{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 157/1915-03-02_02/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The third door to be passed is the Door of Sun. Again there will be a specific experience as we approach this door. At the Door of Death we must perceive a winged angel's head, at the Door of the Elements a lion. At the Door of the Sun we must perceive a dragon, a wild dragon. And we must take a proper look at this wild dragon. But now Lucifer and Ahriman will together make every effort to make the dragon invisible, to hide it from our spiritual vision. If we do perceive it we shall find that, fundamentally speaking, this wild dragon has above all to do with ourselves. It is the tissue of the instincts and feelings fundamentally relating to what in ordinary life we call our lowest nature. The dragon has within it all the forces we need for the process of digestion and many other things—if you'll forgive my reference to such base functions. The principle within us that enables us to digest food and perform a number of other functions linked to what strictly speaking is our lowest nature appears to us in the form of a dragon. We must look at it as it emerges from us coil upon coil. It is far from beautiful, that dragon, and this makes it easy for Lucifer and Ahriman to influence our unconscious soul life and get us to a point where unconsciously we do not want to know about seeing the dragon. It is a tissue also of all our idiocies, all our vanities, our pride and self-seeking and also of our basest instincts.","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":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/157/1915-03-02_02/p027","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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Wenn wir ihn wahrnehmen, dann nehmen wir aber wahr, daß dieser wilde Drache im Grunde genommen das allermeiste mit uns selbst zu tun hat, denn er ist gewoben aus unseren Trieben und Empfindungen, die sich im Grunde auf das, was wir im gewöhnlichen Leben unsere niederste Natur nennen, beziehen. Dieser Drache enthält alle die Kräfte, die wir zum Beispiel brauchen — verzeihen Sie das Prosaische des Ausspruches - zum Verdauen und noch zu manchem anderen. Das, was in uns steckt und die Kräfte abgibt, daß wir verdauen, und manches andere, was im engsten Sinne an unsere allerniederste Persönlichkeit gebunden ist, das erscheint uns in Form des Drachen. Wir müssen ihn anschauen, wenn er sich aus uns herauswindet. Schön ist er nicht, der Drache, und daher haben Luzifer und Ahriman es leicht, unser unterbewußtes Seelenleben so zu beeinflussen, daß wir unbewußt nichts wissen wollen vom Sehen dieses Drachen. 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