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[But if there are such truths that existed before, before the ego, and the ego grasps them independently of the external world, then realizes them in the world, that is a truth that we can recognize as one of selfhood and at the same time of selflessness.] If there are such truths that, on the one hand, can be conceived before all sensual reality and yet are realized, not in machines and daily activities; but if we enact the truth independently of the external world and then see it realized in this external world; if the truth that presents itself to us as pre-thought can at the same time show itself to be formed entirely according to the pattern of the postulated truth: Such a truth would be one that particularly cultivates both sides of the self. Do such truths exist? It is precisely such truths that Theosophy or spiritual science seeks to provide for modern humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXXI. The Mission of Truth","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-12-06","location":null,"word_count":229,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68c/1909-12-06/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Goethe and the Present","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068c/English/SOL2024/19091206p01.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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[Wenn es nun aber solche Wahrheiten gibt, die vorher da waren, vor dem Ich, und das Ich erfasst sie unabhängig von der äußeren Welt, verwirklicht sie dann auch in der Welt, so ist das eine Wahrheit, die wir als eine der Selbstigkeit und zugleich der Selbstlosigkeit anerkennen können.] Wenn es solche Wahrheiten gibt, die auf der einen Seite vor aller sinnlichen Wirklichkeit gedacht sein können und die dennoch sich verwirklichen, nicht in Maschinen und täglichen Verrichtungen; sondern wenn wir die Wahrheit erlassen unabhängig von der äußeren Welt und sie dann in dieser äußeren Welt verwirklicht sehen; wenn die Wahrheit, die uns als vorgedachte sich ergibt, sich zu gleicher Zeit zeigen kann als ganz nach dem Muster der nachgedachten Wahrheit gebildet: Solch eine Wahrheit wäre eine die beiden Seiten des Ichs besonders kultivierende. Gibt es solche Wahrheiten? 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