{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1911-06-07/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"So let's understand: how do humans think? More or less in such a way that he starts from a certain point and says: I have understood this or that, and from this point he now tries to understand various other things. If this were not the path of human thought, the school path would not be so difficult for some things. I can assume that the Theosophists have a mental image in this respect: you cannot learn mathematics from one day to the next, because you have to start at one point - and progress slowly. It takes a long time. You cannot overlook thinking at a glance, because human thinking takes time. It is not there in one fell swoop. You have to search, you have to make an effort to find the thought. The other beings do not have this peculiarity of man; but with the same speed with which an animal, for example, realizes when it has something edible for its instinct in front of it that it snatches at it, the thought arises in the soul of such a superhuman being - and is there. Instinct and thoughtful consciousness have no difference in relation to these entities, they are one and the same. Just as animals have instinct on their levels, in their realm, so these dhyanic beings or Angeloi have direct spiritual thinking, direct spiritual imagination; they have something like an instinctive inner life of imagination, so they are of a completely different nature than humans.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-06-07","location":null,"word_count":251,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-07/p013","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/SOL2025/19110607s01.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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Wenn das nicht der Weg des menschlichen Denkens wäre, so wäre der Schulweg für manches nicht so schwierig. Ich kann ja voraussetzen, dass eine Vorstellung in dieser Beziehung bei den Theosophen besteht: Man kann nicht von einem Tage auf den anderen Mathematik lernen, weil man an einem Punkte anfangen muss - und langsam vorschreiten muss. Das dauert lange. Man kann nicht mit einem Blick das Denken übersehen; denn das menschliche Denken verläuft in der Zeit. Es ist nicht mit einem Schlage da. Man muss suchen, muss sich anstrengen, um den Gedanken zu finden. Diese Eigentümlichkeit des Menschen haben die anderen Wesenheiten nicht; sondern mit derselben Geschwindigkeit, mit der etwa ein Tier sich klar ist, wenn es etwas für seinen Instinkt Essbares vor sich hat, dass es danach schnappt, so tritt der Gedanke in der Seele einer solchen übermenschlichen Wesenheit auf - und ist da. Instinkt und nachdenkerisches Bewusstsein haben in Bezug auf diese Wesenheiten keinen Unterschied, sind ein und dasselbe. So wie die Tiere Instinkt haben auf ihren Stufen, in ihrem Reiche, so haben diese dhyanischen Wesenheiten oder Angeloi unmittelbares geistiges Denken, unmittelbares geistiges Vorstellen; etwas wie ein instinktives Vorstellungsinnenleben haben sie, sind also ganz anders geartet als die Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":240,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1911-06-07/p013"}],"english":["GA 246/1911-06-07/p013"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":240,"en_words":251,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7602,"original_word_count":7380,"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/SOL2025/19110607s01.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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