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When this happens in full consciousness, just as other activities are performed consciously during the day, when this vigilant man is able to invoke the night activities of the Moon into the waking experiences of the daytime, then he is on the true path. 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The phenomena and experiences as such are not the decisive factors, but the way in which we respond to them. If the ordinary sleepwalker could develop full consciousness at a time when he is climbing on the roof top, he would at that moment experience an intimation of Initiation. Since he fails to develop this consciousness he falls to the ground when we shout at him to awaken him. If he did not fall, but developed full waking consciousness and could maintain this condition, he would then be an Initiate. 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In the physical world there is no difficulty in distinguishing between the true and the false because man can appeal to common sense and practical experience. As soon as he enters the spiritual world, it is exceedingly difficult to establish this distinction; he is wholly dependent on inner control, inner awareness. Furthermore, when man has awakened the night in the day, the moonlight gradually loses its character of external radiance. We experience it less externally; it creates a general feeling of inner well-being. We become aware however of something else. The wonderful glowing light of Mercury illumines this spiritual night-sky. The planet Mercury actually rises in this night that has been wooed into the day; it is not the physical aspect of Mercury, for we realize that we are in the presence of something living. 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When we seek the spirit without becoming conscious of the nature of the spiritual world we are at all times on a false track. If we remain on Earth and are content to experiment with mediums and their manifestations and do not have direct contact with the spiritual, then we are on the false path. Every activity that fails to awaken consciousness in the spiritual world, that stumbles along blindly and only looks for effects, as superficial occultism for example, is on the false path. 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Also man weiß, man setzt durch seine eigene Seele in den Tag die Nacht hinein. Wenn das alles im vollen Bewußtsein geschieht, so geschieht, wie etwas anderes am Tage vom besonnenen Menschen verrichtet wird, wenn dieser besonnene Mensch in die Tageswirkungen die Monden-Nachtwirkungen hereinzuzaubern vermag, dann ist er auf dem richtigen Pfad. Wenn er aber irgend etwas in sich hereinbringt ohne das volle Bewußtsein, daß da im Tage die Nacht aufgeht durch seine innerlichen Kräfte, dann gerät er auf den falschen Weg, der zuletzt ins Mediumhafte führt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":136,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/243/1924-08-21/p025"},{"locus":"GA 243/1924-08-21/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"So ist also das volle Bewußtsein, die innerliche Beherrschung der Tatsache, in die man sich hineinlebt, dasjenige, was maßgebend ist, nicht die Erscheinung an sich, nicht die Tatsache an sich, sondern die Art, wie man sich in sie hineinlebt. Könnte der gewöhnliche Monden-Nachtwandler in dem Augenblicke, wo er auf dem Dache oben herumsteigt, seine volle Besonnenheit entwickeln, er wäre in diesem Moment ein Initiat. Das wird er nicht, sondern wenn Sie ihn anschreien, damit er erwacht, fällt er herunter. Wenn er nicht herunterfiele, sondern das volle Wachbewußtsein entwickelte und dann in diesem Zustand bleiben könnte, dann wäre er ein Initiat. Dasjenige, was daauf krankhafte Weise entwickelt wird, nicht bloß in gesunder, sondern in übergesunder Weise zu entwickeln, das ist die Aufgabe der Initiationserkenntnis. Sie sehen, wie haarscharf nebeneinander stehen Falsches und Richtiges in der geistigen Welt. In der physischen Welt kann man noch, weil man da ja die grobmaschige Logik, die grobmaschige Erfahrung hat, Falsches vom Richtigen leicht unterscheiden. 