{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 53/1904-12-15/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Still a third aspect must be considered. No occult teacher will ever instruct a person who is filled with superstition or common prejudice, or one who is prone to senseless judgment or apt to fall prey to any illusion. The golden rule applying here is that, before even taking the first step in the direction of higher learning, a person must free himself from any flighty thinking or possibility to mistake illusion for reality. Above all an aspirant for spiritual enlightenment must be a person of common sense wire only devotes himself to disciplined thinking and observations. If a person leans toward prejudice and superstition in the world of sense reality, it soon tends to be corrected by sense reality itself. If, however, a person does not think logically but indulges in fantasies, correction is not so simple. It is essential, therefore, that one have one's thought-life completely in hand and be able to exercise strict control over one's thoughts before ever venturing into soul and spirit worlds. One who easily leans to fantasies, superstitions and illusions is unfit to enter into the schooling prerequisite for spiritual teaching. It would be simple to reiterate that one were free of fantasies, illusion and superstition. But it is easy to deceive oneself here. Freedom from fantasies, illusions, prejudices and superstitions is gained by stern self-discipline. Such freedom is not easily attained by anyone. It must be remembered to what extent most people tend to sloppy, careless thinking and are unable to control their thought-life through their own will-power.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Inner Development of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-12-15","location":null,"word_count":256,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/53/1904-12-15/p016","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/p016"},{"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/p016","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 Sie in der sinnlichen Wirklichkeit sich einem Vorurteil, einem Aberglauben hingeben, dann wird es in der sinnlichen Wirklichkeit bald korrigiert. Wenn der Mensch aber nicht logisch denkt, sondern phantasiert, dann ist die Korrektur nicht so leicht. Daher ist es notwendig, bevor man in die Seelenwelt und in das Geisterland eintritt, völlig sicher in seinem Gedankenleben zu sein und strenge Kontrolle üben zu können in seinen Gedanken. Wer daher leicht zu Phantastik und Aberglaube und zu Illusionen neigt, der ist ungeeignet, in die Vorschule der Geisteslehre zu treten. Es könnte leicht entgegnet werden: Ich bin frei von Phantastik, Aberglaube und Illusion. - Das wird man sich leicht vortäuschen. Freiheit von Vorurteil, von Phantastik und Illusion, und Freiheit von Aberglaube, das sind Dinge, die durch strenge Selbstzucht erworben werden müssen; das sind Dinge, die nicht so leicht für jeden einzelnen Menschen zu haben sind. Man denke, wie die meisten Menschen irrlichtelieren und nicht imstande sind, durch die eigene Macht ihres Willens ihre Gedanken streng zu regeln.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":254,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/53/1904-12-15/p016"}],"english":["GA 53/1904-12-15/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":254,"en_words":256,"ratio":1.01,"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/p016"],"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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