{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 59/1910-02-10/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we trace out this mystical path, we find that it must lead to what may be called a unity of all experience. For it belongs to the nature of our soul-life that we pass from the multiplicity of sense-perceptions, the flow and ebb of perceptions and feelings and the rich variety of thoughts, to a simplification; for the ego, the centre-point of our life, is always working to create unity in our entire life of soul. It is clear, then, that when the mystic treads the path of soul-experiences, they come before him in such a way that everything manifold and multiple strives towards the unity prescribed by the ego. In all mystics, accordingly, we find an outlook which could be called spiritual monism. When the mystic raises himself to the knowledge that the inner being of the soul has qualities radically different from those found in the external world, he experiences in his inner being the consonance of the soul's kernel with the divine-spiritual ground of the world, which he therefore represents as a unity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. What is Mysticism?","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-02-10","location":null,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/59/1910-02-10/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"C. 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So daß wir uns sagen müssen: Es ist uns ganz erklärlich, daß, wenn der Mystiker die Pfade der Seelenerlebnisse beschreitet, sich ihm diese so darstellen, daß alles Mannigfaltige und alles Viele nach der Einheit hinstrebt, die einfach durch das in unserem Innern lebendige Ich gegeben ist. Daher werden wir bei allen Mystikern eine Weltanschauung ausgeprägt finden, welche man geistigen Monismus nennen könnte, ein Streben nach der Einheit. Und da der Mystiker sich bis zu der Erkenntnis erhebt, daß das innere Seelenwesen Eigenschaften hat, die radikal verschieden sind von den Eigenschaften der äußerlich sich offenbarenden Welt, so erlebt er sozusagen auch in seinem Innern die Gleichartigkeit dessen, was in der Seele als ihr Kern ist, mit dem göttlich-geistigen Weltengrund, den er daher als einen einheitlichen darstellt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/59/1910-02-10/p010"}],"english":["GA 59/1910-02-10/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":224,"en_words":177,"ratio":0.79,"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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