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We must actually learn to think about these inner things in the same way that we have acquired skills in science, in modern science, whose merits should not be overshadowed by spiritual science. Just as we set out to do certain things in modern science, so we come to a different conclusion about what we can only observe in nature. Just as one goes from observing nature to conducting experiments and thereby arriving at certain things that could not be inferred from observation itself, but are only inferred from this artificially arranged observation of the experiment, so too can certain human soul abilities not be developed if one does not, so to speak, resort to inner work on the soul abilities themselves.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Dasjenige, was zunächst der Tatbestand ist, das ist, dass wir Bilder von Erlebnissen hervorholen können, die wir gehabt haben, und dass also dadurch das Erlebnis in unserer Seele zu einem dauernden wird. Sehen Sie, an dieser Eigenschaft des Dauernden muss man festhalten und, ich möchte sagen damit experimentieren lernen, so wie man experimentiert mit den äußeren Dingen im chemischen Laboratorium. Man muss tatsächlich lernen, ebenso zu denken über diese innerlichen Dinge, wie man es sich angeeignet hat gerade in der Wissenschaft, in der modernen Wissenschaft, deren Verdienste nicht in den Schatten gestellt werden sollen durch Geisteswissenschaft. Wie man sich — sagen wir, um in dieser modernen Wissenschaft zu denken —, sich da gewisse Dinge vornimmt, kommt man in dem Moment auf eine andere Zusammenfassung desjenigen, was man in der Natur nur beobachten kann. 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