{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1914-05-08/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Dear attendees, I pointed out that when a person frees their soul from the body through concentration and meditation, they experience something that can be called inner facial expressions, inner gestures, inner physiognomy. By experiencing this, human beings already experience in this life what will then completely surround the soul in the spiritual world after death. Knowledge of the spiritual world enters this world, and the soul recognizes itself by finding itself rooted in its true essence in the spiritual world. It is understandable that there is little understanding for these debates in our present time; when we look at our present, we understand this. Yes, what do people pay most attention to today? I would like to use a trivial comparison: an advertisement on a billboard announces “A lecture with slides.” Next to it is an advertisement for a lecture without slides. Which lecture do people feel most inclined to attend? Well, the one where they can passively indulge themselves, where they don't need to be active, where everything is presented so beautifully in pictures. Spiritual science cannot proceed in this way. Although what is seen in the spirit could also be presented in pictures, I have only tried to work through the mere word, which can affect thinking and feeling. Spiritual science can only count on the active cooperation of the soul. We have had to experience in our time that an article appeared in a significant weekly magazine in which the following was said: When you read Spinoza and Kant, yes, the concepts get mixed up. You can't make sense of it. This is true for many people today. But the philosopher now makes a suggestion: Why shouldn't we also make use of a new technical achievement here? Make a film! Sit down in front of a film and watch Spinoza being presented to you, first how he begins to grind lenses, then how thoughts arise in him, how his philosophy develops, and so on and so forth. All you have to do is passively surrender yourself; thoughts no longer swirl around in your head. That is in keeping with the taste of our time! In a slide show, one would see how Spinoza's “Ethics” and Kant's “Critique of Pure Reason” came into being. People would go to such a lecture.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-05-08","location":null,"word_count":384,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p038","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":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19140508p01.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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Es ragt herein in diese Welt das Wissen von der geistigen Welt, und die Seele erkennt sich selbst, indem sie sich findet in ihrer wahren Wesenheit wurzelnd in der geistigen Welt. Man darf sagen: Begreiflich ist es, dass nur wenig Verständnis zu finden ist für diese Auseinandersetzungen in unserer Gegenwart; wenn wir auf unsere Gegenwart hinschauen, so begreifen wir das. Ja, worauf sehen heute die Menschen am meisten? Einen trivialen Vergleich will ich gebrauchen: An einer Anschlagsäule steht angekündigt «Ein Vortrag mit Lichtbildern». Daneben wird angezeigt ein Vortrag ohne Lichtbilder. Zu welchem Vortrag fühlen die Menschen am meisten Lust? Nun, zu dem, wo sie sich passiv hingeben können, wo sie nicht tätig zu sein brauchen, wo alles so schön in Bildern vorgeführt wird. Geisteswissenschaft kann nicht so vorgehen. Obwohl das, was im Geiste geschaut wird, auch in Bildern vorgeführt werden könnte, habe ich nur versucht, durch das bloße Wort zu wirken, das auf das Denken und Fühlen wirken kann. Geisteswissenschaft kann nur mit einem aktiven Mitarbeiten der Seele rechnen. Haben wir es doch in unserer Zeit erleben müssen, dass in einer bedeutsamen Wochenschrift ein Artikel erschien, in dem ungefähr Folgendes gesagt wird: Wenn man Spinoza und Kant liest, ja, da gehen einem die Begriffe durcheinander. Da kommt man nicht zurecht. - Das gilt für viele Menschen der Gegenwart. Der Philosoph macht aber nun einen Vorschlag: Warum sollen wir nicht auch hier eine neue technische Errungenschaft verwerten? Man macht einen Film! - Man stellt sich einem Film gegenüber, dann kann man sich Spinoza vorführen lassen, zuerst wie er beginnt, Gläser zu schleifen, dann, wie Gedanken in ihm auftauchen, wie seine Philosophie entsteht und so weiter, und so weiter. Man braucht sich nur passiv hinzugeben, die Gedanken wirbeln nicht mehr in einem herum. Das ist im Geschmack unserer Zeit! Man würde in einem Lichtbildervortrag sehen, wie Spinozas «Ethik», wie Kants «Kritik der reinen Vernunft» entsteht. 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