{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us for a moment imagine a being so constituted that it could be detected only in dreams. No physical sense could perceive it, nor could it be grasped by ordinary thinking. A person who wanted to gain knowledge of such a being would have to develop the art of dreaming, otherwise the being would not exist for him. It would not be the being's fault if he could not perceive it but his own, due to his inability to do so. People make arbitrary demands concerning the qualities something should possess, and if they are lacking, it is dismissed as unreal. It must be realized that in order to be able to be aware of and perceive things which are not of the same nature as external objects, a different thinking must be developed; in fact, an altogether different inner attitude. 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In dieser Beziehung denken die Menschen eben verkehrt, indem sie eigentlich von sich aus Forderungen aufstellen; und wenn irgend etwas diese Forderungen nicht erfüllt, dann gilt es ihnen nicht. Ja, aber wenn das Ding von der Art ist, daß es für diese Forderung nicht da ist, dann muß es eben den Menschen, die solche Forderungen aufstellen, entgehen. So muß man sich schon auch klar darüber sein, daß man eben eine besondere Art des Denkens oder des Innenlebens überhaupt ausbilden muß, für die sich dasjenige, was nicht in der äußeren Natur liegt, zeigen kann. Wir müssen zu diesen Wesen hingehen: nicht sie kommen zu uns. 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