{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 322/1920-10-03_02/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Yesterday I attempted to show the methods employed by Eastern spirituality for approaching the spiritual world and pointed out how anybody who wished to pursue this path into the super-sensible more or less dispensed with the bridge linking him with his fellow men. He chose a path different from that which establishes communication within society by means of language, thought, and perception of the ego. And I showed how it was initially attempted not to understand through the word what one's fellow man wished to say, what one wants to understand from him, but to live within the words. This process of living within the word was enhanced by forming the words into certain aphorisms. One lived in these and repeated them, so that the forces accrued in the soul by this process were strengthened further by repetition. And I showed how something was achieved in the condition of the soul that might be called a state of Inspiration, in the sense in which I have used the word, except that the sages of the ancient East were, of course, members of their race: their ego-consciousness was much less developed than in later epochs of human evolution. They thus entered into the spiritual world in a more instinctive manner, and because the whole thing was instinctive and thus resulted, in a sense, from a healthy drive within human nature, in the earliest times it could not lead to the pathological afflictions of which we have also spoken. In later times steps were taken by the so-called Mysteries to guard against the rise of such afflictions as I have described to you. I said that those Westerners who desire to gain knowledge of the spiritual world must approach this in another way. Humanity has progressed in the interim. Different soul faculties have evolved, so that one cannot simply renew the ancient Eastern path of spiritual development. Within the realm of spiritual life one cannot long to return in a reactionary manner to prehistoric or earlier historical periods of human evolution. For Western civilization, the path leading into the spiritual worlds is that of Imagination. This faculty of Imagination, however, must be integrated organically into the life of the soul as a whole. This can come about in the most varied ways, just as the Eastern path of development was not unequivocally predetermined but could take numerous different courses. Today I would like to describe the path into the spiritual world that conforms to the needs of Western civilization and is particularly suited to anyone immersed in the scientific life of the West.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VIII","site_heading":"Western Spiritual Science: Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition","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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Und ich zeigte, wie zunächst versucht wurde, statt durch das Wort dasjenige zu hören, was der Mitmensch uns sagen will, was wir an ihm verstehen wollen, statt durch das Wort also zu verstehen, in dem Worte zu leben. Dieses In-demWorte-Leben wurde dann noch dadurch verstärkt, daß man die Worte gestaltete zu gewissen Sprüchen, in denen man lebte, die man wiederholte, so daß die Kraft der Seele, die gewonnen wurde durch dieses Leben in den Worten, sich durch die Wiederholung noch verstärkte. Und ich zeigte, wie auf diese Art etwas erreicht wurde im Seelenzustand, den man den der Inspiration in dem von mir charakterisierten Sinne nennen könnte, nur daß die Weisen der alten orientalischen Welt eben ihrer Rasse angehörten, das Ich-Bewußtsein bei ihnen weit weniger entwickelt war als in der späteren Zeit der Menschheitsentwickelung und sie daher in einer mehr instinktiven Art sich so hineinlebten in die geistige Welt. Und weil das Ganze instinktiv war, also gewissermaßen einem gesunden Trieb der menschlichen Natur entsprang, so konnte es auch in den ältesten Zeiten nicht zu den pathologischen Schädigungen führen, von denen wir auch zu sprechen hatten. In den späteren Zeiten wurden dann von den sogenannten Mysterien Maßnahmen ergriffen gegen das Hereinbrechen solcher Schädigungen, wie ich sie Ihnen zu charakterisieren versucht habe. Ich habe nun gesagt, daß diejenigen, die innerhalb der abendländischen Zivilisation zu einem Ergreifen der geistigen Welt kommen wollen, dies anders machen müssen. Die Menschheit ist mittlerweile fortgeschritten. Andere Kräfte der Seele haben sich entwickelt, und man kann nicht einfach etwa den alten orientalischen Geistesweg heute wieder erneuern. Man kann nicht in vorhistorische Zeiten oder in frühere historische Zeiten der Menschheitsentwickelung im Gebiete des Geisteslebens reaktionär zurückkehren wollen. Für die abendländische Zivilisation ist der Weg in die übersinnlichen Welten der der Imagination. Nur muß diese Imagination ganz in das übrige Seelenleben organisch hineingestellt werden. Und dies kann in der mannigfaltigsten Weise geschehen, wie ja auch schließlich der orientalische Geistesweg nicht in ganz eindeutiger Weise vorausbestimmt war, sondern wie er in der mannigfaltigsten Weise gegangen werden konnte. Ich will heute den Weg in die geistige Welt, wie er der abendländischen Zivilisation angemessen ist, so schildern, wie ihn etwa am besten gehen könnte derjenige, welcher durch das wissenschaftliche Leben des Abendlandes hindurchgeht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":448,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/322/1920-10-03_02/p003"}],"english":["GA 322/1920-10-03_02/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":448,"en_words":431,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6201,"original_word_count":6102,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Frederick Amrine and Konrad Oberhuber","identified_edition":"AP1983","book_title":"The Boundaries of Natural Science","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA322/English/AP1983/19201003p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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