{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 96/1906-10-08/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When someone comes to the science of the spirit he can easily find himself on the horns of a dilemma. You need to see this dilemma clearly. Many of the people who come to theosophy fall into two categories. Some will say: I want to help, I want to be of value to society. They think the theosophical movement should give them the means to do this, so that they can start right away. Others may perhaps only have the illusion of wanting to help. In reality they merely want to satisfy their curiosity and hear of things they find sensational. Neither of these two categories will be the right kind of members for the Theosophical Society. Those who want to start helping right away fail to consider that you have to learn things first and acquire skills if you are to be able to help. One has to tell them that they need to be patient and develop the powers and skills that will make them helpers of humanity. They have to limit their ambitions. The people who merely want to satisfy their curiosity will have to understand that not one of the means and abilities given to them should be accepted unless they are prepared to be part of and serve the whole of human evolution. This will need a long time. The Theosophical Society should first of all generate secure knowledge and awareness of eternity and existence in the spirit. Someone who has this awareness then says to himself: It is not my intention to launch right away, from my present imperfect standpoint, into all kinds of enterprises to reform humanity, and so on.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Spiritual Insight Offering Greatest Liberation II: The Mission of the Spiritual Science Movement","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-10-08","location":null,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-08/p005","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2001","book_title":"Original Impulses fo the Science of the Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA096/English/CMP2001/19061008p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-08/p005"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-08/p005","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Diesen Zwiespalt müssen Sie sich klar vor die Seele stellen. Von zweierlei Art sind viele Menschen, die zur Theosophie kommen. Die einen sagen: Ich will helfen, ich will ein wertvolles Glied der Gesellschaft sein - und sie verstehen darunter, die theosophische Bewegung soll ihnen die Mittel geben, gleich morgen anzufangen. Die anderen machen sich vielleicht nur die Illusion vot, helfen zu wollen. In Wahrheit aber wollen sie nur ihre Neugierde befriedigen, etwas für sie Sensationelles erfahren. Beide Gruppen werden nicht die richtigen Mitglieder innerhalb der Theosophischen Gesellschaft werden. Denn diejenigen, die gleich morgen helfen wollen, bedenken nicht, daß man erst lernen und etwas können muß, um zu helfen. Ihnen muß gesagt werden: Ihr müßt Geduld haben, in euch selbst diejenigen Kräfte und Mittel zu entwickeln, durch die ihr zu Helfern für eure Mitmenschen heranreift. In dieser Weise müssen sich die einen bescheiden. Die anderen aber, die nur ihre Neugierde befriedigen wollen, müssen sich klarmachen, daß kein einziges der Mittel und keine einzige der Fähigkeiten, die ihnen gegeben werden, unter einem anderen Gesichtspunkte angenommen werden sollten, als in der Absicht, ein dienendes Glied der ganzen Menschheitsentwickelung zu werden. Dafür ist eine lange Zeit notwendig. Die Theosophische Gesellschaft soll zuerst das feste Bewußtsein und das Wissen von der Ewigkeit und dem geistigen Dasein erzeugen. Wer dieses Bewußtsein in sich trägt, der sagt sich: Es ist Zeit, ich kann Geduld haben, ich entwickle mich ruhig. Ich werde nicht gleich von meinem jetzigen unvollkommenen Standpunkt aus alles Mögliche unternehmen wollen, um die Menschheit zu reformieren und so weiter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":267,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-08/p006"}],"english":["GA 96/1906-10-08/p005"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":267,"en_words":277,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.15,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6420,"original_word_count":5599,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2001","book_title":"Original Impulses fo the Science of the Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA096/English/CMP2001/19061008p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 96/1906-10-08/p006"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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