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If that were true they could never become clairvoyant at all, because just as the alchemist thought that one must have a little gold to conjure forth large quantities, so must one already be a little clairvoyant in order to be able to develop and extend it more and more. Now you may see two alternatives here and ask, “Do you think then that we all are clairvoyant, if only slightly, *or*, do you think that those of us who are not clairvoyant can never become so?” This is just the point. It is most important to understand that there is really no one among you who does not have this starting-point of clairvoyance, though you may not be conscious of it. All of you have it. None of you is lacking in it. What is this that all possess? It is something not generally regarded or valued as clairvoyance. 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Most men and women today are chickens in this respect. They do not value the pearl that lies there in full view before them. What they value is something quite different. They value their concepts and ideas, but no one could think abstractly, could *have* thoughts and ideas, if he were not clairvoyant. In our ordinary thinking the pearl of clairvoyance is contained from the start. Ideas arise in the soul through exactly the same process as what gives rise to its highest powers. It is immensely important to learn to understand that clairvoyance begins in something common and everyday. We only have to recognize the super-sensible nature of our concepts and ideas. 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It was not understood at the time, and no wonder, for those who should have understood it were—well, like the chickens! We must realize that at the moment when Krishna stands before Arjuna and gives him the power of abstract judgment, he is thereby giving him, for the first time in the whole of evolution, the starting-point for the knowledge of higher worlds. The spirit can be seen on the very surface of the changes that take place within the external world of sense. Bodies die; the spirit, the abstract, the essential being, is eternal. The spiritual can be seen playing on the surface of phenomena. 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They must have once passed through the feeling of the fleeting nature of all outer transformations. They must have experienced the mood of infinite sadness, of infinite tragedy, and at the same time the exultation of joy. They must have felt the breath of the ephemeral that streams out from all things. They must have been able to fix their interest on this coming forth and passing away again, the transitoriness of the world of sense. Then, when they have been able to feel the deepest pain and the fullest delight in the external world, they must once have been absolutely alone—alone with their concepts and ideas. They must have had the feeling, “In these concepts I grasp the mystery of the worlds; I take hold of the outer edge of cosmic being,”—the very expression I once used in my *The Philosophy of Freedom*! This must be experienced, not merely understood intellectually, and if you would experience it, it must be in deepest loneliness. Then you have another feeling. On the one hand you experience the majesty of the world of ideas that is spread out over the *All*. On the other hand you experience with the deepest bitterness that you have to separate yourself from space and time in order to be together with your concepts and ideas. Loneliness! It is the icy cold of loneliness. Furthermore, it comes to you that the world of ideas has now drawn together as in a single point of this loneliness. Now you say, I am alone with my world of ideas. You become utterly bewildered in your world of ideas, an experience that stirs you to the depths of your soul. At length you say to yourself, “Perhaps all this is only I myself; perhaps the only truth about these laws is that they exist in the point of my own loneliness.” Thus you experience, infinitely enhanced, utter doubt in all existence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":337,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-05-29/p023","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-05-29","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p021"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 146/1913-05-29/p021","GA 146/1913-05-29/p022"],"length_check":{"de_words":330,"en_words":337,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Davon zu sprechen, daß dasjenige, was ich eben jetzt als eine Unterweisung des Krishna ausgesprochen habe, davon zu sprechen, daß das trivial sei, das kommt etwa dem gleich, wie wenn jemand sagen würde: Ja, da verehrt man den Pythagoras als einen so großen Geist, aber seinen Lehrsatz kennt ja jeder Schulbub und jedes Schulmädchen. — Das wäre doch