{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 83/1922-06-05/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"That is why, in my book *Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment*, I attach so much weight to the preparatory exercises. These exercises are aimed at self-discipline in relation to the sense of self, and at helping us to develop the necessary capacity for love in ordinary life and ordinary consciousness, before attempting to move into the super-sensible world by means of higher knowledge. We must be mentally, physically and spiritually healthy in this respect, before we can enter the spiritual world in a way that is healthy. If we are, then no one will be able to raise the more or less philistine objection that there is something uncomfortable about listening in to our own capacity for love. To do so makes a shattering impression, it is true. We see ourselves as never before in ordinary consciousness. What we attain in higher cognition, however, does not incorporate itself into the memory—if it did, we should be capable of marching through life fondly contemplating our own capacity for love, which would make us inadequate as people. And, remembering this, you will know what to make of these demands on super-sensible knowledge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Anthroposophy and Cosmology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-05","location":null,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-05/p021","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Dann aber darf auch nicht der gewöhnliche, doch mehr oder weniger philiströse Einwand gemacht werden, daß es etwas Unbehagliches habe, sich so selbst in seiner Liebefähigkeit zu belauschen. Dieses Belauschen macht allerdings einen erschütternden Eindruck. Man hat sich vor sich, wie sonst im gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein nie. 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