{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 12/l02/p009","lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The next step towards imaginative knowledge is to find a new “ground and foundation” for the picturings that are thus adrift. This must occur in that other world that is now about to be revealed. New things and entities take possessions of these inner picturings. In the physical world, for instance, the color blue stays on a cornflower. In the imaginative world likewise it must not remain “free floating.” It streams, as it were, towards some being, and whereas it floated unattached at first, it now becomes the expression of a being. Something speaks through it that the observer can only perceive in the imaginative world, and so these “free-floating” picturings gather around definite centers. It becomes clear that beings are speaking to us through them. 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,"title":"2. Imagination","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p009","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/p009"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p009","paragraph_aligned":true}],"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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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"}],"english":["GA 12/l02/p009"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":221,"en_words":222,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 12/l02/p009"]},"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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