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It exercises self-knowledge if you look at it as worldly wisdom without crossing the threshold. But there is a direct path from this self-knowledge, if it is energetically carried out, really into the world, to which attention was drawn yesterday. For the one who is left with no play on words by what has been described, who experiences it inwardly, with inner pain, who experiences it with all his energy, who has warmth for what happens in the world, who cannot stand coldly before the world, such a person, in this self-inspection, will experience one of the meditations that were pointed out yesterday. Because such introspection is an important kind of meditation. If it is done often, then something arises that is similar to the imagination that was shown yesterday, but such an imagination that refers to ourselves. And what then arises as a result of the introspection of ordinary life, if one takes introspection that far – what then arises is: one sees how one is in one's own being. Before, you only knew your opinion, but now you see how far you have brought each part of the soul that lies below your conscious life, that goes from life to life, in the present life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69e/1913-01-03/p025","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069e/English/SOL2024/19130103p01.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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In ordinary life, our own nature veils the spiritual world from us; at the moment we want to enter the spiritual world, we have to have the aforementioned encounter with the Guardian of the Threshold, we have to objectively face our own being, which we now face in a reincarnated being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":150,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69e/1913-01-03/p026","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069e/English/SOL2024/19130103p01.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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It is only when one has one's own beingness before one that one feels that it is that which, if not faced and recognized, would prevent one from ever entering into truth into the spiritual world. We only see the spiritual world clearly when we have placed this Guardian of the Threshold within us, when we contemplate him as another being, that is, when we have been reborn. Only then can we judge how what we have been up to now is the source of all error.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":223,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69e/1913-01-03/p027","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069e/English/SOL2024/19130103p01.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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But when you look at yourself, when this peculiarity has become something like an object of the external world, then the evil temptation approaches us, that we are seized by an infinite love for our self - and never is the spiritual researcher more in danger of falling into error than now. Therefore, it takes all courage to tear all self-love out of the heart from this moment on; one must tear it out of the heart if one wants to fight errors.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69e/1913-01-03/p028","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069e/English/SOL2024/19130103p01.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 es führt ein gerader Weg von dieser Selbsterkenntnis, wenn sie energisch durchgeführt wird, wirklich in die Welt hinein, auf die gestern aufmerksam gemacht wurde. Denn derjenige, dem nicht ein Spiel mit Begriffen bleibt, was beschrieben worden ist, der es innerlich erlebt, mit innerlichem Schmerz, derjenige, der das mit aller Energie erlebt, der Wärme hat für das, was in der Welt geschieht, wer nicht kalt der Welt gegenüberstehen kann, ein solcher Mensch, der wird gerade in dieser Selbstschau eine von den Meditationen erleben, auf die gestern hingewiesen worden ist. Denn solch eine Selbstschau ist eine wichtige Art von Meditation. Wenn sie oft angestellt wird, dann tritt vor uns etwas auf, das so geartet ist wie die Imagination, die gestern gezeigt wurde, aber [eine] solche Imagination, die sich auf uns selbst bezieht. Und was dann auftritt als eine Folge der Selbstschau des gewöhnlichen Lebens, wenn man die Selbstschau so weit bringt —, was dann da auftritt, ist: Man sieht, wie man ist im eigenen Wesen. Vorher