{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The feeling of being drawn in the other direction was given to the West. The world of imagination was pulled down into the heavy physical body so that what should rightly be free imagination working merely in the soul becomes instead something that rams the soul down into the organism, thereby causing the organism also to live on imaginations. You can hardly find a more telling description of what I mean than in the words of Alfred de Musset in which he attempts to give us a picture of the condition of his soul. De Musset is one who feels the presence of the imaginative life in himself, but he also feels the onslaught upon this life of imagination that seeks to thrust it right down into the bodily nature. This life of imagination, which does not belong in the bodily nature but should develop freely, hovering in and existing purely as a thing of the soul, is there taken hold of by earthly gravity and by what belongs to the body. In his book, *Elle et Lui*, which he was led to write from his relation with Georges Sand, you will find a fine description of his soul life. I would like to quote here a passage that will serve to show how he feels himself to be placed within an imaginative life that is the scene of conflict and dispute. He says:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"meaning_warning":"A sentence of this translation says something the German does not; translation_faults names it, with the German. quote_safe certifies the words, not the meaning: do not quote that sentence as Steiner's meaning. Quote the German or another translation, or quote it only to show the fault.","title":"2. The Influence of Luciferic and Ahrimanic Beings on Historical Development. The clear Perception of the Sensory World and Free Imaginations as the Task of Our Time. Genghis Khan and the Discovery of America","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-09-17","location":null,"word_count":234,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/171/1916-09-17/p039","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:embedding","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Gilbert Church, Frédéric Kozlik and Stewart C. Easton","identified_edition":"AP1984","book_title":"Inner Impulses of Evolution","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA171/English/AP1984/19160917p01.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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Dem Westen Europas ist dafür viel mehr das Verspüren des Gezogenwerdens nach der anderen Seite eingeimpft worden, des Hingezogenwerdens der imaginativen Welt zu der Körperschwere, zu der physischen Schwere, um das, was freie Imagination werden soll, zu etwas zu machen, was nicht bloß in der Seele wirkt, sondern was im Organismus wirkt, was die Seele hineinstopft in den Organismus und dadurch den Organismus mitleben läßt an den Imaginationen. Man kann kaum prägnanter das, was ich da meine, ausdrücken, als es Alfred de Musset getan hat, um seinen eigenen Seelenzustand zu charakterisieren. Musset ist eine von denjenigen Persönlichkeiten, die imaginatives Leben in sich verspürten, aber die den Ansturm gegen dieses imaginative Leben fühlten, jenen Ansturm, der dahin ging, dieses imaginative Leben hineinzustopfen in die Körperlichkeit. Da drinnen wird dieses imaginative Leben, weil es dahin nicht gehört, weil es frei in der Seele schwebend sich entwickeln soll, von Erdenschwere und von all dem, was nur körperlich ist, ergriffen, während es seelisch verlaufen soll. «Elle et lui», das Buch, das George Sand aus ihren Beziehungen zu Musset geschrieben hat, das enthält gerade eine schöne Selbstbeschreibung des Seelenlebens Mussets, und einige Sätze möchte ich daraus mitteilen, aus denen Sie sehen werden, wie er selbst sich drinnenstehen fühlt in einem solchen angefochtenen imaginativen Leben. Es sagt Musset: «Die Schöpfung verwirrt mich und läßt mich erzittern. Die für meinen Wunsch stets zu langsame Ausführung erregt mir furchtbares Herzklopfen, und weinend, nur mit Mühe laute Schreie zurückhaltend, gebäre ich eine Idee - sie berauscht mich im Augenblicke, und am anderen Morgen ekelt sie mich an. Forme ich sie um, so wird es noch schlimmer, sie entschlüpft mir; besser ich vergesse sie und erwarte eine andere. Aber diese andere überkommt mich so verworren und so unermeßlich, daß mein armes Wesen sie nicht fassen kann. Sie drückt und quält mich, bis sie realisierbar geworden ist, und dann stellen sich die anderen Leiden, die Geburtswehen ein, wahrhaft physische Schmerzen, die ich nicht definieren kann. So vergeht mein Leben, wenn ich mich von diesem Riesenkünstler, der in mir ist» — nehmen Sie den Gegensatz zu Jakob Böhme, der den Gott in sich spürt; er einen Riesenkünstler, der in ihm ist — «beherrschen lasse. Es ist also besser, daß ich lebe, wie ich mir vorgenommen habe zu leben, daß ich Exzesse jeder Art begehe, um diesen nagenden Wurm zu töten, den andere bescheiden «Inspiration», den ich ganz offen «Krankheit nenne.»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":479,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p029"}],"english":["GA 171/1916-09-17/p038","GA 171/1916-09-17/p039","GA 171/1916-09-17/p040","GA 171/1916-09-17/p041","GA 171/1916-09-17/p042"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":479,"en_words":523,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 171/1916-09-17/p029"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8831,"original_word_count":8490,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Gilbert Church, Frédéric Kozlik and Stewart C. 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