2. Human beings as Spiritual and Soul Beings

GA 67/1918-02-07/p021 ·1918-02-07 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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It is difficult to speak about these things so impartially today. Only if one feels committed to the knowledge of truth in a certain sense does one do so. For it is, of course, widely believed that such things as have now been expressed are not based on a truly scientific spirit, but on some kind of fantasy or reverie. Only slowly and gradually will humanity learn that this is not fantasy or reverie, but rather a methodical investigation of the spiritual, albeit one that proceeds in a different way than that of natural science. Humanity will learn this in the same way that it once recognized the Copernican worldview, which was also considered fantasy and reverie, as truth. Certain confessions did indeed take until 1822 to accept this Copernican worldview as truth. Hopefully, it will not take so long to recognize these spiritual truths, also for social reasons that cannot be mentioned here today, but which will be mentioned in the lecture I will give in this cycle on the historical life of humanity.

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