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The truth we have been talking about today—that on the one hand we recognize the needs of present day humanity, existing in the subconscious, and that on the other we look into the spiritual world and see how it reveals itself to us on the path from imagination to intuition—this is the kind of truth that must be seen by the scientist of spirit as the kind that will find its way through, however great the weight of opposition and slander that rests upon it. For the truth winds its way against obstacles through the tiniest cracks in the rock of human evolution, and is bound to triumph in the end.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Aber wenn man den Verlauf der Menschheitsentwicklung auf seine Seele wirken lässt, dann muss man sich sagen: Wie drückend auch alle Gegnerschaft, alle Feindschaft, alles Missverständnis, alle Verleumdung sein mögen, die sich der Wahrheit entgegenstellen - die Wahrheit findet den Weg selbst durch die engste Felsenspalte der menschlichen Entwicklung, wie drückend auch die lastenden Felsen sein mögen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/71b/1918-04-24/p068"},{"locus":"GA 71b/1918-04-24/p069","passage_number":69,"text":"Und als eine solche Wahrheit muss derjenige, der auf der einen Seite die Bedürfnisse der heutigen Menschheit, die im Unterbewussten sind, erkennt und der auf der anderen Seite hineinschaut in die geistige Welt, wie [sie] sich eröffnen kann von der Imagination zur Intuition hin, als eine solche Art von Wahrheit muss der Geistesforscher die geisteswissenschaftliche Wahrheit ansehen, als eine solche Wahrheit, die sich hindurchwinden wird, durch das was drückend lasten mag auf ihr von Gegnerschaft, Feindschaft und Verleumdung. 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