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Anyone who understands the significance of such criticism for anthroposophy will not want to see anthroposophy in the light of those misunderstandings in which it is still seen today by many who only deal with it superficially. But the whole of anthroposophy's research methods is based on the need to apply scientific methodology to the most intimate inner soul life. It must awaken slumbering abilities in the soul, and it awakens them — not through any fantastic or mystical methods, but through systematic schooling, as I have described it — at least on a trial basis — in the two lectures already mentioned. But it would be easier for present-day humanity to form an unbiased judgment on such questions if people were willing to educate themselves about how differently people throughout the world want to ground their vision and also their faith from the intimate foundations of their soul life. I would like to point out just two polar opposites, so to speak, when it comes to characterizing the diverse abilities of people around the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and the Riddles of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-26","location":null,"word_count":302,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p011","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/SOL2024/19220126p01.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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Obwohl Anthroposophie im strengsten Sinne solche Wege zu dem Übersinnlichen aufsucht, muss sie dennoch dasjenige kritisch abweisen, was in Anlehnung an abnorme menschliche Fähigkeiten sich nur mit dem befassen kann, was doch nur im Sinnensein sich abspielt. Wer zu würdigen versteht, was solche Kritik der Anthroposophie bedeutet, der wird dann doch gerade gegenüber den Seelenfragen Anthroposophie nicht im Lichte jener Missverständnisse sehen wollen, in denen sie heute von vielen, die sich nur obenhin mit ihr beschäftigen, eben noch gesehen wird. Aber Anthroposophie ist eben ihren ganzen Forschungsmethoden nach darauf angewiesen, in das intimste innere Seelenleben hinein wissenschaftliche Methodik zu tragen. Sie muss in der Seele schlummernde Fähigkeiten erwecken, und sie erweckt sie — nicht durch irgendwelche phantastische oder mystische Methoden, sondern sie erweckt sie durch systematische Schulung, wie ich sie — wenigstens probeweise — in den zwei schon erwähnten Vorträgen beschrieben habe. Aber die gegenwärtige Menschheit würde über solche Fragen leichter ein unbefangenes Urteil gewinnen, wenn man sich darüber unterrichten wollte, wie verschieden die Menschen über die Erdengebiete hin das Schauen und auch den Glauben aus den intimen Untergründen ihres Seelenlebens heraus begründen wollen. Ich möchte dabei nur auf zwei gleichsam polarische Gegensätze hinweisen, wenn es sich darum handelt, die verschiedenartigen Fähigkeiten der Menschen über den Erdkreis hin zu charakterisieren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p011"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-01-26/p011"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":277,"en_words":302,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9357,"original_word_count":8959,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2024/19220126p01.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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