{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 82/1922-04-12/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is rooted in the way our society is organized. Millions and millions of people, especially those in proletarian circles, only see reality in external, economic phenomena. What is spiritual – law, morality, art – is nothing, as they say, but an ideological superstructure, something that arises merely as a sham, an ideology. And so we have progressed in the agnostic direction to the point where one speaks of ideology. I myself, having been very active in working-class circles, have experienced the sense in which ideology is spoken of there, which, after all, is basically only the fault of those who, today, also from the direction of science, speak of everything spiritual, not quite clearly, not quite honestly, but actually in the sense of an ideology. We have arrived at the opposite pole of human development compared to the one that was once the oriental worldview. It spoke of Maya and of the true essence. Everything that is only accessible and attainable to the senses was Maya to it, was illusion. And the real, the truly real, was that which is now graspable for man above the sensual. Today we live in a worldview that presents exactly the opposite. For those who are agnostic, the sensory world is the only reality. They could just as easily say maya as ideology about that which can be grasped beyond the sensory world. We should translate this word in this way. Our maya is the spiritual; once the maya was the sum of sensory phenomena.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Anthroposophy and Agnosticism","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-04-12","location":null,"word_count":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/82/1922-04-12/p035","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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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Ich, der ich viel tätig war gerade innerhalb proletarischer Kreise, ich habe es erlebt, in welchem Sinne da von Ideologie gesprochen wird, was ja im Grunde genommen wiederum nur die Schuld ist derjenigen, die heute auch aus der Wissenschaftsrichtung heraus von allem Geistigen, zwar nicht ganz klar, nicht ganz ehrlich, aber doch eigentlich im Sinne einer Ideologie sprechen. Wir sind am entgegengesetzten Pol der Menschheitsentwickelung angelangt im Vergleich zu dem, bei dem einstmals die orientalische Weltanschauung war. Die sprach von Maja und von der wahren Wesenheit. Alles dasjenige, was nur für die Sinne zugänglich und erreichbar ist, war ihr Maja, war die Illusion. Und das Reale, das wahrhaft Wirkliche war dasjenige, was nun über dem Sinnlichen für den Menschen erfaßbar ist. Heute stehen wir in einer Weltanschauung drinnen, die genau das Umgekehrte darstellt. Für diejenigen, die Agnostiker sind, ist die Sinneswelt das einzig Reale. Sie könnten zu demjenigen, was über die Sinneswelt hinaus erfaßbar ist, ebenso gut Maja wie Ideologie sagen. Wir sollten dieses Wort so übersetzen. Unsere Maja ist das Geistige; einstmals war die Maja die Summe der Sinneserscheinungen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":254,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/82/1922-04-12/p035"}],"english":["GA 82/1922-04-12/p035"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":254,"en_words":252,"ratio":0.99,"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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