{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-03-14/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The first stage or *study*, suggests to many something dry and pedantic. But in this case what is meant has nothing to do with erudition in the usual sense. One need not be a scholar to be an initiate. Spiritual knowledge and scholarship have no close connection. What is here meant by study is something rather different, but absolutely essential; and no genuine teacher of Rosicrucianism will guide the pupil to the higher stages if the student has no aptitude for what this first stage demands. It requires the student to develop a thinking that is thoroughly sensible and logical. This is necessary if the pupil is not to lose the ground under his feet at the higher stages. From the start it must be made clear that, unless all inclination towards fantasy and illusion is overcome, it is all too easy to fall into error when striving to enter spiritual realms. A person who is inclined to see things in a fanciful or unreal light is of no use to the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Who are the Rosicrucians?","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-03-14","location":null,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-03-14/p031","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19070314p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"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/55/1907-03-14/p031"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-03-14/p031","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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Durch das Studium soll sich der Schüler ein völlig vernünftiges, ganz und gar logisches Denken aneignen, ein Denken, welches ihn davor bewahrt, beim Durchgang durch die folgenden Stufen — wie das leicht sein könnte — den Boden unter den Füßen zu verlieren. Es muß durchaus festgehalten werden, daß derjenige, der eintreten soll in die geistige Welt, sie vorher kennenlernen soll, da sie in manche Irrpfade hineinführen kann, welcher Gefahr er nur dann entgeht, wenn er alles Phantastische, alles Unlogische, alles, was irgendwie unvernünftig sein könnte, vor allen Dingen abgelegt hat. Ein Phantast, der sich Vorstellungen über allerlei Unwirkliches macht, ist nicht zu gebrauchen für die geistige Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-03-14/p024"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-03-14/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":192,"en_words":174,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 55/1907-03-14/p024"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.87,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7578,"original_word_count":8755,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19070314p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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