{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68d/1907-07-02/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Many people consider it a kind of immodesty to say that there is more to know about the human being and the world. They ask: How do you know these things? You cannot know them, because there are limits to our knowledge! — I quote here a saying of a great German thinker, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, who in 1811 discussed before a large audience the same thing that Theosophy will have to discuss again and again: what underlies the human being as the invisible. Fichte says: If you imagine that you are the only one who can see in a world of blind people, and you talk to them about shapes and colors, about all the marvels that the eye transmits to us, then these blind people might say that this is all imaginary stuff. But the moment you are able to give all these blind people the ability to see, they see a new world, everything that the one spoke to them about is then standing before them. The blind man then realizes that he had no right to say that there are no forms, no colors. — In the same sense, Theosophy speaks of higher worlds. These are not new worlds, they are all around us, we are in the midst of them, only man lacks the organs, the abilities to perceive them. – Theosophy says: the world that our physical senses perceive is not the only one; we can expand our perceptions, can perceive other worlds. – They do not lie in an incomprehensible beyond, not in a cloud cuckoo land, but around us. Theosophy does not speak of these worlds in a magical sense, but in the same sense as Johann Gottlieb Fichte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. The Essence of the Human Being","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-07-02","location":null,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68d/1907-07-02/p016","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068d/English/SOL2024/19070702p01.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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Du kannst sie nicht wissen, denn es gibt Grenzen in unserer Erkenntnis! — Ich führe da ein Wort eines großen deutschen Denkers an, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, der 1811 vor einer großen Schar von Zuhörern dasselbe besprach, was die Theosophie immer wieder wird besprechen müssen: was als Unsichtbares dem Menschen zugrunde liegt. Fichte sagt: Wenn man sich vorstellt, man sei der einzig Sehende in einer Welt von Blinden, man spräche diesen von Formen und Farben, von all den Herrlichkeiten, die das Auge uns überliefert, dann könnten diese Blinden sagen, das sei alles zusammenphantasiertes Zeug. In dem Augenblick aber, wo man imstande sei, all diesen Blinden das Sehvermögen zu geben, dann sehen sie eine neue Welt, alles das, wovon der eine ihnen gesprochen, das steht dann vor ihnen. Der Blinde sieht dann ein, dass er kein Recht gehabt hat, zu sagen, es gibt keine Formen, keine Farben. — In demselben Sinne spricht die Theosophie von den höheren Welten. Das sind keine neuen Welten, sie sind um uns herum, wir sind inmitten derselben, nur fehlen dem Menschen die Organe, die Fähigkeiten, sie wahrzunehmen. — Die Theosophie sagt: Die Welt, die unsere physischen Sinne wahrnehmen, ist nicht die einzige; wir können unsere Wahrnehmungen erweitern, können noch andere Welten wahrnehmen. — Nicht in einem unfassbaren Jenseits, nicht in einem Wolkenkuckucksheim liegen sie, sondern um uns herum. Nicht in einem Zaubersinn spricht die Theosophie von diesen Welten, sondern in demselben Sinn wie Johann Gottlieb Fichte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1907-07-02/p016"}],"english":["GA 68d/1907-07-02/p016"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":269,"en_words":287,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6665,"original_word_count":6370,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068d/English/SOL2024/19070702p01.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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