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If he recognizes his duty and acts rightly, his trial has been successful. The success can be recognized in the alteration produced by his action in the figures, colors, and tones apprehended by his spiritual eyes and ears. Exact indications are given, as the training progresses, showing how these figures appear and are experienced after the action has been performed, and the candidate must know how to produce this change. This trial is known as the *Water-Trial,* because in his activity in these higher worlds the candidate is deprived of the support derived from outward circumstances, as a swimmer is without support when swimming in water that is beyond his depth. 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Und was er auszuführen hat, das muß er erkennen durch die gekennzeichnete Schrift, die er sich angeeignet hat. Erkennt er seine Pflicht und handelt er richtig, dann hat er die Probe bestanden. Man erkennt den Erfolg an der Veränderung, die sich mit den als Figuren, Farben und Tönen empfundenen Wahrnehmungen der Geistesohren und -augen durch die Handlung vollzieht. In den Fortschritten der Geheimschulung wird ganz genau angegeben, wie diese Figuren und so weiter nach der Handlung aussehen, empfunden werden. Und der Kandidat muß wissen, wie er eine solche Veränderung hervorzubringen vermag. – Man nennt diese Probe die «Wasserprobe», weil bei der Tätigkeit in diesen höheren Gebieten dem Menschen die Stütze durch die äußeren Verhältnisse so fehlt, wie beim Bewegen im Wasser, dessen Grund man nicht erreicht, die Stütze fehlt. – Der Vorgang muß so oft wiederholt werden, bis der Kandidat völlige Sicherheit hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/10/l03/p014"}],"english":["GA 10/c02-4/p014"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":255,"en_words":267,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 10/l03/p014"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":null,"band":"no_original","note":null,"word_count":3850,"original_word_count":null,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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