{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 82/1922-04-12/p046","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"One such negative instance is, for example, agnosticism, when it represents the other side of phenomenalism and one only wants to stop at this phenomenalism. The other, the positive, is part of it. This positive seeks to reach anthroposophy on the spiritual path of knowledge. In this sense, I would like at least a little bit of anthroposophy to have spoken to your souls, given your sincerity. Often, when representing anthroposophy, one has the feeling that it has been around for decades, but we are always at the beginning. And now, after decades, we are talking about the very beginning again, despite having spoken to thousands upon thousands of people over the decades. One feels this — not because of anthroposophy, which can wait — one feels it because of the longings of the time as something tremendously oppressive. But that is also why there is such deep satisfaction when people do come together who want to know what anthroposophy is and who, through their studies and serious engagement with life, have a certain ability to judge. Anthroposophy does not have to fear judgment. I can assure you of that from the spirit of anthroposophy. Critics with the ability to judge will always be most welcome to anthroposophy. Up to now, they have mostly become its adherents after they have got to know it. The more objectively one engages with anthroposophy, even if it means criticizing it, the better for anthroposophy. Anthroposophy is not something that works on the basis of blind faith in authority or that counts on a lack of criticism. It prefers those listeners and readers and collaborators who bring their full, discerning soul nature to it, not the kind that often comes from the agnosticism of the present, but the kind that comes from the truly unbiased human soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. 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Und eigentlich jetzt nach Jahrzehnten spricht man ja wiederum von dem allerersten Anfang, trotzdem zu Tausenden und Abertausenden von Menschen im Laufe der Jahrzehnte gesprochen worden ist. Man empfindet dieses — nicht wegen der Anthroposophie, die kann warten -, man empfindet es wegen der Sehnsüchte der Zeit als etwas ungeheuer Bedrückendes. Daher aber auch wiederum die tiefe Befriedigung, die man hat, wenn sich dann doch Menschen zusammenfinden, die nun wissen wollen, was an der Anthroposophie ist, und die aus einem gewissen ernsten Erfassen des Lebens durch Studium auch in einem gewissen Sinne urteilsfähig sind. Denn Urteilsfähigkeit hat Anthroposophie nicht zu scheuen. Das kann ich Ihnen aus dem Geiste der Anthroposophie heraus versichern. Urteilsfähige Kritiker werden dieser Anthroposophie immer höchst willkommen sein. Bisher sind sie zumeist Bekenner derselben geworden, nachdem sie sie eben kennengelernt haben. Je sachlicher man sich einläßt, auch kritisierend, auf Anthroposophie, desto besser für diese Anthroposophie. So ist Anthroposophie nicht etwas, was auf blinden Autoritätsglauben hin arbeitet oder mit Kritiklosigkeit rechnet. 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