{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 250/1906-06-04/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This very sharply defines the boundary where ordinary experience ends and the occult begins. Ordinary perception and experience extend as far as the human being's objective perception organs are built in. Occultism begins where man begins to build higher organs of perception for himself through the dormant powers within him. Within ordinary experience, man can only feel like a creature. When he begins to feel like the creator of his being, he enters the realm of so-called occult life. The way Fichte characterizes the “I am” is entirely in line with occultism. Even if he remains in the realm of pure thought, his contemplation is not mere speculation, but true inner experience. But for this very reason, it is also so easy to confuse his world view with mere speculation. Those who are driven by curiosity into the higher worlds will not find what they are looking for by delving into Fichte's philosophy. But for those who want to work on themselves, to discover the abilities slumbering in their souls, Fichte can be a good guide. He will realize that what matters is not the content of his teachings or dogmas, but the power that grows in the soul when one devotedly follows Fichte's lines of thought. One would compare this thinker to the prophet who did not enter the promised land himself, but led his people to a summit from which they could see its glories. Fichte leads thought to the summit from which entry into the land of occultism can be made. And the preparation that one acquires through him is as pure as can be imagined. For it completely transcends the realm of sense perception and the realm of that which originates from the nature of human desire and covetousness (from the human being's astral body). Through Fichte, one learns to live and move in the very pure element of thought. One retains nothing of the physical world in the soul except what has been implanted from higher regions, namely thoughts. And these form a better bridge to spiritual experiences than the training of other psychic abilities. For thought is the same everywhere, whether it occurs in the physical, astral or mental world. Only its content is different in each of these worlds. And the supersensible worlds remain hidden from man only as long as he cannot completely remove sensual content from his thoughts. If the thought becomes free of sensuality, then only one step remains to be taken and the supersensible world can be entered.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"28. Theosophy in Germany a Hundred Years Ago","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-06-04","location":null,"word_count":419,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/250/1906-06-04/p015","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The History of the German Section of the Theosophical Society 1902-1913","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA250/English/SOL2024/19060604s01.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 er auch im Felde des reinen Gedankens verbleibt, so ist doch seine Betrachtung keine bloße Spekulation, sondern wahres inneres Erlebnis. Aber gerade aus diesem Grunde ist auch die Verwechselung seiner Weltbetrachtung mit bloßer Spekulation so leicht. [Wen] die Neugierde in die höheren Welten hinauftreibt, der wird durch die Vertiefung in Fichtes Philosophie eben nicht auf seine Rechnung kommen. Wer aber an sich arbeiten will, um die in der Seele schlummernden Fähigkeiten zu entdecken, dem kann gerade Fichte ein guter Führer sein. Er wird gewahr werden, dass es bei ihm nicht auf den Inhalt seiner Lehre oder seiner Dogmen, sondern auf die Kraft ankommt, die in der Seele wächst, wenn man die Gedankenwege Fichtes hingebungsvoll nachwandelt. Man möchte diesen Denker mit dem Propheten vergleichen, der nicht selbst das gelobte Land betreten hat, aber die Seinigen bis zu einem Gipfel führt, von dem aus sie die Herrlichkeiten desselben schauen konnten. Fichte führt das Denken bis zu dem Gipfel, von dem aus der Eintritt in das Land des Okkultismus vollzogen werden kann. Und die Vorbereitung, welche man durch ihn erlangt, ist die denkbar reinste. Denn sie hebt völlig über das Gebiet der Sinnesempfindung und über den Bereich dessen hinweg, was aus der Wunsch- und Begierdennatur des Menschen (aus seinem Astralleib) stammt. Man lernt durch Fichte leben und sich bewegen in dem ganz reinen Elemente des Denkens. Man behält nichts von der physischen Welt in der Seele, als was dieser physischen Welt aus höheren Regionen eingepflanzt ist, nämlich die Gedanken. Und diese bilden eine bessere Brücke zu den spirituellen Erlebnissen als die Ausbildung anderer psychischer Fähigkeiten. Denn der Gedanke ist überall derselbe, ob er nun in der physischen, astralischen oder mentalen Welt auftritt. Nur sein Inhalt ist in jeder dieser Welten ein anderer. Und die übersinnlichen Welten bleiben dem Menschen nur so lange verborgen, als er aus seinen Gedanken den sinnlichen Inhalt nicht ganz entfernen kann. 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