{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Swedenborg learned a very significant lesson from this after realizing that these beings he could not understand were inhabitants of Mars—that there were in fact beings from Mars whose speech could not be understood even by someone who usually understood the language of spiritual beings. I am talking here only about Swedenborg's experiences. Because he made a point of studying these things rather than simply interpreting them arbitrarily, he gradually realized why he could not understand these souls from Mars. It was because they belonged to a group of cosmic beings who had developed the ability to conceal all their feelings and intentions, to not let anything of what they were feeling flow into their words. The fact that they were able to conceal their emotions and keep them to themselves made Swedenborg realize that hearing words and seeing gestures is not all there is to understanding language—something of the speaker's emotional state flows over to us as well. Understanding speech is actually based on this flow of emotional content. He realized that because these Mars beings had developed the ability to conceal their feelings, the meaning of their speech was not revealed in spite of the fact that they actually were speaking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering the Spiritual World","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-09-12","location":null,"word_count":203,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Catherine E. 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Er hat diese Lehre gezogen, nachdem er erkannt hatte, daß diese Wesen, die er also nicht verstand, gewisse Marsbewohner sind, daß es wirklich Marsbewohner gibt, die so sprechen können, daß man sie nicht versteht, während man gewohnt ist, die Sprache der geistigen Wesenheiten sonst zu verstehen - wie gesagt, ich rede von den Erlebnissen Swedenborgs. Und weil er diese Dinge nicht willkürlich sich auslegte, sondern studierte, wurde ihm nun nach und nach klar, warum er diese Marswesenheiten, diese Marsseelen nicht verstehen konnte. Er konnte sie aus dem Grunde nicht verstehen, weil sie zu einer Kategorie von Weltwesenheiten gehörten, welche die Gabe erlangt hatten, alle ihre Gefühle und Willensimpulse zu verbergen, nichts in die Worte ausfließen zu lassen von dem, was sie fühlten. Und daran, daß sie ihren ganzen Gemütsinhalt verbergen, bei sich behalten konnten, erkannte Swedenborg, daß, wenn man eine Sprache versteht, man nicht bloß die Worte hört und die Gebärden sieht, sondern daß etwas überfließt von dem Gemütsinhalt des Sprechenden, daß also das Verstehen einer Sprache eigentlich beruht auf dem Überfließen des Gemütsinhaltes. Und er erkannte, daß diese Marswesenheiten die Gabe erlangt hatten, ihre Gefühle zu verbergen und daher auch den Sinn ihres Sprechens nicht zu verraten, trotzdem sie sprachen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":212,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p012"}],"english":["GA 253/1915-09-12/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":212,"en_words":203,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5107,"original_word_count":4883,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Catherine E. 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