{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 98/the_relationship_between_worlds_and_beings/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Do not believe that it is insubstantial and meaningless if it is said that it is a convenience of the worldview to simply ascend from the human being to the Godhead without involving these beings. If human beings had not forgotten to study and acknowledge them, then the aberrations of materialism would not have occurred. Although it is possible to combine some sort of religious feeling, a kind of dark religious sentiment, with the immediate ascent from human being to deity, but it is never possible to arrive in this way at a real understanding of the world; a true picture of the evolution of the world can never be combined with this. For this reason, humanity has now lost its understanding of the world. There is an aspect in religion that is based only on feelings and vague emotions that will always allow itself to be denied in the face of materialistic ideas. The Theosophical world-view re-opens an understanding of the world by teaching mankind again about these beings. In this way, a reference point is created in order to counter the denial of a higher world. People who today struggle against acknowledging this world are increasingly preparing the ground for the most banal, disastrous materialism. The materialists themselves are really the victims—the real perpetrators are those who, out of convenience, do not want to know anything about what exists between mankind and the Godhead.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. 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Denn man kann gewissermaßen eine Art religiöser Empfindung, eine Art dunklen, religiösen Gefühles damit vereinigen, wenn man unmittelbar vom Menschen zur Gottheit aufsteigt; aber niemals ist so ein wirkliches Verständnis der Welt möglich, nimmermehr kann man damit ein wirkliches Bild der Weltentwickelung vereinigen. Darum ist jetzt der Menschheit das Weltverständnis verloren gegangen; und dasjenige in der Religion, was nur auf Empfindung, auf dumpfen Gefühlen beruht, wird sich immer wieder hinwegleugnen lassen gegenüber den materialistischen Vorstellungen. Durch die theosophische Weltanschauung wird wieder ein Weltverständnis eröffnet dadurch, daß die Menschen wieder etwas von diesen Wesenheiten erfahren. Und so wird ein Anhaltspunkt geschaffen, um dem Leugnen einer höheren Welt zu begegnen. Die Menschen, die sich heute sträuben, diese Welt anzuerkennen, bereiten immer mehr den Boden vor des plattesten, verheerendsten Materialismus. Die Materialisten sind selbst eigentlich dabei die Opfer; die eigentlichen Verursacher sind diejenigen, die aus Bequemlichkeit nichts wissen wollen von dem, was zwischen Mensch und Gottheit besteht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":203,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/98/the_relationship_between_worlds_and_beings/p005"}],"english":["GA 98/the_relationship_between_worlds_and_beings/p005"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":203,"en_words":236,"ratio":1.16,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.12,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4867,"original_word_count":4328,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Antje Heymanns","identified_edition":"SOL2023","book_title":"Nature and Spirit Beings — Their Effects in Our Visible World","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA098/English/SOL2023/098-16_1908-04-29.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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