{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-10-31/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And how does spiritual science imagine this supersensible world? Not any differently than [one has to imagine] colors and light for the blind. Imagine that you have a congenitally blind person below you. That which is around you, colors and light, is also around him, but he does not see it. For him, the world is what he can feel; for him, the world is [as for you, the world is the world of light and colors]. But if we could operate on this man born blind at this moment, so that he would see, out of the darkness that was around him, the lights and colors would light up, [and the world that was not there for him before. Why is it there now? We see that he has now formed it out of the physical.]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"32. 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Denken Sie sich, Sie haben unter sich einen Blindgeborenen. Das, was um Sie herum ist, Farben und Licht, ist auch um ihn herum, er sieht es nicht. Für ihn ist die Welt das Getastete, was er fühlen kann, ist für ihn die Welt [wie für Sie die Welt ist die Welt des Lichts und der Farben]. Könnten wir aber diesen Blindgeborenen in diesem Augenblicke operieren, dass er sehen würde, aus dem Dunkel, das um ihn herum war, würden aufleuchten die Lichter und die Farben, [und die Welt, die früher nicht für ihn da war. Weshalb ist sie jetzt da? 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