{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 62/1913-04-03/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now another preparation is necessary so that the person does not merely perceive what his own being reveals to him, but so that he gets to know an objective, real world. For this, it is necessary to enhance a very special virtue of the soul. Such things can only be ascertained through experience. Anyone who wants to attain inspiration must develop the virtue of moral courage, steadfastness, and fortitude, in a higher way than is necessary for the ordinary world. For only someone who has moral courage, who does not shy away from anything that may endanger his own personality under certain circumstances, will be able to withstand what speaks to him through inspiration from the spiritual realities. And anyone who has developed too little strength of mind and moral courage before entering the spiritual worlds will very soon notice – or rather, he will not notice it so easily, but others who understand something of the matter will notice it – that although certain things from the spiritual world speak to him, all that speaks to him is only an echo of his own being. Because his soul is not strong enough, because it does not have full support in itself, it cannot keep what it is, but radiates it, and what it itself is comes back to it. A soul that is not prepared for inspiration by moral courage will very soon present itself as one that hears something like 'spiritual voices', but these spiritual voices will be nothing other than what it carries within itself, which is only an echo of its own being. When such a soul then comes up with the fact that it is so, then it will be all the more depressed by what comes to it from the spiritual world. So we see that again an essential quality of the soul, a quality which cannot be denied the moral character, must be strengthened and fortified if this soul wants to penetrate into the supersensible world: moral courage, fortitude. This is necessary as a preparation for real inspiration. From this it can easily be deduced that it is above all necessary to strengthen one's moral courage in the physical world before one wants to become a spiritual researcher, so that the soul can really perceive the revelations of that which is given through imagination, also through inspiration.","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":394,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/62/1913-04-03/p022","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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Denn nur wer moralischen Mut hat, wer nicht vor irgend etwas zurückschreckt, was seine eigene Persönlichkeit unter Umständen gefährden kann, wird demjenigen standhalten können, was aus den geistigen Wirklichkeiten heraus durch Inspiration zu ihm spricht. Und jeder, der zu wenig Starkmut und moralischen Mut entwickelt hat, bevor er in die geistigen Welten eintritt, wird sehr bald bemerken - oder vielmehr wird er es nicht so leicht bemerken, aber die andern, die etwas von der Sache verstehen, werden es bemerken —, daß zwar gewisse Dinge aus der geistigen Welt zu ihm sprechen, aber daß alles dieses, was so zu ihm spricht, nur ein Echo seiner eigenen Wesenheit ist. Weil seine Seele nicht stark genug ist, weil sie nicht in sich selber vollen Halt hat, deshalb kann sie nicht das in sich bewahren, was sie ist, sondern strahlt es aus, und es kommt das zu ihr zurück, was sie selber ist. Eine Seele, die nicht durch moralischen Mut für die Inspiration vorbereitet wird, wird sich sehr bald als eine solche darstellen, die etwas wie «geistige Stimmen» hört, aber diese geistigen Stimmen werden nichts anderes sein als das, was sie selber in sich trägt, was nur ein Echo des eigenen Wesens ist. Wenn dann eine solche Seele dar aufkommt, daß es so Ist, dann wird sie erst recht durch das, was da aus der geistigen Welt zu ihr dringt, niedergeschlagen werden. So sehen wir, daß wiederum eine wesentliche Eigenschaft der Seele, eine Eigenschaft, welcher der moralische Charakter nicht abgesprochen werden kann, verstärkt und befestigt werden muß, wenn diese Seele in die übersinnliche Welt hinaufdringen will: der moralische Mut, der Starkmut. Der ist notwendig als Vorbereitung für die wirkliche Inspiration. Daraus kann nun leicht abgeleitet werden, daß es vor allen Dingen nötig ist, seinen moralischen Mut schon in der physischen Welt zu stärken, bevor man zum Geistesforscher werden will, damit die Seele wirklich die Offenbarungen desjenigen, was durch Imaginationen gegeben wird, auch durch Inspirationen wahrnehmen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":402,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/62/1913-04-03/p022"}],"english":["GA 62/1913-04-03/p022"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":402,"en_words":394,"ratio":0.98,"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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