ein sehr törichtes Urteil, wenn man von dem Umstand, daß jeder Schulbub den Pythagoräischen Lehrsatz kennt, schließen würde, daß Pythagoras eben kein großer Mann gewesen sei, weil er den Pythagoräischen Lehrsatz gefunden hat. Da merkt man das Törichte nur; man merkt es aber nicht mehr, wenn man nicht empfindet, daß dasjenige, was heute alle westländischen Philosophen plappern können als Krishnaweisheit: von der Ewigkeit des Geistes, von der Unsterblichkeit des Geistes, daß das in der Zeit, als es Krishna verkündete, eine hohe Weisheit war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p013"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Solche Seelen wie Arjuna fühlten zwar: Blutsverwandte dürfen sich nicht bekämpfen, empfanden zwar noch das gemeinsame Blut in einer Mehrheit von Menschen, aber etwas völlig Neues, etwas, was ganz neu, epochal neu in seine Seele tönte, war der in abstrakten Worten, in Verstandesworten ausgesprochene Satz: Der Geist ist ewig — der Geist als dasjenige betrachtet, was gewöhnlich abstrakt im Zentrum des Menschen gedacht wird -—, der Geist ist ewig und geht durch Verwandlungen hindurch, schreitet von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation. Im Konkreten glaubte jeder Mensch in der Umgebung des Arjuna an die Wiederverkörperung. In der Allgemeinheit, in der Abstraktheit, wie es Krishna lehrte, war es, besonders angesichts der Situation für Arjuna, etwas völlig Neues.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p014"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Das ist das eine, warum das, was eben ausgesprochen worden ist, eigentlich in einem ganz besonderen Sinne eine triviale Wahrheit genannt werden mußte. Es gilt aber auch noch in einem anderen Sinne. Dasjenige, was wir heute, selbst wenn wir populäre Wissenschaft treiben, als dem Menschen etwas ganz Natürliches ansehen, unser Denken, unser abstraktes Denken, das war ganz und gar nicht immer bei dem Menschen etwas Selbstverständliches und Natürliches. Es ist gut, wenn man, um so etwas zu charakterisieren, gleich zu den radikalen Fällen seine Zuflucht nimmt. Ihnen allen wird es sonderbar vorkommen, wenn man folgendes sagt: Für Sie alle ist es ein natürliches Faktum, zum Beispiel von einem Fisch zu sprechen. Bei primitiven Völkern ist das ganz und gar nicht ein natürliches Faktum. Primitive Völker kennen wohl Forellen, Lachse, Stockfische, Heringe, aber «Fisch» kennen sie nicht. Sie haben gar nicht das Wort «Fisch», weil sie bis zu solcher Abstraktheit, bis zu solcher Allgemeinheit mit dem Denken gar nicht gehen. Birkenbäume, Kirschenbäume, Orangenbäume, einzelne Bäume kennen sie, aber «Baum» kennen sie nicht. Dasjenige, was uns ganz natürlich ist, das Denken in allgemeinen Begriffen, das ist heute noch bei primitiven Völkern gar nicht etwas Natürliches.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p015"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Wenn man sich dieses Faktum vor Augen führt, dann muß man sich klar sein, daß auch dasjenige, was man im heutigen Sinne «Denken in allgemeinen Begriffen» nennt, daß dieses besondere Denken erst im Laufe der Entwickelung in die Menschheit eingetreten ist. Ja, für denjenigen, der ein wenig darüber nachdenkt, warum Logik erst im alten Griechenland entstanden ist, könnte es gar nicht besonders auffällig sein, wenn gesagt wird aus okkulter Erkenntnis heraus, daß logisches Denken eigentlich überhaupt erst seit jener Zeit existiert, die nach der ursprünglichen Abfassung der Bhagavad Gita verflossen ist. Auf logisches Denken, auf Denken in Abstraktionen weist gewissermaßen als auf etwas Neues, was jetzt erst in die Menschheit eintreten soll, Krishna den Arjuna hin. Aber dieses Denken, das der Mensch so entwickelt, dieses Denken, das nimmt man zwar heute als etwas ganz Natürliches, aber man hat die schiefesten, unnatürlichsten Ansichten über dieses Denken. Und gerade die westländischen Philosophen haben über dieses Denken die allerschiefsten Anschauungen, denn man hält gewöhnlich dieses Denken für eine bloße Photographie der äußeren sinnlichen Wirklichkeit, man glaubt, die Begriffe, Ideen entstehen im Menschen, dieses ganze innere Denken überhaupt entstehe im Menschen von der physischen Außenwelt herein. Ganze Bibliotheken von philosophischen Werken sind geschrieben worden in der abendländischen Literatur, um nachzuweisen, daß dieses Denken eigentlich nichts anderes sei als etwas, was durch die physische Außenwelt angeregt entstanden sei. Wir erst leben in der Zeit, wo dieses Denken in der richtigen Weise gewürdigt werden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p016"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Hier komme ich auf einen Punkt zu sprechen, der ganz und gar wichtig ist gerade für diejenigen, die mit der eigenen Seele eine okkulte Entwickelung durchmachen wollen. Ich möchte wirklich alles versuchen, um