{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 75/1921-06-04_02/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You will then find it absurd if someone compares this activity of the soul, which goes beyond mathematization and is thoroughly permeated by the will, with something hallucinatory or with something subconscious. That is precisely why so much is given to a mathematical preparation for anthroposophy, because it teaches one to recognize how one has a free hand in creating and holding on to ideas in consciousness. And anyone who says that the inner will that anthroposophy aims to achieve could be hallucination, either deliberately or because they are unable to do so, does not fully appreciate the way in which this meditative life is actually pursued, how it is maintained by first placing easily comprehensible ideas into one's consciousness so as not to bring up reminiscences from the subconscious. But by doing so, one exercises an activity - through inner strength, with effort of the will - that one otherwise exercises only on the basis of external facts, because otherwise one proceeds on the basis of external facts and experiences and allows the life of ideas to develop on the basis of these external facts and experiences. But now you free yourself from those external facts and experiences - I can only hint at the principle here, you can find more details in the books mentioned - now it is a matter of holding on to the ideas through inner will and thus constantly evoking an activity of the soul, which otherwise only ignites at external facts and runs in the inner being of man, bound to external existence. But by developing such meditation further and further, by practicing for years to make ideas that are easily comprehensible permanent, by learns to know that soul activity which tears thinking, raised above ordinary existence, away from the bodily, one rises to that which I have presented in the books mentioned as imaginative knowing.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. 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Und wer da sagt, das, was Anthroposophie bezwecke an innerem Willen, könne Halluzination sein, der geht - entweder absichtlich oder weil er nicht kann - nicht ein auf die ganze Art und Weise, wie nun dieses meditative Leben eigentlich besorgt wird, wie darauf gehalten wird, daß man zunächst, um ja nicht irgendwie Reminiszenzen aus dem Unterbewußtsein heraufzuholen, leicht überschaubare Vorstellungen in sein Bewußtsein hineinversetzt. Dadurch aber übt man eine Tätigkeit aus- durch innere Kraft, mit Anstrengung des Willens —, die man sonst nur anhand der äußeren Tatsachen ausübt, denn sonst geht man anhand der äußeren Tatsachen und Erlebnisse weiter und läßt anhand dieser äußeren Tatsachen und Erlebnisse das Vorstellungsleben verlaufen. Jetzt aber macht man sich von jenen äußeren Tatsachen und Erlebnissen frei - ich kann hier nur das Prinzipielle andeuten, das Genauere finden Sie in den genannten Büchern -, jetzt kommt es darauf an, die Vorstellungen durch inneren Willen festzuhalten und so dauernd eine Seelentätigkeit hervorzurufen, die sich sonst nur an äußeren Tatsachen entzündet und im Inneren des Menschen, gebunden an das äußere Dasein, verläuft. Dadurch aber, daß man ein solches Meditieren immer weiter und weiter ausbildet, dadurch, daß man jahrelang sich darin übt, Vorstellungen, die leicht überschaubar sind, zu dauernden zu machen, dadurch, daß man auf diese Weise kennenlernt jene Seelentätigkeit, die das über das gewöhnliche Sein hinausgehobene Denken losreißt von dem Leiblichen, dadurch erhebt man sich zu dem, was ich in den genannten Büchern dargestellt habe als imaginatives Erkennen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":312,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/75/1921-06-04_02/p032"}],"english":["GA 75/1921-06-04_02/p032"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":312,"en_words":313,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9053,"original_word_count":8874,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Relationship between Anthroposophy and the Natural Sciences","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA075/English/SOL2024/19210604a01.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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