{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-02-07/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today, from the great wealth of what the soul must do to strengthen its life so that imagination can become spiritual vision, I would like to highlight just a few things. I would like to refer to what I have recently emphasized in my latest book, “Von Seelenrätseln” (The Riddle of the Soul), the sequel to my book “Vom Menschenrätsel” (The Riddle of Man): that when human beings engage in their ordinary soul life in science, they come to certain so-called limits of knowledge. These limits of knowledge can confront us precisely when we become acquainted with the worldview of profound minds. If I may mention something personal here, I must say that thirty to thirty-five years ago, what led me to the particular direction of spiritual science that I pursue here was, in particular, the experiences I had with the worldviews of people for whom knowledge is not an external profession, not something learned, but something that constitutes the innermost part of their soul life, their entire longing and feeling. For example, when one encounters the words of Friedrich Theodor Vischer, a thinker who is no longer sufficiently appreciated today—but I could also cite many others—words that he draws from deep mysteries of knowledge that came to him as he pondered the connection between the body and soul of human beings, words such as: The soul of man cannot be in the body, but neither can it be outside the body — then, in lively connection with an original, elementary thinker, one encounters such limits as the human soul must reach if it wants to engage in cognitive activity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Wenn ich etwas Persönliches hier anführen darf, so muß ich sagen, daß vor dreißig bis fünfunddreißig Jahren dasjenige, das mich selbst zu der besonderen Richtung der Geisteswissenschaft, die ich hier pflege, hingeführt hat, insbesondere die Erlebnisse waren, die ich an den Weltanschauungen solcher Menschen machen konnte, denen Erkenntnis nicht ein äußerer Beruf ist, nicht etwas Angelerntes, sondern etwas, was das Innerste ihres Seelenlebens, ihres ganzen Sehnens und Empfindens ausmacht. Wenn man zum Beispiel bei einem heute gar nicht mehr genug gewürdigten Denker, Friedrich Theodor Vischer - aber ich könnte auch viele andere anführen — auf Worte stößt, die er hervorringt aus tiefen Erkenntnisrätseln, die ihm gekommen sind, als er nachgesonnen hat über den Zusammenhang zwischen Leib und Seele des Menschen, auf Worte wie die: Die Seele des Menschen kann nicht im Leibe sein, aber sie kann auch nicht außerhalb des Leibes sein —, dann stößt man in lebendigem Zusammenhang mit einem ursprünglichen, elementarischen Denker an solche Grenzen, an die das menschliche Seelenleben, wenn es sich erkenntnismäßig betätigen will, kommen muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":262,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/67/1918-02-07/p013"}],"english":["GA 67/1918-02-07/p013"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":262,"en_words":270,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8485,"original_word_count":8069,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2018","book_title":"The Eternal in the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA067/English/SOL2018/19180207p01.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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