{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 59/1910-02-10/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Is the soul left empty, then, when it exerts itself to forget everything reflected within it from the outer world, to obliterate all impressions and conceptual images drawn from that world? The true mystical experience depends on the fact that the soul has other possibilities, so that when it banishes not only its memories but its feelings of sympathy and antipathy, it still has some content. The mystic feels that impressions of the outer world, with their brightly coloured pictures and their effects on the soul, have the result of suppressing something which exists in the soul's hidden depths. The mystic feels that when he is open to the external world, its life is like a powerful light which outshines and blots out the finer experiences of the soul. But when all impressions from the outer world are erased, the inner spark, as Eckhart calls it, shines forth. He then experiences in the soul something which had previously seemed not to be there, for it was imperceptible in face of the dazzle of the outer world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. What is Mysticism?","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-02-10","location":null,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/59/1910-02-10/p010","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"C. 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So fühlt der Mystiker, daß die Eindrücke der Außenwelt mit den bunten Bildern und ihren Wirkungen auf die Seele, daß diese zunächst das Lebendige sind, was uns hinnimmt in unserem Innenleben; daß die etwas erdrückt haben, was in den geheimen Untergründen der Seele vorhanden ist. Das fühlt der Mystiker. Er sagt sich: Wenn wir dem Außenleben hingegeben sind, dann wirkt dieses Leben in der Außenwelt wie ein starkes, mächtiges Licht, das die feineren, inneren Seelenerlebnisse überleuchtet und auslöscht, wie ein starkes Licht ein geringeres Licht auslöscht. Und dann, wenn wir alle die Eindrücke der Außenwelt tilgen, dann leuchtet auf das sonst überleuchtete innere Fünklein, wie Eckhart sich ausdrückt — dann erfahren wir in unserer Seele nicht ein Nichts, sondern wir erfahren dann in der Seele etwas, was vorher scheinbar nicht vorhanden war, was unwahrnehmbar gewesen ist durch das laute Getöse der Außenwelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/59/1910-02-10/p008"}],"english":["GA 59/1910-02-10/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":221,"en_words":176,"ratio":0.8,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.79,"band":"watch","note":"This witness is somewhat shorter than the original. 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