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It will become increasingly necessary for humanity to develop inner elasticity, inner gymnastics, so to speak — if I may use the expression: inner “dancing” of the powers of judgment in subtle inner activity. Spiritual science will have to bring this to humanity as a gift of life. A way of thinking that carries the power of truth within itself, which human beings will need in the face of an increasingly complex future, is a gift that spiritual science can give to humanity. For this reason, we will have to accustom ourselves to developing an understanding of what can only be grasped inwardly, because through spiritual science we ally ourselves with the inwardly living truth, which does not allow itself to be pressured from outside to judge, but is enlivened by the living power of truth, just as the organism is inwardly enlivened by the living power of blood. And just as the organism is enlivened by the living power of the blood and, through it, breathes in the right relationship to the outside world, so spiritual science will give human beings the ability to be lived through by the inner living truth as by a spiritual-soul heart that breathes in the surrounding world, where the spiritual must be inhaled in order to make the soul so healthy, capable and strong that it can counteract the inner breath with what makes it a free inner organic force, the force that pulsates in the blood.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. 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Immer mehr wird es für die Menschheit notwendig sein, innere Elastizität, gleichsam inneres Turnen — wenn ich den Ausdruck gebrauchen darf: inneres «Tanzen» der Urteilskräfte in feiner innerer Tätigkeit zu entwickeln. Das wird als ein Lebensgut die Geisteswissenschaft der Menschheit zu bringen haben. Ein Denken, welches die Kraft der Wahrheit in sich selber trägt, das der Mensch brauchen wird der komplizierter werdenden Zukunft gegenüber, das ist ein Lebensgut, das die Geisteswissenschaft der Menschheit geben kann. Und zwar aus dem Grunde wird man sich gewöhnen müssen, Verständnis für das zu entwickeln, was nur innerlich erfaßt werden kann, weil man sich damit durch die Geisteswissenschaft verbündet mit der innerlich lebendigen Wahrheit, die sich zum Urteilen nicht von außen drängen läßt, sondern die belebt ist von der lebendigen Kraft der Wahrheit; wie der Organismus innerlich von der lebendigen Kraft des Blutes belebt ist. Und wie der Organismus von der lebendigen Kraft des Blutes belebt wird und durch dieselbe im rechten Verhältnis atmend zur Außenwelt steht, so wird die Geisteswissenschaft dem Menschen die Fähigkeit geben, von der innerlich lebendigen Wahrheit wie von einem geistig-seelischen Herzen durchlebt zu sein, das in der Welt der Umgebung da atmet, wo Geistiges eingeatmet werden muß, um die Seele so gesund, so leistungsfähig und stark zu machen, daß sie der inneren Atemluft das entgegenstellen kann, was sie zu einer freien inneren organischen Kraft macht, zu der Kraft, die im Blute pulsiert.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":332,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-04-23/p026"}],"english":["GA 63/1914-04-23/p026"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":332,"en_words":353,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9309,"original_word_count":9008,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","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/eLib2015/19140423p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 63/1914-04-23/p026"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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