{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It's true that Swedenborg describes the world of Imagination very aptly, but he is in no position to assess it because he veils the whole spiritual world in his habits derived from the physical world. That is why all the beings of the spiritual world only reveal to him what they are able and willing to clothe in the form of Imaginations derived from the physical world. In other words, Swedenborg sees only as much of the spiritual world as can be clothed in Imaginations contaminated with habits retained from experience on the physical plane. He sees mighty and important spiritual beings, no doubt, but always in a guise that is not their own, a guise that he himself imposes on them. 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,"title":"III. Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering the Spiritual World","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-09-12","location":null,"word_count":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Catherine E. 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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. 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