{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 156/1914-12-19/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus we can say that the spiritual entities, by handing us down to the physical plane, have taken us out of the world of real reality and placed us in a world of unreality. And we recognize this at first as a fact of the spiritual world, even if it is not yet the world plan. We only recognize it as a fact of the world plan when we raise the question: Why are we, insofar as we are beings of the real physical world, placed in a world of unreal images? Why? - Suppose we were not, suppose we were placed on the physical plane in such a way that we had not images but realities. What does that actually mean? It would mean that we perceive the physical world; for example, we hear a sequence of sounds. The effect of this sequence of sounds goes into our ear, into our auditory nerves, and causes a change there. If we were only able to enjoy what is going on in the auditory nerves and were unable to project it up into our imaginations, then we would be in reality; we would have realities, not images. But that is not the case. We are really thrown out of the world of realities and placed in a world of images, in a world of unrealities. If we were really in the world of realities, in a world of reality, then we could never have the opportunity to give reality to a world ourselves, because we cannot give reality to what we experience as reality. An object that I take in my hand from the outside is something. It is not just an image, the object is something. Just as I cannot push the table that I see in the mirror, I cannot do anything real with the world that is only given to me in images. But if it is a matter of us creating realities ourselves, then it is just right that we live in a world of images, because then the images have no reality, but we can give them reality. Do we do that?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Third Lecture","site_heading":"Mirror Images and Moral Creation in Cosmic Order","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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Das würde heißen: Wir stehen wahrnehmend der physischen Welt gegenüber; wir hören zum Beispiel einen Tonzusammenhang; die Wirkung dieses Tonzusammenhangs geht in unser Ohr, in unsere Gehörnerven hinein und bewirkt dort eine Veränderung. Würden wir bloß das genießen, was da in den Gehörnerven vorgeht und es nicht hinaufprojizieren können in unsere Vorstellungen, dann würden wir in der Realität drinnen sein; wir würden nicht Bilder, sondern Realitäten haben. Das ist aber nicht der Fall. Wir sind wirklich herausgeworfen aus der Welt der Realitäten und hineinversetzt in eine Bilderwelt, in eine Welt der Irrealitäten. Wären wir wirklich in der Welt der Realitäten, in einer Welt der Wirklichkeit, dann könnten wir niemals die Möglichkeit bekommen, selber einer Welt Realität zu geben, denn dem, was wir als Realität erleben, können wir nicht selbst Realität geben. Ein Gegenstand, den ich von außen in die Hand nehme, ist irgend etwas. Er ist nicht nur ein Bild, der Gegenstand ist etwas. Ebensowenig wie ich den Tisch schieben kann, den ich im Spiegel sehe, ebensowenig kann ich irgend etwas Reales anfangen mit der Welt, die mir nur in Bildern gegeben ist. Aber wenn es sich darum handelt, daß wir selber Realitäten schaffen, dann ist es gerade richtig, daß wir in einer Welt von Bildern leben, denn dann haben zwar die Bilder keine Realität, wir können ihnen aber Realität verleihen. 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