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Therefore, a person seeking mystical development must first of all make the attempt to give up certain formerly held inclinations. Then, new inclinations must be acquired by constantly holding the thought of such inclinations, virtues or characteristics in one's mind. They must be so incorporated into one's being that a person becomes enabled to alter his soul by his own will-power. This must be tried as objectively as a chemical might be tested in an experiment. A person who has never endeavored to change his soul, who has never made the initial decision to develop the qualities of endurance, steadfastness and calm logical thinking, or a person who has such decisions but has given up because he did not succeed in a week, a month, a year or a decade, will never determine anything within himself about these truths.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Inner Development of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-12-15","location":null,"word_count":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/53/1904-12-15/p012","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Origin and Goal of the Human Being","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA053/English/Singles/19041215p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/53/1904-12-15/p012"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/53/1904-12-15/p012","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Wenn Reinkarnation eine Wahrheit ist, dann darf es nicht vergeblich sein, daß gewisse Anstrengungen, die gemacht werden von dem Menschen, eine Wirkung auf seine Seele haben, und diese Wirkungen müssen später Natur werden. Eines der großen Gesetze, die der Mensch aufstellt und intim bei sich selber erproben muß, ist das, was ausgesprochen ist in einer indischen Schrift mit den Worten: Was du heute denkst, das wirst du morgen. — Derjenige, welcher an Reinkarnation glaubt, muß sich klar darüber sein, daß eine Eigenschaft, die er bei sich ausbildet, ein Gedanke, den er sich dadurch einprägt, daß er ihn immer und immer wieder hegt, zu etwas Bleibendem in seiner Seele wird und in dieser Seele immer wieder und wieder erscheinen muß. Daher handelt es sich vor allen Dingen darum, daß der eine mystische Entwickelung Suchende bei sich selbst den Versuch macht, Neigungen, die er vorher gehabt hat, sich abzugewöhnen, sich neue Neigungen anzugewöhnen bloß dadurch, daß er den Gedanken intim hegt und daran anhängt diese Neigung, Tugend oder Eigenschaft, und sie so in sich einverleibt, daß er dadurch imstande ist, durch seinen eigenen Willen seine Seele zu wandeln. Das muß probiert werden genau ebenso, wie ein chemisches Experiment probiert werden muß. Wer niemals versucht hat, seine Seele zu wandeln, wer niemals den ersten Entschluß gefaßt hat, die Eigenschaften der Ausdauer, der Standhaftigkeit, des ruhigen logischen Nachdenkens zu entwickeln und niemals fest dabei geblieben ist - und wenn es ihm in einer Woche nicht gelingt, dann einen Monat, ein Jahr, ein Jahrzehnt darauf verwendet hat —, der kann über diese Wahrheiten nichts bei sich ausmachen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":288,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/53/1904-12-15/p012"}],"english":["GA 53/1904-12-15/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":288,"en_words":275,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5781,"original_word_count":5584,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Origin and Goal of the Human Being","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA053/English/Singles/19041215p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 53/1904-12-15/p012"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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