{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-03-21/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Attempts to explain the nature of dream simply by using methods and sources available to external science will always be in vain, because there is nothing with which the dream can truly be compared. It occurs in the ordinary world as a kind of miraculous happening. That is the essential point. The spiritual investigator alone is in the position of being able to compare the dream with something else. And why? It is because he himself knows what is revealed to him when he is able to penetrate into the spiritual world. He realises that the ordinary logic holding good for explanations of the outer life of sense, no longer avails. Those who rise into the spiritual world must be capable of expressing in images what is experienced in that world. That is why I have called the first stage of knowledge of the spiritual world, ‘Imaginative Cognition’. At that stage it is realised that the images themselves are not the reality but that through the images the reality is brought to expression. These images must, of course, be shaped in accordance with the true laws revealed by the spiritual world and not be the outcome of arbitrary phantasy. The spiritual investigator learns to know—quite apart from the physical world of sense—how one idea or mental picture is related to another, how images are given shape. This first stage of knowledge of the spiritual world is then capable of being compared with the unconscious activity at work in dreams. There a comparison is possible, and moreover something else comes to light as well.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. 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Da nimmt er wahr, daß er nicht mehr mit der gewöhnlichen Logik auskommt — wir haben es auch heute wieder erwähnt -, die für die Erklärung des äußeren Sinneslebens gilt. Derjenige, der in die geistige Welt aufsteigt, muß das freie Vermögen bekommen, die Erlebnisse der geistigen Welt in Sinnbildern auszudrücken. Daher habe ich auch im letzten Vortrage die erste Stufe des Erkennens der geistigen Welt die «imaginative Erkenntnis» genannt. Man weiß dann allerdings, daß die Sinnbilder nicht die Wirklichkeit sind, aber man weiß, daß man durch die Sinnbilder die Wirklichkeit zum Ausdruck bringt. Diese Sinnbilder müssen natürlich nach den sich aus der geistigen Welt ergebenden wahren Gesetzen geformt sein, sie dürfen nicht durch wilikürliche Phantasie entstehen. Der Geistesforscher lernt erkennen, wie man — abgesehen von der physisch-sinnlichen Welt — Vorstellungen aneinanderbindet, lernt erkennen, wie man Sinnbilder schafft. 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