{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-01-14/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Just as natural science can very easily lead to materialism when a person becomes accustomed to its material aspects, so spiritual research can lead to all kinds of enthusiasm and to a complete detachment from the external rationality of life if a person does not want to follow the path of truth but instead wants to devote himself to what seems plausible to him according to his subjective needs and desires. Natural science deals with nature – this can easily lead to material things; spiritual science deals with the human being and his soul. As a result, it is particularly easy for a person to take himself very seriously, I would even say out of pleasure, out of pleasure from his soul. And by feeling, “You belong to the spiritual with your soul,” he repeats this to himself again and again, and it is not only the case that the great, all-encompassing truth of repeated earthly lives easily leads such voluptuaries of the soul that they then endeavor above all to brood over whether they themselves could actually have been Alexander or Caesar or Marie-Antoinette or someone else in historical life, or are still searching somewhere else in previous earthly lives. But I will not speak of such aberrations myself. Fanaticism - I would say - inner need, being connected in vanity with the spiritual life, that characterizes very many as not standing on the ground of truth in spiritual science, but standing on the ground of vanity and fanaticism, on that ground on which one is detached from the complete connection with life. True spiritual science does not lead away from this ground of true life, but on the contrary, it leads closer to life. Those who have no inclination to take life with full interest, with full seriousness, but to a certain extent in their soul are inclined to a kind of soul vagabondage, can easily come to even more triviality, to a casual attitude towards life, by being immersed in spiritual science. And very many who cannot bring themselves to fulfill something sensible in life through their hands, through proper diligence, you see them talking about a higher mission that has been given to them from the spiritual world and that they have to fulfill above all things. Speaking in truth, one would often have to say: laziness and carelessness in life appears translated into a strange language as a spiritual mission. Then one can no longer be surprised, dear audience, when those who are accustomed to inner soul discipline, which follows from the scientific world view, look with a certain contempt at those who now, in turn, despise science and often look down on life itself and talk about all kinds of spiritual stuff just because they don't want to understand life scientifically and don't want to apply themselves to ordinary life with the appropriate diligence, seriousness and attention.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. The Harmony Between Spiritual Science and Natural Science and the Misconceptions about the Former and the Building Dedicated to it in Dornach","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-01-14","location":null,"word_count":483,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-01-14/p026","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","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/SOL2024/19160114p01.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 indem er fühlt: Du gehörst mit Deiner Seele zum Geistigen, wiederholt er sich das wohlgefällig immer wieder und wiederum, und es kommt dann nicht nur dazu, dass die große, die umfassende Wahrheit von den wiederholten Erdenleben bei solchen Wollüstlingen der Seele leicht dazu führt, dass sie dann vor allen Dingen bemüht sind, darüber nachzugrübeln, ob sie nun selbst eigentlich der Alexander oder der Cäsar oder die Marie-Antoinette oder irgendjemand im historischen Leben gewesen sein könnten oder noch irgendwo anders die vorhergehenden Erdenleben suchen. Aber ich will selbst von solchen Verirrungen nicht sprechen. Schwärmerei — ich möchte sagen - innerliche Bedürftigkeit, Verbundensein in Eitelkeit mit dem Geistesleben, das zeichnet sehr viele aus als nicht auf dem Boden der Wahrheit in der Geisteswissenschaft drinnen stehend, sondern auf dem Boden der Eitelkeit und Schwärmerei stehend, auf jenem Boden, auf dem man losgelöst ist von dem völligen Zusammenhang mit dem Leben. Wahre Geisteswissenschaft führt von diesem Boden des wahren Lebens aber nicht hinweg, sondern im Gegenteil, sie führt näher an das Leben heran. Wer keine Anlagen dazu hat, das Leben mit vollem Interesse, mit vollem Ernste zu nehmen, sondern in gewissem Maße in seiner Seele einer Art Seelen-Vagabundage zuneigt, der kann leicht dazu kommen sogar zu Nichtigkeit, zu Lässigkeit des Lebens gegenüber dem Leben dadurch, dass er nun in der Geisteswissenschaft drinnen steht. Und sehr viele, die es nicht dazu bringen können, durch ihrer Hände Arbeit, durch ordentlichen Lebensfleiß etwas Vernünftiges im Leben zu erfüllen, die sieht man, wie sie sprechen von einer höheren Mission, die ihnen aus der geistigen Welt erteilt worden ist, und die sie vor allen Dingen zu erfüllen haben. In der Wahrheit gesprochen, müsste man da oftmals sagen: Lebensfaulheit und Lebenslässigkeit erscheint in eine merkwürdige Sprache übersetzt als geistige Mission. Da kann man sich dann nicht mehr wundern, sehr verehrte Anwesende, wenn diejenigen, die gewöhnt sind an innere Seelendisziplin, die aus der naturwissenschaftlichen Weltanschauung folgt, mit einem gewissen Spott hinsehen auf diejenigen, die nun die Naturwissenschaft ihrerseits und oftmals mit der Naturwissenschaft das Leben selber verachten und von allerlei geistigem Zeug reden, bloß aus dem Grunde, weil sie von dem Leben naturwissenschaftlich nichts verstehen wollen und in das gewöhnliche Leben sich nicht mit entsprechendem Fleiß, entsprechendem Ernst und entsprechender Aufmerksamkeit hineinstellen wollen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":489,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-01-14/p026"}],"english":["GA 70b/1916-01-14/p026"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":489,"en_words":483,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":11706,"original_word_count":11292,"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/SOL2024/19160114p01.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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