{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-05-16/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What is achieved by this? Through this our whole human nature becomes an organ of perception – the expression sounds paradoxical – but now not an organ of perception that, like the eye and ear, perceives the outer world, but it becomes an organ of perception that spiritually perceives itself within and also looks into the spiritual world, into the world to which the living thought gives its thought-content, and now truly experiences this living world. One can understand why we have to go through pain and suffering. It is now the case – esteemed attendees – that even in such a perfect structure as the eye, some processes, changes take place due to the light acting on it. These changes that take place, if we had a fine sense for it, we would have a sensation of pain, and this sensation of pain would only change into the sensation of color. And in the earliest times of human development, this was what man had. Sensory perception arose out of pain, man became robust against it, became neutral, today he experiences the sensory perception directly; that which underlies the pain withdraws from perception. But if we are to live our way up into the spiritual world, we must force our way through suffering and pain, and only when we have overcome these, when we have turned suffering, pain to our advantage, can we glimpse into the spiritual world, which is opened up to us on the one hand through the living thought. And then, after we have transformed our whole organism into a sense organ by bringing thought to life and overcoming the suffering, we see ourselves, as a modern human being, facing the spiritual world with understanding, with science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and Knowledge of the Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-05-16","location":null,"word_count":290,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p034","alignment_confidence":"medium","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/SOL2024/19220516p01.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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Dadurch wird unser ganzes menschliches Wesen ein Sinnesorgan —- der Ausdruck klingt paradox —, aber jetzt nicht ein Sinnesorgan, das wie Auge und Ohr hineinempfindet in die äußere Welt, sondern es wird ein Sinnesorgan, das sich im Inneren geistig empfindet und auch hineinschaut in die geistige Welt, in die Welt, der der lebendige Gedanke ihren Gedankeninhalt gibt, und diese lebendige Welt nun wirklich erlebt. Man kann einsehen, warum wir durch Schmerz und Leid hindurchgehen müssen. Das ist nun so - meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden —, dass selbst in einem so vollkommenen Gebilde wie im Auge, dadurch, dass das Licht auf dasselbe wirkt, manche Vorgänge, Veränderungen vor sich gehen. Diese Veränderungen, die da vor sich gehen, wenn wir eine feine Empfindung dafür hätten, würden wir eine Schmerzempfindung haben, und diese Schmerzempfindung würde erst übergehen in die Farbenempfindung. Und der Mensch hat das gehabt in uralten Zeiten der Menschheitsentwicklung, aus dem Schmerze ist die Sinneswahrnehmung geworden, der Mensch ist robust geworden dagegen, neutral geworden, er erlebt heute unmittelbar die Sinnesempfindung; dasjenige, was als das Schmerzen zugrunde liegt, das entzieht sich der Wahrnehmung. Wir müssen uns aber, wenn wir uns in die geistige Welt hinaufleben, den Durchgang erzwingen durch Leid und Schmerz, und erst wenn wir diese überwunden haben, wenn wir aus dem Leide heraus, aus dem Schmerze das gemacht haben, so schauen wir hinein in die geistige Welt, die uns auf der einen Seite durch den lebendigen Gedanken erschlossen ist. Und dann sehen wir allerdings, nachdem wir uns von diesen zwei Seiten, durch die Verlebendigung des Gedankens, durch die Überwindung jenes Leides unseren ganzen Organismus zu einem Sinnesorgan umgestaltet haben — wie gesagt, der Ausdruck ist paradox —, wir sehen uns, wenn diese beiden Wege gegangen sind, als moderner Mensch der geistigen Welt in Verständnis, in Wissenschaft gegenübergestellt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":300,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p034"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-05-16/p034"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":300,"en_words":290,"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":9395,"original_word_count":9183,"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/SOL2024/19220516p01.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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