{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 197/1920-07-30/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the same way we cannot simply oppose people who look to find abstract spirituality within themselves. Someone looking for the spirit by following the path of mere one-sided inner mysticism, failing to realize that when he comes to see through the tissue of this mysticism it is materiality he finds, is on the way to becoming infantile, to developing an organic illness taking the form of childishness. (I have given it the name that may well be given when one perceives this from beyond the threshold.) If we call this the threshold from the Physical to the non-physical world, with the Guardian of the Threshold standing there, the quality we call inspiration, or genius, on this side may justifiably be called childishness on the other side of the threshold. Childishness goes the wrong way in the physical world if it persists throughout life. Genius on the other hand means that a certain childlike quality persists in the background throughout life. Genius is achieved when we are able to retain into ripe old age a quality of soul that normally belongs to childhood. This is seen in its true form from beyond the threshold. If however that childlike soul quality persists one-sidedly into subsequent life stages, then this element, which in its rightful place in the human sphere is genius, becomes childishness instead. Once again we see that purely logical ideas must be replaced with ideas relating to reality as soon as we enter the sphere of spiritual science. They must be replaced with concepts that not merely change our views but produce inner organic changes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Spirit and Matter: Reversing Materialist Consciousness","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. 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Wenn hier die Schwelle ist zwischen der sinnlichen und der übersinnlichen Welt und der Hüter der Schwelle da steht, so ist diesseits des Hüters dasjenige, was wir hier Genialität nennen; das aber kann mit Recht jenseits der Schwelle Kindsköpfigkeit genannt werden. Denn kommt es in unrichtiger Weise hier in der sinnlichen Welt zum Ausdruck, dann ist es Kindsköpfigkeit durch das ganze Leben hindurch, während Genialität das ist, daß ein gewisser Fond von Kindlichkeit durch das ganze Leben bewahrt ist. Wir gelangen nur dadurch zur Genialität, daß wir bis ins späte Alter hineintragen können die Art der Seele, die sonst im kindlichen Alter vorhanden ist, und das wird in seiner wahren Gestalt von jenseits der Schwelle aus gesehen. Wenn aber einseitig erfolgt jenes Hineintragen der kindlichen Art der Seele in das spätere Alter, wird das, was, richtig hineingestellt in die menschliche Welt, Genialität wird, zur Kindsköpfigkeit. Das ist wiederum etwas, was uns zeigt, wie wir die bloß logischen Begriffe, sobald wir in das Gebiet der Geisteswissenschaft kommen, ersetzen müssen durch reale Begriffe, durch das, was den Menschen nicht bloß zu andern Ansichten bringt, sondern was ihn innerlich seiner organischen Struktur nach verändert.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":271,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/197/1920-07-30/p008"}],"english":["GA 197/1920-07-30/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":271,"en_words":266,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6265,"original_word_count":6008,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1987","book_title":"Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA197/English/RSP1987/19200730p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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