{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 12/l02/p008","lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now first of all, viewed entirely outwardly, the whole imaginative world consists of such hallucinations, visions, and illusions. It has been pointed out [in *Knowledge of the Higher Worlds*] how, through occult training, such visions, etc., are artificially produced. By focusing the consciousness on a seed or a dying plant, certain forms, which to begin with are nothing but hallucinations, are conjured up before the soul. The “flame formation,” spoken of as appearing in the soul through observation of a plant or the like, and that after a time completely separates itself from the plant, is, outwardly viewed, to be regarded on the same level as an hallucination. It is the same in occult training when the imaginative world is entered. 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,"title":"2. Imagination","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p008","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/p008"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p008","paragraph_aligned":true}],"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. 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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"}],"english":["GA 12/l02/p008"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":269,"en_words":257,"ratio":0.96,"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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