{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 82/1922-04-08/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What really confronts us in the culture of our age? This—that its thinking has become abstract; that one simply continues along the line of thought that takes us from planimetry, stereometry, etc., whereas reality leads us back at the fourth dimension into space. But, in turning back then, we are by no means where we were when we found our way into the third dimension by gauging distances. We return spiritually enriched. If we can think of the fourth dimension (the negative third) in such a way that we return with it into space, then space becomes filled with spirit, whereas three-dimensional space is filled with matter. And we find space filled with ever loftier spiritual configurations when we pass along the negative third and second and first dimension and reach the point where we no longer have spatial extension but stand within the unextended—the spiritual.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. The Position of Anthroposophy among the Sciences","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-04-08","location":null,"word_count":146,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/82/1922-04-08/p030","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"So That Man may Become Fully Human","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA082/English/SOL2025/19220408p01.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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Finden wir die Möglichkeit, die vierte Dimension so zu denken, daß wir mit ihr wiederum, indem sie die negative dritte ist, in den Raum zurückkehren, dann wird der Raum geisterfüllt, während der dreidimensionale Raum materieerfüllt ist. Und mit immer höheren Geistgebilden finden wir den Raum erfüllt, wenn wir entlang der negativen dritten und zweiten und ersten Dimension gehen bis zu dem Punkt, wo wir keine Raumesausdehnung mehr haben, aber vollständig im Ausdehnungslosen, im Geistigen dann drinnenstehen. 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