{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 284/1907-10-21/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The fourteen plates presented here are reproductions of the “seals and symbols” used to line the interior of the building where the Congress of the “Federation of European Sections of the Theosophical Society” took place on May 18, 19, 20 and 21, 1907 (in Munich). They are not arbitrary “symbols” that can be interpreted *rationally*, but spiritual-scientific “characters” that must be taken as befits *true* spiritual science. These do not invent such “signs” out of their own minds or arbitrary imagination, but only reflect in them what is really present as a vision to the *spiritual perception* in the supersensible worlds. No speculation, no intellectual explanation, however ingenious, is appropriate in the presence of such signs, because they are not invented, but merely provide a description of what the so-called “seer” perceives in the invisible worlds. The signs reproduced here are a description of experiences in the “astral” and “spiritual” (devachanic) worlds. The “seals” of the first seven tablets represent such real facts of the astral world and the seven “columns” represent similar facts of the spiritual world. However, while the seals directly reflect the experiences of “spiritual vision”, this is not the case with the seven columns. For the perceptions of the spiritual world cannot be compared to “seeing”, but rather to “spiritual hearing”. In this, it must be borne in mind that one should not think of it as too similar to “hearing” in the physical world, for although it can be compared to it, it is nevertheless very unlike it. The experiences of this spiritual hearing can only be expressed in an *image* if they are translated from “sounding” into form. This has been done with these “columns”, but their essence can only be understood if the forms are thought of as plastic (not painterly).","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Images of Occult Seals and Columns","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-10-21","location":null,"word_count":298,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/284/1907-10-21/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Images of Occult Seals and Columns","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA284/English/SOL2024/19071021c01.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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Diese erfindet nicht aus dem Verstande oder der willkürlichen Phantasie heraus solche «Zeichen», sondern gibt in ihnen nur wieder, was der *geistigen Wahrnehmung* in den übersinnlichen Welten wirklich als Anschauung vorliegt. Keine Spekulation, keine — wenn auch noch so geistreiche — Verstandeserklärung ist gegenüber solchen Zeichen angebracht, da sie eben nicht ausgedacht sind, sondern lediglich eine Beschreibung dessen liefern, was der sogenannte «Seher» in den unsichtbaren Welten wahrnimmt. Bei den hier wiedergegebenen Zeichen handelt es sich um die Beschreibung von Erlebnissen der «astralen» und der «geistigen» (devachanischen) Welt. Die «Siegel» der ersten sieben Tafeln stellen solche wirkliche Tatsachen der astralen Welt dar und die sieben «Säulen» ebensolche der geistigen Welt. Während aber die Siegel unmittelbar die Erlebnisse des «geistigen Schauens» wiedergeben, ist das bei den sieben Säulen nicht in gleicher Art der Fall. Denn die Wahrnehmungen der geistigen Welt lassen sich nicht mit einem «Schauen», sondern eher mit einem «geistigen Hören» vergleichen. Bei diesem muß beachtet werden, daß man es nicht zu sehr dem «Hören» in der physischen Welt ähnlich denken soll, denn obwohl es sich damit vergleichen läßt, ist es ihm doch sehr unähnlich. In einem *Bilde* lassen sich die Erlebnisse dieses geistigen Hörens nur ausdrücken, wenn man sie aus dem «Tönen» in die Form übersetzt. Das ist bei diesen «Säulen» geschehen, deren Wesen aber nur verständlich ist, wenn man sich die Formen plastisch (nicht malerisch) denkt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/284/1907-10-21/p004"}],"english":["GA 284/1907-10-21/p004"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":291,"en_words":298,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.1,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3639,"original_word_count":3322,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Images of Occult Seals and Columns","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA284/English/SOL2024/19071021c01.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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