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In order to understand the connection, let us recall several things I have described before. I explained how authentic seership begins, how good seers have to acquire a totally different relationship to the spiritual world than they have to the physical world. I told you that we perceive external beings and objects out there on the physical plane as existing outside us. We face these objects and take something of them into ourselves in the process of perception. Our I knows about the objects and creates mental images of them. 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There it is replaced with a different fundamental experience, the experience of oneself as object. Our I relates to the beings of higher worlds in the same way that objects formerly related to the I. We no longer perceive, but experience that we are being perceived, that the spiritual beings of the higher hierarchies are observing us. This experience of being perceived and observed by the Angeloi, Archangeloi, and other spiritual beings is a total reversal of our former relationship to the physical world. We achieve the awareness that our being has expanded to encompass the sphere of the hierarchies, and that the hierarchies are at work in us and are looking at us just as we used to look at objects on the physical plane.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p016","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Catherine E. 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Because we bring our habits of perception from the physical plane into the spiritual world and retain our underlying mode of experiencing things, we are left with the illusion of being able to “observe the cosmic beings,” and cannot ascend to that other fundamental experience of being observed by them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p018","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Catherine E. Creeger","identified_edition":"AP1991","book_title":"Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA253/English/AP1991/19150912p01.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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And when he enters a region where the spirits make every effort to conceal what is within them—like the Mars beings who have learned to conceal their inner life and not reveal it in how they speak—he can no longer understand them; they remain a mystery to him. This lies at the root of all of Swedenborg's very conscientious descriptions, and to understand what Swedenborg's visionary world was like, we need to be aware of it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p020","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Catherine E. 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And it is not simply that higher beings look at us; we become perceptions, concepts, and thoughts for the beings of higher worlds in the same way that objects on the physical plane are for us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":167,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p021","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Catherine E. Creeger","identified_edition":"AP1991","book_title":"Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA253/English/AP1991/19150912p01.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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It is not enough to think; we must become thoughts, thoughts of the beings of the higher hierarchies.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":101,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-09-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":295,"ratio":1.14,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Catherine E. 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Swedenborg could not do that. If he had been able to do it, he would have known that as long as he remained within himself he would not be able to understand those Mars beings. However, if he had stepped outside of himself and become an object, a thought, an idea for the Angeloi, then, as expanded self, he would have been able to understand both the Angeloi and that category of Mars beings. He would then have had the same understanding of the essential nature of these Mars beings as the Angeloi had. He was unable to reach this stage because he always remained within the limits of his own consciousness and was never able to let the Angeloi observe and experience him, so that he himself would simply be their field of perception. 