{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 75/1921-06-04_02/p042","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But when we look back into ourselves, we see, as it were, through the looking-glass, just as we should see through an actual looking-glass if we were to pierce it or take away some of the coating. And there we do not encounter in our inner being what the nebulous mystics talk about; we encounter something quite different, because the soul has experienced many things before it believes it unites with some deity in its inner being. They speak of divine manifestations in the ego. They speak of something they dream up. But anyone who penetrates into their inner being with genuine spiritual science comes to something quite different. He comes to see materially that which is otherwise given to him spiritually. Otherwise, his thinking, feeling, willing, desiring and coveting are given to him spiritually; now, however, he sees through everything that he feels, which is more or less connected with memory, and he sees into the actual inner laws of his organism. He gets to know his organism. He will not prattle and ramble on about nebulous mysticism, but will speak of the actual nature of the liver, lungs and stomach, which he gets to know through inner vision. He can add his inner vision to what conscientious external-physical anatomy provides. There you see the possibility of ascending to a real science of pathology. There you see how spiritual science, which does not turn to nebulous, rambling mysticism but which starts from exact methods, can really enter into the whole field of science. Yes, you get to know much more. Above all, one recognizes that even with the mystics who, of course, sound so magnificent, even with St. Therese or Mechthild of Magdeburg, that basically physical abnormalities are involved. One learns to recognize how abnormal liver, spleen and so on functions can arise from an imperfect, inharmonious functioning, from which arise the images that we otherwise so admire in mysticism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. 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Sie sprechen von den göttlichen Manifestationen im Ich. Sie sprechen von irgend etwas, was sie da erträumen. Wer aber mit wirklicher Geisteswissenschaft in sein Inneres eindringt, kommt zu etwas ganz anderem. Er kommt dazu, gerade dasjenige materiell zu sehen, was ihm sonst seelisch gegeben ist. Sonst ist ihm seelisch gegeben sein Denken, sein Fühlen, sein Wollen, sein Wünschen, seine Begehrungen; jetzt sieht er durch alles das hindurch, was er doch mehr oder weniger mit dem Gedächtnis zusammenhängend empfindet, und er sieht in die eigentliche innere Gesetzmäßigkeit seines Organismus hinein. Er lernt seinen Organismus kennen. Er wird nicht faseln und schwafeln von dem, wovon nebulose Mystiker faseln und schwafeln, sondern er redet von der eigentlichen Natur der Leber, der Lunge, des Magens, die er durch inneres Schauen kennenlernt. Er kann sein inneres Schauen hinzufügen zu dem, was die gewissenhafte äußerlich-physikalische Anatomie gibt. Da sehen Sie die Möglichkeit, zu einer wirklichen Wissenschaft der Pathologie aufzusteigen. Da sehen Sie, wie diejenige Geisteswissenschaft, die sich nicht zu nebuloser, zu faseliger Mystik hinwendet, sondern die von exakten Methoden ausgeht, wirklich sich hineinbegeben kann in das ganze Gebiet der Wissenschaften. Ja, man lernt noch viel mehr kennen. Vor allen Dingen erkennt man, daß selbst bei den ja selbstverständlich so großartig klingenden Mystikern, selbst bei der heiligen Therese oder bei Mechthild von Magdeburg, daß da eben im Grunde genommen körperlich abnorme Zustände mitspielen. 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