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But this supersensible realm is taken from what has been handed down traditionally and has an effect on people with the strength with which it often does so today, through its venerable age. But if we look impartially at what people believe and what they hold in terms of worldviews that have been handed down historically, we can trace this in real history — not just in the history that is recognized today, but in a history that is steeped in psychology and the study of the soul. There one sees that what one wants to believe today, what one accepts as an idea in its effect on the world of feeling, that in older epochs of humanity this was once entirely derived from insights that the individual human being gained out of his need for knowledge, on paths that were to lead him into the supersensible. 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Und man ist ja heute schon so weit gekommen, alle möglichen künstlichen Begriffe zu konstruieren, um den Glauben zu rechtfertigen als etwas, das da selbstständig stehen muss gegenüber der Erkenntnis, gegenüber dem Wissen, das sich nur auf unser Sinnliches oder dergleichen richten soll, während allein der Glaube sich richten dürfe auf das Übersinnliche. Man nimmt aber wieder dieses Übersinnliche aus dem, was traditionell überliefert ist und was in den Menschen hineinwirkt mit der Stärke, mit der das oftmals auch heute der Fall ist, durch sein ehrwürdiges Alter. Sieht man aber unbefangen hin auf dasjenige, was der Mensch in Bekenntnissen, in Weltanschauungen, die geschichtlich überliefert sind, was er in ihnen hat, kann man das verfolgen in richtiger Geschichte — nicht in der Geschichte bloß, die heute anerkannt ist, sondern in einer von Psychologie, von Seelenkunde durchdrungenen Geschichte —, dann kommt man zu älteren Epochen der Menschheitsgeschichte. Da sieht man, dass dasjenige, an das man heute glauben will, das man hinnimmt, als Idee hinnimmt in seinem Wirken auf die Empfindungswelt, dass das in älteren Epochen der Menschheit ehemals durchaus hervorgegangen ist aus Erkenntnissen, die der einzelne Mensch aus seinem Wissensbedürfnisse heraus auf Wegen, die ihn in das Übersinnliche hineinleiten sollten, sich errungen hat. 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