{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 62/1913-04-03/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus, where the soul ascends to the realm of imagination, untruthfulness will cause such a soul to reveal nothing from the spiritual worlds but what is only a reflection of its own untruthfulness. Therefore, it is valid, in spite of all training in the spiritual world, that the soul, before entering the imaginative world, must, in preparation for imaginative knowledge, already strengthen itself here in the physical world through what may be called a sense of fact. And it must be emphasized, sharply emphasized, that anything that detracts from the sense of fact cannot provide proper preparation for the contemplation of the spiritual world. It will be a good preparation for anyone who wants to become a spiritual researcher to hold back as much as possible from all merely personal and subjective criticism, from judging things only “from his point of view”, from asserting: “I think that is right”, “I think that is wrong”. Rather, a good preparation for spiritual knowledge is to try, as much as possible and as much as one can, to let go of judging everything only from one's personal point of view, to let go of asserting one's personal subjective point of view; to endeavor to let only the facts of life speak when faced with them. Therefore, we will find that the one who is on the right path to the spiritual world does not present his judgments on things in everything he tells or describes, but lets the things speak for themselves, in that he will endeavor to put together only the facts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"13. Morality in the Light of Spiritual Research","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-04-03","location":null,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/62/1913-04-03/p018","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Results of Spiritual Research","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA062/English/SOL2024/19130403p01.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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Es wird für den, der ein Geistesforscher werden will, eine gute Vorbereitung sein, wenn er sich möglichst zurückhält mit aller bloß persönlichen und subjektiven Kritik, mit allem nur Beurteilen der Dinge «von seinem Standpunkte aus», allem Geltendmachen: «das finde ich richtig», «das finde ich falsch». — Eine gute Vorbereitung für die geistige Erkenntnis ist es vielmehr, wenn man versucht, so gut es geht und so viel es geht, hier in der physischen Welt alles Beurteilen nur vom persönlichen Standpunkte aus, alles Geltendmachen seines persönlichen subjektiven Standpunktes zurücktreten zu lassen; wenn man sich bemüht, den Tatsachen des Lebens gegenüber möglichst nur diese sprechen zu lassen. Daher werden wir denjenigen, der auf dem rechten Pfad ist zur geistigen Welt hin, bemüht finden, in allem, was er erzählt oder schildert, nicht das vorzubringen, was er über die Dinge urteilt, sondern die Dinge für sich sprechen zu lassen, indem er bestrebt sein wird, mehr nur die Tatsachen zusammenzustellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":262,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/62/1913-04-03/p018"}],"english":["GA 62/1913-04-03/p018"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":262,"en_words":260,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8181,"original_word_count":7857,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Results of Spiritual Research","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA062/English/SOL2024/19130403p01.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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