{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 253/1915-09-12/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Active effort is what counts in attempts to gain access to the spiritual world. If you really want to enter the spiritual world, you cannot shy away from working through what confronts you and bringing it into connection with everything life has given you. Without this effort, all kinds of crazy things can happen—like someone believing he is the reincarnation of Homer but feeling no need to do anything to prove that something of Homer's genius is welling up in him. Since Homer already put in all the effort, the person in question can spend this incarnation comfortably lying on the couch in mystical slumber! If you make an effort to actively work through whatever confronts you, you will not be diverted into all kinds of mystical monkey business. Instead, you will eventually reach the point where you can develop an appropriate sense for the deeper meaning the spiritual world's truths hold for human beings. Then you will realize that you have to make every effort not to allow your habitual ways of thinking, feeling, and perceiving on the physical plane to get mixed up with qualities belonging solely to the spiritual world.","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":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/253/1915-09-12/p037","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Catherine E. 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Man darf sich eben nicht scheuen, wenn man wirklich in die.geistige Welt hineinkommen will, das, was vorliegt, durchzuarbeiten und mit allem, was man vom Leben her hat, in Zusammenhang zu bringen. Sonst könnte ja wirklich eine solche Torheit geschehen, daß irgend jemand die Meinung hätte, er wäre der wiederverkörperte Homer, aber er brauchte nichts zu tun, um zu zeigen, daß etwas von Homers Genie in ihm sprudelt; sondern er könnte wirklich die Meinung haben, na, damals hat Homer gewacht, und jetzt entwickelt er eine Inkarnation, wo er sich hübsch aufs Faulbett des mystischen Schlafens legt. - Wenn man versucht, aktiv, tätig sich durchzuarbeiten durch das, was vorliegt, dann wird man nicht, ich möchte sagen, auf allerlei mystisches Allotria geführt werden, sondern man wird zu jenem Punkt geführt, von dem aus man ein richtiges Verhältnis gewinnt, wie die Wahrheit in der geistigen Welt für den Menschen in tieferem Sinne gemeint ist. 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