{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 270/1924-03-21/p053","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is to become mineral-like, and whoever is not familiar with imagination, just does not know how mineral-hard customary thinking is. Customary thinking is hard as stone. One really feels the crusty abrasiveness of this thinking, once one has achieved entry into the spiritual world. Thinking is actually painful when it veers off into abstract forms. Whoever has spiritual life, can in any case still live with whatever emerges in thinking out of human feelings, with whatever emerges in thinking out of human impulses. He can live with himself, when animosities and scornful outbursts emerge externally out of human nature in thoughts, but he feels inwardly wounded by crusty abrasiveness, when the abstract thoughts of present-day civilization penetrate into his organization. What can be inflicted on present-day thoughts is such that even the sentence, \"And intrinsic soul will threaten you as cold observing stone,\" does not make it clear. But when a person knowingly descends into the realm of memories, into the realm of the airy ways, when one’s breath is taken away, in and by the grasp of conceptualization, then it will be as I have depicted. But this inner death in thinking, this icy death, must in turn inflame us to a contrary force, even in thoughts it must call forth spirited vitality by means of inner force. [The stanza was completed on the board.]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"meaning_warning":"A sentence of this translation says something the German does not; translation_faults names it, with the German. quote_safe certifies the words, not the meaning: do not quote that sentence as Steiner's meaning. 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