{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 64/1915-01-15/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In a few brief strokes, I tried to show that spiritual science can become a real elixir of life for the soul. And anyone who follows the course of German intellectual life can recognize from the inner nature and essence of this intellectual life itself that this intellectual life is a preparation for the recognition of a real, living spiritual science. What was presented yesterday as the Germanic soulfulness, as the German spiritual life, is, so to speak, a tournament of spiritual forces, in order to arrive at that which can still be achieved — which can be achieved in particular by the whole national soul having strengthened itself by first striving to gain such knowledge, conceptions and ideas, as was spoken of yesterday. All this was a strengthening for a new life. But in life everything is in a living inner connection. Therefore, it may be regarded as justified to believe that what has emerged in German intellectual life as a preparatory, life-strengthening spiritual knowledge, what has been shown in the forces that have been developed by the soul, that it not only lives in German philosophy and literature, but that it lives in the innermost roots of the German national strength. That is the peculiar thing about the strength of the German people: that, wherever we follow German art, German literature, German philosophy, it never appears to us as if it were only a superficial phenomenon, but as if it were constantly emerging from the depths of life. We can look at the finest achievements of German intellectual life, as it appears to us, for example, in the refined way in which Novalis presents it, and we will always find: There is a stream flowing from this refined life down to the roots of the nation. Hegelian philosophy is certainly for most people a mental exercise that they flee because it is difficult to find their way into the crystal-clear, crystal-cold trains of thought; but as crystal-clear and crystal-cold as these trains of thought But however crystal clear and cold these trains of thought may be, there is a path leading from what appears to be so abstract down to the roots of the folklore from which those forces flow that, in the East and West, constitute our hope for a complete rescue of the German existence against the attacking enemies. In a living organism – and such a living organism is what we call the German spirit – everything belongs together. And when it is said that other nations are now united, it must always be emphasized, as has been emphasized here many times before: What often appears to us to be the same in different areas of existence is not always the same. In that in which we hope, in the German essence, what now unites and strengthens the German essence and calls for selfless action, there lives – even if still unconsciously – that power that is to bubble forth in the spirit-inspired recognition that awakens and furthers life; and because this power lives in it, unconsciously, it now breathes the magic breath of unity into the deed of the German people. Therefore, we may hope that this unity will indeed bring about in action what the German spirit wills in its germinal power. And it is nothing else that the German spirit wills but to recognize in unity the physical and spiritual world, to recognize in unity and to order in unity all life from the knowledge of the spirit, of the spiritual world as well as of the physical world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. 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Es ist das, was gestern als germanische Seelenhaftigkeit, als deutsches Geistesleben dargestellt worden ist, gleichsam ein Turnier der geistigen Kräfte, um zu demjenigen hinzukommen, was noch errungen werden kann — was insbesondere dadurch errungen werden kann, daß die ganze Volksseele sich gestärkt hat, indem sie zuerst danach gestrebt hat, solche Erkenntnisse, Vorstellungen und Ideen zu gewinnen, von denen gestern gesprochen worden ist. Eine Stärkung zu einem neuen Leben war dies alles. Aber im Leben steht alles in einem lebendigen inneren Zusammenhang. Daher darf der Glaube als berechtigt angesehen werden, daß dasjenige, was als eine vorbereitende, zum Leben stärkende Geist-Erkenntnis im deutschen Geistesleben hervorgetreten ist, was da an die Seele ausbildenden Kräften sich gezeigt hat, daß es nicht nur etwa in deutscher Philosophie und Literatur lebt, sondern daß es lebt in den innersten Wurzeln der deutschen Volkskraft. Das ist ja das Eigenartige der deutschen Volkskraft, daß sie uns, wo wir die deutsche Kunst, die deutsche Literatur, die deutsche Philosophie verfolgen, niemals so erscheint, als ob sie nur ein Schaum an der Oberfläche des Lebens wäre, sondern wie wenn sie immer wieder aus den Untergründen, aus den Bodenständen des Lebens hervordringen würde. Wir können auf die feinsten Leistungen des deutschen Geisteslebens blicken, wie es uns zum Beispiel in verfeinerter Weise bei Novalis entgegentritt, wir werden immer finden: Es geht ein Strom von diesem verfeinerten Leben hinunter bis in die Wurzeln des Volkstums. Hegelsche Philosophie ist gewiß für die meisten Menschen eine Geistesübung, die sie fliehen, weil es schwierig ist, sich in die kristallklaren, kristallkalten Gedankengänge hineinzufinden; aber so kristallklar und kristallkalt diese Gedankengänge auch sind, es gibt einen Weg von dem, was so abstrakt erscheint, bis hinunter zu den Wurzeln des Volkstums, aus dem jene Kräfte fließen, die im Osten und Westen unsere Hoffnung ausmachen auf eine völlige Rettung der deutschen Existenz gegen die anstürmenden Feinde. In einem lebendigen Organismus — und ein solcher lebendiger Organismus ist das, was wir als deutsches Geisteswesen bezeichnen —, gehört alles zusammen. Und wenn gesagt wird, daß auch andere Völker jetzt einig sind, so muß immer betont werden, was schon früher öfter hier betont worden ist: Was uns oft als dasselbe auf den verschiedenen Gebieten des Daseins entgegentritt, ist nicht immer dasselbe. In demjenigen, worauf wir hoffen, im deutschen Wesen, was das deutsche Wesen jetzt eint und stärkt und zu selbstlosem Tun aufruft, in dem lebt — wenn auch noch unbewußt — jene Kraft, die hervorsprudeln soll in dem lebenweckenden und lebenfördernden Geist-Erkennen; und weil diese Kraft darin lebt, unbewußt, ahnungsvoll, so haucht sie jetzt den Zauberhauch der Einheit in der Tat des deutschen Volkes aus. Daher dürfen wir hoffen, daß diese Einheit in der Tat das zeitigen werde, wohin in seiner Keimeskraft der deutsche Geist will. Und nichts anderes ist es, wohin der deutsche Geist will, als in Einheit erkennen physische und geistige Welt, in Einheit erkennen und in Einheit ordnen aus der Geist-Erkenntnis heraus alles Leben, der geistigen Welt wie der physischen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":543,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-01-15/p031"}],"english":["GA 64/1915-01-15/p031"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":543,"en_words":597,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9274,"original_word_count":8779,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Fateful Time","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA064/English/SOL2024/19150115p01.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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