der versucht, bei ihrer Auffindung Leidenschaften, Begierden und Triebe in sich zu überwinden und sie nicht mitsprechen zu lassen. Liebe darf die einzige Leidenschaft sein, die beim Aufsuchen der Wahrheit nicht abgestreift werden muß. Die Wahrheit ist ein hohes Ziel. Das zeigt sich daran, daß sie sich dem Menschen heute in der eben geforderten Form nur ergibt auf einem eingeschränkten äußeren Gebiete.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p019"},{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Nur auf dem Gebiete der Mathematik, des Rechnens und Zählens hat die Menschheit im allgemeinen heute dieses Ziel erreicht, weil dieses das Gebiet ist, wo der Mensch seine Leidenschaften, Triebe und Begierden gezügelt hat und nicht mitsprechen läßt. Warum sind alle Menschen darüber einig, daß drei mal drei gleich neun und nicht gleich zehn ist? Weil sie, wenn sie darüber entscheiden, ihre Leidenschaften, Triebe und Begierden zum Stillstand gebracht haben. Bei dieser einfachen Sache, bei der Mathematik, hat es die Menschheit heute schon dahin gebracht, Leidenschaften, Triebe und Begierden schweigen zu lassen. Wenn sie es nicht dahin gebracht hätte, würde manche Hausfrau recht gerne haben, daß sie neun Groschen für eine Mark geben kann. Da würden die Leidenschaften mitreden. Das ist eben notwendig für jegliches Aufsuchen der Wahrheit, daß wir die Triebe und Begierden schweigen lassen. Die Menschen würden in bezug auf die höchsten Wahrheiten zur Einigkeit kommen, wenn sie in bezug auf diese höchsten Wahrheiten soweit wären, wie sie in bezug auf diese Wahrheit auf dem Gebiete der Mathematik schon sind. Aber diese Wahrheiten sind etwas, was wir in der innersten Seele erfassen, und dadurch, daß wir sie so erfassen, haben wir sie. Wenn hundert oder gar tausend und mehr Menschen uns widersprechen, wir haben sie doch und wissen, daß drei mal drei gleich neun ist, weil wir sie in unserem Innersten erfaßt haben. Würden die hundert und tausend Menschen, welche anderer Meinung sind, sich unabhängig machen von sich selber, so würden sie zu derselben Wahrheit kommen. Was ist also der Weg zum gegenseitigen Verständnis und zur menschlichen Einigkeit? Wir verstehen uns auf dem Gebiete des Rechnens und Zählens, weil wir das Geforderte hier erreicht haben; in demselben Maße, wie wir die Wahrheit finden, herrscht Friede, Eintracht und Harmonie unter den Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p020"},{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Das ist das Wesentliche, daß wir die Wahrheit als etwas zu erfassen suchen, was sich uns nur in unserem tiefsten Selbste ergibt; und daß die Wahrheit etwas ist, was die Menschen immer wieder zusammenführt, weil sie aus dem Tiefinnersten der Seele jedem Menschen entgegenleuchtet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":44,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p021"},{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"So ist die Wahrheit die Führerin der Menschen zur Einigkeit und zum gegenseitigen Verständnis. Damit ist sie auch die Vorbereiterin von Gerechtigkeit und Liebe, eine Vorbereiterin, die wir gerade pflegen sollen; während wir den andern Vorboten, den wir gestern kennengelernt haben, besiegen müssen, wenn er uns über die Selbstsucht hinausführen soll. Das ist die Mission der Wahrheit, daß wir sie immer mehr und mehr lieben und aufnehmen dürfen, und daß wir sie in uns selbst pflegen sollen. Indem wir uns in unserem Selbste der Wahrheit ergeben, wird es selbst immer stärker, und wir werden gerade dadurch loskommen von dem Selbste: Je mehr wir Zorn im Selbste entwickeln, desto schwächer machen wir es, und je mehr wir Wahrheit in dem Selbste entwickeln, um so stärker machen wir das Selbst. Die Wahrheit ist eine strenge Göttin, die deshalb auch fordert, daß sie in den Mittelpunkt einer alleinigen Liebe in unserem Selbst gestellt wird. In dem Moment, wo man nicht loskommt von sich selber und etwas anderes ihr gegenüberstellt, etwas anderes höher stellt als sie, rächt sie sich sofort. Der englische Dichter Coleridge hat einen Ausspruch getan, der bezeichnend sein kann dafür, wie der Mensch sich zur Wahrheit zu stellen hat. Er sagt: Wer das Christentum mehr liebt als die Wahrheit, der wird bald sehen, daß er seine christliche Sekte mehr liebt als das Christentum, und er wird sehen, daß er sich mehr liebt als seine Sekte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":234,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p022"},{"locus":"GA 58/1909-10-22/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"In diesem Ausspruche liegt wirklich ungeheuer viel; darinnen liegt vor allem, daß ein der Wahrheit entgegen gerichtetes Streben gerade zum Egoismus, zu einer den Menschen herabdrückenden Selbstsucht führt. Wahrheit, sie kann die einzige Liebe sein, die das Ich von sich losbringt. Und in dem Augenblick, wo man ihr etwas vorzieht, wird man in gleichem Maße finden, daß man der Selbstsucht verfällt. Das ist es, was man zu erwarten hat, wenn man die Wahrheit geringer achtet als etwas anderes. Das ist der strenge Ernst, aber auch das Große und Bedeutsame an der Mission der Wahrheit für die Erziehung der menschlichen Seele. Die Wahrheit richtet sich nach niemand, und finden kann sie nur derjenige, der sich ihr ergibt. Das können wir daran ersehen, daß in dem Augenblick, wo der Mensch nicht um der Wahrheit willen liebt, sondern um seiner selbst willen, weil er sich an seine Meinungen hängt, daß der Mensch in diesem Augenblicke als ein antisoziales Wesen wirkt, das immer fort und fort herausstrebt aus der menschlichen Gemeinsamkeit. Sehen wir einmal hin auf diejenigen, die nicht danach streben, die Wahrheit um der Wahrheit willen zu lieben, die eine bestimmte Anzahl von Ansichten zu ihrer Wahrheit gemacht haben: sie lieben nichts als den Besitz ihrer Seele. Diese Menschen werden die intolerantesten sein. Diejenigen Menschen, die die Wahrheit ihrer eigenen Anschauungen und Meinungen wegen lieben, das sind jene, welche nicht dulden wollen, daß ein anderer zum Wahrheitsuchen auf ganz anderem Wege geht. Daraus ergeben sich dann die Lebenskonflikte. Sie sind diejenigen, die jedem Steine in den Weg werfen, der andere Anlagen hat als sie und daher zu anderen Meinungen kommt, als sie haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":270,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/58/1909-10-22/p023"}],"beads":[{"from":[26],"to":[18],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[27],"to":[19],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[28,29],"to":[20,21],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[30,31],"to":[22],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[32],"to":[23],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}