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If we do all this, and keep repeating the process, we can strengthen our soul forces and finally become aware of an inner experience, of which formerly we had not the remotest inkling.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. Paths to the Spirit in East and West","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-10-03","location":null,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/322/1920-10-03/p014","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Und hat man eine Zeitlang ein solches symbolisches Vorstellen getrieben, hat man sich dazu noch bemüht, auf den Bildern, die man in dieser Weise ganz in Anlehnung an die Phänomene in der Seele präsent sein läßt und die sonst nur vorübergehen, indem man ja im Leben von Sensation zu Sensation, von Erlebnis zu Erlebnis eilt, hat man sich gewöhnt, kontemplativ lange und immer länger auf einem Bilde, das man ganz durchschaut, das man sich selber gemacht hat oder sich auch von jemandem anraten läßt, so daß es keine Reminiszenz sein kann, hat man sich gewöhnt, kontemplativ auf einem solchen Bilde zu ruhen, und wiederholt man diesen Vorgang immer wieder und wiederum, so verstärkt sich die innere Seelenkraft, und man wird zuletzt gewahr, daß man in sich selber etwas erlebt, von dem man vorher eigentlich keine Ahnung gehabt hat. Höchstens kann man - aber man sollte das eigentlich nicht mißverstehen — sich ein Bild machen von dem, was man jetzt, aber nur in seinem Inneren, erlebt, indem man sich erinnert an besonders lebendige Traumvorstellungen, nur daß die Traumvorstellungen doch immer Reminiszenzen sind und nicht unmittelbar bezogen werden dürfen auf etwas Äußeres, daß aber das einem gewissermaßen als Reaktion entgegenkommt aus dem eigenen Inneren. Wenn man also diese Bilder durchlebt, so ist das etwas durchaus Reales, und man kommt darauf, daß man jetzt in seinem eigenen Inneren antrifft dasjenige Geistige, welches den Wachstumsprozeß gibt, welches die Wachstumskraft ist. Man merkt, man kommt hinein in einen Teil seiner Menschheitskonstitution, der in einem ist, der sich mit einem verbindet, der in einem tätig ist, den man aber früher nur unbewußt erlebt hat. 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