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This stage is unavoidable for this reason: Everyone who seeks communication with the higher world without having passed through it can only do so unconsciously and is condemned to grope in the dark. One can acquire some dim sense of this higher world without Imagination; one can without it certainly attain to a sense of being united with “one's God” or “one's higher self,” but one cannot in this way come to a true knowledge in full consciousness and bright, luminous clarity. Therefore, all talk about coming to terms with the “inferior spiritual worlds” (the astral and the devachanic) being unnecessary, that the one thing needful is for man to awaken the “God within him,” is no more than illusion.—Whoever is satisfied with this approach should not be interfered with in his strivings, and the occultist would not so interfere. But true occultism has nothing at all to do with such strivings. It makes no demand upon anybody to become a pupil. But in him who seeks its discipline it will awaken no mere dim perception of himself as “godlike,” but will also try to open his spiritual eyes to what actually exists in higher worlds.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":246,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p004","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p004"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":247,"en_words":246,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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One should open the eyes and *behold* the revelation of deity in the things of the physical world, in the stone, in the plant, and not merely dream away all these as only “appearances” with the true form of God somehow “concealed” behind them. No, God reveals Himself in His creations and whoever would know God must learn to know the true essence of these creations. Therefore one must also learn to behold what really goes on and is living in the higher worlds, if one would know the “divine.” The consciousness that the “God-man” dwells within one can at most provide a beginning. But this beginning experienced in the right way, rises to an actual lift into the higher worlds. But this is possible only for one in whom the spiritual “senses” have been developed. Any other view arrives only at the standpoint, “I will stay as I am and attain only what is possible for me to attain in this way.” But the aim of the occultist is to become a different human being, in order to behold and experience other things than the customary ones.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p005","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":280,"en_words":293,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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But it is not at all to be understood that any person could be spared passage through the imaginative stage.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":95,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":96,"en_words":95,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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This consciousness that objects and entities cause physical perceptions gives to them, and thereby to man himself, his security and sure hold. Anyone having perceptions without outward causes is spoken of as abnormal and morbid. Such causeless perceptions are called illusions, hallucinations, visions.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":184,"en_words":184,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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What was customarily regarded as going forth from things “outside in space,” or “clinging to them” as properties—colours, sounds, odors, etc.,—now float free in space. Perceptions break loose from all outer things and swim free in space, or fly around in it. Yet it is known with strict accuracy that the things before us have not brought forth these perceptions, but rather that they are self-induced by the human being. So it is that one thinks one has “lost the ground under one's feet.” In ordinary life in the physical world those inner picturings that do not proceed from things must be guarded against and are without ground or foundation. But to call forth imaginative knowledge, the prime essential is to have colours, sounds, odours, etc., fully torn loose from all things, “floating free in space.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":269,"en_words":257,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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And, as in the physical world there are corporeal things and beings to which colours, sounds, odors, and so forth, are attached or from which they are derived, so now spiritual beings speak out through them. These “spiritual beings” are, in fact, always there; they hover continually around human beings. But they cannot reveal themselves to them if the occasion is not given them to do so. They are given this opportunity when one calls forth the capacity to let sounds, colours, and so forth, arise before one's soul, even when occasioned by no physical object.