{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 140/1913-10-10/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In telling you this I am giving you a very important detail of the life of the Spirit. As we in physical life always know what we see and always know that we are looking at this or that—as we see these roses here on the table—so in the spiritual life we always know when a spiritual being is looking at us. When we pass through the spiritual worlds we always feel that this or that being is looking at us. In the physical world we are conscious that we go through it observing the things around us, but in the spiritual world we feel that this or that being is looking at us. We are constantly aware of being seen, of being appraised, and this leads us to form decisions to do something or other, knowing that we are being approved of or the reverse; and if there is anything we ought or ought not to do, we either do it or not accordingly. Just as we pluck a flower because it takes our fancy after we have seen it, so in the spiritual world we do a thing because it pleases some being, or refrain from doing it because we cannot stand the glance that is turned on such an action. This is a state of things to which we must grow accustomed. Over there we have the feeling of being seen, just as here we feel that we see. In a sense what is passive here is active there, and what is active here is passive there. From this you can see, my dear friends, that we must acquire absolutely different concepts if we are to understand aright the descriptions referring to the spiritual world. You will see how difficult it is to coin in ordinary human language the descriptions of the spiritual world which one would so gladly give. You will realize that for many things the necessary understanding must first have been created.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Living Intercourse with the Dead Through Spiritual Science","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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Wie man nämlich im physischen Leben immer weiß, was man ansieht, wie man immer weiß: man sieht das oder jenes, man sieht die Rose, man sieht den Tisch — so weiß man im geistigen Leben immer: dies oder jenes Wesen sieht einen an. Man geht durch die geistigen Welten und hat immer das Gefühl: jetzt schauen dich diese Wesen an. Während man in der physischen Welt das Bewußtsein hat, man geht durch die Welt wahrnehmend, hat man in der geistigen Welt das Erlebnis: du wirst jetzt von diesem, dann von jenem gesehen. Man fühlt sich fortwährend Blicken ausgesetzt, die einen zugleich aber zum Entschluß bringen, irgend etwas zu tun. Indem man weiß: man wird jetzt wohlgefällig angesehen oder nicht, damit man etwas tun solle oder nicht, so tut man es oder tut es nicht. Wie man nach einer Blume greift, die einem gefällt, weil man sie gesehen hat, so tut man in der geistigen Welt etwas, weil es irgendein Wesen gerne sieht, wohlgefällig sieht, oder man unterläßt es, weil man nicht aushalten kann den Blick, der hingewendet wird auf diese Tat. Das ist etwas, was man sich durchaus aneignen muß. Man hat dort das Gefühl, daß man selber gesehen wird, wie man hier das Gefühl hat, daß man sieht. Es ist in einer gewissen Weise dort passiv, was hier aktiv ist, wie dort wiederum aktiv ist, was hier passiv ist. — Daraus sehen Sie, daß man sich gewissermaßen ganz andere Begriffe aneignen muß, wenn man in der richtigen Weise Schilderungen aus der geistigen Welt auffassen will. Und Sie werden daher begreifen, wie schwierig es ist, in gewöhnliche Menschenworte zu prägen dasjenige, was man so gerne als Schilderungen der geistigen Welten geben möchte. So werden Sie begreifen, wie notwendig es ist, daß für viele Dinge erst das nötige vorbereitende Verständnis geschaffen werde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":312,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/140/1913-10-10/p020"}],"english":["GA 140/1913-10-10/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":312,"en_words":328,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6352,"original_word_count":6736,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Henry Collison","identified_edition":"APC1928","book_title":"Descriptive Sketches of the Spiritual World","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA140/English/APC1928/19131010p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","note":"rsarchive's lecture list spells the credit 'Harry Collison'; the lecture pages of this edition print 'Henry Collison', which is served.","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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