{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 96/1906-10-08/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the great process of liberating humanity, our prime concern is therefore to gain a meaningful approach to the significance of physical phenomena. They are the gate that leads to the world of the spirit. The work calls for a great deal of self-denial but it has to be undertaken. 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. Take the initiation of Heraclitus,[^12] for instance, in early times. He presented the truths he had discovered in external formulas that were further elaborated by countless people. They thought they were thinking original thoughts; but that was not the case. You only learn to think original thoughts by seeing what lies behind things and grasping their real significance.","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":278,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-08/p030","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/p030"},{"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/p030","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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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. 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