{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 119/1910-03-26/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This World of the Elements is, to begin with, hidden from man while he is in process of going to sleep. Just as man's inner being is hidden on waking through his attention being diverted to the impressions of the outer world, so, when he goes to sleep, the nearest world to which he belongs, the first stage of the Macrocosm, the Elementary World, is hidden from his perception. He can learn to gaze into it when he actually ascends into the Macrocosm in the way indicated. To begin with, this Elementary World makes him conscious that everything in his environment, all sense-perceptions and impressions, are an emanation, a manifestation of the spiritual, that the spiritual lies behind everything material. When a man on the way to Initiation—not, therefore, losing consciousness while passing into sleep—perceives this world, no doubt any longer exists for him that spiritual Beings and spiritual realities lie behind the physical world. Only as long as he is aware of nothing except the physical world does he imagine that behind this world there exist all kinds of conjectured material phenomena—such as atoms and the like. For the man who penetrates into the Elementary World there can no longer be any question of whirling, clustering atoms of matter. He knows that what lies behind colours, sounds and so forth is not material but the *spiritual*. Certainly, at this first stage of the World of the Elements the spiritual does not yet reveal itself in its true form as spirit. Man has before him impressions which, although in a different form from those known in waking consciousness, are not yet the spiritual facts themselves. It is not yet anything that could be called a true spiritual manifestation but to a considerable degree it is something that might be described as a kind of new veil over the spiritual Beings and facts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Experiences of Initiation in the Northern Mysteries","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-03-26","location":null,"word_count":312,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/119/1910-03-26/p014","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Geradeso wie das Innere des Menschen sich beim Aufwachen dadurch verbirgt, daß der Mensch gleich abgelenkt wird auf die Eindrücke der Außenwelt, so verbirgt sich beim Einschlafen die nächste Welt, der der Mensch angehört, die erste Stufe des Makrokosmos, die elementarische Welt. In diese elementarische Welt lernt der Mensch hineinschauen, wenn er in der angedeuteten Weise wirklich hinaufsteigt in den Makrokosmos. Diese elementarische Welt gibt ihm zunächst ein Bewußtsein davon, wie alles das, was in unserer Umgebung ist, was sich da ausbreitet an sinnlichen Wahrnehmungseindrücken, doch ein Ausfluß, eine Offenbarung ist von Geistigem, wie hinter dem Sinnlichen Geistiges steckt. Wenn der Mensch als ein Einzuweihender diese elementarische Welt wahrnimmt, also nicht dadurch, daß er ins Unbewußte hineinschläft, dann ist für ihn gar kein Zweifel mehr darüber vorhanden, daß hinter der sinnlichen Welt geistige Wesenheiten, geistige Tatsachen stehen. Nur solange der Mensch nur die sinnliche Welt wahrnimmt, träumt er davon, daß da hinter dieser sinnlich-physischen Welt allerlei weiteres abstraktes Sinnliches sei, etwa wirbelnde Atome oder dergleichen. Von solchen wirbelnden Atomen, von solchen, man möchte sagen, von den gewöhnlichen sinnlichen Wahrnehmungen ausgepreßten Stoffatomen kann für denjenigen nicht mehr die Rede sein, der eindringt in die elementarische Welt. Nicht das, was man im Materialismus als Stoff sich vorstellt, steckt hinter der Farbe, hinter dem Ton und so weiter, sondern es steckt dahinter Geistiges. Nur zeigt sich allerdings das Geistige auf dieser ersten Stufe der geistigen Welt, die da betreten wird, noch nicht in seiner Gestalt als Geist selber, sondern es zeigt sich noch so, daß der Mensch nicht geistige Eindrücke vor sich hat, sondern andere Eindrücke. Es ist noch nicht irgend etwas, was man eine wahre geistige Welt nennen kann, in die man da eintritt, sondern es ist in erheblichem Grade etwas, was man als eine Art von neuem Schleier der geistigen Tatsachen und geistigen Wesenheiten bezeichnen muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":319,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/119/1910-03-26/p008"}],"english":["GA 119/1910-03-26/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":319,"en_words":312,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.89,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6783,"original_word_count":7618,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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