{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 138/1912-08-30/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"From the previous lectures you will perhaps have realised how necessary it is to make our conceptions capable of change and movement if we are to arrive at a right description of the various worlds of which we can speak, one of which is our ordinary sensory existence, our ordinary world of the senses. From much that has been said it should be evident to you that we must speak of human concepts in a different language when representing the transition from one world to another. That is one side of the matter. But there is another side; all these worlds work reciprocally and in one world the inter-working of the remaining worlds can always be perceived as a kind of reflection. In each world we are met by the phenomena and beings of that particular world, and, in addition, by all that is working into it from the other worlds. All this must be carefully considered if we would understand the secrets of initiation, the relation of the passing moment to eternity, and the relation of the darkness in life to the light of the spirit. There are certain rules and instructions, which you will find described in *Knowledge of the Higher Worlds*, to which the soul can be subjected in order to enter super-sensible worlds. It goes without saying that such rules are not only useful but indispensable to anyone really wanting to undertake the first or further steps toward initiation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"Lucifer and Ahriman: Spiritual Beings Beyond Good and Evil","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Aber es gibt eine andere Seite der Sache: daß alle diese Welten wieder zusammenwirken und daß in der einen Welt immer gewissermaßen der Abglanz, die Hineinwirkungen der übrigen Welten wahrzunehmen sind. In jeder Welt hat man es damit zu tun, daß einem die Erscheinungen und Wesenheiten dieser Welt selbst entgegentreten und dann wieder alles dasjenige, was von den anderen Welten in diese besondere Welt hineinwirkt. Dieses alles muß sorgfältig berücksichtigt werden, wenn man verstehen will, was die Geheimnisse der Initiation sind, welches die Beziehungen des Augenblickes zur Ewigkeit, des Lebensdunkels zum Geisteslichte sind. Es gibt - wie Sie dargestellt finden in «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» - gewisse Regeln, gewisse Anweisungen, welchen sich die Seele unterwerfen kann, um den Aufstieg in die übersinnlichen Welten zu bewirken. Solche Regeln sind selbstverständlich nicht nur nützlich, sondern demjenigen unentbehrlich, der wirklich die ersten oder die weiteren Schritte der Initiation unternehmen will. Aber insbesondere in unserer Zeit muß auf eines aufmerksam gemacht werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/138/1912-08-30/p003"}],"english":["GA 138/1912-08-30/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":247,"en_words":243,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5516,"original_word_count":5400,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Gilbert Church","identified_edition":"AP1980","book_title":"Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA138/English/AP1980/19120830p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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