gerade über dasjenige, was ich jetzt aussprechen will, Klarheit hervorzurufen. Gewiß, mittelalterliche Alchimisten haben gesagt - und ich kann heute nicht auseinandersetzen, was sie eigentlich damit gemeint haben -, sie haben gesagt, man könne aus allen Metallen Gold machen, Gold in so großer Menge, wie man will, nur muß man zunächst unbedingt ein Winziges an Gold haben. Ohne daß man das hat, kann man kein Gold machen. Aber wenn man ein Winzigstes an Gold hat, kann man beliebige Mengen Goldes machen. — So ist es nämlich, wenn auch nicht mit dem Gold machen, so ist es mit dem Hellsehen. Kein Mensch könnte eigentlich zu wirklichem Hellsehen kommen, wenn er nicht zunächst ein Winziges an Hellsehen in der Seele hätte. Wenn es wahr wäre, was ein allgemeiner Glaube ist, daß die Menschen, wie sie sind, nicht hellsichtig seien, dann könnten sie überhaupt nicht hellsichtig werden. Denn wie der Alchimist meint, daß man etwas Gold haben muß, um viele Mengen Goldes hervorzuzaubern, so muß man unbedingt etwas hellsehend schon sein, damit man dieses Hellsehen immer weiter und weiter ins Unbegrenzte hinein ausbilden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":214,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p017"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Nun könnten Sie ja die Alternative aufstellen und sagen: Also glaubst du, daß wir schon alle hellsichtig sind, wenn auch nur ein Winziges, oder daß diejenigen unter uns, die nicht hellsichtig sind, es auch nie werden können? — Sehen Sie, darauf kommt es an, daß man versteht, daß der erste Fall der Alternative richtig ist: Es gibt wirklich keinen unter Ihnen, der nicht — wenn er sich dessen auch nicht bewußt ist — diesen Ausgangspunkt hätte. Sie haben ihn alle. Keiner von Ihnen ist in der Not, weil Sie alle ein gewisses Quantum Hellsehen haben. Und was ist dieses Quantum? Das ist dasjenige, was gewöhnlich gar nicht als Hellsehen geschätzt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":111,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p018"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Verzeihen Sie einen etwas groben Vergleich: Wenn eine Perle am Wege liegt und ein Huhn findet sie, so schätzt das Huhn die Perle nicht besonders. Solche Hühner sind die modernen Menschen zumeist. Sie schätzen die Perle, die ganz offen daliegt, gar nicht, sie schätzen etwas ganz anderes, sie schätzen nämlich ihre Vorstellungen. Niemand könnte abstrakt denken, wirkliche Gedanken und Ideen haben, wenn er nicht hellsichtig wäre, denn in den gewöhnlichen Gedanken und Ideen ist die Perle der Hellsichtigkeit von allem Anfange an. Diese Gedanken und Ideen entstehen genau durch denselben Prozeß der Seele, durch den die höchsten Kräfte entstehen. Und es ist ungeheuer wichtig, daß man zunächst verstehen lernt, daß der Anfang der Hellsichtigkeit etwas ganz Alltägliches eigentlich ist: man muß nur die übersinnliche Natur der Begriffe und Ideen erfassen. Man muß sich klar sein, daß aus den übersinnlichen Welten die Begriffe und Ideen zu uns kommen, dann erst sieht man recht. Wenn ich Ihnen erzähle von Geistern der höheren Hierarchien, von den Seraphim, Cherubim, von den Thronen herunter bis zu den Archangelo: und Angeloi, so sind das Wesenheiten, die aus geistigen, höheren Welten zu der Menschenseele sprechen müssen. Aus eben diesen Welten kommen der Seele die Ideen und Begriffe, sie kommen geradezu in die Seele aus höheren Welten herein und nicht aus der Sinnenwelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p019"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Es wurde als ein großes Wort eines großen Aufklärers gehalten, das dieser gesagt hat im 18. Jahrhundert: Mensch, erkühne dich, deiner Vernunft dich zu bedienen. — Heute muß ein größeres Wort in die Seelen klingen, das heißt: Mensch, erkühne dich, deine Begriffe und Ideen als die Anfänge deines Hellsehertums anzusprechen. — Das, was ich jetzt ausgesprochen habe, habe ich schon vor vielen Jahren ausgesprochen, ausgesprochen in aller Öffentlichkeit, nämlich in meinen Büchern «Wahrheit und Wissenschaft» und «Philosophie der Freiheit», wo ich gezeigt habe, daß die menschlichen Ideen aus übersinnlichem, geistigem Erkennen kommen. Man hat es dazumal nicht verstanden; das ist ja auch kein Wunder, denn diejenigen, die es hätten verstehen sollen, die gehörten, nun ja, halt zu den Hühnern. Wir müssen uns aber klar sein, daß in dem Augenblick, wo Krishna vor dem Arjuna steht, er ihm sozusagen zum ersten Male in der ganzen Menschheitsentwikkelung den Ausgangspunkt für die Erkenntnis der höheren Welten in der Durchdringung des abstrakten Urteilens gibt. Der Geist kann gesehen werden ganz in der Oberfläche der Verwandlungen innerhalb der äußeren Sinnenwelt. Die Leiber können sterben, der Geist, das Abstrakte, das Wesentliche ist ewig. Ganz in der Oberfläche der Erscheinungen kann das Geistige gesehen