{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69e/1913-01-03/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When one accepts such a world-view, one need not be a spiritual researcher oneself to see whether his teachings are true. Man must pass through self-knowledge, for the assurance and elevation of his life. It is absolutely true that when the spiritual researcher forms and fashions what he has researched into human ideas, then everyone who is unbiased enough can understand these images. And that is why it must be emphasized that the true path of the listener to the spiritual researcher is not to devotedly surrender to the authority of the spiritual researcher, but rather the true relationship of the listener to the confessor is one that arises out of the free judgment of the listener. The spiritual researcher can only come to a correct judgment about what he sees if he applies his common sense, his healthy thinking, and if this thinking is morally and intellectually sound. But this brings us to the point where we can not only speak of the errors themselves, but also of the errors that arise in the dissemination of spiritual research, and these are very important. It is not possible to specify individual errors and how to avoid them. Rather, it can only be said that whoever advances more and more conscientiously to true spiritual research will avoid the errors that lurk everywhere. We will fight error when we recognize ourselves. Errors also arise when there is not the right relationship between those who profess and the spiritual researcher himself. Here too we have all kinds of points of view. A large number of our contemporaries reject everything that comes from spiritual research. The spiritual researcher can understand such points of view. That is why he finds so much opposition, because spiritual research is something that is new to our culture and that thinking is not yet attuned to. That is one way in which spiritual research is encountered today. A number of these people do come, however, when they realize the errors of materialism and gradually approach the results of spiritual research. It is different with the confessors. Just as much as criticism of the spiritual researchers, they experience, on the other hand, false confession, which recognizes authority and does not see that everything can be tested. The spiritual researcher does not shy away from a close examination, only from those examinations that arise from a superficial scientific approach, but not from a thorough one. It is the right approach to take what the spiritual researcher offers, to be inspired and then to examine it with the mind through which it can be examined. But besides the dismissive people, there are many who find it easier to simply believe instead of examining. And it is from these people that the kind of confession comes that leads above all to error after error in the spread of spiritual research. Because one does not check, but accepts what the spiritual researcher gives, the spiritual researcher is considered something of a higher animal by such a believing confessor. Because he looks into the spiritual world, he is considered a higher being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IX. Errors of Spiritual Research","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-01-03","location":null,"word_count":517,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69e/1913-01-03/p031","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":"Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069e/English/SOL2024/19130103p01.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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Und deshalb muss durchaus betont werden, dass der richtige Weg des Zuhörers zum Geistesforscher nicht der ist, sich gläubig der Autorität des Geistesforschers hinzugeben, sondern das richtige Verhältnis des Zuhörers zum Bekenner ist das, welches hervorgeht aus der freien Beurteilung des Zuhörers. Der Geistesforscher kann selbst nur zu einem richtigen Urteil über das, was er schaut, kommen, wenn er seinen gesunden Menschenverstand, sein gesundes Denken, anwendet und wenn dieses Denken moralisch und intellektuell gesund ist. Damit stehen wir aber auf dem Punkt, wo wir nicht nur von den Irrtümern selbst sprechen können, sondern auch von den Irrtümern, die sich bei der Verbreitung der Geistesforschungen ergeben, und die sind sehr wichtig. Nicht einzelne Irrtümer können angegeben werden und ihre Vermeidung, sondern es kann nur gesagt werden, dass, wer immer gewissenhafter und gewissenhafter zur wahren Geistesforschung vordringt, der die Irrtümer vermeidet, die überall lauern. Wir werden den Irrtum bekämpfen, wenn wir uns selbst erkennen. Irrtümer ergeben sich auch, wenn nicht das richtige Verhältnis besteht zwischen denen, die Bekenner sind, und dem Geistesforscher selbst. Da haben wir ja auch heute alle möglichen Standpunkte. Eine große Zahl unserer Zeitgenossen lehnt alles ab, was von der Geistesforschung kommt. Der Geistesforscher kann solche Standpunkte verstehen. Deshalb findet er so viel Gegnerschaft, weil Geistesforschung etwas ist, was sich neu hineinstellt in unsere Kultur und worauf das Denken noch nicht eingestellt ist. Das ist die eine Art, wie heute der Geistesforschung begegnet wird. Eine Anzahl von diesen Menschen kommen allerdings, wenn sie einsehen die Irrtümer des Materialismus und nähern sich allmählich den Ergebnissen der Geistesforschung. Anders ist es bei den Bekennern. Ebenso viel wie Kritik [Lücke in der Mitschrift] der Geistesforscher erlebt sie auf der anderen Seite an falscher Bekennerschaft, die Autorität anerkennt und nicht sieht, dass alles geprüft werden kann. Vor einer genauen Prüfung schreckt der Geistesforscher nicht zurück, nur vor derjenigen Prüfung, die hervorgeht aus halber Wissenschaftlichkeit, aber nicht Genauigkeit. Es ist der richtige Standpunkt, das zu nehmen, was der Geistesforscher bietet, sich anregen zu lassen und dann durch den Verstand zu prüfen, durch den es prüfbar ist. - Aber neben den ablehnenden Menschen gibt es viele, die es bequemer finden, statt zu prüfen einfach zu glauben. Und von diesen Menschen geht ja die Art von Bekennerschaft aus, die vor allen Dingen zu Irrtum über Irrtum bei der Verbreitung der Geistesforschung führt. Weil man nicht prüft, sondern hinnimmt das, was der Geistesforscher gibt, so gilt der Geistesforscher einem solchen gläubigen Bekenner als so etwas wie ein höheres Tier. 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