{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1914-05-08/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We have spoken of an increase in attention. There is something else that is also present between the lines of life, which we can increase indefinitely; that is what we call devotion — devotion as we experience it when we are so completely absorbed by something that we forget everything else around us and live solely with that which demands our devotion. We must devote ourselves passively, while we must be active in our attention. But this devotion must become universal, so to speak, if we want to become spiritual researchers. This must take place in such a way that we develop a mood of the soul that resembles sleep, but is nevertheless opposite to it. All will rests, even that will which expresses itself in the slightest movement of the limbs. All arbitrary thinking rests — perception rests — but the soul is awake, and it is awake in such a way that it is completely devoted to the stream of existence, that it develops that mood of absolute tranquility which the religious person perhaps knows when he is truly devout in prayer, but even the content of a prayer is not indulged in spiritual research — it would put the soul in a certain mood — but, I would say, merely be devoted with one's whole being to the eternal power of existence, which causes forces other than the mere powers of thought to be carried up from the soul. So I will now characterize a second force that we can draw from the realm of soul experience. When I speak to you in this way, I develop my words by directing my thoughts in my brain, so that they take hold of the speech organ. I express what I want to say to you with physical organs. Just as one can emancipate the power of thought from the physical brain organ through concentration, so one can detach the power that in ordinary life pours into the speech organs from the speech organ, and also from the brain, and develop it purely spiritually in complete external, I would say, silence. If one keeps what otherwise flows out into speech within the soul, developing it only inwardly, the unspoken inner word becomes lively, the word that cannot be heard with a physical organ, the word that one hears inwardly, through inner listening to one's own self. And this word, this silent but all the more clearly spiritually speaking word, which is attained through the emancipation of the power of speech from the physical speech organ — this inner word is what one might call the “spiritual outer world.” Just as one is surrounded in the physical world by beings from the mineral, plant, animal, and human kingdoms, so, when one detaches the power of thought and speech from the body, one enters, through inner soul-spiritual experience, a world in which one is surrounded by spiritual beings, spiritual forces, and spiritual processes.","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":492,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p025","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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Aber diese Hingabe, sie muss gewissermaßen eine universelle werden, wenn wir zum Geistesforscher werden wollen. Es muss sich dies so vollziehen, dass wir wieder eine Seelenstimmung entwickeln, die dem Schlafe gleicht, ihm aber doch entgegengesetzt ist. Aller Wille ruht, selbst jener Wille, der sich in der geringsten Regsamkeit der Glieder ausspricht. Alles willkürliche Denken ruht - das Wahrnehmen ruht -, aber wach ist die Seele und wach ist sie so, dass sie ganz hingegeben ist an den Strom des Daseins, dass sie jene Stimmung in absoluter Ruhe entwickle, die vielleicht der Religiöse kennt, wenn er so recht innig fromm im Gebete ist, aber selbst an den Inhalt eines Gebetes gibt man sich in der Geistesforschung nicht hin - er würde die Seele in eine bestimmte Stimmung versetzen —, sondern, ich möchte sagen, bloß hingegeben sein mit seinem ganzen Wesen an die ewige Macht des Daseins, das bewirkt in der Seele, dass andere Kräfte als die bloßen Denkkräfte aus der Seele heraufgetragen werden. So will ich gleich eine zweite Kraft charakterisieren, die wir aus dem Umkreis des seelischen Erlebens herausholen können. Wenn ich so zu Ihnen spreche, entwickle ich meine Worte dadurch, dass meine Gedanken im Gehirn lenken, dass sie ergreifen das Sprachorgan. Mit physischen Organen drücke ich dasjenige aus, was ich zu Ihnen sagen will. Gerade so, wie man durch Konzentration die Denkkraft von dem physischen Gehirnorgan emanzipieren kann, so kann man die Kraft, die im gewöhnlichen Leben in die Sprachorgane sich hineinergießt, von dem Sprachorgan losreißen, auch vom Gehirn, und sie bloß seelisch entwickeln in vollständiger äußerer, ich möchte sagen, Stummheit. Wenn man das, was sonst in das Sprechen ausfließt, in der Seele behält, nur innerlich entwickelt, wird rege das unausgesprochene innere Wort, das Wort, das man nicht mit einem physischen Organ hören kann, das Wort, das man innerlich, durch inneres Zuhören gegenüber dem eigenen Selbst hört. Und dieses Wort, dieses stumme, aber darum umso deutlicher geistig sprechende Wort, zu dem gelangt man durch Emanzipation der Sprachkraft von dem physischen Sprachorgan — dieses innere Wort, in das ergießt sich das, was man «geistige Außenwelt» nennen kann. So wie man in der physischen Welt umgeben ist von Wesenheiten des Mineral-, Pflanzen-, Tier- und Menschenreiches, so gelangt man, wenn man die Denkkraft und die Sprachkraft vom Leibe loslöst, in seelisch-geistigem innerlichen Erleben in eine Welt hinein, in der man umgeben ist von geistigen Wesenheiten, geistigen Kräften und Vorgängen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":480,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p025"}],"english":["GA 69d/1914-05-08/p025"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":480,"en_words":492,"ratio":1.02,"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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