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You can say that you don't believe it. But anyone who reacts honestly to what is often thought about these things today by people who reject independent spiritual research, could not avoid the inner dissonance and pessimism that arise in face of the question: What is to become of our spiritual activity if we regard the world in a purely material sense, as we are accustomed to do in exact science as it is called? This is the origin of the wide gulf that yawns in our time between religious and moral life and the natural approach to things.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Anthroposophy and Cosmology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-05","location":null,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-05/p042","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Und im Unbewußten ernster Menschen der Gegenwart lebt es deshalb doch, daß sie fühlen, wenn sie es sich auch nicht gestehen: Da ist die Erde aus rein Materiellem heraus entsprungen. Aus diesem Materiellen geht etwas hervor wie ein Schaumgebilde. Da steigen Wolkengebilde heraus, ja Gebilde, die dünner sind als Wolken, die nur Illusionen sind. In diesen leben auch die wertvollsten Inhalte, die wir als Menschen aufnehmen können, alle Kulturinhalte, mit. Dann leben wir weiter, dann kommt einmal der Übergang der Erde in den Wärmetod, der gefunden werden kann auf äußerlich naturwissenschaftlichem Wege. Und dann ist doch alles Leben auf der Erde wie in einem großen Friedhof begraben. Was als das Wertvollste auferstanden ist aus unserem Menschenleben, unsere schönsten, würdigsten Ideale, ist mitbegraben mit dem, was materielle Wesenheit der Erde war. — Man kann sagen, man glaube das nicht. 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