{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1908-01-12/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When I speak today of the occult signs of the astral and spiritual world, “spiritual world” is meant and used in the sense of the Devachan. Our physical plan is irradiated by the astral world and even higher worlds. What the occultist comes to know of these higher worlds is often expressed by all kinds of symbols. We need not think of particularly artificial images, but we must take them symbolically, as we speak, for example, of the “light of knowledge”, the “light of wisdom”. Anyone who follows poetic language, who examines religious documents, will find symbols. The occultist, however, never needs such images in a speculative sense, because occult signs are not speculative. So you cannot penetrate the meaning of the images by mere reflection. The only way is through the secret science itself, and the same way must be applied to the legends and fairy tales of the peoples. You must hold that a true occult symbol is something really to be seen in a higher world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. Occult Signs and Symbols of the Astral World","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-01-12","location":null,"word_count":169,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1908-01-12/p003","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19080112s01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1908-01-12/p003"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1908-01-12/p003","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. 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Das, was der Okkultist von diesen höheren Welten kennenlernt, wird durch allerlei Sinnbilder oftmals ausgedrückt. Wir brauchen nicht zu denken an besonders künstliche Bilder, sondern wir müssen das sinnbildlich gesprochen nehmen, wie wir zum Beispiel sprechen vom «Licht der Erkenntnis», «Licht der Weisheit». Jeder, der dichterische Sprache verfolgt, der religiöse Urkunden untersucht, wird Sinnbilder finden. Der Okkultist braucht aber solche Bilder nie im ausspekulierten Sinn, denn okkultistische Zeichen sind nicht ausspekuliert. So können Sie auch nicht durch bloßes Nachdenken in den Sinn der Bilder eindringen. Der einzige Weg ist durch die Geheimwissenschaft selber, und derselbe Weg muss auch angewendet werden für die Sagen und Märchen der Völker. Sie müssen festhalten, dass ein wahres okkultistisches Symbol etwas wirklich zu Sehendes in einer höheren Welt ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1908-01-12/p003"}],"english":["GA 246/1908-01-12/p003"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":163,"en_words":169,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2356,"original_word_count":2199,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19080112s01.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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