{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-23/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The essence of anthroposophical research is that it advances to the perception of the real soul-spiritual not through mere thinking, not through mystical contemplation, but through the development of soul forces that otherwise lie dormant within people. Of course, when one hears something like this, it would be easy to say: Well, then only those who advance to such insights can speak with such conviction of the immortality of the human soul – or rather, when I speak of what I have spoken of so far – of the unborn nature of the human soul. Now, firstly, it is possible through books such as I have mentioned for every person to take the first steps towards such supersensory knowledge as I have described. And even if today they are still unusual paths for the soul, anyone who has entered them knows that they will increasingly become the paths of human development. Because they are only now entering the spiritual development of humanity for the first time, they may seem paradoxical to many. But just as little as one needs to be a painter to be enchanted with a good painting with full inner soul, to see through it in its essence, in what the painter wanted, just as little does one need to be an anthroposophical researcher to recognize as true what the anthroposophical researcher asserts. Common sense is quite sufficient, just as ordinary perception of an artistic achievement is sufficient to appreciate it. For there is an original disposition in the human soul for the perception of truth. Therefore, it cannot be said that only those who are spiritual researchers in the way described can recognize the results of spiritual research. It is only that over many centuries of human development, people have become accustomed to not accepting such things at all, which has gradually caused prejudices for the mind, for the intellect, which today still do not allow what characterizes anthroposophical research as its paths and its results to appear as reasonable for the common sense of a healthy person.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-23","location":null,"word_count":342,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p023","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 Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220123p01.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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Nun, erstens ist das der Fall, dass durch solche Bücher, wie ich sie genannt habe, für jeden Menschen dasjenige ermöglicht werden kann, was ihn die ersten Schritte machen lässt zu einer solchen übersinnlichen Erkenntnis, wie ich sie geschildert habe. Und wenn das auch heute noch ungewohnte Seelenwege sind, derjenige, der in sie eingedrungen ist, weiß, dass sie immer mehr und mehr werden die Wege der Menschheitsentwicklung sein. Weil sie heute erst wie ein Erstes in die Geistesentwicklung der Menschheit eintreten müssen, deshalb nehmen sie sich für viele paradox aus. Allein ebenso wenig, wie man ein Maler zu sein braucht, um mit vollem inneren Seelenanteil vor einem guten Gemälde entzückt zu sein, es zu durchschauen in seiner Wesenheit, in dem, was der Maler gewollt hat, ebenso wenig braucht man anthroposophischer Forscher zu sein, um dasjenige als wahr anzuerkennen, was von dem anthroposophischen Forscher geltend gemacht wird. Der gesunde Menschenverstand reicht durchaus hin, so wie das gewöhnliche Empfinden gegenüber einer Kunstleistung hinreicht, um sie zu würdigen. Denn es ist in der menschlichen Seele eine ursprüngliche Anlage für die Empfindung der Wahrheit. Deshalb kann man durchaus nicht sagen, dass nur derjenige, der selbst in der geschilderten Weise Geistesforscher ist, anerkennen könne die Ergebnisse der Geistesforschung. 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