{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 122/1910-08-22/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We tried in the preceding lectures to form an idea as to how spiritual Beings, whom we know from Spiritual Science, are to be rediscovered in Genesis. We have already partly succeeded. We have borne in mind throughout that in what confronts us in the outer world, even in what we meet in the lower stages of clairvoyant consciousness—and in Genesis we have to do with facts of clairvoyant consciousness all the time—we are dealing with maya, with illusion; we have borne in mind that our usual interpretation of the sense-world, as it presents itself primarily to our faculty of knowledge, is *maya*, or illusion. That is a statement which is familiar to anyone who has anything to do with Spiritual Science. Moreover, the fact that the lower region of clairvoyance, all that has to do with the etheric and astral worlds, in a higher sense also belongs to the sphere of deception, cannot remain hidden from anyone who has familiarised himself with the spiritual scientific outlook for any length of time. We strike, as it were, the true ground of existence—so far as it is attainable by us—only when we have pushed beyond these regions to its deeper source. We must always bear this in mind. And we must not be content to voice it as a theory, but the conviction must pass over into our flesh and blood, that in clinging to external existence we are surrendering to illusion. On the other hand, to ignore external existence, to prize it too lightly, is also one of the great illusions into which men can fall.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Elementary Existence and the Spiritual Beings behind it. 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Wir haben dabei den Gesichtspunkt immer im Auge gehabt, daß es sich bei dem, was zunächst uns äußerlich entgegentritt, ja selbst, was uns auf den niederen Stufen des hellseherischen Bewußtseins entgegentritt — und mit Tatsachen des hellseherischen Bewußtseins haben wir es ja im Grunde genommen immer zu tun in der Genesis —, daß es sich bei dem um Maja, um Illusion handelt; daß unsere gewöhnliche Auffassung der Sinneswelt, so wie diese Sinneswelt für unser Erkenntnisvermögen zunächst vorhanden ist, daß diese Sinneswelt Maja oder Illusion ist. Das ist ein Satz, der einem jeden geläufig ist, der sich einigermaßen mit dem Gebiete der Geisteswissenschaft beschäftigt hat. Auch daß gewissermaßen die niederen Gebiete des Hellsehertums, daß alles das, was wir ätherische und astralische Welt nennen, in einem höheren Sinn in dieses Gebiet der Täuschung hineingehört, auch das ist etwas, was keinem verborgen bleiben kann, der sich längere Zeit mit geisteswissenschaftlichen Anschauungen beschäftigt. Wir stoßen sozusagen auf den wahren Grund des Daseins, soweit er für uns erreichbar ist, erst dann, wenn wir über diese genannten Gebiete hinaus zu den tieferen Quellen des Daseins dringen. Das müssen wir uns immer wieder vor Augen halten. Und wir dürfen nicht dabei stehenbleiben, uns das bloß theoretisch zu sagen, sondern es muß sozusagen das Gefühl in Fleisch und Blut übergehen, daß wir uns Illusionen hingeben, wenn wir an dem äußeren Dasein hängenbleiben. Zu übersehen etwa das äußere Dasein, es gering zu schätzen, das wäre natürlich auch wiederum eine der großen Illusionen, denen die Menschen sich hingeben können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/122/1910-08-22/p004"}],"english":["GA 122/1910-08-22/p004"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":287,"en_words":266,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5876,"original_word_count":6153,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy Lenn and Owen Barfield","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Genesis","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA122/English/RSP1982/19100822p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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