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Whoever continues such an inner concentration of thoughts for a sufficient length of time – a sufficient length of time does not mean a few hours, but weeks, years, in repeated inner activity – whoever continues this for a sufficient length of time, walks a path in his soul that ultimately leads him to experience a reality. Just as in ordinary observation one starts from reality and progresses to soul experience, so in spiritual research one starts from concentrated inner experiences and arrives at a new spiritual reality. This new spiritual reality cannot be made inward. What can be made inward is merely preparation for spiritual observation. This spiritual reality must approach man at the end of the path of preparation. While knowledge is otherwise acquired as a result of looking at external reality, in spiritual research reality is attained on the basis of inwardly working, inwardly active knowledge. No one can somehow inwardly do in the spirit what he then comes to. 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Wer eine solche innere Gedankenkonzentration genügend lange - genügend lange bedeutet nicht ein paar Stunden, sondern wochen-, jahrelang, in wiederholter innerer Tätigkeit -, wer das genügend lange fortsetzt, der geht einen Weg in seiner Seele, der ihn zuletzt dazu führt, eine Wirklichkeit zu erleben. Wie man im gewöhnlichen Anschauen von der Wirklichkeit ausgeht und zum Seelenerleben fortschreitet, so geht man beim Geistesforschen von den konzentrierten inneren Erlebnissen aus und gelangt zu einer neuen geistigen Wirklichkeit. Diese neue geistige Wirklichkeit kann man nicht innerlich machen. Das, was man innerlich machen kann, ist lediglich Vorbereitung zum geistigen Anschauen. Diese geistige Wirklichkeit, die muss am Ende des Vorbereitungsweges an den Menschen herantreten. Während das Wissen also sonst als Folge erlangt wird des Hinschauens auf die äußere Wirklichkeit, wird bei der Geistesforschung die Wirklichkeit erlangt auf Grundlage des innerlich arbeitenden, des innerlich tätigen Wissens. Niemand kann das, wozu er dann kommt, irgendwie innerlich im Geiste machen. 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