{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As a rule we cannot enter the spiritual worlds without passing through a deep upheaval in our souls. We have to experience something which disturbs and shakes all our forces, filling us with intense feeling. Emotions that are generally spread out over many moments, over long periods of living, whose permanent effect on the soul is therefore weaker—such feelings are concentrated in a single moment and storm through us with tremendous force when we enter the occult worlds. Then we experience a kind of inner shattering, which can indeed be compared to fear, terror and anxiety, as though we were shrinking back from something almost with horror. Such experiences belong to the initial stages of occult development, to entering the spiritual worlds. It is just for this reason that such great care must be taken to give the right advice to those who would enter the spiritual worlds through occult training. Such a person must be prepared so that he may experience this upheaval as a necessary event in his soul life without its encroaching on his bodily life and health, because his body must not suffer a like upheaval. That is the essential thing. We must learn to suffer the convulsions of our soul with outward equanimity and calm.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Soul Upheaval and the Birth of Abstract Thought","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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Gefühl und Empfindung, die sonst nur über viele Momente, über weite Zeitläufe des Lebens verteilt sind und deshalb nur schwach fortdauernd auf die Seele wirken, beim Eingang in die okkulten Welten drängen sie sich zusammen und durchwühlen und durchkraften die Seele in einem einzigen Moment, so daß man so etwas Erschütterndes erlebt, das der Furcht, der Angst, der Bestürzung, dem Zurückbeben vor irgend etwas, vielleicht auch dem Grauen verglichen werden kann. Das gehört einmal sozusagen zu dem Ausgangspunkte okkulter Entwickelung, zu dem Eintreten in die geistigen Welten. Daher muß ja auch so große Sorgfalt verwendet werden auf jene Ratschläge, die demjenigen gegeben werden müssen, der durch eine Schulung in die geistigen Welten eintreten will. Denn wer durch Schulung in die geistigen Welten eintreten will, der muß so vorbereitet werden, daß er die eben charakterisierte Erschütterung als seelisches Ereignis, als notwendiges Erlebnis so durchlebt, daß es nicht übergreift auf seine Leiblichkeit, auf seine Gesundheit, insofern das Leibliche mit einbegriffen ist, daß dieses nicht mit erschüttert werde. Das ist das Wesentliche, daß wir nicht in bezug auf das äußere, physische Leben in Erschütterungen kommen, daß wir ertragen lernen mit äußerem Gleichmut, mit äußerer Gelassenheit Erschütterungen der Seele. Dann aber dürfen auch die gewöhnlichen Seelenkräfte, die wir im Alltagsleben brauchen, unsere gewöhnliche Intellektualität, ja, selbst die für das Alltagsleben notwendigen Phantasiekräfte, die Kräfte des Empfindens, die Kräfte des Willens im alltäglichen Leben, auch sie dürfen nicht aus dem Gleichgewicht gebracht werden. In viel tieferen Schichten muß vorgehen die Seelenerschütterung, die der Ausgangspunkt sein kann für das okkulte Leben, so daß der Mensch durch das äußere Leben geht, wie er immer gegangen ist, ohne daß irgend etwas ihm angemerkt wird in der äußeren physischen Welt, während er im Innern ganze Welten von Seelenerschütterungen durchlebt. Das heißt reif sein für die okkulte Entwickelung, so innerlich Erschütterndes erleben zu können, ohne das äußere Gleichmaß, die äußere Gelassenheit zu verlieren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":400,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p006"}],"english":["GA 146/1913-05-29/p007","GA 146/1913-05-29/p008"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":400,"en_words":377,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5876,"original_word_count":6059,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. 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