{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 199/1920-08-14/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The victims of the second illusion are those who Look within. For the most part, they do not go beyond what is reflected. Ordinary man in everyday life perceives the effects of memory—he recalls what he experienced yesterday and the day before, indeed, years ago. Someone who becomes a mystic today brings any number of things to the surface from within which he then clothes in beautiful mystical words and theories. But as I have recently pointed out,[^11] these things are but the bubbling and seething of his inner organic life. For, if we penetrate this mirror, we do not come to what a Master Eckhart or Johannes Tauler have in their mysticism. We arrive at organic processes of which, it is true, the world today has scarcely any idea. What is clothed in such beautiful words is related to these organic processes as the flame of a candle is related to the flammable material—it is the product of these organic processes. The mysticism of a John of the Cross, of a Mechthild of Magdeburg, or of Johannes Tauler and Master Eckhart[^12] is beautiful, but nevertheless, it is only what boils up out of the organic life and is described in abstract forms merely because one lacks the insight into how this organic life is active. He can be no true spiritual scientist who interprets as mysticism the inwardly surging organic life. Certainly, beautiful words are used to describe it, but we must be capable of taking a completely different viewpoint from that of the ordinary world when referring to these matters. We ought not to adopt the humanly arrogant standpoint and say: The inner organic life is the lower form of life. It is not elevated if its effects are designated as mysticism. On the contrary, we are impelled into the life of the spirit when we discern this organic life and its effects and realize that the more we descend into man's individual nature, the more we distance ourselves from the spiritual. We do not approach it more closely. We draw near the spirit only by way of spiritual science, not by descending into ourselves. When we do the latter, it is our task to discover how the collaboration of heart, liver and kidneys produces mysticism; for that is what it does.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Spirit and Matter: Overcoming Materialism Through Initiation","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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Die bleiben meistens bei dem stehen, was sich spiegelt. Der gewöhnliche Mensch im Alltagsleben nimmt die Erinnerungswirkungen wahr, ich möchte sagen, er erinnert sich an das, was er gestern und vorgestern erlebt hat, wenn auch das Gestern und Vorgestern schon vor Jahren war. Derjenige, der nun ein Mystiker wird, treibt dann allerlei aus seinem Inneren an die Oberfläche und belegt es mit allerlei schönen mystischen Worten und Theorien. Aber es ist doch nichts anderes, als was ich hier neulich angedeutet habe, es ist nichts anderes als das Kochen und Brodeln des organischen Lebens im menschlichen Inneren. Denn durchdringt man diesen Spiegel, dann kommt man nicht zu dem, was etwa der Meister Eckhart oder Johannes Tauler in ihrer Mystik haben, sondern dann kommt man zu organischen Prozessen allerdings, von denen die Welt heute wenig ahnt. Und was noch mit so schönen mystischen Worten dargelegt wird, das verhält sich zu diesen organischen Prozessen nicht anders, als sich bei der Kerze die Flamme zu dem Brennstoff verhält: sie ist das Produkt dieser organischen Prozesse. Die Mystik eines Johannes vom Kreuz, einer Mechthild von Magdeburg, auch des Johannes Tauler und Meister Eckharts, sie sind schön, aber doch nur das, was aus dem organischen Leben heraufbrodelt und was nur deshalb in abstrakten Formen beschrieben wird, weil man nicht einsieht, wie dieses organische Leben tätig ist. Man lernt das geistige Leben nicht kennen, wenn man nicht erst dieses organische Leben kennenlernt. Der kann kein Geisteswissenschafter werden im wahren Sinne des Wortes, der das innerlich-brodelnde organische Leben in Mystik umdeutet. Gewiß, es sind schöne Worte, die da gesprochen werden. Aber man muß sich, wenn man über diese Dinge spricht, auf einen ganz andern Gesichtspunkt stellen können als den der äußeren Welt. Man muß sich eben nicht auf den menschlich hochmütigen Gesichtspunkt stellen, indem man sagt: Das innere organische Leben ist eben niederes Leben. — Es wird dadurch nicht höher, daß man seine Wirkung als Mystik bezeichnet, sondern man wird ins geistige Leben eben gerade dadurch getrieben, daß man dieses organische Leben in seinen organischen Wirkungen durchschaut, daß man: weiß, je tiefer man in die Einzelnatur des Menschen hineinsteigt, desto mehr entfernt man sich vom Geistigen, man kommt ihm nicht näher. Man kommt nur auf geisteswissenschaftliche Weise dem Geistigen näher, nicht dadurch, daß man in sich selber hineinsteigt. 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