{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69a/1913-02-16/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You have to open yourself to many such images. Then particular experiences appear as pictures, as “imaginations;” they shoot up before us, they face us. With it, you already attain something that you have to treat, however, with caution. Someone who stands on a materialist viewpoint will say rightly, now you have brought it just as far as those who have hallucinations and visions, which are of no value.—Indeed, there is a cliff. People who experience such visions will believe in them like in something real that is much more real than the things that they see with their eyes. There are people who invent the most logical system for their delusions to keep them. There is a term, which explains all that, it is the word “self-love.” Why does the human being believe in these images? Because of self-love; because he himself has developed them; because the person cannot help to identify himself with that which he is internal. A spiritual researcher has to bear this in mind. He has to have such strong will so that he says to himself, what I see is only a reflection of my being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death I","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-02-16","location":null,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69a/1913-02-16/p016","alignment_confidence":"high","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/eLib2017/19130216v01.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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Dann treten ganz bestimmte Erfahrungen und Erlebnisse als Bilder, als «Imaginationen» auf; sie schießen vor uns auf, sie stehen vor uns da. Damit ist schon etwas erreicht, aber etwas, das man mit Vorsicht behandeln muß. Wer auf äußerlichem, materialistischem Standpunkt steht, wird mit Recht sagen: Jetzt habt ihr es gerade soweit gebracht wie diejenigen, die Halluzinationen und Visionen haben und aus der Seele etwas heraufholen, was nichts wert ist. - Da ist in der Tat eine Klippe. Die Menschen, die solche Visionen erleben, werden an sie glauben wie an etwas Wirkliches, viel wirklicher als die Dinge, die sie mit Augen sehen. Es gibt Menschen, die für ihre Wahnvorstellungen das logischste System ausdenken, um sie sich zu erhalten. Es gibt eine Bezeichnung, die das alles erklärt, die liegt in dem Wort «Selbstliebe». Warum glaubt der Mensch an diese Vorstellungen? 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