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But just as thinking is developed on the one hand, so too is the ability to love devotedly developed on the other hand, in order to thereby free the will from the physical organism just as much as the life of thought can be freed from the physical organism in the way indicated. Apparently it is not at all exercises of the soul in the ability to love that come into question here. Nevertheless, they lead to an increased ability to love, to the point of insight. Again, I will only hint at the principle. The following exercise develops the will in particular and develops such an ability: Imagine something that you are accustomed to imagining only in a certain way from the earlier to the later, from the beginning to the end, now in reverse order. For example, one imagines a drama backwards from the last event of the fifth act to the first event of the first act. Or one imagines a melody backwards. Or one imagines only the evening after the usual daytime life backwards. But one must go into as much detail as possible, one must imagine in small portions backwards.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-23","location":null,"word_count":309,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p025","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 Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220123p01.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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Allein es ist auch nicht die Rede davon, dass die Liebe, wie sie im gewöhnlichen Leben vorhanden und berechtigt ist, schon irgendeine Erkenntniskraft sein soll. Aber so, wie das Denken nach der einen Seite ausgebildet wird, so wird auch die hingebungsvolle Liebefähigkeit nach der anderen Seite ausgebildet, um dadurch den Willen ebenso frei zu machen vom physischen Organismus, wie das Gedankenleben in der angedeuteten Weise frei gemacht werden kann vom physischen Organismus. Scheinbar sind es durchaus nicht seelische Übungen in der Liebefähigkeit, die da in Betracht kommen. Dennoch, sie führen zu einer bis zur Erkenntnismäßigkeit gesteigerten Liebefähigkeit. Ich will auch hier wiederum das Prinzipielle andeuten. Eine solche Übung, eine solche Fähigkeit, die insbesondere den Willen entwickelt, ist die folgende: Man stellt irgendetwas, von dem man gewöhnt ist, es nur in einer gewissen Weise vom Früheren zum Späteren, vom Anfang bis Ende vorzustellen, nunmehr in umgekehrter Folge vor. Zum Beispiel ein Drama stellt man vor von dem letzten Ereignis des fünften Aktes rückwärts bis zum ersten Ereignis des ersten Aktes. Oder man stellt sich eine Melodie umgekehrt vor. Oder auch man stellt nur am Abend das gewöhnliche Tagesleben in umgekehrter Folge vor. Aber man muss möglichst in die Einzelheiten eingehen, muss in kleinen Partien umgekehrt vorstellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p025"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-01-23/p025"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":289,"en_words":309,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10817,"original_word_count":10371,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220123p01.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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