{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 75/1921-06-04_02/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"By assembling phenomena, one learns to recognize how to approach this world. One does not arrive at the realm of atoms - not at atoms, not at electrons and so on, which are justified to a certain extent, as far as external appearance is concerned. One only comes to the outer appearances in this physical-scientific way of looking at and researching. If, on the other hand, one presents these purely as phenomena, then one can penetrate to what lies behind the phenomenon - to which we ourselves belong in our eternal core - by ascending into the imaginative, inspirational, intuitive. And in this way, ladies and gentlemen, we also arrive at a certain self-knowledge, at realizing what we demand in self-observation. By developing the imaginative consciousness, we learn to look into ourselves. What is memory based on? It is based, so to speak, on the fact that we absorb what we experience in the outside world in our imagination. Not in the way it is the case, for example, in the first days of our childhood — there it is transferred down into the organization — but in such a way that it is mirrored, that it has, as it were, a mirror wall on our organization and that we absorb it by remembering, in the memory image of the experience. By developing the memory that we need for a healthy social and scientific life in this way, we overcome the bond to the physical organization through anthroposophical research. However, ordinary consciousness must always be present; it must not be as in hallucination. Rather, anyone who ascends to imaginative consciousness is always a rational human being at the same time, always has ordinary consciousness alongside. This is precisely what distinguishes imaginative envisioning, inspired envisioning, from hallucination. Hallucinations and visions live in what the body produces, so that when we develop physical images from the body, we are dealing with visions and hallucinations. When we compose images from the soul, we are dealing with imaginative creations; when we compose images from the spirit, which we grasp by learning to work freely from the body, purely in spirit and soul, we are dealing with spiritual reality. So, it is the body that produces the images by coming to hallucinations and visions. The soul composes images by coming to fantasies, not to visionary images. The spirit within us composes images by approaching spiritual realities.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. Natural Science and Anthroposophy","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-06-04","location":null,"word_count":401,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/75/1921-06-04_02/p041","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 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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Wenn man diese dagegen rein als Phänomene darstellt, dann kann man so zu dem hinter dem Phänomen Stehenden vordringen - zu dem wir selbst in unserem ewigen Wesenskern gehören -, daß man in das Imaginative, Inspirative, Intuitive aufsteigt. Und dadurch, meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden, gelangt man im Grunde genommen auch dazu, eine gewisse Selbsterkenntnis zu gewinnen, das zu realisieren, was man in der Selbstbeobachtung fordert. Man lernt, indem man das imaginative Bewußtsein entwickelt, in sich hineinzuschauen. Worauf beruht denn das Gedächtnis? Es beruht gewissermaßen darauf, daß wir das, was wir an der Außenwelt erleben, auffangen im Bilde - nicht so, wie es zum Beispiel in den ersten Tagen unserer Kindheit der Fall ist - da ist es in die Organisation hinunterversetzt —, sondern so, daß es sich spiegelt, daß es gewissermaßen an unserer Organisation eine Spiegelwand hat und daß wir es auffangen, indem wir uns erinnern, in dem Gedächtnisbilde des Erlebnisses. Indem wir so das Gedächtnis entwickeln, das wir brauchen zum gesunden sozialen und wissenschaftlichen Leben, überwinden wir auf der anderen Seite durch anthroposophische Forschung die Bindung an die physische Organisation. Allerdings muß dabei immer das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein dasein; nicht wie beim Halluzinieren darf es sein, sondern wer zum imaginativen Bewußtsein aufsteigt, der ist immer zu gleicher Zeit ein vernünftiger Mensch, der hat daneben immer das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein. Das ist es eben, was das imaginative Vorstellen, das inspirierte Vorstellen durchaus vom Halluzinieren unterscheidet. In dem, was der Körper hervorbringt, leben Halluzinationen, leben Visionen, so daß wir es, wenn wir aus dem Körper heraus körperliche Bilder entwickeln, mit Visionen, Halluzinationen zu tun haben. Wenn wir aus der Seele heraus Bilder komponieren, haben wir es mit Phantasiegestaltungen zu tun; wenn wir aus dem Geiste heraus, den wir ergreifen, indem wir uns frei vom Leib, rein geistig-seelisch betätigen lernen, Bilder komponieren, die wir uns vorstellen, dann ist das eine geistige Realität. Also, der Körper ist es, der die Bilder hervorbringt, indem er zu Halluzinationen und Visionen kommt. Die Seele komponiert Bilder, indem sie zu Phantasien, nicht zu visionären Bildern, gelangt. Der Geist in uns komponiert Bilder, indem er herantritt an die geistigen Realitäten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":413,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/75/1921-06-04_02/p041"}],"english":["GA 75/1921-06-04_02/p041"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":413,"en_words":401,"ratio":0.97,"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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