{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-03-14/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When someone meets you with a smiling face, you do not stop short at the characteristic contortion of his features, you see beyond the physiognomic expression and recognize that the smile reveals the person's inner life. Likewise you recognize tears to be an expression of inner pain and sorrow. In other words, the outer expresses the inner; through the physiognomy you perceive the depths of soul. A Rosicrucian has to learn this in regard to the whole of nature. As the human face, or the gesture of a hand, is the expression of a person's soul life, so, for the Rosicrucian, everything that takes place in nature is an expression of soul and spirit. Every stone, plant and animal, every current of air, the stars, all express soul and spirit just as do shining eyes, a wrinkled brow or tears. If you do not stop short at today's materialistic interpretation that regards what the Earth-Spirit says in Goethe's Faust as poetic fantasy, but recognize that it depicts reality, then you know what is meant by imaginative knowledge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Who are the Rosicrucians?","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-03-14","location":null,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-03-14/p037","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. 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Dasjenige, was ich imaginatives Denken nenne, sollte man sich erst aneignen, wenn man auf diese Weise strenge innere Gedankennotwendigkeit in sich aufgenommen hat, so daß man einen strengen Wissenskern besitzt. Man kann sonst leicht den Boden unter den Füßen verlieren. Was ist nun imaginatives Denken? Goethe, der in seinem rosenkreuzerischen Gedicht «Die Geheimnisse» gezeigt hat, wie tief er in die rosenkreuzerischen Geheimnisse eingeweiht war, gibt einen Hinweis in einem schönen Spruch des Chorus Mysticus im zweiten Teil des Faust, wo er das Geleitwort gegeben hat: «Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.» Dies wurde überall, wo eine innere rosenkreuzerische Schulung vorhanden war, in systematischer Weise entwickelt. Der Rosenkreuzer mußte fähig werden, durch die ganze Welt zu gehen und neben der logischen Erkenntnis sich die imaginative Erkenntnis derselben anzueignen, diejenige Erkenntnis, die in allem, was um uns herum ist, ein Geistiges, ein Unvergängliches sieht. Wenn Sie einem Menschen gegenübertreten und Sie sehen auf seinem Antlitz ein heiteres Lächeln, dann werden Sie nicht dabei stehenbleiben, nur jene eigentümlichen Windungen im Gesicht, die Physiognomie, die sich Ihrem Auge darbietet, zu beschreiben. Es wird vielmehr Ihre Seele sich klar sein darüber, daß in jenem eigentümlichen Ausdruck der Heiterkeit sich das innere Leben der Seele verrät, ebensowenig wie Sie bei perlenden Tränen dabei stehenbleiben werden, sie zu untersuchen. Sie werden sich klar darüber sein, daß die Tränen der Ausdruck inneren Schmerzes, inneren Leides sind. Das Außere ist Ausdruck des Inneren. Sie sehen in der Physiognomie bis auf den Grund der Seele. Der ganzen übrigen Natur gegenüber muß das der Rosenkreuzerschüler lernen. So wie das menschliche Antlitz und die Bewegung der Hände Ausdrucksmittel sind für das menschliche Seelenleben, so ist alles, was in der Natur vorgeht, Ausdruck eines seelisch-geistigen Lebens. Wie die Geste Ausdruck für unsere Seele ist, so wird für den Rosenkreuzer alles — nicht bloß als poetisches Bild, sondern als tiefe Wirklichkeit —, die ganze Erde um uns herum der Ausdruck seelisch-geistigen Lebens: die Steine, Pflanzen und Tiere, die Sterne, jeder Luftzug. Alles, was um uns herum ist, wird so der Ausdruck von Seelisch-Geistigem, nicht etwa in poetischer Beziehung, sondern in Wirklichkeit, wie das leuchtende Auge, die sich runzelnde Stirne, die perlende Träne physiognomische Ausdrücke innerer Seelenzustände sind. Dann erst wissen Sie, was imaginative Erkenntnis heißt, wenn Ihnen das, was Goethe in seinem Faust vom Erdgeiste sagt, nicht mehr ein poetisches Bild, sondern Wirklichkeit ist, wenn Sie bei dem heutigen materialistischen Sinn unserer Bevölkerung nicht stehenbleiben, sondern bei dem Worte des Erdgeistes Wirklichkeit zu erkennen vermögen, während man heute froh ist, wenn man ein poetisches Bild darin genießen kann:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":432,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-03-14/p028"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-03-14/p035","GA 55/1907-03-14/p036","GA 55/1907-03-14/p037"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":432,"en_words":343,"ratio":0.79,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"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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