werden. Das ist es, was Krishna dem Arjuna als den Anfang eines neuen Hellsehertums des Menschen klar machen will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p020"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Für den heutigen Menschen ist eines notwendig, wenn er zu einer innerlich erlebten Wahrheit kommen will. Wenn er wirklich einmal innerlich Wahrheit erleben will, dann muß der Mensch einmal durchgemacht haben das Gefühl der Vergänglichkeit aller äußeren Verwandlungen, dann muß der Mensch die Stimmung der unendlichen Trauer, der unendlichen Tragik und das Frohlocken der Seligkeit zugleich erlebt haben, erlebt haben den Hauch, den Vergänglichkeit aus den Dingen ausströmt. Er muß sein Interesse haben fesseln können an diesen Hauch des Werdens, des Entstehens und der Vergänglichkeit der Sinnenwelt. Dann muß der Mensch, wenn er höchsten Schmerz und höchste Seligkeit an der Außenwelt hat empfinden können, einmal so recht allein gewesen sein, allein gewesen sein nur mit seinen Begriffen und Ideen; dann muß er einmal empfunden haben: Ja, in diesen Begriffen und Ideen, da fassest du doch das Weltengeheimnis, das Weltgeschehen an einem Zipfel — derselbe Ausdruck, den ich einstmals gebraucht habe in meiner «Philosophie der Freiheit». — Aber erleben muß man dieses, nicht bloß verstandesmäßig begreifen, und wenn man es erleben will, erlebt man es in völligster Einsamkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p021"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Und man hat dann noch ein Nebengefühl. Auf der einen Seite erlebt man die Grandiosität der Ideenwelt, die sich ausspannt über das All, auf der anderen Seite erlebt man mit der tiefsten Bitternis, daß man sich trennen muß von Raum und Zeit, wenn man mit seinen Begriffen und Ideen zusammensein will. Einsamkeit! Man erlebt die frostige Kälte. Und weiter enthüllt sich einem, daß die Ideenwelt sich jetzt wie in einem Punkte zusammengezogen hat, wie in einem Punkte dieser Einsamkeit. Man erlebt: Jetzt bist du mit ihr allein. — Man muß das erleben können. Man erlebt dann das Irrewerden an dieser Ideenwelt, ein Erlebnis, das einen tief aufwühlt in der Seele. Dann erlebt man es, daß man sich sagt: Vielleicht bist du das alles doch nur selber, vielleicht ist an diesen Gesetzen nur wahr, daß es lebt in dem Punkte deiner eigenen Einsamkeit. - Dann erlebt man, ins Unendliche vergrößert, alle Zweifel am Sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":153,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p022"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Wenn man dieses Erlebnis in seiner Ideenwelt hat, wenn sich aller Zweifel am Sein schmerzlich und bitter abgeladen hat auf die Seele, dann erst ist man im Grunde reif dazu, zu verstehen, wie es doch nicht die unendlichen Räume und die unendlichen Zeiten der physischen Welt sind, die einem die Ideen gegeben haben. Jetzt erst, nach dem bitteren Zweifel, öffnet man sich den Regionen des Spirituellen und weiß, daß der Zweifel berechtigt war, und wie er berechtigt war. Denn er mußte berechtigt sein, weil man geglaubt hat, daß die Ideen aus den Zeiten und Räumen in die Seele gekommen seien. Aber was empfindet man jetzt? Als was empfindet man die Ideenwelt, nachdem man sie erlebt hat aus den spirituellen Welten heraus? Jetzt fühlt man sich zum ersten Male inspiriert, jetzt beginnt man, während man früher wie einen Abgrund die unendliche Öde um sich ausgedehnt empfunden hat, jetzt beginnt man sich zu fühlen wie auf einem Felsen stehend, der aus dem Abgrunde emporwächst, und man fühlt sich so, daß man weiß: Jetzt bist du in Verbindung mit den geistigen Welten, diese und nicht die Sinnenwelt haben dich mit der Ideenwelt beschenkt. — Das ist eine nächste Etappe für die sich entwikkelnde Seele. Das ist diejenige Etappe, wo es beim Menschen beginnt mit dem, was heute schon eine triviale Wahrheit geworden ist, recht ernst zu werden. Daß man dieses Fühlen im Herzen trägt, das ist die Vorbereitung dazu, daß man überhaupt im richtigen Sinne empfindet, was jetzt, nach der gewaltigen, großen Erschütterung der Seele des Arjuna, von Krishna dem Arjuna als erste Wahrheit gegeben wird: die Wahrheit von dem ewigen Geiste, der in den Verwandlungen lebt. In Begriffen und Ideen wird zum abstrakten Verstande gesprochen, Krishna spricht zum Herzen des Arjuna, und was ganz trivial für den Verstand sein mag, ist etwas unendlich Tiefes, Erhabenes für das Herz.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p023"}],"beads":[{"from":[17,18,19],"to":[13,14,15,16],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[20],"to":[17,18],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[21,22],"to":[19,20],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[23],"to":[21,22],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[24,25],"to":[23],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}