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But something else is also true: anyone demonstrating something like this, to illustrate the origin of our solar system, would have to take all the factors into account; he would thus have to take into account the teacher standing there and rotating the drop of oil. He would have to place an enormous teacher out in space, to rotate the cloud. This point, however, has been forgotten in the experiment I have described. Elsewhere in life, it is a very fine thing to forget the self; but in an experiment, in illustrating important and serious problems, one must not forget such things. Well, the philosophy of life I am advocating does not forget them. It accepts what is justified in natural science, but also adds what can be seen in the spirit. And here, of course, we do not find an enormous individual, but rather a spiritual world, which has to be superimposed on the material development. We thereby permeate the Kant-Laplace primal nebula which, perhaps rightly, has been posited, with the spiritual entities and forces operative in it. And we permeate what will become of the earth in the so-called heat-death, of which present-day science speaks, with spiritual entities and forces. After the heat-death, these will then carry the spiritual element out into other worlds, just as the spiritual element in man is carried out into other worlds when the body disintegrates into its earthly elements. In this way we attain something significant for our time.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Anthroposophy and Cosmology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-05","location":null,"word_count":362,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-05/p039","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Aber es ist dennoch wahr, was dagegen zu sagen ist: Derjenige, der so etwas zur Veranschaulichung der Entstehung unseres Sonnensystems zeigt, müßte auf alle einzelnen Faktoren Rücksicht nehmen, und wenn das der Fall ist, dann müßte er auch Rücksicht nehmen auf den Herrn Lehrer, der da steht und den Öltropfen in Rotation bringt. Und er müßte einen riesigen Lehrer in den Weltenraum hinaussetzen, der dann an dem Weltennebel drehte. Das ist aber bei dem obigen Experiment vergessen worden. Es ist ja sehr schön, wenn man sich selbst vergißt im sonstigen Leben, aber beim Experiment, beim Veranschaulichen wichtiger und ernster Fragen darf man solche Dinge, in diesem Fall sich selbst, nicht vergessen. Nun, die Welt- und Lebensauffassung, die hier vertreten wird, vergißt diese Dinge nicht. Sie sieht hin auf das Berechtigte der Naturwissenschaft, fügt aber hinzu, was im Geist erschaut werden kann. Da findet man allerdings nicht eine Riesenindividualität, aber eine geistig-seelische Welt, die in die materielle Entwickelung hineingesetzt werden muß. Und da durchdringt man das, was vielleicht mit Recht als Kant-Laplacescher Urnebel hingestellt wird, mit den in diesem Nebel wirtkenden geistig-seelischen Wesenheiten und geistig-seelischen Kräften. Und man durchdringt das, was aus der Erde wird bei dem sogenannten Wärmetod, von dem die heutige Wissenschaft spricht, mit geistig-seelischen Wesenheiten und geistig-seelischen Kräften, die dann beim Wärmetod das Geistig-Seelische hinaustragen in andere Welten, wie das Geistig-Seelische des Menschen hinausgetragen wird in andere Welten, wenn der Körper in irdische Elemente zerfällt. 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