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Those who develop this thinking, which springs from the inner source of the soul and is certain of itself, have a reliable guide even beyond that boundary where it is difficult to distinguish between the physical and the superphysical. With sound thinking, one can cross the abyss that opens up there. If one sails without sound thinking and says: You give me only thoughts; but the power of a god lives within me, why should I not be able to ascend to the higher worlds? — I can only reply: Those who speak thus have no idea what it is like in the higher worlds, where we are not guided by the outer world, where we must have the guide within us if we are not to go astray.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Initiation or Consecration","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-11-28","location":null,"word_count":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-11-28/p028","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Knowledge of Soul and Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA056/English/eLib2015/19071128p01.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/56/1907-11-28/p028"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-11-28/p028","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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Der Mensch, der sich das gesunde Denken aneignet, der ein vernünfliger, sicher auf seinen Beinen stehender Mensch ist, der wird nicht entgleisen können, wenn er in die Welten, die hinter der physischen Welt liegen, die für ihn Überraschungen über Überraschungen bieten, hinaufsteigt. Derjenige, der dieses aus dem inneren Quell der Seele schaffende, seiner selbst gewisse Denken bei sich ausbildet, der hat einen sicheren Führer auch über jene Grenze hinüber, wo zwischen dem Physischen und Überphysischen schwer zu unterscheiden ist. Mit gesundem Denken kommt man über den Abgrund, der sich da auftut, hinweg. Segelt man ohne gesundes Denken und sagt: Ihr gebt mir nur Gedanken; in mir aber lebt die Kraft eines Gottes, warum soll ich nicht in die höheren Welten aufsteigen können? — so kann ich nur erwidern: Die so sprechen, haben keine Ahnung, wie es sich ausnimmt in den höheren Welten, wo wir nicht zurechtgerückt werden durch die äußere Welt, wo wir den Führer in uns haben müssen, wenn wir nicht entgleisen sollen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":263,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/56/1907-11-28/p028"}],"english":["GA 56/1907-11-28/p028"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":263,"en_words":266,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8289,"original_word_count":8015,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Knowledge of Soul and Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA056/English/eLib2015/19071128p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 56/1907-11-28/p028"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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