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Von ihm und auch von den aus seinem Leib herauskommenden Geistern wurden sie nicht verstanden, aber von den Wesenheiten aus der Kategorie der Angeloi wurden sie verstanden. Das bemerkte er, und das war für ihn eine außerordentlich bedeutsame, eine tiefgehende Erfahrung. Denn für ihn war es jetzt klar, daß er mit seiner Sehergabe in bezug auf die Wahrnehmung der geistigen Welt begrenzt ist, daß er etwas nicht verstehen kann, was aber die Wesenheiten aus der Hierarchie der Angeloi wohl verstehen können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":123,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p013"},{"locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Über eine solche Erzählung, wie sie da Swedenborg gibt, darf nicht hinweggelesen werden, sondern sie gehört zu dem, was wirklich im tiefsten Sinne einführen kann in gewisse Geheimnisse der geistigen Welten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":31,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p014"},{"locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Um den Zusammenhang zu verstehen, erinnern wir uns nun an so manches, was ich schon auseinandergesetzt habe. Ich habe Ihnen beschrieben, wie das reguläre Sehertum beginnt, wie bei dem regulären, bei dem guten Seher eine ganz andere Art im Verhältnisse des Sichstellens zur geistigen als wie zur physischen Welt eintreten müsse. Ich sagte, wenn wir auf dem physischen Plane den Wesen und Gegenständen draußen gegenüberstehen, so sind sie für unser Bewußtsein außer uns. Wir stehen den Gegenständen gegenüber und nehmen gleichsam in unserem Wahrnehmen etwas von den Gegenständen in uns herein. Unser Ich weiß von den Gegenständen, unser Ich stellt sich die Gegenstände vor. Und das ist ja das Grunderlebnis alles Erkennens und Wahrnehmens auf dem physischen Plan, daß ich die Gegenstände auf dem physischen Plan vorstelle, daß ich sie erkenne.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p015"},{"locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Ich sagte, daß sich dieses Grunderlebnis ändert, sobald man in die geistigen Welten hinaufsteigt. Da tritt an die Stelle dieses Grunderlebnisses ein anderes Grunderlebnis: Da wird man selber Objekt. So wie die Gegenstände zu dem Ich gestanden haben, so steht jetzt das Ich zu den Wesenheiten der höheren Welten, man nimmt nicht mehr wahr, sondern man erlebt, daß man wahrgenommen wird, daß einen die geistigen Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien anschauen. Dieses Erlebnis: ich werde wahrgenommen, mich schauen die Angeloi, die Archangeloi und so weiter an - das ist eine vollständige Umkehrung in dem ganzen Verhältnis zur Welt. Und man erlangt dann das Bewußtsein: du hast dein Wesen ausgedehnt über die Sphäre der Hierarchien und die Hierarchien wirken in dir und schauen dich an, so wie du auf dem physischen Plan die Gegenstände anschaust.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":133,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p016"},{"locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Ohne dieses Grunderlebnis ist alles Verhältnis zur geistigen Welt verkehrt, wie ohne das Grunderlebnis «ich stelle die Gegenstände vor» alles Verhältnis zur physischen Welt verkehrt wäre. «Ich schaue an» ist richtig für die physische Welt; «ich werde angeschaut» ist letzten Endes richtig für die geistige Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":46,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p017"},{"locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Nun gibt es an der Schwelle, beim Übertritt in die geistige Welt, gewissermaßen eine Region, eine Strömung, in der man die ganze Konfiguration, die ganze Eigentümlichkeit des Verhältnisses zur physischen Welt beibehält. Man kommt nicht los von dem «Ich schaue an», man kann nicht aufsteigen zu dem «Ich werde angeschaut». Aus einem gründlich in sich eingelebten Gewohnten verlangt man von der geistigen Welt, daß sie im Grunde genommen nur eine Kopie, ein verfeinerter Abdruck der physischen Welt sei. Und es gibt nicht wenige Menschen, die haben die Vorstellung: geradeso, wie sie hier in diesem Saale unter physischen Menschen stehen, so könnten sie auch eine Geisterversammlung betreten, und in dieser Geisterversammlung seien die Geister nun genau ebenso versammelt - nur etwas dünner, so daß man durch sie durchgreifen kann — wie auf dem physischen Plan die Menschen. Weil man die Gewohnheit des Wahrnehmens auf dem physischen Plan mitbringt in die geistige Welt, deshalb bleibt als eine Illusion, als eine Täuschung dieses Grunderlebnis vorhanden, «ich schaue die Weltwesen an», und deshalb kann man sich nicht aufschwingen zu dem anderen Grunderlebnis: «Ich werde von den Weltwesen angeschaut.»