{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we presented what we have to offer in our spiritual-scientific literature in all kinds of watered-down versions for the sake of popularizing it, we would simply be pandering to people's unwillingness to exert themselves, and asking for trouble at the same time. Attempts at loading up on spirituality in easy and thoughtless ways always lead to trouble. The effort we make in learning to understand something difficult to read is a kind of inner training and contributes to shaping our relationship to the spiritual world in the right way. It is an essential part of our literature, or at least it should be, that you really have to think in the most comprehensive way possible while taking in the information; your thinking has to become active. Everything you have at your disposal as a result of prior reading and experience must be brought into connection with the content of our anthroposophical writings.","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":153,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Catherine E. 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Wenn man dasjenige, was in unserer geisteswissenschaftlichen Literatur geboten wird, in allerlei verschwommene Formen gießen und diese dann - angeblich, weil sie viel populärer sind - unter das Publikum bringen will, so wird nur auf der einen Seite der Bequemlichkeit gedient und auf der anderen Seite Unfug getrieben. Denn es wird immer Unfug entstehen, wenn das Streben auftritt, auf eine leichte, gedankenlose Weise geistesträchtig zu werden. Die Arbeit, die wir verrichten, indem wir etwas Schwergeschriebenes verstehen lernen, ist eine innere Trainierung, ist etwas, was dazu beiträgt, daß wir in der richtigen Weise unser Verhältnis zur geistigen Welt ausgestalten. Und so gehört oder sollte zu dem Wesentlichen unserer Literatur das gehören, daß Sie wirklich in der umfassendsten Weise bei dem Aufnehmen der Sache denken, Ihre Gedanken in Tätigkeit versetzen; alles dasjenige, was Ihnen zur Verfügung steht aus Ihrer vorherigen Erkenntnis, aus Ihrer vorherigen Lektüre, in Verbindung bringen mit dem, was die anthroposophischen Schriften enthalten. Ich will Ihnen jetzt etwas vordenken, um Ihnen gewissermaßen ein Beispiel zu geben, wie man anhand anthroposophischer Schriften denkend diese Schriften studieren kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/253/1915-09-12/p025"}],"english":["GA 253/1915-09-12/p026","GA 253/1915-09-12/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":289,"en_words":255,"ratio":0.88,"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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