{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Perfection lies herein, that a human being learns to penetrate himself/herself through and through with the insight: you should not use the features that make you into an evil human being in physical life, not in this physical life; since as much as you use them here, so much you take away from the empowering characteristics of the soul for the spiritual, so much you need to awaken yourself to the spiritual world. There these characteristics are in their correct place. So we see, as spiritual science shows, that evil and wickedness through their own nature indicate that we must assume a soul-spirit world alongside the physical world. Then why do the human faculties of knowledge of someone like Lotze or other thinkers freeze, when they observe the sense world and say: we cannot penetrate into the origin of evil and wickedness? Because of what is present—a capacity for knowledge that cannot penetrate to the spiritual world—, because it cannot enlighten evil starting from the physical world, because it is a misuse of powers that belong in the spirit world! No wonder also, that no philosopher, who has a viewpoint from the spirit world, can find the essence *of* evil in the physical sense world! And if one has a tendency to penetrate from here into a further world, in order to find the origin of evil, then also does one not come to any knowledge of outer evil, of that which we encounter as badness and imperfect in the outer world, such as for example in the animal world. So, we must be clear, that evil in human behaviour arises from this, that what for a human being is great and perfect in one world, as soon as it is uprooted into another world, it is changed over into its opposite. But when one considers evil independently of humanity in the world, the evil that flows through the animal world, then one has to say: we must then be clear upon this, that not only beings like humans are present, who through their life, bring down what belongs in the spirit world and there is great, and bear them into another world where it is out of place. Other beings must also exist—and a glance onto the animal world shows us also, that apart from humanity other beings must exist, which in the region, where humanity cannot take its evil, now bear their wickedness and so create evil. That means, that we are led by the knowledge of where the source of wickedness lies, at the same time to recognise that not only can humanity insert itself as imperfect in the world, but also that other beings are there, which can bring imperfections into the world. And so we say that it is no longer incomprehensible, when a spiritual researcher says: the world of animals is basically an outer formation of an invisible spirit; but in that spirit world beings are there, which have done before humanity itself, what mankind now does, in that it inserts the spiritual unjustifiably into the physical world. From this all the evil in the animal world has arisen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"meaning_warning":"A sentence of this translation says something the German does not; translation_faults names it, with the German. quote_safe certifies the words, not the meaning: do not quote that sentence as Steiner's meaning. Quote the German or another translation, or quote it only to show the fault.","title":"7. Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-01-15","location":null,"word_count":525,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-01-15/p033","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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Dort sind diese Eigenschaften am rechten Platze.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":71,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p036"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p037","passage_number":37,"text":"So sehen wir, wie die Geisteswissenschaft zeigt, daß das Übel und das Böse durch ihre eigene Natur darauf hinweisen, daß wir neben der physischen Welt eine geistig-seelische Welt annehmen müssen. Denn warum bleibt denn das menschliche Erkenntnisvermögen etwa eines Lotze oder anderer Denker stehen, wenn sie die sinnliche Welt betrachten und sagen: man dringe nicht hinein in den Ursprung des Übels und des Bösen? Weil da das vorliegt — da das Erkenntnisvermögen nicht vordringen will zur geistigen Welt —, daß es das Böse nicht aufklären kann aus der physischen Welt heraus, weil es Mißbrauch ist von Kräften, die in die geistige Welt hineingehören! Was Wunder also, daß kein Philosoph, der von der geistigen Welt absieht, in der physisch-sinnlichen Welt jemals das Wesen des Bösen finden kann! Und wenn man von vornherein abgeneigt ist zu einer weiteren Welt vorzudringen, um in ihr den Ursprung des Bösen zu finden, dann kommt man auch nicht zu einer Erkenntnis des äußeren Übels, desjenigen, was uns als das Schlechte und Unvollkommene in der äußeren Welt, zum Beispiel in der tierischen Welt, begegnet. Wir müssen uns eben klar sein, daß das Übel im menschlichen Handeln dadurch entsteht, daß der Mensch das, was für eine andere Welt ein Großes, ein Vollkommenes ist, gleichsam in eine andere Welt versetzt, wo es in sein Gegenteil verkehrt wird. Wenn man aber das von den Menschen unabhängige Übel in der Welt betrachtet, das Übel, das etwa durch die Tierwelt flutet, dann muß man sagen: Ja, dann müssen wir uns eben darüber klar sein, daß nicht nur Wesen da sind wie die Menschen, welche durch ihr Leben das, was in die geistige Welt hineingehört und dort groß ist, in eine andere Welt hineintragen, wo es deplaciert ist; sondern es muß auch andere Wesen geben — und der Blick auf die Tierwelt zeigt uns eben, daß es außer den Menschen geistige Wesen geben muß, welche auf das Gebiet, wo der Mensch sein Böses nicht hineintragen kann, nun ihr Böses hintragen und so dort das Übel erzeugen. Das heißt, wir werden mit der Erkenntnis, wo der Ursprung des Bösen sitzt, zugleich dazu geführt anzuerkennen, daß nicht nur der Mensch ein Unvollkommenes in die Welt hineinstellen kann, sondern daß auch andere Wesen da sind, welche Unvollkommenheiten in die Welt hineinbringen können. Und so sagen wir uns, daß es nicht mehr unverständlich ist, wenn der Geistesforscher sagt: Die Tierwelt ist im Grunde genommen eine Ausgestaltung einer unsichtbaren Geisteswelt; aber in dieser Geisteswelt waren Wesen da, welche vor dem Menschen dasselbe gemacht haben, was der Mensch jetzt macht, indem er das Geistige unberechtigterweise in die physische Welt hineingezogen hat. 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