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p018"},{"locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Nun, sehen Sie, in dieser Illusion blieb der Seher Swedenborg ganz und gar, solange er in dieser Inkarnation, von der die Rede ist, war. Er konnte sich nie aufschwingen zu dem Erlebnis: «Ich werde angeschaut.» - Lesen Sie nur alles das, was von Swedenborg als Seher herrührt, so werden Sie sehen, daß er die höheren Welten wirklich so beschreibt, als wenn sie nichts weiter wären als ein feiner Dunst von der physischen Welt, feine dunstartige Gestalten, die aber im übrigen ganz ähnlich sind der physischen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":86,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p019"},{"locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Gewiß, damit beschreibt Swedenborg die Welt der Imagination in einer ganz zutreffenden Weise; aber beurteilen kann er sie nicht, weil er über die ganze geistige Welt eben den Schleier seiner Gewohnheiten von der physischen Welt her wirft. Und so kommt es, daß ihm alle Wesen der geistigen Welten nur dasjenige zeigen, was sie auch einkleiden können und wollen in die Form der Imaginationen, die man von den Anschauungen der physischen Welt mitbringt. Das heißt, Swedenborg sieht nur so viel von der geistigen Welt, als ihm in seine von den Gewohnheiten der physischen Welt angekränkelten Imaginationen eingekleidet wird. Gewiß sieht er darinnen hochgeistige, bedeutende geistige Wesenheiten, aber eben immer in dem Kleid, das nicht ihr eigenes ist, sondern ihnen übergeworfen wird von ihm selber. Kommt er aber in eine Region hinein, in der die Geister gerade anstreben, ihr Inneres zu verbergen, da kann er sie nicht mehr verstehen, da sind sie ihm rätselhaft, wie diese Marsbewohner, die gelernt haben, ihr Innenleben zu verbergen, es nicht überfließen zu lassen in ihre Sprachweise. Das ist es, was dem, was da Swedenborg sehr gewissenhaft schildert, zugrunde liegt und was man erkennen muß, um zu verstehen, welcher Art die Seherwelt Swedenborgs war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p020"},{"locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Es handelt sich also darum, daß derjenige, der wirklich eintreten will in die geistige Welt, suchen muß, sein eigenes Selbst mit den Dingen zunächst so zu identifizieren - es ist das ja schon in dem letzten Kapitel meiner «Theosophie» geschildert, da sind im Grunde genommen alle Angaben schon gemacht -, daß er sich angewöhnt, von sich loszukommen, indem er die höhere Welt betrachtet. Und wenn er sich das angewöhnt, wird er allmählich in das andere Erleben hineinkommen, das man sich allerdings nicht erwerben kann, nur den Weg dazu, denn dieses andere Erleben überkommt einen wie durch eine Gnade der geistigen Welt: «Du wirst jetzt von den geistigen Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien angeschaut, sie schauen dich an.» - Aber sie schauen einen dann nicht bloß an, sondern man wird ebenso zur Wahrnehmung, zur Vorstellung, zum Gedanken der Wesenheiten der höheren Welten so wie für uns die Gegenstände des physischen Planes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p021"},{"locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Hätte Swedenborg das gekonnt, sich daran zu gewöhnen, daß die Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien einen anschauen und vorstellen, dann hätte er nicht bloß erfahren: diese Marsbewohner verstehe ich nicht, aber oben die Angeloi verstehen sie. Er konnte nicht mit dem Wahrnehmen der Angeloi selber erkennen, sondern nur mit seinem Erkennen. Das muß man aber können. Man muß nicht bloß vorstellen, sondern man muß Vorstellung werden; man muß nicht bloß denken, sondern man muß Gedanke werden, ein Gedanke, den die Wesen der höheren Hierarchien denken. So wie der Gedanke sich zu uns verhält, so müssen wir uns zu den Wesen der höheren Hierarchien verhalten lernen. Das konnte Swedenborg nicht. Hätte er es gekonnt, so hätte er gesagt: Ja, solange ich in mir bleibe, solange kann ich diese Marsbewohner nicht verstehen; in dem Augenblick aber, wo ich außer mich gehe und ein Objekt, ein Gedanke, eine Idee der Angeloi werde, da verstehe ich in meinem erweiterten Selbst die Angeloi und die Kategorie der Marsbewohner. - Und dann wäre in seinem Bewußtsein das Verständnis aufgetreten, das die Angeloi von dem Wesen dieser Marsbewohner gehabt haben. Dazu konnte er sich nicht aufschwingen, weil er immer in seinem Bewußtsein drinnen blieb und nicht bis dahin kam, angeschaut zu werden, das heißt, so angeschaut zu werden, daß die Angeloi in ihm ihr Anschauen erleben und er nur das Blickfeld wird für die Angeloi. Was die Angeloi wissen, weiß er dann auch, denn man weiß, daß die höheren Geister, die Geister der höheren Hierarchien in einem wissen, und dadurch weiß man von den höheren Welten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p022"},{"locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Das ist das Bedeutsame, was man festhalten muß: Der Mensch kann in dieser Epoche der Entwickelung, weil er so organisiert ist, eben nur diejenigen Welten erkennen, die für seine Auffassungsorgane zugänglich sind. Will er weiter erkennen - lesen Sie alles, was über die Initiation von mir geschrieben ist, so werden Sie darauf kommen, daß alles schon darin enthalten ist —, will er weiter kommen, so muß er das Bewußtsein der über ihm stehenden geistigen Wesenheiten in sich aufnehmen, und das, was die geistigen Wesenheiten erleben, muß Gegenstand seines eigenen Bewußtseins werden. Er muß sich in dem Chor der geistigen Wesenheiten darinnen fühlen. 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