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p009"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 12/l02/p009"],"length_check":{"de_words":221,"en_words":222,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Exactly this makes for mobility and freedom in the imaginative world—that the medium of the outer object is missing, and the spiritual lives itself out with full immediacy in the free-floating tones, colours, etc.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":107,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":111,"en_words":107,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Unvermeidlich ist diese Stufe aus dem Grunde, weil jeder, der eine Verbindung mit der höheren Welt ohne ihr Durchschreiten sucht, dies nur unbewußt tun kann und dazu verurteilt ist, im Dunkeln zu tappen. Man kann sich ein dunkles Gefühl von dieser höheren Welt ohne die Imagination erwerben, man kann ohne sie gewiß zur Empfindung kommen, daß man mit «seinem Gotte» oder mit «seinem höheren Selbst» vereinigt sei, aber zu einer wirklichen Erkenntnis mit vollem Bewußtsein in heller, lichter Klarheit kann man so nicht kommen. Deshalb ist auch alles Reden davon, daß man die Auseinandersetzungen mit den «niederen Welten» (der astralen und der devachanischen) nicht brauche, daß es sich nur darum handeln könne, daß der Mensch «den Gott in sich erwecke», nichts weiter als eine Illusion. Wer damit zufrieden ist, dem soll in sein Streben nicht hineingeredet werden, und der Okkultist wird einem solchen auch nicht hineinreden. Aber der wahre Okkultismus hat mit solchem Streben gar nichts zu tun. Dieser fordert ja niemanden zur Schülerschaft unmittelbar auf. Wer aber seine Schulung *sucht*, dem will er nicht bloß eine dunkle Empfindung von seiner «Gottähnlichkeit» erwecken, sondern er sucht ihm die geistigen Augen zu öffnen für das, was in höheren Welten wirklich vorhanden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p004"},{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Gewiß ist ja in jedem Menschen das «göttliche Selbst» enthalten. Aber das ist ja doch in jedem Wesen der Fall. Im Stein, in der Pflanze, im Tier ist auch das «göttliche Selbst» enthalten und wirksam. Aber nicht darauf kann es ankommen, dies so ganz im allgemeinen zu fühlen und zu wissen, sondern darauf, wirklich in Verbindung zu treten mit den *Offenbarungen* dieses «göttlichen Selbstes». So wie derjenige nichts von der physischen Welt weiß, der sich nur immer wieder sagen kann: diese Welt enthält in sich verhüllt das «göttliche Selbst», so weiß auch derjenige nichts von höheren Welten, welcher das «göttliche Geisterreich» nur in verschwommener, unbestimmter Allgemeinheit sucht. Man soll seine Augen öffnen und die Offenbarung der Gottheit in den Dingen der physischen Welt, im Stein, in der Pflanze anschauen, nicht davon träumen, daß dies jedoch alles nur «Erscheinungen» seien und daß Gottes wahre Gestalt dahinter «verborgen» sei. Nein, Gott offenbart sich in seinen Schöpfungen, und wer Gott erkennen will, muß das Wesen dieser Schöpfungen erkennen lernen. Deshalb muß man auch das wirklich anschauen lernen, was in höheren Welten vorgeht und lebt, wenn man das «Göttliche» erkennen will. Das Bewußtsein, daß der «Gottmensch» in einem lebt, kann höchstens den Anfang bilden. Aber dieser Anfang wird, wenn er in rechter Weise erlebt wird, zum Antrieb, wirklich aufzusteigen in die höheren Welten. Das kann man aber nur, wenn man die geistigen «Sinne» dazu in sich ausbildet. Alles andere stellt sich ja doch nur auf den Standpunkt: Ich will bleiben, wie ich bin, und nur erreichen, was mir so zu erreichen möglich ist. Der Standpunkt des Okkultismus ist aber, ein anderer Mensch zu werden, damit man anderes als das Gewöhnliche schauen und erleben kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":280,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p005"},{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Und *dazu* ist eben der Durchgang durch die *imaginative* Erkenntnis notwendig. Es ist gesagt worden, daß diese Stufe der Imagination nicht aufgefaßt zu werden braucht wie eine Schulklasse, die man durchaus «absitzen» müsse. Das ist so zu verstehen, daß es namentlich in unsrem gegenwärtigen Leben Personen gibt, welche solche Vorbedingungen mitbringen, daß der Geheimlehrer bei ihnen gleichzeitig oder wenigstens *fast* gleichzeitig mit der imaginativen Erkenntnis die inspirierte und die intuitive hervorrufen kann. Aber es darf durchaus nicht so verstanden werden, als ob es irgend jemand geben könnte, dem der Durchgang durch die Imagination zu ersparen wäre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p006"},{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Auf den Grund der Gefahr innerhalb der imaginativen Erkenntnis ist ja in meiner Schrift «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» bereits hingedeutet worden. Dieser Grund liegt darin, daß der Mensch beim Eintritte in diese Welt gewissermaßen den Boden unter den Füßen verliert. Wodurch er in der physischen Welt Festigkeit hat, das geht ihm zunächst scheinbar ganz verloren. Nimmt man in dieser physischen Welt etwas wahr, so fragt man sich: Woher kommt diese Wahrnehmung? Man tut das ja zumeist unbewußt. Aber man ist sich eben «unbewußt» darüber klar, daß die Ursachen der Wahrnehmungen die Gegenstände «draußen im Räume» sind. Die Farben, die Töne, die Gerüche gehen von diesen Gegenständen aus. Man sieht nicht freischwebende Farben, man hört nicht Töne, ohne daß man sich bewußt werden könnte, an welchen Gegenständen diese Farben als Eigenschaften «haften», von welchen Gegenständen die Töne herrühren. Dieses Bewußtsein, daß die Gegenstände und Wesenheiten sie verursachen, gibt den physischen Wahrnehmungen und damit dem Menschen selbst Festigkeit und einen sicheren Halt. Hat jemand Wahrnehmungen ohne äußere Ursache, so spricht man von abnormen, krankhaften Zuständen. Man nennt solche ursachlose Wahrnehmungen Illusionen, Halluzinationen, Visionen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p007"},{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Nun zunächst ganz äußerlich betrachtet besteht die ganze imaginative Welt aus solchen Halluzinationen, Visionen und Illusionen. Es ist gezeigt worden in «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?», wie durch die Geheimschulung künstlich solche Visionen usw. erzeugt werden. Durch das Hinlenken des Bewußtseins auf ein Samenkorn oder auf eine absterbende Pflanze werden gewisse Gestalten vor die Seele gezaubert, die nichts weiter zunächst sind als Halluzinationen. Die «Flammenbildung», von der dort gesagt wurde, daß sie in der Seele auftreten kann durch die Betrachtung einer Pflanze oder dergleichen und die sich nach einer Zeit ganz loslöst von der Pflanze, ist, äußerlich betrachtet, einer Halluzination gleich zu achten. Und so geht es noch weiter in der Geheimschulung, wenn man in die imaginative Welt eintritt. Das, wovon man gewöhnt war, daß es von den Dingen «draußen im Raum» ausgeht oder ihnen als Eigenschaft «anhaftet», die Farben, Töne, Gerüche usw., erfüllen nun freischwebend den Raum. Die Wahrnehmungen lösen sich los von allen äußeren Dingen und schweben frei im Räume oder fliegen darin herum. Und man weiß dabei doch ganz genau, daß die Dinge, die man da vor sich hat, diese Wahrnehmungen nicht hervorgebracht haben, daß man sie vielmehr «selbst» verursacht hat. So kommt es, daß man meinen muß, man habe «den Boden unter den Füßen verloren». Im gewöhnlichen Leben in der physischen Welt muß man sich ja gerade davor hüten, Vorstellungen zu haben, die nicht von den Dingen herrühren, die sozusagen ohne «Grund und Boden» sind. Zur Hervorrufung der imaginativen Erkenntnis aber kommt es gerade darauf an, zunächst Farben, Töne, Gerüche usw. zu haben, die ganz losgelöst von allen Dingen «frei im Räume schweben».","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p008"},{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Nun muß die nächste Stufe der imaginativen Erkenntnis darin bestehen, einen neuen «Grund und Boden» für die herrenlos gewordenen Vorstellungen zu finden. Das muß eben in der anderen Welt geschehen, die sich jetzt offenbaren soll. Es bemächtigen sich neue Dinge und Wesenheiten dieser Vorstellungen. In der physischen Welt «haftet» z.B. die blaue Farbe an einer Kornblume. In der imaginativen Welt darf sie nun auch nicht «freischwebend» bleiben. Sie *strömt* gleichsam zu einer Wesenheit hin, und während sie noch vorher herrenlos war, wird sie jetzt der Ausdruck einer Wesenheit. Es spricht etwas durch sie zu dem Beobachter, was dieser eben nur innerhalb der imaginativen Welt wahrnehmen kann. Und so sammeln sich die «freischwebenden» Vorstellungen um bestimmte Mittelpunkte. Und man wird gewahr, daß Wesen durch sie zu uns sprechen. Und wie es in der physischen Welt körperliche Dinge und Wesenheiten sind, an denen Farben, Gerüche und Töne usw. «haften» oder von denen sie herstammen, so sprechen sich jetzt «geistige Wesenheiten» durch sie aus. Diese «geistigen Wesenheiten» sind ja tatsächlich immer da; sie umschwirren den Menschen beständig. Aber sie können sich diesem nicht offenbaren, wenn er nicht die Gelegenheit dazu gibt. Und diese Gelegenheit gibt er nur dadurch, daß er in sich die Fähigkeit hervorruft, Töne, Farben usw. auch dann vor seiner Seele entstehen zu lassen, wenn diese durch keinen physischen Gegenstand veranlaßt werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p009"},{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Ganz anders sind die «geistigen Tatsachen und Wesenheiten» als die Dinge und Wesen der physischen Welt. Es ist nicht ganz leicht, in der gewöhnlichen Sprache einen Ausdruck zu finden, welcher die Verschiedenheit auch nur annähernd charakterisiert. Vielleicht kommt man der Sache am nächsten, wenn man sagt: in der imaginativen Welt spricht alles so zum Menschen, wie wenn es unmittelbar intelligent wäre, während in der physischen Welt auch die Intelligenz nur auf dem Umwege durch die physische Körperlichkeit sich offenbaren kann. Das macht eben die Beweglichkeit und Freiheit der imaginativen Welt aus, daß das Zwischenglied der äußeren Dinge fehlt, daß das Geistige ganz unmittelbar in den freischwebenden Tönen, Farben usw. sich auslebt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":111,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p010"}],"beads":[{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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