{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 157/1915-03-02_02/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Last week we gave some detailed consideration to souls who, if we want to look for them now, have to be looked for in the spiritual worlds. And we considered souls who are close to us, letting them tell us one thing or another that can illumine for us the time a soul entity spends in the spiritual world. Today I want to consider more the path the human soul may take to enter into the spiritual worlds While dwelling in a body here on earth, there to find the spiritual realms we spoke of last week, where what are called ‘dead’ souls may be found. It has to be stressed over and over again that the path into the spiritual worlds appropriate to the soul of modern man in the light of the whole evolution of mankind is a path with many preparatory stages, some of them difficult indeed, stages that have to be won through. Today I intend to speak of some aspects of the path to insight and I shall do so from a point of view that may be called imaginative perception.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Perception","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-03-02","location":null,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/157/1915-03-02_02/p008","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna R. Meuss","identified_edition":"RSP1987","book_title":"The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA157/English/RSP1987/19150302p02.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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Es muß ja immer wieder und wiederum betont werden, daß derjenige Weg in die geistigen Welten hinein, welcher nach der ganzen Entwickelung der Menschheit der Seele der Gegenwart ziemt, ein Weg ist, der durch mannigfaltige Vorbereitungen geht, die zum Teil eben schwierig sind, aber überwunden werden müssen. Und ich möchte heute von einem Gesichtspunkt, den man nennen kann den Gesichtspunkt der imaginativen Erkenntnis, auf einiges im Erkenntniswege hindeuten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-02_02/p008"}],"english":["GA 157/1915-03-02_02/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":177,"en_words":186,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.09,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8975,"original_word_count":8218,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna R. 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