{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1916-02-26_02/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What stands in the way of this is what can truly be called nothing more than the inner weakness of the human being that has been produced by today's education. Weakness, that is what holds man back from taking hold of his inner being in the same way that one takes hold of something with one's hands. It is a foolish expression to say, but let us say it, to take hold of one's inner being in such a way that it is really active inwardly, as it would be if one first created hands to touch the table. So he creates his inner being to touch what is spiritual, and with the spiritual he touches spiritual. It is weakness, then, that keeps men from penetrating to real spiritual research. And it is weakness that gives rise to the misunderstandings that stand in the way of spiritual research: inward weakness of soul, an inability to see the possibility of reshaping the inwardly material into inwardly spiritual organs in order to grasp the spiritual world (because we still have traces of Faustism). That is one thing.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"11. 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Schwäche also ist es, die die Menschen abhält, zum wirklichen Geistesforschen vorzudringen. Und Schwäche ist es, welche die Mißverständnisse hervorruft, die der Geistesforschung entgegenstehen, - innerliche, seelische Schwäche, keine Möglichkeit vor Augen zu sehen da man noch in Faustizismus hineinragt -, innerlich Wirkliches zu innerlich geistigen Organen umzubilden, um die geistige Welt zu ergreifen. 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