{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70a/1914-12-02/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The task of spiritual science is to elevate to the level of scientific knowledge that which has been sensed by the best minds. Now one can say: Of course, not everyone in our time can go through such experiences that lead them to an immediate grasp of the spiritual world, as described. But that is not at all necessary. These inner experiences are necessary so that what can be said about the spiritual world is brought up out of the abyss into which it would otherwise be sunk. These powers are necessary for the bringing up; but when what has been said about the connection between human destiny and death is formed into ideas and brought into the language of human conceptions, then these soul experiences not be necessary, but one recognizes approximately what has been brought to light by the spiritual researcher, so through the inner ability to perceive the truth as correct, as one perceives mathematical judgments when they are formulated and presented to us. For it must be said again and again: Every human being, without exception, is called upon to go through what has been described today in order to see the spiritual world directly and to recognize the human being in his or her eternity. But not every human being needs to do so. Every human being, however, can truly recognize and correctly understand what spiritual research says, provided they do not throw obstacles and prejudices in their own way. It is not contradicted by the fact that today the majority of people still say of the results of spiritual research: It is a vain fantasy, pure nonsense, the brainchild of a few thinkers. The human being does not decide on the basis of reasons in reality, does not prove in reality, but the human being decides according to habitual thinking. And today's thinking habits are the result of that thinking, that imagining, which had the very purpose of penetrating into the outer, sensual reality, which became accustomed to adhering to this outer sensuality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. The Human Soul, Destiny and Death from the Point of View of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-12-02","location":null,"word_count":339,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70a/1914-12-02/p041","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":"The Human Soul, Fate and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070a/English/SOL2024/19141202p01.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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Zum Heraufholen sind diese Kräfte nötig; wenn aber das, was also über den Zusammenhang des menschlichen Schicksals und des Todes gesagt ist, in Ideen geformt ist, hineingebracht ist in die Sprache der menschlichen Vorstellungen, dann brauchen diese Seelenerlebnisse nicht gemacht zu werden, sondern man sieht ungefähr das, was so zutage gebracht worden ist durch den Geistesforscher, so durch die innere Fähigkeit zur Wahrheit als richtig ein, wie man einsicht die mathematischen Urteile, wenn sie durch jemand formuliert an uns herantreten. Denn das muss immer wieder und wiederum gesagt werden: Zwar ist jeder Mensch, ausnahmslos jeder Mensch dazu berufen, wenn er das in sich durchmachen will, was heute geschildert worden ist, die geistige Welt unmittelbar anzuschauen, das menschliche Wesen in seiner Ewigkeit zu erkennen, aber es braucht nicht jeder Mensch. Jeder Mensch aber kann, wenn er sich nur nicht selber Hindernisse und Vorurteile in den Weg wirft, das, was die Geistesforschung sagt, wirklich erkennen und richtig einsehen. Dem widerspricht nicht, dass heute noch die Mehrzahl der Menschen von den Ergebnissen der Geistesforschung sagt: Das ist eitel Phantasterei, der reine Blödsinn, das sind Hirngespinste von einigen Denkern, das widerspricht dem nicht. Der Mensch entscheidet nicht nach Gründen in Wirklichkeit, beweist in Wirklichkeit nicht, sondern der Mensch entscheidet nach Denkgewohnheit. 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