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When it has developed further and further, it reaches a certain age – this is, of course, a figurative way of speaking – and then it is able to live as pure thinking, which is a further step. This has been demonstrated quite well to you this evening: pure thinking is meditation. Meditation leads to the life of the supersensible world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/73a/1920-03-25/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-03-25","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 73a/1920-03-25/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/73a/1920-03-25/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":116,"en_words":114,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Wenn er sich weiter und weiter entwickelt, so erreicht er ein gewisses Alter - es ist das natürlich bildhaft gesprochen -, so gelangt er dazu, sich als reines Denken ausleben zu können, eine Steigerung wiederum. Das ist Ihnen ja heute abend ganz gut vorgeführt worden: Das reine Denken ist die Meditation. Die Meditation führt in das Leben der übersinnlichen Welt hinein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/73a/1920-03-25/p008"},{"locus":"GA 73a/1920-03-25/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Nun ist schon eine Meditation, überhaupt ein reines Denken, ein wirklich reines Denken, nicht möglich, ohne den Willen weiterzubilden. Dieses reine Denken als Tatbestand am Menschen ist ja nicht anders möglich als durch eine besonders intensive Anstrengung, eine besonders intensive Betätigung des Willens. Alles dasjenige aber, was man betätigt, übt man, bildet man aus. Und es ist eine ganz besondere Ausbildung des Willens, wenn man zum reinen Denken übergeht oder aus dem reinen Denken heraus in die Meditation übergeht. Man kann durchaus sagen: Schon diese ganze Entwicklung des zunächst ja in unklaren Vorstellungen lebenden Menschen zum reinen Denken hin und dann zur Meditation hin, diese ganze Anstrengung ist im wesentlichen Willenserziehung. Daher ist auch schon das, was man nötig hat zum wirklichen Begreifen geisteswissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse, wesentlich eine Willensanstrengung. Und derjenige, der sich bemüht, auf geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse einzugehen, der übt Willensanstrengung, und er übt damit überhaupt seinen Willen. 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