{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 12/l02/p007","lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The cause of danger inherent in imaginative knowledge has already been pointed out in my book, *Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment*. This cause is that upon entrance into that world the human being in a certain sense loses the ground under his feet. The source of his security in the physical world is for the moment to all appearances entirely lost. Upon perception of something in the physical world it is asked: Whence comes this perception? This is mostly done unconsciously. But it is quite “unconsciously” clear that the causes of the perception are objects “outside in space.” Colours, sounds, odours go out from these objects. Colours would not be seen floating free in space, nor sounds heard, without consciousness arising as to the objects to which these colours pertain as qualities, and from which these tones come. 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,"title":"2. Imagination","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p007","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/p007"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p007","paragraph_aligned":true}],"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. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"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"}],"english":["GA 12/l02/p007"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":184,"en_words":184,"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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