{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 53/1904-12-15/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Finally, one cannot expect the soul eyes to open immediately. A person who combats rage, anger, curiosity and other negative qualities, is first of all removing hindrances that walled up his soul. Ever and again must this effort be repeated. A clairvoyant person can evaluate to what extent the delicate soul organs are emerging. When human utterances have lost their edge and have become kind and filled with understanding for fellowmen, the spiritual organ located in the vicinity of the larynx is awakened. It takes long practice, however, before a person becomes aware of this himself. It took millions of years for the physical eye to develop in man, from tiny pin-points to early beginnings of a lens to the complicated structure of the eye. The soul eye does not take as long. It requires several months in one, longer in another person. One must have patience. The moment when these delicate soul structures first begin to perceive comes to everybody sooner or later. That is, if a person continues the exercises and particularly if he develops certain virtues, which sometimes the hardships of life itself can develop. There are three virtues in particular that must be developed that nearly turn man into a clairvoyant. Only they must he practiced with the necessary intensity and emphasis. They are: Self-confidence paired with humility, self-control paired with gentleness, and presence of mind coupled with perseverance. There are the great levers of spiritual development.. The three first-mentioned virtues, however, will lead to dreadful vices if they are not each coupled with the three other virtues, humility, gentleness and perseverance.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Inner Development of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-12-15","location":null,"word_count":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/53/1904-12-15/p029","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":"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/p029","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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Wer Zorn, Ärger, Neugierde und so weiter bekämpft, der schafft zunächst nur Hindernisse hinweg, die sich wie Dämme vor seine Seele gelegt haben. Das muß immer wiederholt werden. Immer neue Anstrengungen sind zu machen. Der Okkultist kann beurteilen, wie die zarten Gebilde sich herausentwickeln. Wenn die menschlichen Worte das «Verwunden verlernt» haben, wenn sie nicht mehr scharf und spitzig sind, wenn sie milde geworden sind, um den Menschen mit Verständnis zu erfassen, dann erwacht das Chakram am Kehlkopf. Der Mensch muß aber lange üben, bis das für die eigene Persönlichkeit wahrnehmbar ist. Im Menschen wurde durch die Natur erst ein Augenpunkt, dann die ersten Ansätze zu einer Linse gebildet, und ganz langsam und allmählich hat sich das physische Auge in Millionen von Jahren entwickelt. Das Seelenauge braucht nicht so lange. Bei dem einen dauert es wenige Monate, bei dem anderen längere Zeit. Geduld muß man haben. Einmal kommt bei jedem der Augenblick, wo diese zarten Gebilde anfangen zu sehen, und dann, wenn der Mensch in entsprechender Weise diese Übungen fortsetzt, namentlich wenn er gewisse Tugenden entwickelt, die zuweilen auch das Leben eines geprüften Menschen in dem Menschen entwickeln können, drei Tugenden gibt es, die er da noch entwickeln muß, und die ihn fast zum Seher machen. Sie müssen nur in gehöriger Stärke, mit Intensität geübt werden: Selbstvertrauen mit Demut, Selbstbeherrschung mit Milde und Geistesgegenwart gepaart mit Standhaftigkeit. Das sind die großen Hebel in der Entwickelung der geistigen Organe. Die drei Tugenden führen aber zu entsetzlichen Untugenden, wenn sie nicht gepaart sind mit den drei anderen Tugenden, mit Demut, Milde und Standhaftigkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":273,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/53/1904-12-15/p024"}],"english":["GA 53/1904-12-15/p029"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":273,"en_words":266,"ratio":0.97,"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/p024"],"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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