{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-29/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today, one of the many riddles confronts us in our immediate present. And because it confronts us, it will be discussed at the end of this lecture. I speak about this mystery in the knowledge that there may, of course, be many among the honored listeners who, if one goes into such details, may find the matter, which may already be found quite fantastic in general, to be the height of fantasy; but the spiritual researcher cannot be deterred by such things. Just as mankind, even great minds, regarded it as the height of fantasy when the world came into being, that the earth moves around the sun; and as people who regarded it as wild fantasy have become accustomed to taking it seriously, so it is with all truth. Today it must still be considered fantastic that something similar to what happened with the physical universe should now also happen with the spiritual cosmos of man. At the forefront of the newer worldviews, it was the task of those who had to give the new impulse to point out, for example: It has been said that up there the firmament limits the outer space; but there is nothing up there. You yourselves are doing that. It is the limitation of our vision. Beyond the non-existent boundary, space continues, filled to the brim. Just as the spatial firmament was swept aside in the past, so the temporal firmament is swept aside by spiritual science, which shows that only human conditioning of perception leads to this temporal firmament. There is nothing there at all. The spiritual firmament extends into temporal infinity. Man progresses through repeated lives on earth. One must look at the path that truth takes through the development of mankind if one wants to find the strength to advocate what contradicts habitual thinking. But anyone who is familiar with the course of recent scientific development will be able to find such strength and will be convinced that, of course, people will talk about folly, reverie, wild fantasy when such claims are made, as they are here today. But scientific findings have also had this fate, and spiritual scientific findings will also have this fate. They will also become a matter of course. Just as many worlds are spoken of today, the repeated lives of man will be spoken of as a truth based on spiritual observation, which can be attained in the manner described.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. The Eternal Forces of the Human Soul in the Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-11-29","location":null,"word_count":405,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1915-11-29/p036","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19151129p01.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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So wie die Menschheit - selbst große Geister - es als den Gipfel der Phantastik angesehen hat, als die Anschauung in die Welt getreten ist, die Erde bewege sich um die Sonne; und wie die Menschen, die das als wilde Phantastik betrachtet haben, sich daran gewöhnt haben, es ernst zu nehmen, so geht es mit aller Wahrheit. Heute wird es noch als Phantastik gelten müssen, dass etwas Ähnliches wie mit jenem, nun auch mit dem geistigen Weltenall des Menschen geschehen soll. Da war an der Spitze der neueren Weltanschauungen es die Aufgabe derer, die den neuen Impuls zu geben hatten, zum Beispiel hinzuweisen darauf: Man hat gesagt, da oben begrenzt das Firmament den äußeren Raum; aber da ist gar nichts da oben. Das macht ihr selber nur. Die Begrenztheit des Schauens ist es. Jenseits jener nicht vorhandenen Grenze geht der Raum, der ausgefüllt ist, weiter. Wie dazumal das räumliche Firmament weggeräumt worden ist, so wird durch die Geisteswissenschaft das zeitliche Firmament weggeräumt, indem gezeigt wird, dass nur menschliche Bedingtheit des Anschauens zu diesem zeitlichen Firmament führt. Da ist gar nichts. Das geistige Firmament geht hinaus in die zeitliche Unendlichkeit. Der Mensch schreitet durch wiederholte Erdenleben. Man muss schon auf den Gang, den die Wahrheit durch die Menschheitsentwicklung geht, hinschauen, wenn man Kraft finden will, das zu vertreten, was den Denkgewohnheiten widerspricht. Aber derjenige, der den Gang der neueren naturwissenschaftlichen Entwicklung kennt, der wird solche Kraft finden können und wird überzeugt sein können, dass selbstverständlich von Torheit, Träumerei, wilder Phantastik geredet wird, wenn solches geltend gemacht wird, wie heute hier. Aber dieses Schicksal hatten ja auch die naturwissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse, und das Schicksal werden auch die geisteswissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse haben. Sie werden auch zu einer Selbstverständlichkeit werden. Wie man von vielen Welten heute spricht, wird man von wiederholten Leben des Menschen sprechen als einer Wahrheit, die gegründet ist auf geistiger Beobachtung, welche in der geschilderten Weise erlangt werden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":403,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-29/p036"}],"english":["GA 70b/1915-11-29/p036"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":403,"en_words":405,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10675,"original_word_count":10361,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19151129p01.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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