{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 59/1910-02-10/p047","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is true that by developing his soul man attains not only to his own inner being but to the spiritual kingdoms which underlie the outer world. But he must take in full earnest the work of transcending himself, and this must not be confused with a mere brooding within himself just as he is. He must take seriously the words of Angelus Silesius, both the first line and the second. We fail to do this if we withdraw from any aspect of the divine revelation; we let God hold sway only if we are able to sacrifice our inner being to all that can flow into us as revelation from the outer world. If we bring this way of thinking into relation with our spiritual-scientific cognition, we shall be taking the second line in the right sense. We let the divine-spiritual ground of the outer and inner worlds hold sway in us, and only then can we hope that we shall be “on Heaven's way.” This means that we shall come to a spiritual realm which is coloured neither by our own inner world nor by the outer world—a realm which has the same ground as the infinite world of stars shining in on us, as the atmosphere which envelops the earth, as the green plant-cover, as the rivers flowing into the sea; while the same divine-spiritual element lives in our thinking, feeling and willing and permeates our inner and outer worlds.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. What is Mysticism?","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-02-10","location":null,"word_count":243,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/59/1910-02-10/p047","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"C. 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Den lassen wir aber nicht walten, wenn wir uns zurückziehen von irgendeiner Seite der göttlichen Offenbarung, sondern wenn wir vereinigen Inneres und Äußeres als zwei Seiten der göttlich-geistigen Offenbarungen. Wir lassen nicht den Gott wahrhaft walten, wenn wir uns nur zurückziehen von der Außenwelt, sondern wir lassen ihn walten, wenn wir unser Inneres opfern können dem, was uns als Offenbarung der Außenwelt entgegenfließen kann. Wenn wir diese Gesinnung hegen in bezug auf unsere geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnis, dann nehmen wir auch in der richtigen Weise den zweiten Satz des Angelus Silesius: Wir lassen den geistig-göttlichen Grund der Außen- und Innenwelt in uns walten; und dann erst können wir hoffen, daß auch der dritte Teil uns sich erfüllt, daß wir erhoben werden durch eine Himmelfahrt, das heißt, zu einem geistigen Reiche kommen, das weder von unserer Innen-, noch von der Außenwelt gefärbt ist, sondern das gleichen Grundes ist mit all dem, was uns die unendliche Sternenwelt leuchtend von außen entgegenstrahlt, was Luftkreis unsere Erde umgibt, was als Pflanze grünt, was als Wesen die Flüsse durchlebt und die Meere ausfüllt; was aber zu gleicher Zeit als Göttlich-Geistiges lebt, wenn wir denken und sinnen, fühlen und wollen über die Welt, was im Äußeren und im Inneren Göttlich-Geistiges ist. So sehen wir insbesondere an einem solchen Beispiele, daß es nicht genügend ist, daß wir einen Satz wie den des Angelus Silesius hinnehmen, sondern daß wir diesen Satz auf der richtigen Stufe, wo er einzig und allein allseitig und wahr von uns verstanden wird, in uns aufnehmen. Dann werden wir sehen, daß Mystik uns, weil sie den richtigen Kern enthält, wirklich dahin führt, wo wir reif sind, die geistigen Reiche allmählich zu schauen, und daß Mystik im höchsten und wahrsten Sinne dasjenige in uns verwirklichen kann, was in diesem schönen Satze des Angelus Silesius gesucht und entdeckt werden kann:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":415,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/59/1910-02-10/p036"}],"english":["GA 59/1910-02-10/p046","GA 59/1910-02-10/p047","GA 59/1910-02-10/p048"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":415,"en_words":353,"ratio":0.85,"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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