{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 147/1913-08-25/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Unremittingly he lies in wait when man's thinking is about to pass into the stream wherein man himself will journey through the gate of death; there Ahriman lurks, on the watch to snatch away and hold back as much of this thinking as possible, and to form out of it, to tear from its mother-soil, shadows and phantoms that will people the physical world. Occultly observed, these phantoms drift around in the physical world disturbing the universal order; they are creations that Ahriman brings about in the way just described. We will have the right feeling for Ahriman when we appreciate his lawful impulses, for when he lets them enter our souls, we have a correct relationship to the sense world. However, we must be watchful that he does not tempt us in the way I have indicated. Certainly the policy some people choose is more convenient when they say: “Very well, we shall push every ahrimanic impulse out of our souls.” But nothing will be accomplished with this dislodgment except that the other side of the scales will be brought right down—and whoever through mistaken theories succeeds in driving ahrimanic impulses out of his soul falls prey to those of Lucifer.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Crossing the Threshold: Luciferic and Ahrimanic Dangers","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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Immer steht er auf der Lauer, vom menschlichen Denken, wenn dieses Denken hineingehen will in den Strom, in den der Mensch geht, wenn er die Pforte des Todes durchschreitet, so viel loszureißen, als nur irgend geht — zurückzuhalten das Denken und zu bevölkern die physische Welt mit Schatten und Schemen, die gebildet sind aus dem von seinem Mutterboden losgerissenen physischen menschlichen Denken. Okkult betrachtet, huschen, schädigend die Weltenordnung, diese Schatten und Schemen herum in der physischen Welt. Es sind die Produkte, die Ahriman auf diese Weise, wie geschildert worden ist, zustande bringt. Wir haben die richtige Stimmung Ahriman gegenüber, wenn wir ihn so schätzen, daß, wenn er seine gesetzmäßigen Impulse in unsere Seelen hereinkommen läßt, wir ein rechtmäßiges Verhältnis zur Sinneswelt haben. Wir müssen aber Wache halten, daß er uns nicht in dieser Weise verlockt, wie es nun angedeutet worden ist. Bequemer ist allerdings die Auskunft, welche die Menschen wählen, die da sagen: Nun, dann tilgen wir alle ahrimanischen Impulse aus unserer Seele. — Mit einem solchen Austilgen wird aber nichts anderes gewonnen, als daß man die andere Waagschale erst recht zum Sinken bringt. Und wem es wirklich gelingen würde, durch falsche Theorie die ahrimanischen Impulse aus der Seele auszutilgen, der würde dem luziferischen Impuls verfallen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":308,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/147/1913-08-25/p007"}],"english":["GA 147/1913-08-25/p009"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"partial","length_check":{"de_words":308,"en_words":202,"ratio":0.66,"partial":true},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 147/1913-08-25/p007"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6343,"original_word_count":6213,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Ruth Pusch","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Secrets of the Threshold","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA147/English/AP1987/19130825p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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