{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-01-08/p049","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As I said, spiritual science does not want to contradict natural science in any way if it is understood correctly. But the natural scientist who has not yet risen to the right understanding of spiritual science, namely of its world, will now rightly, with full justification - I emphasize it expressly - object: Well, you student of the spirit, what illusions you are laboring under! You believe that through your concentration, through your meditation, you have developed your thinking to such an extent that it can perceive something quite new. You do not know how much unconscious, how much darkness there is in the soul life of man. You take all this with you on your path of thought. Just think how the natural scientist knows or can know how, through the particular dispositions of the nervous system, how through everything that is innate in our nervous system through our inheritance, how through that the human being carries very specific dispositions, of which he knows nothing, thought directions, thought tendencies, how he drags them along. Is it not then quite obvious that if one trains one's thinking, one could also say maltreats it, one then perceives something seemingly new, but in truth only something that has long been waiting in the unconscious, subconscious soul life, and only looks like something new because it has not come to consciousness earlier, has not crossed the threshold of consciousness earlier? And the spiritual researcher must explicitly recognize such factual objections of the natural scientist as justified. And they are even factually justified; because those people who, in an easy way, without the careful way of that which is explained, for example, as the spiritual scientific meditation method in my book “How to Know Higher Worlds”, who want to enter the spiritual world easily, without the careful observation of this method, they very easily come to believe that they are seeing something completely new. They then talk about all kinds of things, but they have nothing before them but their illusions, that which they give birth to out of their own soul, for the simple reason that they do not know that they have had it in their souls before and only now, through their efforts, are bringing it out.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Ways of Knowing the Eternal Powers of the Human Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-01-08","location":null,"word_count":376,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-01-08/p049","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160108p01.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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Denke nur einmal nach, wie es der Naturforscher weiß oder wissen kann, wie durch die besonderen Dispositionen des Nervensystems, wie durch alles dasjenige, was durch unsere Vererbungsverhältnisse unserem Nervensystem wie angeboren ist, wie durch das der Mensch ganz bestimmte Dispositionen, von denen er nichts weiß, Gedankenrichtungen, Gedankenneigungen in sich trägt, wie er diese mitschleppt. Ist es denn da nicht ganz. selbstverständlich, dass man, wenn man also sein Denken gleichsam dressiert, man könnte auch sagen: malträtiert, dass man dann etwas scheinbar Neues zwar wahrnimmt, aber in Wahrheit wirklich nur etwas, was im unbewussten, unterbewussten Seelenleben längst gewartet hat, und nur deshalb als etwas Neues ausschaut, weil es früher nicht zum Bewusstsein gekommen ist, früher nicht die Schwelle des Bewusstseins überschritten hat? - Und der Geistesforscher muss ausdrücklich solche sachlichen Einwände des Naturforschers als berechtigt anerkennen. Und sie sind sogar sachlich berechtigt; denn diejenigen Menschen, die auf leichte Art, ohne die sorgfältige Art desjenigen, was zum Beispiel als die geisteswissenschaftliche Meditationsmethode in meinem Buche «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» ausgeführt ist, die ohne die sorgfältige Beobachtung dieser Methode leicht in die geistige Welt eintreten wollen, die kommen sehr leicht dazu, zu glauben: Sie sehen etwas ganz Neues. Sie erzählen dann von allen möglichen Dingen, aber sie haben nichts vor sich als ihre Illusionen, als dasjenige, was sie aus ihrer eigenen Seele herausgebären, aus dem einfachen Grunde, weil sie nicht wissen, dass sie das schon früher in den Seelen gehabt haben, und es nur jetzt, durch ihre Anstrengungen herausstellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":356,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-01-08/p049"}],"english":["GA 70b/1916-01-08/p049"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":356,"en_words":376,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":11992,"original_word_count":11750,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160108p01.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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