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The spiritual activity can be separated from the physical organism by meditation, and the soul then experiences the supersensible in a super-sensible way; no longer the physical but the etheric organism is the background of the soul's experience. We have a presentation before our soul's consciousness with the character of a picture. We have before us in this kind of presentation pictures of the powers which, coming from the supersensible are the basis of the organism as its powers of growth, and also as the very powers which function in the regulation of the processes of nourishment. We gain in these pictures a real *vision* of the life-forces. This is the stage of ‘ *imaginative cognition’.* This is life in the etheric human organism, and with our own etheric organism we live in the etheric Cosmos. 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And when this Philosophy is once there it can be grasped and understood by the ordinary consciousness; for it speaks out of ‘imaginative’ experience in a form which springs from spiritual (etheric) reality, and whose reality-content can, through the ordinary consciousness, be recalled in experience.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/25/l02/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. 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In this and the other rhythmic processes of man we find the physical reproduction of what exists in the spiritual sphere in human astral organization. We attain to the vision of how this astral organism has its place in the spiritual Cosmos outside the life on earth, and how it takes on the cloak of the physical organism through embryonic life and birth, to lay it down again in death. By means of this knowledge we can distinguish between heredity, which is an earthly phenomenon, and that which man brings with him from the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/25/l02/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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We must dive down into those existences which reveal themselves in picture form as the content of ‘inspired knowledge’; and this is attained when we add ‘Soul-exercises of the Will’ to the kind of meditation which we have till now been describing. For instance, we attempt to present to ourselves events which in the physical world have a definite course, but in reverse order, from the end to the beginning. Doing this we separate the soul-life, through a process of will which is not used in ordinary consciousness from the cosmic externals, and let the soul sink into those Beings which manifest themselves by inspiration. We attain *true intuition,* a union with beings of a spiritual world. These experiences of intuition are reflected in etheric and also in physical man, and produce in this reflection the subject matter of religious consciousness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/25/l02/p009","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. 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In a waking condition the Ego lives in this rhythm and in the metabolic processes that are a part of it; in the condition of sleep, the rhythm and the metabolic processes of man have a life of their own as physical and etheric organisms; and the astral organisms and the Ego then take their place in the spirit world. The translation of man into this world by inspired and intuitive knowledge is *conscious;* he lives in a spiritual Cosmos, just as by his senses he lives in a physical Cosmos. He can speak of the content of the religious consciousness from knowledge, and he can do this because what he experiences in the spiritual sphere is reflected in the physical and etheric man. Moreover, the reflected pictures can be expressed in speech, and in this form have a meaning which throws religious light on the human disposition of ordinary consciousness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/25/l02/p010","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. 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We bind the will to the astral organism and to the true form of the Ego and consciously immerse both of them into the spirit world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/25/l02/p011","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. 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Die anthroposophische Forschung sucht das zu erreichen in einer ersten Stufe des übersinnlichen Erkennens, in dem imaginativen Bewußtseinszustande. Er wird erreicht durch ein meditatives Seelenverfahren. Durch dieses wird die Totalkraft des Seelenlebens auf leicht überschauliche Vorstellungen gelenkt und im Ruhen auf denselben festgehalten. Dadurch wird, wenn ein solches Verfahren durch genügend lange Zeitepochen immer wiederholt wird, zuletzt bemerkt, wie die Seele in ihrem Erleben *leibfrei* wird. Man erkennt klar, daß alles Denken des gewöhnlichen Bewußtseins Abglanz einer geistigen Tätigkeit ist, die als solche unbewußt bleibt, die aber dadurch bewußt wird, daß sie den menschlichen physischen Organismus in ihren Verlauf einbezieht. Alles gewöhnliche Denken ist ganz abhängig von der im physischen Organismus nachgeahmten übersinnlichen Geistestätigkeit. 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Man hat es mit einer wirklichen *Anschauung* der Lebenskräfte zu tun. Es ist dies die Stufe der *imaginativen* Erkenntnis. Man lebt auf diese Art im ätherischen menschlichen Organismus. Und man lebt mit dem eigenen ätherischen Organismus in dem ätherischen Kosmos. Es ist zwischen dem ätherischen Organismus und dem ätherischen Kosmos keine so scharfe Grenze in bezug auf Subjektives und Objektives wie bei dem physischen Nachdenken über die Dinge der Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":103,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/25/l02/p006"},{"locus":"GA 25/l02/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"So gelangt man durch die inspirierte Erkenntnis zu einer Kosmologie, die den Menschen in bezug auf sein seelisches und geistiges Dasein umfassen kann. Die inspirierten Erkenntnisse bilden sich im astralischen Organismus aus. Man hat sie, indem man außerhalb seines Körpers ein Dasein erlebt im Kosmos des Geistes. 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