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Man kann noch nicht gleich die lebendigen Geistwesen, die den Merkur bewohnen, unterscheiden, aber man wird gewahr im allgemeinen an der Art und Weise, wie einem der Merkur entgegentritt, daß man es mit einer geistigen Welt zu tun hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/243/1924-08-21/p027"},{"locus":"GA 243/1924-08-21/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Wird einem im Geiste das Mondenlicht zum allgemeinen Lebenselixier, in dem man sich drinnen fühlt, dann geht allmählich der Geiststern Merkur in dieser in den Tag hineingezauberten Nacht auf. Heraus tritt aus diesem funkelnden Dämmern und dämmernden Funkeln, in dem einem der Merkur entgegentritt, diejenige Wesenheit, die dann als das Götterwesen Merkur bezeichnet wird. Den braucht man. Den braucht man unbedingt, sonst kommt Verwirrung zustande. Man muß zunächst in der geistigen Welt dieses Wesen finden, von dem man genau weiß, es gehört zu den Merkurwesen. Und dadurch, daß man ihn kennenlernt, kann man den zweiten Menschen, der in einem belebt wird, nun beherrschen, willentlich beherrschen. Man braucht nicht mehr so wie ein Mondenwandler sich unbestimmten Wegen zu überlassen, sondern man kann an der Hand dieses Götterboten Merkur die bestimmten Wege in die geistige Welt hinein tun.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":136,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/243/1924-08-21/p028"},{"locus":"GA 243/1924-08-21/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Und so handelt es sich darum: Will man die richtigen Wege in die geistige Welt hinein finden, so muß man ganz bestimmte Erfahrungen zunächst machen, welche lenkend und leitend sind. Der gewöhnliche Mystiker vertieft sich in sein Inneres. Da kommt ein Gefühlsbrei zustande, in dem alles durcheinandergerührt ist; Gott und Welt und Engel und Teufel, sie sind ja bei dem gewöhnlichen Mystiker durcheinandergerührt. Höchstens kann es zu allgemeinen Träumen kommen, an denen man nicht unterscheiden kann, ob sie aus der Geschlechtssphäre oder aus der Kopfsphäre sind. Im allgemeinen sind sie durcheinandergebrodelt, die Erlebnisse, oder breiartig durcheinandergerührt. Das ist die unklare, die nebulose Mystik, die den Traum nicht durchhellt, die den Traum im Gegenteil mit größerem Chaos, das dann nur dem Initiaten verständlich ist, durchwirkt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/243/1924-08-21/p029"},{"locus":"GA 243/1924-08-21/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Solche Erlebnisse, wie sie beschrieben werden, die so wunderbar sind, so großartig poetisch sind wie die von Katharina von Siena und ähnliche, die kann nur der Initiat verstehen, denn nur er weiß, was da eigentlich vorgeht. Und daher kann gesagt werden: Treibst du deine Initiation mit vollem Bewußtsein, das so klar und durchsichtig wie das Bewußtsein ist, wenn du rechnest oder Geometrie treibst, gehst dumit dieser ganzen vollen Besonnenheit in diese Dinge hinein, so findest du den rechten Weg. — Erst dadurch, daß du weißt, du zauberst die innerliche Nacht in den äußeren Tag hinein, findest du die wirkliche, reale geistige Welt. So wie niemand leugnen kann, daß der Mond aufgeht, daß der Merkur aufgeht in der äußeren Raumeswelt, daß das nicht erträumt, sondern real ist, so findet man das, wenn man mit vollem Bewußtsein hineingeht und Geistwesen begegnet, so, wie man in der physischen Welt Menschen begegnen kann. Und falsche Wege werden überall da gegangen, wo man den Geist suchen will, ohne sich bewußt zu werden dessen, was da in der geistigen Welt ist. Wenn man nur auf Erden bleibt und meinetwillen mit Medien experimentiert, ohne in die geistige Welt wirklich einzutreten, sondern nur an dem, was die Medien äußerlich auswirken, experimentieren will, nicht dem Geistigen wirklich begegnet, dann ist man auf falschem Wege. Alles, was nicht das Bewußtsein erweckt in der geistigen Welt, sondern im Schlafe weiterwandelt und nur die Wirkungen studieren will wie der äußerliche Okkultismus, ist auf falschem Wege. Alles dasjenige, was, indem es in die geistige Welt eintritt, sogleich der geistigen Welt als einer Realität entgegentritt, die aber geistig ist, ist auf richtigem Pfade.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/243/1924-08-21/p030"}],"beads":[{"from":[27,28],"to":[25],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[29,30],"to":[26,27],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[31],"to":[28],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[32],"to":[29],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[33],"to":[30],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}