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That is our duty, far more. And that duty is development for humanity, which is *the* law for all other living beings. But evil is using directly in outer life, that which is fitting for spiritual development. These two, outer physical life with its morality must necessarily place a second adjacent world, next to that towards which the soul strives inwardly, if we wish to approach the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-01-15","location":null,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-01-15/p029","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA063/English/eLib2015/19140115p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Geistigen Fortschritt zu suchen ist nicht etwas, wovon wir uns abhalten lassen können. Das ist vielmehr unsere Pflicht. Und Pflicht ist für den Menschen die Entwickelung, die für alle übrigen Lebewesen Gesetz ist. Aber vom Übel ist es, das, was für die geistige Entwickelung ziemt, unmittelbar auf das äußere Leben anzuwenden. 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