{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Here I reach a point that is most important for those who would undergo an occult development in their own souls. I want to make every effort to get this point clear. The medieval alchemists used to say—I cannot now discuss what they really meant by it—that gold could be made from all metals, gold in any desired amount, but that one must first have a minute quantity of it. Without that one could not make gold. Whether or not this is true of gold, it is certainly true of *clairvoyance*. No man could actually attain clairvoyance if he did not have a tiny amount of it already in his soul. It is generally supposed that men as they are, are not clairvoyant. 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. Let me make a rather crude comparison.","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1913-05-29","location":null,"word_count":280,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-05-29/p020","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. 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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. 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