{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 205/1921-07-08/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As I said, this can only be fathomed through spiritual vision. But there is another way by which you can check this spiritual vision on this point. It is clear to you, however, that ordinary consciousness cannot penetrate into certain regions of one's own organism. I have spoken about this a great deal in recent lectures. I have said that in the fact that we have our memory, our ability to remember, for ordinary consciousness, we have, as it were, a skin drawn inwardly towards our inner organs. We cannot observe directly through inner vision what the inner organs are, lungs, liver and so on. But I also said: It is a false mysticism, a nebulous mysticism, which only fantasizes about the inner being and speaks in the manner of Saint Therese or Mechthild of Magdeburg, who find all sorts of beautiful poetic images (the beauty of which should not be denied), but which are nothing more than organic effusions. If instead of devoting oneself to this nebulous mysticism, one really studies the human mind, then, when one penetrates to the inner being of man, one comes to an understanding of the organs. One sees spiritually the significance of the lungs, liver, kidneys, etc., one pierces spiritually the memory membrane and comes to an inner insight into man. But this is something that cannot be achieved with ordinary consciousness. With ordinary consciousness, it is only possible to observe externally through anatomy how the organs look when they are viewed as belonging to the ordinary physical and mineral world. But to look inwardly and see what permeates them, what is active in them, what I have described to you in recent days, requires a truly developed spiritual vision.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Eighth Lecture","site_heading":"Cosmic Thought and Human Consciousness: Beyond Logic","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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Aber ich sagte auch: Es ist eine falsche Mystik, eine nebulose Mystik, welche nur so nach dem Inneren hinein phantasiert und etwa so redet wie die Heilige Therese oder die Mechthild von Magdeburg, die allerlei schöne poetische Bilder finden - die Schönheit soll nicht bestritten werden -, die aber nichts weiter sind als organische Ausflüsse. Gibt man sich nicht dieser nebulosen Mystik hin, sondern der wirklichen Geisteserforschung, so kommt man gerade, wenn man nach dem Inneren des Menschen vordringt, zu der Erkenntnis der Organe. Man sieht geistig die Bedeutung von Lunge, Leber, Niere und so weiter, man durchstößt geistig das Erinnerungshäutchen und kommt zu einem inneren Durchschauen des Menschen. Aber das ist etwas, was man mit dem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein eben nicht erreichen kann. Mit dem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein ist es nur möglich, äußerlich durch die Anatomie zu beobachten, wie die Organe sich ausnehmen, wenn man sie als angehörig der gewöhnlichen physischen und mineralischen Welt betrachtet. Aber innerlich anzuschauen, was sie an Kräften durchdringt, was sie durchsetzt, was in ihnen tätig ist, was ich Ihnen ja in den letzten Tagen beschrieben habe, dazu gehört ein wirklich ausgebildetes geistiges Anschauen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":286,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/205/1921-07-08/p017"}],"english":["GA 205/1921-07-08/p017"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":286,"en_words":287,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5560,"original_word_count":5315,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Humanity, World Soul and World Spirit I","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA205/English/SOL2024/19210708p01.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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