{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 82/1922-04-12/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Many people who get to know superficially what is presented through anthroposophy, perhaps even only from the writings of its opponents, very often say that anthroposophy is a rehash of old worldviews, for example, of Gnosticism, which, after all, still prevailed among very many people in the first Christian centuries. They therefore say that we are dealing with something that has basically been refuted by the evolution of humanity over time, or at least has been overcome. Anyone who really focuses only on what has been presented in these lectures will not be tempted, even if they are also familiar with Gnosticism and anthroposophy, which certainly appears with new means and methods of knowledge and takes into account the consciousness of present-day humanity, to somehow combine it with Gnosticism. This anthroposophy works in such a way that it presupposes the scientific development of the last centuries. Of course, Gnosticism did not take this into account, because its existence preceded the development of science. But there is something else that could lead one to the temptation to lump anthroposophy together with gnosticism. The only way to avoid doing so is to really delve into the essence of anthroposophy. The only thing that anthroposophy might have in common with gnosis is that it also takes into account, in a certain way, what is a prevailing worldview in our time, and that is agnosticism, which is in a certain respect the opposite of gnosis and is also the opposite of anthroposophy, but in a different respect.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. 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Derjenige, der nun wirklich eingeht bloß auf das, was in diesen Vorträgen geboten worden ist, der wird gar nicht in die Versuchung kommen, wenn er andererseits die Gnosis auch kennt, diese Anthroposophie, die durchaus mit neuen Erkenntnismitteln und Erkenntnismethoden auftritt und mit dem Bewußtsein der Menschheit der Gegenwart rechnet, irgendwie zusammenzuwerfen mit der Gnosis. Diese Anthroposophie arbeitet ja so, daß sie voraussetzt die naturwissenschaftliche Entwickelung der letzten Jahrhunderte. Die Gnosis rechnete natürlich nicht damit, denn ihr Dasein ging der naturwissenschaftlichen Entwickelung voraus. Aber noch etwas anderes könnte in die Versuchung führen, Anthroposophie zusammenzuwerfen mit der Gnosis. Nur dann wird man das nicht tun, wenn man wirklich auf das Wesen der Anthroposophie eingeht. Das also, was Anthroposophie noch vielleicht zusammenwerfen läßt mit der Gnosis, das ist, daß sie nun allerdings auch in einer gewissen Weise rechnet mit dem, was in unserer Zeit eine tonangebende Weltanschauung ist, und das ist der Agnostizismus, der in einer gewissen Beziehung das Gegenbild der Gnosis ist und der auch das Gegenbild ist der Anthroposophie, aber in einer anderen Beziehung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/82/1922-04-12/p019"}],"english":["GA 82/1922-04-12/p019"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":245,"en_words":253,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12477,"original_word_count":12023,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"So That Man may Become Fully Human","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA082/English/SOL2025/19220412p01.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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