{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 12/l02/p004","lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If the student allows the waiting time or the other advice and hints given to him by the occult teacher to influence him rightly, he will be actually preparing himself to hold his ground before certain trials and dangers that approach him when he encounters the unavoidable stage of Imagination. 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,"title":"2. Imagination","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":246,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p004","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1967"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p004"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p004","paragraph_aligned":true}],"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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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"}],"english":["GA 12/l02/p004"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":247,"en_words":246,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3721,"original_word_count":3692,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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