{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 164/1915-09-18/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is very important that we pay attention to this feeling if we are to get an idea of imaginative knowledge; for we are in the imaginative world at the moment when the thoughts that we bring up from the subconscious begin to tingle and crawl, begin to behave in such a way that we have the feeling: down there, under the threshold, everything is actually swirling and churning. And while it is very quiet up there in the attic and thoughts can be controlled so nicely, just as machines can be controlled, down there one thought follows another, the thoughts tingle and crawl, they churn and roll, down there they suddenly become a very active world. It is important to appropriate this feeling, because at that moment, when you begin to feel the life of the world of thought, you are in the imaginative or elementary world. That is where you are! And one can enter so easily if only one follows the very simplest rules given in “How to Know Higher Worlds”, if only one refrains from trying to enter by the way of all kinds of “practices” hinted at in recent days. One can really enter so easily. Just think that one of the very first things clearly stated in the book “How to Know Higher Worlds” is that one should try to follow the life of a plant, for example: how it gradually grows and gradually fades away. Yes, if you really follow this, you have to go through the life of the plant in your thoughts. First you have the thought of the very small seed, and if you do not make the thought flexible, you will not be able to follow the plant as it grows. You have to make the thought flexible. And then again, when you think of the plant shedding its leaves, gradually dying, withering, you have to think of shrinking and wrinkling. As soon as you begin to think in terms of living things, you have to make the thought itself mobile. The thought must begin to acquire inner mobility through your own power.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Value of Thinking II","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-09-18","location":null,"word_count":354,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/164/1915-09-18/p015","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Value of Thinking for Satisfying our Quest for Knowledge","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA164/English/SOL2024/19150918p01.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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Und während es da oben im Oberstübchen ganz ruhig ist und die Gedanken sich so hübsch beherrschen lassen, so wie Maschinen sich behertschen lassen, läuft da unten ein Gedanke dem anderen nach, da kribbeln und krabbeln, da quirlen und wurlen die Gedanken, da unten werden sie plötzlich eine ganz regsame Welt. Es ist wichtig, daß man sich dieses Gefühl aneignet, denn in diesem Augenblick, wenn man das Leben der Gedankenwelt zu fühlen anfängt, ist man in der imaginativen oder elementarischen Welt drinnen. Da ist man drinnen! Und man kann so leicht hineinkommen, wenn man nur die aller-, allereinfachsten Regeln befolgt, welche in «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» gegeben sind; wenn man nur nicht versucht, auf dem Wege von allerlei in den letzten Tagen ja angedeuteten «Praktiken» hineinzukommen. Man kann wirklich so leicht hineinkommen. Denken Sie sich doch nur, daß als etwas vom allerersten in dem Buch «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» klar angegeben ist, man solle zum Beispiel versuchen, das Leben einer Pflanze zu verfolgen: wie sie nach und nach wächst, wie sie nach und nach wiederum vergeht. Ja, wenn Sie das wirklich verfolgen, so müssen Sie ja in Gedanken dieses Leben der Pflanze durchmachen. Da haben Sie zuerst den Gedanken des ganz kleinen Samenkorns und wenn Sie den Gedanken nicht beweglich machen, so kommen Sie ja der Pflanze nicht nach in ihrem Wachsen. Sie müssen den Gedanken beweglich machen. Und dann wiederum, wenn Sie die Pflanze sich entblättern, allmählich absterbend, abwelkend denken, dann müssen Sie sich wiederum das Zusammenschrumpfen, das Zusammenrunzeln denken. Sobald Sie anfangen, das Lebendige zu denken, müssen Sie den Gedanken selber beweglich machen. Der Gedanke muß durch Ihre eigene Kraft anfangen, innere Beweglichkeit zu bekommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":350,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/164/1915-09-18/p015"}],"english":["GA 164/1915-09-18/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":350,"en_words":354,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6540,"original_word_count":6412,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Value of Thinking for Satisfying our Quest for Knowledge","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA164/English/SOL2024/19150918p01.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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