{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69a/1911-02-24/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Then we may say, if the human being falls asleep in the evening, the whole human being does not exhaust himself in that which lies in the bed, but the core of the human being, the spiritual-mental, has left this outer cover. This core has no organs in the normal consciousness, but it has received spiritual-mental organs by the soul exercises characterised just now by which he feels moved into a new world. The real experience in the spiritual-mental is thereby given; a new world of observation is thereby given, and then from these elementary facts of spiritual experience we ascend to the highest facts. Now there are such single persons who do exercises full of renunciation to develop their souls as tools. If then these persons tell some people who are interested in such matters what they have found out in other states of consciousness, these believe it. With someone who becomes familiar with theosophy only cursorily it is comprehensible if he believes this, because if one knows only that which exists on the surface of life, it is exceptionally difficult to form an idea of how this spiritual science is practised. Hence, it is comprehensible that most people misjudge it. I have to emphasise this. One can understand that such persons only believe those revelations of the spiritual world that one attains in the described way. For most educated people it immediately suggests itself to regard such persons as daydreamers, romanticists, and sectarians.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-02-24","location":null,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69a/1911-02-24/p010","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2017","book_title":"Truths and Errors in Spiritual Research","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069a/English/eLib2017/19110224p01.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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Nun gibt es solche einzelne Menschen, die entsagungsvolle Übungen machen, um ihre Seele selber zu einem Werkzeug zu gestalten. Wenn diese dann vor einen kleinen Kreis von Menschen treten, der sich interessiert für solche Sachen, und ihnen erzählen, was sie in anderen Bewußtseinszuständen erfahren haben, dann glauben diese es. Bei demjenigen, der sich nur oberflächlich bekannt macht mit der Geistesströmung der Theosophie, ist es durchaus begreiflich, wenn er das glaubt, denn wenn man nur das kennt, was an der Oberfläche des Lebens vorhanden ist, ist es außerordentlich schwierig, sich eine Vorstellung zu bilden von der Art, wie diese Geistesströmung betrieben wird. Daher ist es durchaus begreiflich, wenn sie in den weitesten Kreisen verkannt wird. Das muß betont werden. Begreiflich ist es, daß solche Menschen nur den Offenbarungen aus der Geisteswelt glauben, die auf die geschilderte Weise gewonnen sind. Daß solche Menschen Phantasten, Träumer, Schwärmer, Sektierer sind, das zu glauben ist etwas ungeheuer Naheliegendes, und man möchte sagen, für die Mehrzahl der Gebildeten der Gegenwart etwas geradezu Selbstverständliches. Nur verkennt man eine ganz bestimmte Tatsache: Zum Forschen in der Geisteswelt, zum Aufsuchen der geistigen Wahrheiten gehört die entwickelte Seele, das entwickelte andere Bewußtsein. 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