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The publication of such writings as my book 'How to Know Higher Worlds' indicates how anyone can at least get started on their own research into the spiritual world. But it also indicates that such books are primarily written as they are so that everyone can, so to speak, receive the spiritual researcher's justification for what he actually does. But that which comes before humanity as ideas, as concepts, can be grasped by common sense. For this common sense is that which can rise to living thoughts just as it can remain with dead thoughts. And this understanding is not mere belief, not mere emotional understanding, but it is an understanding that arises out of the free nature of the human being, which simply connects what is in it of world existence with what can be proclaimed through research out of this world existence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. 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Und weil der Mensch diese innere Lebendigkeit in sich trägt, so wie er in sich die Sterbekräfte trägt, so kann er sich allmählich, auch wenn er nicht selber Forscher wird auf dem geisteswissenschaftlich-anthroposophischen Gebiet, ein Verständnis erwerben für dasjenige, was der Forscher aus der geistigen Welt herausholt. Zwar wird durch die Publikation solcher Schriften, wie mein Buch ist «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?», darauf hingewiesen, wie jeder wenigstens zu den ersten Anfängen des eigenen Erforschens der geistigen Welt kommen kann, aber es wird ebenso hingewiesen, dass in erster Linie solche Bücher so geschrieben sind, wie sie es sind, damit jeder gewissermaßen die Rechtfertigung empfängt des Geistesforschers darüber, was dieser eigentlich tut. Dasjenige aber, was als Ideen, als Vorstellungen vor die Menschheit hintritt, das kann der gesunde Menschenverstand erfassen. 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