We are dealing with both fierce animals in this Corona crisis. The dragon provides the data to which the bull responds like on a red rag. Completely wild it has become. And one feels very well, that one might be dragged along. Because the facts seem to be facts and the figures are the fixed figures and the measures are therefore justified, necessary, and whoever expresses himself differently is a criminal against mankind. So, it is wonderful to have someone brave here and there who dares to say something that goes against the bull. But the horns are hard and sharp and the speed is full…<\/span><\/p>\n In spite of everything, we now live towards Easter and next week is the good week, the holy week, the week of passion. We can’t go to the Matthew Passion or the St. John’s Passion because those performances are cancelled. There we could have heard in mighty choirs how the bull of public opinion is roaring and disturbing. And there it is clear how this suggests and deceives \u2014 and is being deceived. In the Gospels, we can experience how the tension is built up, how public opinion is cultivated and also enforced with threats. They are primal images: The people must believe and obey the authorities. <\/span><\/p>\n But where are we really? To a certain extent, all opinions are interesting. But when they become an occurrence, we can at least, as thinking people, ask: What is the truth? Without wanting to suggest anything further. I don’t ask the Pilate question: What is truth? But we’ve ended up in a situation that concerns the whole world and in which we’re really allowed to ask: What is going on in truth? That truth exists in any case. The challenge is to find it.<\/span><\/p>\n Here is the primal image of public opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n John 7:40-52<\/span><\/p>\n On hearing his words, some of the people said, \u201cSurely this man is the Prophet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Others said, \u201cHe is the Messiah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Still others asked, \u201cHow can the Messiah come from Galilee?\u00a0Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David\u2019s descendants\u00a0and from Bethlehem,\u00a0the town where David lived?\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/sup>Thus the people were divided\u00a0because of Jesus.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/sup>Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.<\/span><\/p>\n Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you bring him in?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNo one ever spoke the way this man does,\u201d\u00a0the guards replied.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou mean he has deceived you also?\u201d\u00a0the Pharisees retorted.\u00a0\u201cHave any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?\u00a0No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law\u2014there is a curse on them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Nicodemus,\u00a0who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked,\u201cDoes our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n They replied, \u201cAre you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Public opinion – 2 by Mieke Mosmuller<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Rudolf Steiner was still a young man, he received two tasks from a great initiate: The first was to assume the role of the dragon of natural science \u2014 that is, to get to know natural science from within and then find spirituality there. 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