{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus, if we really want to enter the spiritual world, we must try to identify our own self with the things around us in such a way that we become accustomed to breaking free of ourselves as we look at higher worlds. I have described this in the last chapter of *Theosophy*; basically, all the indications are already given there.[^5] If we become accustomed to doing this, we will gradually begin to experience things in the other way I described. This is not something we can accomplish purely through our own efforts; all we can do is set out on the right path. The experience of being perceived by spiritual beings of the higher hierarchies comes to us as an act of grace on the part of the spiritual world itself. 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,"title":"III. Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering the Spiritual World","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-09-12","location":null,"word_count":167,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Catherine E. 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