{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 170/1916-08-06/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These words of Jan Kasprowicz[^1] are a beautiful, lyrical expression of a quite wonderful experience, an experience that is at once questioning and also touches on the answers. The question is contained in the way this literary work makes the transition from memories of the day, through the aesthetic sphere, into the moral sphere— *mea culpa, mea maxima culpa*! One should not shrink from the questions that rise up out of the surging depths of life. These things are not there to rouse fear, but to kindle questions. The ‘ *unimaginable blossoms with dead eyes that formed a balefully grinning Medusa*’ are questions, questions that have taken on the shapes of the plant kingdom. And as for how that is connected with the moon, we only have to remind ourselves of the stream that begins on Moon to understand how the silent floods of moonlight connect outer physical reality with spiritual experience. One has here a wonderful description of a spiritual experience:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"Moral, Aesthetic, and Wisdom Streams in Human Evolution","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1916-08-06","location":null,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/170/1916-08-06/p041","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John F. 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