{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 266c/1913-03-21/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we succeed in achieving complete peace of mind after our meditation, we may be overcome by a feeling as if we are rising above ourselves and coming into contact with spiritual beings around us. This feeling is accompanied by a sense of expansion, of spreading out into a sphere above us. But we can also come out of ourselves and come into contact with other spiritual beings. This is accompanied by a feeling of constriction; we descend deep into ourselves, we feel it becoming tighter, and then we come out of ourselves on the way down, as with the other feeling on the way up. This stepping out of ourselves and the accompanying feeling of becoming wider gives a feeling of bliss; it is as if we are rising up to spiritual beings who are coming toward us. If we descend, we encounter spiritual beings who make us deeply aware of our shortcomings, and we become one with these beings. But we then also realize that the sphere in which we find ourselves in this way is connected to the sphere above us, and that now, in the recognition of our shortcomings, we feel the spiritual beings coming toward us as the avengers of the angels who come to judge and punish us, the archangels with their fiery swords. In contrast, we feel the beings of the lower sphere as mourning our mistakes, and we feel deeply that it is not we alone who are affected by our mistakes, but that spiritual beings, the messengers, the angels, mourn our mistakes. We can experience this either only inwardly or as a colored imagination. In the latter case, the sphere spreads out above us in red and red-yellow colors and below us in blue and blue-violet colors, in which the spiritual beings reveal themselves. But the two spheres connect with each other, and we feel ourselves moving within them, looking back at our bodies as something we have left behind. We can have these experiences if we meditate in the right way on the “It thinks me”; and if we could be conscious at night of the working of the good gods, we would be able to see these imaginations.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Ascending and Descending: Angelic and Archangelic Encounters","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Aber auch nach unten können wir aus uns selbst kommen und kommen dann in Berührung mit anderen geistigen Wesenheiten. Das geht einher mit einem Gefühl des Enger-Werdens, wir steigen tief in uns selbst, wir fühlen es enger werden und kommen dann aus uns selbst auf dem Weg nach unten, wie bei dem anderen Gefühl auf dem Weg nach oben. Dieses Aus-uns-selbst-Herausgehen und das damit einhergehende Gefühl des Weiter-Werdens gibt ein Gefühl der Seligkeit, es ist, als ob wir aufsteigen zu geistigen Wesenheiten, die uns da entgegenkommen. Steigen wir nach unten, dann treffen wir geistige Wesenheiten, die uns tief das Bewußtsein unserer Mängel erkennen lassen, und wir werden eins mit diesen Wesenheiten. Aber wir merken dann auch, daß die Sphäre, worin wir uns auf diese Art befinden, sich anschließt an die Sphäre über uns, und daß jetzt, in der Erkenntnis unserer Mängel, wir die geistigen Wesenheiten fühlen, die uns dort entgegenkommen, als die Rächer der Engel, die kommen, um uns zu richten und zu strafen, die Erzengel mit dem feurigen Schwert. Dagegen fühlen wir die Wesenheiten der unteren Sphäre wie trauernd über unsere Fehler, und tief fühlen wir, daß nicht wir allein durch unsere Fehler betroffen sind, sondern daß geistige Wesenheiten, die Boten, die Engel über unsere Fehler trauern. Wir können das entweder nur innerlich erleben oder auch als Sehen einer farbigen Imagination. In diesem letzten Fall wird über uns die Sphäre sich ausbreiten in roten und rot-gelben Farben und unter uns in blauen und blau-violetten Farben, worin sich die geistigen Wesen offenbaren. Aber die beiden Sphären schließen sich aneinander, und wir fühlen uns selbst darin bewegend, zurückblickend auf unseren Körper, als auf etwas, was wir hinter uns gelassen haben. Zu diesen Erlebnissen können wir kommen, wenn wir auf die rechte Weise das Es denkt mich meditieren; und wenn wir uns des Nachts bewußt sein könnten des Wirkens der guten Götter, würden wir diese Imaginationen sehen können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":367,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/266c/1913-03-21/p019"}],"english":["GA 266c/1913-03-21/p019"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":367,"en_words":369,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":1361,"original_word_count":1359,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Esoteric Lessons 1913–1923","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA266III/English/SOL2025/19130321e02.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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