{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It has been said already that this very subject is one of the most difficult of all in occult investigation. It is far easier to know something about the astral world, the devachanic world, even about the farthest planets, than about the interior of the earth. Most things one hears are the purest trash, because, as I say, it is one of the most difficult subjects in occultism. The same is true of matters that are connected with these elemental catastrophes. And above all you must realize that clairvoyance is not a matter of just sitting down, inducing a particular condition, and then being able to say what is going on in the whole universe, up to the highest spheres. It is by no means so. To believe any such thing would be as “clever” as to say: “You have the faculty of perception in the physical world; but why was it that when 12 o'clock came and you were sitting in your room, you were neither astonished by nor did you see what happened outside by the River Spree at that hour?” There are hindrances to seership. If the seer in question had gone for a walk at 12 o'clock he would probably have seen what happened. It is *not* the case that all worlds are immediately disclosed through the mere resolve to induce in oneself the requisite condition. The seer has to find his way to the events and investigate them, and these investigations are of the most difficult kind because the hindrances are greatest.—And perhaps at this point something may be said about these hindrances.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. 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Als ich den Vortrag gehalten habe über das «Erdinnere», habe ich schon gesagt, daß es ungeheuer schwierig ist, über das Erdinnere etwas zu wissen, daß es viel leichter ist, über den astralischen Raum, über den devachanischen Raum, selbst über die fernsten Planeten etwas zu wissen als über das Erdinnere, Die meisten Dinge, die über das Erdeninnere zu hören sind, sind eben der reinste Humbug, weil das gerade zu den schwierigsten Dingen des Okkultismus gehört. In dieses Gebiet hinein gehören auch die Dinge, die mit diesen Elementarkatastrophen zusammenhängen. Und vor allen Dingen müssen Sie sich vor Augen halten, daß Hellsehen nicht etwas ist, wo sich irgendeiner hinsetzt und in einen besonderen Zustand kommt und dann sagen kann, was in der ganzen Welt bis in die höchsten Welten hinauf vorgeht. So liegen die Sachen nicht. Wer das glauben würde, der würde ebensosehr gescheit denken wie derjenige, der da sagen würde: Du hast doch die Fähigkeit, in der physischen Welt wahrzunehmen; es ist dir aber doch gar nicht aufgefallen, und du hast das gar nicht gesehen, als die Uhr zwölf war und du hier in dem Zimmer saßest, was um zwölf Uhr draußen an der Spree sich zugetragen hat? - Es gibt doch Hindernisse des Sehens. Wenn der Betreffende um zwölf Uhr draußen gerade spazieren gegangen wäre, dann hätte er vielleicht wohl das betreffende Ereignis wahrgenommen. Es ist nicht so, daß bloß durch den Entschluß, sich in den nötigen Zustand zu versetzen, nun auch alle Welten gleich offenliegen. Auch da muß der Betreffende erst zu den Dingen hingehen und die Dinge untersuchen, und diese Untersuchungen, um die es sich da handelt, gehören zu den schwierigsten Dingen, weil da die größten Hindernisse entgegenstehen. Und hier darf vielleicht gerade über diese Hindernisse gesprochen werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p035"}],"english":["GA 107/1909-01-01/p039"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":303,"en_words":268,"ratio":0.88,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7750,"original_word_count":8170,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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