{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70a/1914-12-02/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Of course, dear attendees, the objections that can be made from a time-consciousness against such spiritual scientific research are natural, I would say self-evident; in particular, the objection is self-evident that will be raised again and again that what the spiritual researcher experiences cannot have any general objective value, but that they are subjective experiences, that if a person wants knowledge, he must, in principle, define the limits of the cognitive faculty and admit that the supersensible is based on subjective experiences. This objection is very justified because it really applies to the beginning of the path, because the beginning of the path, as long as it is this preparation, involves inner struggles, inner battles, inner soul tragedy that are subjective, that basically only concern the person going through them. But it is quite another matter when one finally arrives at something that one does not evoke from one's own inner being, but which one encounters and which one accepts. Just as one can ascend a mountain by many different routes to reach the summit, but it is only from the summit that one can see all sides, so it is with the spiritual researcher: as long as the spiritual researcher is on his way, things only concern him personally; But when he has confronted spiritual reality, then he stands before an objective, before a real, which is supersensibly so full of content for the spiritual researcher, as the sensible is full of content for the outer observation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. The Human Soul, Destiny and Death from the Point of View of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-12-02","location":null,"word_count":248,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70a/1914-12-02/p014","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":"The Human Soul, Fate and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070a/English/SOL2024/19141202p01.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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Dieser Einwand ist deshalb so sehr berechtigt, weil er wirklich gilt für den Anfang des Weges, weil wirklich der Anfang des Weges, solange diese Vorbereitung ist, innere Überwindungen, innere Kämpfe, innere Seelentragik in sich schließt, die subjektiv sind, die im Grunde genommen nur denjenigen persönlich angehen, der sie durchmacht. Aber etwas anderes ist das, wo man zuletzt ankommt, was man nicht aus seinem Inneren hervorruft, dem man begegnet, das einen hinnimmt. 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