{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 12/l02/p015","lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But perhaps one other explanation is needed. One might feel tempted to ask whether the occult student could not be spared going through the delusions of his own soul. But if this happened, he would never attain to that independent discernment so desirable for him. For by no other means can the singular nature of the imaginative world be so well grasped as by the observation of one's own soul. To begin with, man knows the inner life of his soul from one side. He is immersed in it, and this is just what the occult student has to learn—not only to look at things from outside, but to observe them as if he himself were within all of them. If his own thought world now meets him as something foreign, and he already knows a thing from one side, he can still learn to know it from another. He must himself become to a certain extent the first example of such knowledge. Here in the physical world he is accustomed to something quite different. Here he looks upon all other things only from outside, but he experiences himself only from the inside. As long as he remains in the physical world, he can never see behind the surface of things. He can never go outside himself, “slip out of his skin,” as it were, to observe himself from outside. This objective observation of *himself* is literally his first obligation in occult training, this helps him learn also to look beneath the surface of outer facts and beings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Imagination","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p015","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/p015"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1967","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/12/l02/p015","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 12/l02/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":248,"en_words":258,"ratio":1.04,"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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Tritt ihm nun seine eigene Gedankenwelt so wie etwas Fremdes entgegen, dann lernt er eben dadurch ein Ding, das er schon von einer Seite her kennt, auch noch von der anderen Seite kennen. Er muß gewissermaßen sich selbst das erste Beispiel einer solchen Erkenntnis werden. Von der physischen Welt her ist er ja an etwas ganz anderes gewöhnt. Da erblickt er alle anderen Dinge immer nur von außen, sich selbst aber erlebt er nur vom Innern. Er kann, solange er in der physischen Welt verbleibt, nie hinter die Oberfläche der Dinge hineinsehen. Und er kann niemals aus sich herausgehen, gleichsam «aus seiner eigenen Haut fahren», um *sich* von außen zu beobachten. Das letztere obliegt ihm buchstäblich bei der Geheimschulung zuerst, und mit Hilfe dessen lernt er dann, auch äußeren Tatsachen und Wesenheiten hinter die Oberfläche zu schauen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":248,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/12/l02/p015"}],"english":["GA 12/l02/p015"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":248,"en_words":258,"ratio":1.04,"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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