{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-26/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Oliver Lodge, with the help of a medium, allegedly received messages from the soul of his son Raymond Lodge, who died in the war. Among these messages was one of particular significance. As Oliver Lodge believed, the soul of his son made the revelation to him through the medium that Raymond Lodge had had his photograph taken with other comrades a fortnight before his death, that a group picture had been taken, that the photographer had taken two pictures in succession and that the way Raymond Lodge was sitting was slightly different in the first and second pictures. Nobody knew anything about this picture when the medium brought the message that was supposedly coming from Raymond Lodge's soul. Oliver Lodge's family did not know anything. The picture had been taken in France and had not yet arrived in England when the corresponding seance took place. Nevertheless, the matter had been described in full detail by the medium. To the strict naturalist Oliver Lodge, it seemed as if this experiment undoubtedly established that the soul of his deceased son himself had spoken. For who could know anything about what was completely unknown at the place where the experiment was carried out. All sources of error, as we know them from physical research, for example, were carefully excluded. Therefore, the impression of this experiment, as it was described in the detailed book, was extraordinarily striking, even for unbiased readers. And yet, although a strict natural scientist speaks here with observation of all scientific certainty, anthroposophy must point out that its kind of research into the supersensible must be more critical than such a scientific method driven into the soul realm. For ultimately, what has been said here is nothing more than lay opinion regarding soul research.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and the Riddles of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-26","location":null,"word_count":294,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p008","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/SOL2024/19220126p01.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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Von diesem Bilde, um das es sich dabei handelte, wusste niemand etwas, als das Medium diese angeblich von der Seele des Raymond Lodge kommende Nachricht brachte. Die versammelte Familie Oliver Lodges wusste nichts. Das Bild war in Frankreich gemacht worden, war noch nicht in England angekommen, als die entsprechende Sitzung war. Dennoch war durch das Medium die Sache vollständig klar beschrieben worden. Für den strengen Naturforscher Oliver Lodge schien es, als ob [durch] dieses Experiment ganz zweifellos feststehen würde, dass da die Seele seines verstorbenen Sohnes selber gesprochen habe. Denn wer sollte etwas wissen von dem, was an dem Orte, wo das Experiment vollzogen wurde, eben gänzlich unbekannt war. Alle Fehlerquellen, wie man sie ja bei physikalischen Forschungen zum Beispiel kennt, sind sorgfältig ausgeschlossen. Daher war der Eindruck dieses Experimentes, als es in dem ausführlichen Buche beschrieben wurde, auch auf unbefangene Leser außerordentlich frappierend wirkend. Und dennoch: Obgleich hier ein strenger Naturforscher mit Beobachtung aller naturwissenschaftlichen Gewissheit spricht, muss Anthroposophie darauf aufmerksam machen, dass ihre Art der Forschung nach dem Übersinnlichen kritischer sein muss als solche ins Seelengebiet hineingetriebene naturwissenschaftliche Methode. 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