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For anyone who does not admit that there is something in the will that is just as inwardly conscious as we are conscious in our ordinary physical thinking, anyone who does not admit that there is another, inward man within man, comes, through consistent thinking, to have to say to himself: If I deny that there is something going on in me that relates to me as my view relates to external nature, if I believe that the mere physical organism carries out my will, then I must draw the logical conclusion: then I no longer have to inwardly summon up a will; then I must no longer believe that I can take a step in life through an inwardly but must lie down and wait until my organism walks around in the world and does what I then need only watch. He, then, who does not so deny the volition that he lies down on the sofa and says: I deny the volition, it is anchored in the physical organism, — he believes in this inner spectator. And the next step is only a further development of this conviction, attained directly through true, healthy, inner contemplation, that this spectator is there. Hence the spiritual researcher comes to the realization: I do not really have opponents in reality. People are only ever opponents of themselves. In theory, through their misunderstood concepts, they do not admit what they admit in practice by living. The spiritual researcher simply expresses what lies in every human being's natural world view. And so one will understand more and more that the spiritual researcher expresses nothing other than what people actually unconsciously live as their tangible world view between the lines of life in their ordinary natural life, even if they do not express it out of misunderstanding. This will be understood more and more, especially in the face of spiritual science. Then spiritual science will no longer appear as something strange, but as the self-evident explanation and as the self-evident spiritualization that one needs for life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. 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Denn wer nicht zugibt, daß im Willen etwas steckt, was ebenso innerlich bewußt ist, wie wir bewußt sind in unserem gewöhnlichen physischen Denken, wer nicht zugibt, daß da ein weiterer, innerlicher Mensch im Menschen drinnen steckt, kommt durch konsequentes Denken dazu, sich sagen zu müssen: Leugne ich, daß sich da etwas in mir vollzieht, was sich zu mir verhält, wie meine Anschauung sich in der Tat zur äußeren Natur verhält, glaube ich, daß der bloße physische Organismus mein Wollen vollzieht, dann muß ich die Konsequenz daraus ziehen: dann muß ich mich nicht mehr innerlich zu einem Wollen aufraffen, dann muß ich nicht daran glauben, ich könnte einen Schritt im Leben durch einen innerlich geistig gefaßten Antrieb machen, sondern ich muß mich hinlegen und warten, bis mein Organismus in der Welt herumwandelt und dasjenige tut, dem ich dann bloß zuzuschauen brauche, Wer also das Wollen nicht so leugnet, daß er sich auf den Diwan hinlegt und sagt: Ich leugne das Wollen, das ist im physischen Organismus verankert, — der glaubt an diesen inneren Zuschauer. Und das andere ist dann nur ein Weiterentwickeln dieser unmittelbar durch wahres, gesundes, inneres Sichversenken erlangten Überzeugung, daß dieser Zuschauer da ist. Daher kommt der Geistesforscher zu der Einsicht: Gegner habe ich eigentlich gar nicht in Wirklichkeit. Gegner sind die Menschen immer nur von sich selber. Sie geben in der Theorie, durch ihre mißverstandenen Begriffe nicht zu, was sie praktisch, indem sie leben, zugeben. Der Geistesforscher spricht einfach aus, was in jedes Menschen natürlicher Weltauffassung liegt. Und so wird man immer mehr und mehr einsehen, daß der Geistesforscher nichts anderes ausspricht, als was die Menschen eigentlich im gewöhnlichen natürlichen Leben zwischen den Zeilen des Lebens unbewußt als ihre greifbare Weltanschauung darleben, wenn sie es auch aus Mißverständnis nicht aussprechen. Das wird man immer mehr und mehr gerade gegenüber der Geisteswissenschaft einsehen. Dann wird Geisteswissenschaft nicht mehr als etwas Absonderliches erscheinen, sondern als die selbstverständliche Erklärung und als die selbstverständliche Durchgeistigung, die man für das Leben braucht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":350,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1915-12-10/p023"}],"english":["GA 65/1915-12-10/p023"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":350,"en_words":360,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":11977,"original_word_count":11532,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From Central European Intellectual Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA065/English/SOL2024/19151210p01.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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