{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1914-05-08/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Everything I have tried to describe is really – I must express it somewhat trivially – a kind of spiritual chemistry. The soul becomes free from the physical body and enters into a new connection, like hydrogen when it is taken out of water. This new connection is the connection with the world in which the soul is actually rooted as in its true home. Of course, someone might say: Well, then it is only the spiritual researcher who can know something about the spiritual world! So one would have to become a spiritual researcher in order to truly settle into this spiritual world. — That is not the case, dear audience. Just as one does not need to be a painter to understand a picture that a painter has made, one does not need to be a spiritual researcher to find what the spiritual researcher explores comprehensible and understandable. Although, as you can see from my books, it is possible for everyone in our time to become a spiritual researcher to a certain extent, it is not necessary to become one. You have to be a painter if you want to paint pictures; you have to be a spiritual researcher to penetrate the spiritual world; but if what is explored in this spiritual world is described, if the right words for this spiritual world can truly be found in the physical world, then what the spiritual researcher has to say can be understood by every soul. And then what the spiritual researcher has to say is truly not like any other theory, but relates to life in a completely different way. One can say: it is not only true that one must be a chemist oneself in order to investigate chemical processes, but not in order to understand what the chemist has researched; just as one does not need to cultivate the field oneself and yet lives off it, just as one does not need to know everything that has to happen to obtain food, and does not have to do the work oneself, yet still enjoy the food. Similarly, what the spiritual researcher has to say—if it is rooted in truth—penetrates to a mysterious language that is present in every soul, truly present in every soul. This language is present in every soul. And if many people today still believe that what the spiritual researcher says is absurd, that it is insane, it is only because these people have acquired prejudices instead of the ability to judge. Once the significance of external science is truly recognized, these prejudices will disappear, and then these mysterious powers of understanding, which already exist in souls today, will come to the fore, and people will understand spiritual science because it strikes secret chords in the human soul that must sound, just as surely as our taste buds develop taste when food is brought to them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. 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Man müsste also ein Geistesforscher werden, um wirklich in diese geistige Welt sich einzuleben. — So ist es nicht, sehr verehrte Anwesende. Geradeso wenig, wie man ein Maler zu sein braucht, um ein Bild zu verstehen, das ein Maler gemacht hat, geradeso wenig braucht man ein Geistesforscher zu sein, um dasjenige begreiflich und verständlich zu finden, was der Geistesforscher erkundet. Obwohl, wie Sie aus meinen Büchern entnehmen können, es in unserer Zeit einem jeden Menschen möglich ist, bis zu einem gewissen Grad ein Geistesforscher zu werden, man braucht es nicht zu werden. Ein Maler muss man sein, wenn man Bilder malen will; ein Geistesforscher muss man sein, um in die geistige Welt einzudringen; wird aber das, was in dieser geistigen Welt erkundet wird, geschildert, gelingt es wirklich, die richtigen Worte in der physischen Welt für diese geistige Welt zu finden, dann kann dasjenige, was der Geistesforscher zu sagen hat, von jeder Seele verstanden werden. Und dann ist wahrhaftig dasjenige, was der Geistesforscher zu sagen hat, nicht so wie irgendeine andere Lehre Theorie, sondern es verhält sich ganz anders zum Leben. Man kann sagen: Nicht, einmal das nur gilt, dass man zwar selbst Chemiker sein muss, um chemische Vorgänge zu untersuchen, aber nicht, um das zu verstehen, was der Chemiker erforscht hat; sondern, wie man nicht selbst den Acker zu bebauen braucht und doch davon lebt, wie man nicht zu wissen braucht, was da alles zu geschehen hat zur Gewinnung der Nahrungsmittel, und nicht die Arbeit selbst tun muss, und doch den Genuss der Nahrungsmittel hat, so dringt das, was der Geistesforscher zu sagen hat - wenn es in der Wahrheit wurzelt, was der Geistesforscher sagt -, zu einer in jeder Seele vorhandenen, wirklich in jeder Seele vorhandenen geheimnisvollen Sprache. Diese Sprache ist in jeder Seele vorhanden. Und wenn heute noch viele Menschen glauben, es sei absurd, es sei wahnwitzig, was der Geistesforscher sagt, so ist es nur deshalb, weil sich diese Menschen nicht Urteilsfähigkeit, sondern Vorurteile angeeignet haben. Wird man einmal wirklich die Bedeutung auch der äußeren Wissenschaft richtig erkennen, dann werden diese Vorurteile verschwinden, und dann werden diese geheimnisvollen Verständniskräfte, die in den Seelen heute schon vorhanden sind, sich hervordrängen, und man wird Geisteswissenschaft verstehen, weil sie geheime Saiten in der menschlichen Seele anschlägt, die ertönen müssen, so wahr ertönen müssen, wie unsere Geschmacksnerven den Geschmack entwickeln, wenn Nahrungsmittel darauf gebracht werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":479,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p033"}],"english":["GA 69d/1914-05-08/p033"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":479,"en_words":483,"ratio":1.01,"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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