{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-02-07/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today, however, there are the most paradoxical prejudices regarding the whole and the details of this spiritual knowledge, which, of course, seem natural and must also be numerous. I will mention only one of them. Two weeks ago, I mentioned that Pastor Rittelmeyer recently wrote a beautiful treatise in Die christliche Welt (The Christian World) from a religious perspective on what spiritual science aims to achieve and how it can become a truly deeper foundation of religious life. From a side that is widely recognized in many circles, objections have now been raised against Pastor Rittelmeyer's remarks, among other things that I do not want to mention here: If the human soul is to rise to a spiritual world, this should in no way happen in such a way that the human being arbitrarily carries his soul into the spiritual world through exercises, but rather it must come about of its own accord. From the point of view of spiritual science, nothing could be more incomprehensible than this. For precisely when this living into the spiritual world comes of its own accord, when it occurs without the human being doing anything to bring it about, the human being does not enter the real spiritual world, but only into the delusion of some ideas that are not spiritual, because the human being is not active but passive in this process. He enters a life that is again dependent on the body, on some organic processes in the body, and then it is pathological, or dependent on mere mental processes, and then it is a delusion, autosuggestion, or the like. Real penetration into the spirit is based precisely on becoming aware that this can only be achieved through activity, through the exercise of one's own innermost human will. It is this alone that carries us into the real spiritual world. So anyone who says it is questionable to require exercises through which human beings are supposed to achieve arbitrarily what can only be given to them as a gift of grace understands nothing of the real essence, of the real meaning of this spiritual science, but also knows nothing of the real spirit, only of that dreamt-up spirit that lives as autosuggestion in the human soul. But today, quite a lot of people know nothing about the real spirit. Therefore, they cannot come to a real contemplation of the eternal, the immortal, and the free in the human soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Human beings as Spiritual and Soul Beings","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-02-07","location":null,"word_count":407,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-02-07/p022","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2018","book_title":"The Eternal in the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA067/English/SOL2018/19180207p01.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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Von einer Seite her, die in weiten Kreisen viel Anerkennung findet, ist nun unter manchem andern, was ich hier nicht erwähnen will, gegen die Ausführungen des Pfarrers Rittelmeyer eingewendet worden: Wenn schon die Menschenseele sich zu einer geistigen Welt erheben soll, so dürfe das auf keine Weise so geschehen, daß der Mensch willkürlich durch Übungen sein Seelisches in die geistige Welt hineinträgt, sondern das müsse von selbst kommen. Man kann, vom geisteswissenschaftlichen Standpunkte betrachtet, nichts Unverständigeres sagen als dieses. Denn gerade, wenn dieses Hineinleben in die geistige Welt von selbst kommt, wenn es auftritt, ohne daß der Mensch etwas dazu tut, kommt der Mensch nicht in die wirkliche geistige Welt hinein, sondern nur in den Wahn irgendwelcher Vorstellungen, die nicht geistig sind, weil der Mensch sich dabei nicht aktiv, sondern passiv verhält. Er kommt zu einem Leben, das schon wiederum abhängig ist vom Leib, von irgendwelchen organischen Vorgängen im Leib, und dann ist es pathologisch, oder abhängig von bloß seelischen Vorgängen, und dann ist es eine Einbildung, eine Autosuggestion oder dergleichen. Gerade darauf beruht das wirkliche Hineindringen in den Geist, daß man gewahr wird, wie das nur erreicht werden kann durch Aktivität, durch Betätigung des eigenen innersten menschlichen Willens. Dieser ist es allein, der uns in die wirkliche geistige Welt hineinträgt. Wer also sagt, es sei bedenklich, daß Übungen verlangt werden, durch die der Mensch auf willkürliche Weise das erreichen soll, was ihm nur wie durch eine Gnade gegeben werden könne, versteht gar nichts von dem eigentlichen Nerv, von der eigentlichen Bedeutung dieser Geisteswissenschaft, der weiß aber auch nichts vom wirklichen Geiste, sondern nur von jenem erträumten Geiste, der als eine Autosuggestion in der menschlichen Seele lebt. Aber es wissen heute recht viele Menschen nichts vom wirklichen Geiste. 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