{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-03-21/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Certain other conditions must also be fulfilled by one who wishes to be capable of genuine spiritual investigation. The first condition is that the soul must be immune as far as possible from inner passivity. A man who likes to give himself up dreamily to life, to make himself ‘passive’, as the saying goes, in order that in a dreamlike, mystical state the revelations of spiritual reality may flow into him—such a man is ill-adapted to penetrate into the spiritual world. For it must be emphasised that in the realm of true spiritual life the Lord does not give to his own in sleep! On the contrary, what makes a man fit to penetrate into the spiritual world is vigour and activity of mind, zeal in following trains of thoughts, in establishing connections between thoughts seemingly remote from each other, quickness in grasping chains of ideas, a certain love of inner, spiritual activity. This quality is indispensable for genuine spiritual investigation. Mediumistic tendencies and a talent for genuine spiritual knowledge are as different as night from day.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Manifestations of the Unconscious","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-03-21","location":null,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-03-21/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"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/SOL2018/19180321p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Denn das muß schon festgestellt werden: Auf dem Gebiete des eigentlichen geistigen Lebens gibt es der Herr den Seinen nicht im Schlafe! Im Gegenteil, dasjenige, was besonders geeignet macht, in die wirkliche geistige Welt einzudringen, das ist Regsamkeit des Geistes, das ist Aktivität des Geistes, das ist ein gewisser Eifer in dem Verfolgen wirklicher Gedanken, in dem Sichüben an Herstellung von Verbindungen entfernt liegender Gedanken, das ist eine gewisse Regsamkeit in schnellem Ergreifen von Gedankenzusammenhängen, das ist eine gewisse Liebe zur inneren geistigen Aktivität. Zwischen einer medialen Veranlagung und der Veranlagung für wirkliches geistiges Erkennen ist ein Unterschied wie zwischen Tag und Nacht. 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