{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 122/1910-08-22/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us consider the elementary existence which has been so often mentioned in these lectures, and which is the nearest realm attainable behind our physical existence, behind what we perceive with our senses. Spiritual Science characterises it as the existence lying behind earth, water, air and fire or warmth, light, sound-ether and life-ether. We try to acquire ideas about the nature of earth, water, air, and so on, and to grasp them firmly. We have not done very much if, with a certain intellectual superiority which can easily become rife among anthroposophical devotees, we just say “that is all *maya*, illusion”; for it is nevertheless through this *maya* that the real Beings reveal themselves. And if we scorn to look at the manifestations, if we scorn to get to know the tools and instruments through which they reveal themselves, we have no means of making existence comprehensible. We must be clear that when we say “water,” “air,” and so on, we are referring to expressions, to manifestations, of real spiritualities, but that if we refuse to have anything to do with this *maya*, we can acquire no ideas of what lies behind it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Elementary Existence and the Spiritual Beings behind it. 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Es ist nichts damit getan, daß wir mit einem gewissen intellektuellen Hochmut, der ja sehr leicht bei theosophisch Gläubigen verbreitet sein kann, sagen: «Nun ja, das ist ja alles Maja, Illusion!» Durch diese Maja offenbaren sich eben doch die wahren 'Wesenheiten. Und wenn wir es verschmähen, die Offenbarungen ins Auge zu fassen, die Werkzeuge und Mittel zu unserer Kenntnis zu bringen, durch welche sie sich offenbaren, so entfällt uns überhaupt ein jeglicher Inhalt, durch den wir uns das Dasein begreiflich machen wollen. Wir müssen uns darüber klar sein, daß wenn wir sagen «Wasser», «Luft» und so weiter, daß wir da Äußerungen, Manifestationen der eigentlichen wahren Geistigkeiten ins Auge fassen, daß wir aber, wenn wir sagen: «Wir wollen nichts wissen von dieser Maja», daß wir dann überhaupt zu keinen Vorstellungen dessen kommen, was dem allem zugrunde liegt. Also klar müssen wir uns auf der anderen Seite eben doch darüber sein, daß wir in dem Erdigen, Wässerigen und so weiter Äußerungen, Offenbarungen, Manifestationen von geistigen Wesenheiten vor uns haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":262,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/122/1910-08-22/p005"}],"english":["GA 122/1910-08-22/p005"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":262,"en_words":193,"ratio":0.74,"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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