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Such colors as are in the outer sense world can only be perceived by an eye, such tones as are in the outer world can only be heard by a sense-perceptive ear. Nevertheless, one can speak of beholding, of spiritual beholding. One can speak of a soul eye, of a spirit eye, when one approaches the spiritual world from this side, to use Goethe's words, 'spirit eye'. The only difference between this kind of beholding and other forms of seeing is that in true clairvoyance one is always aware that one is evoking the vision oneself. Just as one is aware when writing that one is presenting as reality that which one has seen. But in this self-evocation, one follows an inner reality, a spiritual reality, just as one does not scribble something arbitrary when writing, but expresses an inner reality, albeit an inner reality that belongs to the outer world. This much more active, ever-present inner cooperation with the act of observation is precisely what distinguishes this – I now say: true – inner clairvoyance from the external sense perception that is given to us passively, that approaches us when we hold out the eye to it. But we also only acquire this ability to trace the spiritual world in a spiritual way when we have prepared ourselves so that the spiritual world comes to meet us as a result. Out of this experience the soul then draws the vision, and it has the need to do so because it corresponds to an inner urge to have that which otherwise lives and weaves as an experience, but is not yet reality, as a real picture before it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. 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Wer glaubt, dieses Anschauen könne ihm so aufgehen, daß es gleichsam nur eine nebelartige Wiederholung der Anschauung der Sinnenwelt ist, irrt sich vollständig. Man muß sich vielmehr klar sein, daß alles, was die Sinnenwelt eben zur Sinnenwelt macht, daran liegt, daß wir es mit unseren Organen anschauen. Solche Farben, wie sie in der äußeren Sinneswelt sind, können nur durch ein Auge wahrgenommen werden, solche Töne, wie sie in der äußeren Welt sind, nur durch ein sinnliches Ohr gehört werden. Dennoch kann man von Anschauen, von geistigem Anschauen sprechen. Man kann von einem Seelen-, von einem Geistesauge sprechen, wenn man sich nach dieser Seite hin der geistigen Welt nähert, um dieses Goethe-Wort «Geistesauge» zu brauchen. Nur dadurch unterscheidet sich dieses Anschauen, daß man sich bei einem solchen wahren Hellsehen immer bewußt ist — so wie man sich beim Schreiben bewußt ist, daß man dasjenige, was als Wirklichkeit zum Ausdruck kommen soll, selber als Anschauung hinstellt -, daß man die Anschauung selber hervorruft. Aber bei diesem Selberhervorrufen folgt man einer inneren Wirklichkeit, einer geistigen Wirklichkeit, wie man auch beim Schreiben nicht etwas Beliebiges hinkritzelt, sondern eine innere Wirklichkeit zum Ausdruck bringt, allerdings eine innere Wirklichkeit, die der äußeren Welt angehört. Dieses viel aktivere, immer tätige innere Mitarbeiten mit der Anschauung ist gerade das, was dieses — ich sage jetzt: wahre — innere Hellsehen unterscheidet von der äußeren Sinnenwahrnehmung, die uns passiv gegeben wird, die an uns heranrückt, indem wir ihr das Auge entgegenhalten. Aber auch zu dieser Fähigkeit, die geistige Welt auf geistige Art nachzuzeichnen, kommen wir nur, wenn wir die Vorbereitung getroffen haben, so daß uns die geistige Welt als Ergebnis entgegenkommt. 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