hat man nur seine Meinung gekannt, jetzt sieht man, wie weit man jeden Teil der Seele, der unter dem bewussten Leben liegt, der von Leben zu Leben geht - wie weit man ihn im jetzigen Leben gebracht hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69e/1913-01-03/p025"},{"locus":"GA 69e/1913-01-03/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Das ergibt sich dann aus der geistigen Welt selbst heraus. Da kommt man darauf, was man als Mensch eigentlich ist; darauf ist man im gewöhnlichen Leben nie gekommen. Wir beschäftigen uns nur schr selten mit uns selbst, wenn wir aber in uns hinuntersteigen, dann treten wir geistig vor uns selbst hin. Diese Selbsterkenntnis ist das, was wir genannt haben «die Begegnung mit dem Hüter der Schwelle». Denn das, was in dem Teil der Seele ruht, der von Leben zu Leben geht, das zeigt sich nicht im gewöhnlichen Leben, und solange es sich nicht zeigt, können wir nicht in die geistige Welt hinein. Im gewöhnlichen Leben verhüllt uns unsere eigene Natur die geistige Welt; im Augenblick, wo wir in die geistige Welt eintreten wollen, müssen wir die genannte Begegnung mit dem Hüter der Schwelle haben, müssen unserer eigenen Wesenheit objektiv entgegentreten, der wir nun in einem wiedergeborenen Sein gegenüberstehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69e/1913-01-03/p026"},{"locus":"GA 69e/1913-01-03/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Da kommen wir dazu, die Tiefe unseres eigenen Wesens, die uns im Leben erspart blieb, zu schauen, und man darf sagen: Wohltätig ist diese Welteinrichtung, dass dieser Hüter der Schwelle sich verbirgt für das gewöhnliche Leben, denn Sie können sich leicht denken, dass der Mensch nicht immer stark genug ist, dasjenige, was er am meisten lieben muss, aufzugeben; Furcht und Schrecken vor sich selbst sozusagen würde den Menschen, der nicht vorbereitet und reif ist für die wahre Selbstschau, befallen in einem Maße, die sein inneres Seelenleben in Ungleichmäßigkeit bringen müsste. Daher verläuft alle wirkliche Schulung zu dem Weg in die geistige Welt hinein so, dass der Schüler vor der Begegnung mit dem «Hüter der Schwelle» reif gemacht wird dazu. Dass man das ausspricht, was soeben ausgesprochen wurde, kann niemals in Furcht versetzen. Erst wenn man die eigene Wesenheit vor sich hat, fühlt man, dass sie dasjenige ist, was einen hindern würde, wenn man sie nicht neben sich hätte und anschauen würde, jemals in die geistige Welt in Wahrheit einzutreten. Wahr sehen wir die geistige Welt erst dann, wenn wir diesen Hüter der Schwelle aus uns gestellt haben, wenn wir ihn betrachten als eine andere Wesenheit, das heißt wiedergeboren sind; dann können wir erst beurteilen, wie das, was wir bisher waren, die Quelle aller Irrtümer ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69e/1913-01-03/p027"},{"locus":"GA 69e/1913-01-03/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Dann tritt die große, gewaltige Tatsache vor uns auf, die sich in die Frage formulieren lässt: Woher stammen die Irrtümer der Geistesforschung? Sie stammen von dem, was wir persönlich sind; das ist vermischt mit Wahrheit und Irrtum. Wir können diese erst sondern, wenn wir uns objektiv betrachten können. Erst wenn wir in der Welt, in die wir hineinschauen, uns selbst drinnen haben, dann finden wir den Weg, um die Irrtumsmächte zu bekämpfen. Da liegt aber noch eine Schwierigkeit vor, denn das Gefühl, dem Nichts gegenüberzustehen, erhöht sich dann noch, wenn man in die geistige Welt hineintritt. Solange man in irgendeiner Weise mit der äußeren Welt zusammenhängt, so lange ist immer wieder diese äußere Welt die Ursache, dass man noch zu stark seine Eigenheit liebt. Dann aber, wenn man vor sich sieht, wenn diese Eigenheit etwas wie ein Ding der Außenwelt geworden, dann tritt die arge Versuchung an uns heran, dass wir von einer unendlichen Liebe ergriffen werden zu unserem Selbst - und nie ist der Geistesforscher mehr in Gefahr, in Irrtum zu fallen, als jetzt. Daher gehört aller Mut dazu, von diesem Augenblick an alle Selbstliebe aus dem Herzen zu reißen; man muss sie aus dem Herzen reißen, wenn man Irrtümer bekämpfen will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":203,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69e/1913-01-03/p028"}],"beads":[{"from":[25],"to":[25],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[26],"to":[26],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[27],"to":[27],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[28],"to":[28],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}