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If human beings truly take on this task and gradually ascend to the world of the spirit in doing so, learning to grasp things from the point of view of that world, they play a part in the great tasks of culture and civilization. They can only do so if they are free human beings. As soon as people would seek to develop a civilization for the future on any basis other than freedom their products would all be stillborn, with ideas belonging to the past taken into the future. The tremendous difference from earlier ways will be that human beings and not principles or institutions are the active agent. It is true, in the past, too, things were done by human beings only. However it was only a small group whose principles came to be generally accepted. Some would praise those principles, believing them to be original. People were speaking of something they had derived from principles. But this was merely the impulse that had come from the initiates. 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People must reach a much greater level of freedom in future than they have in the past, and there have to be many more of them. Not that long ago only very few people in Europe were really free. Civilization radiated into the world from small centres, reaching others in the form of views and opinions, so that they came to believe everything else to be erroneous. 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Wenn er sie wirklich auf sich nimmt, wenn er auf diesem Wege allmählich zum Geistigen aufsteigt und die Dinge von der geistigen Welt aus zu erfassen lernt, dann wird er ein Mitarbeiter an den großen Kulturaufgaben. Das kann er nur als freier Mensch werden. In dem Augenblick, wo man auf einer anderen Basis als derjenigen der Freiheit die Kultur der Zukunft aufbauen wollte, würde man nichts anderes schaffen als totgeborene Produkte, indem man die Vorstellungen der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft hineinträgt. Das wird der große Unterschied gegen früher sein, daß nicht Grundsätze und nicht Institutionen wirken, sondern Menschen. Zwar haben in der Vergangenheit wirklich auch nur Menschen gewirkt. Aber diese waren nur ein kleiner Kreis, und ihre Grundsätze gingen auf die Allgemeinheit über. Manche lobten diese Grundsätze und meinten, sie wären etwas Ursprüngliches. Da redeten dann die Leute von etwas, was sie von Prinzipien ableiteten. Es waraber nichts anderes als der von den Eingeweihten herrührende Impuls. Solche Impulse wurden dann fortgesponnen; das konnte lange dauern. Nehmen wir als Beispiel eine alte Einweihung, die des Heraklit. Er faßte die von ihm gefundenen Wahrheiten in äußere Formeln, die von unzähligen Leuten fortgesponnen wurden. Sie glaubten, sie dächten ursprünglich; das war aber nicht der Fall. Ursprünglich lernt man nur denken, wenn man hinter die Dinge schaut und ihre reale Bedeutung begreifen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-08/p024"},{"locus":"GA 96/1906-10-08/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"So hoffe ich, daß Sie ein wenig empfunden haben, wie sich der Mensch in den Kulturprozeß hineinreihen soll, wie er zwischen der einen Säule, der Geduld, hindurchwandern kann, indem er lernt und nicht zu früh eingreifen will, und zwischen der andern Säule, dem Willen, ein dienendes Glied im Entwickelungsgang der Menschheit zu sein. Das kann er, wenn er immer mehr durch die Sinne die Dinge auf sich wirken läßt und so zum schöpferischen Geist vordringt. Das muß man fühlen, in sich erleben, dann ist man Theosoph. In einem weit höheren Maße müssen die Menschen in der Zukunft frei werden, als sie es in der Vergangenheit waren, und vor allem auch in einer viel größeren Anzahl. Es ist noch nicht lange her, da gab es in Mitteleuropa nur wenige Menschen, die wirklich frei waren. Kleine Zentren waren es, aus denen die Kultur herausstrahlte. Auf die anderen ging sie dann in der Gestalt von Anschauungen und Meinungen über, so daß sie glaubten, alles übrige sei irrig. Auch Rousseau glaubte, er gäbe nur seine Meinungen, sein Innerstes wieder, während er doch von ganz woandersher beeinflußt war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":183,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-08/p025"}],"beads":[{"from":[30],"to":[24],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[31],"to":[25],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}