{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1914-05-08/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Those who wish to penetrate the spiritual world must proceed quite differently. I will therefore begin by describing the attitude that must be characteristic of the spiritual researcher. The natural scientist approaches external things and human beings themselves directly with his senses, his power of judgment, and his ordinary powers of cognition, but the spiritual researcher does not initially apply these directly. Everything that is so characteristic of him, with which he otherwise directly confronts the world, the spiritual researcher initially uses to prepare for the actual research. He applies all the thinking he can muster in this soul work, the sharpness of his thinking, the strength of his feelings and sensations, to bring his soul into a state of development, to gradually transform it inwardly into a different being, to make it ripe for what he wants to undertake. And by approaching the development of one's soul in the manner to be described later, one feels quite differently than one feels toward outer life. One feels that when one honestly engages in spiritual research, a shy reverence for the truth arises in the soul; one feels something like the truth hovering in the distance above one, and that one must first approach it. Yes, this mood intensifies more and more, so that the further one progresses in spiritual research, the more one develops the feeling: You must wait. As your soul is now, it is better for you not to approach the exploration of certain questions of spiritual life. Continue to work on your soul, and you will reach a point where you will be more mature, where the questions you want to answer today will be answered.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-05-08","location":null,"word_count":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p012","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":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19140508p01.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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Alles dasjenige, was ihm so zu eigen ist, womit er sich sonst unmittelbar der Welt gegenüberstellt, das verwendet der Geistesforscher zunächst zur Vorbereitung für die eigentliche Forschung. Was er an Denken in dieser Seelenarbeit aufbringen kann, die Schärfe seines Denkens, die Stärke von Fühlen und Empfinden, alles wendet er an, um seine Seele in eine Entwicklung zu bringen, um sie nach und nach innerlich wie zu einem anderen Wesen zu machen, um sie erst reif zu machen für dasjenige, was er unternehmen will. Und indem man in der nachher zu schildernden Weise so an die Entwicklung seiner Seele geht, fühlt man ganz anders, als man dem äußeren Leben gegenüber fühlt. Man fühlt, dass in der Seele, wenn man ehrlich Geistesforschung betreibt, scheue Ehrfurcht vor der Wahrheit erwächst; etwas fühlt man, wie wenn die Wahrheit in Fernen über einem schwebe und man sich ihr erst nähern müsse. Ja, diese Stimmung steigert sich mehr und mehr, sodass man, gerade je weiter man kommt in der Geistesforschung, das Gefühl entwickelt: Du musst warten. So wie deine Seele jetzt ist, so kommt es dir besser zu, dich noch nicht zu nähern der Ergründung gewisser Fragen des geistigen Lebens. Arbeite weiter an deiner Seele, dann wirst du zu einem Standpunkt kommen, wo du reifer sein wirst, wo dir die Fragen, die du heute beantworten möchtest, beantwortet werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p012"}],"english":["GA 69d/1914-05-08/p012"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":279,"en_words":279,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10124,"original_word_count":9939,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19140508p01.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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