{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 9/l04/p018","lang":"en","edition":"AP1971","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"If the seeker of knowledge observes the laws here described, his soul experiences relating to the spiritual world will take on an entirely new form. He will no longer live merely within them. They will no longer have a significance merely for his personal life. They will develop into soul perceptions of the higher world. In this soul the feelings of pleasure and displeasure, of joy and pain, do not live for themselves only, but grow into soul organs, just as in his body eyes and ears do not lead a life for themselves alone but selflessly allow external impressions to pass through them. Thereby the seeker of knowledge wins that calmness and assurance in his soul constitution necessary for research in the spiritual world. A great pleasure will no longer make him merely jubilant, but may be the messenger to him of qualities in the world that have hitherto escaped him. It will leave him calm, and through the calm the characteristics of the pleasure-giving beings will reveal themselves to him. Pain will no longer merely fill him with grief, but be able to tell him also what the qualities are of the being that causes the pain. Just as the eye does not desire anything for itself but shows man the direction of the road he has to take, so will pleasure and pain guide the soul safely along its path. This is the state of balance of soul that the seeker of knowledge must reach. The less pleasure and pain exhaust themselves in the waves that they throw up in the inner life of the seeker of knowledge, the more will they form eyes for the supersensible world. As long as a man lives in pleasure and pain he cannot gain knowledge by means of them. When he learns how to live by means of them, when he withdraws his feeling of self from them, then they become his organs of perception and he sees by means of them, attaining through them to knowledge. It is incorrect to think that the seeker of knowledge becomes a dry, colorless being, incapable of experiencing joy and sorrow. Joy and sorrow are present in him, but when he seeks knowledge in the spiritual world, they are present in a transformed shape; they have become eyes and ears.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Path of Knowledge","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":387,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/9/l04/p018?edition=AP1971","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1971","RSP1965"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/9/pfad_der_erkenntnis/p018","locus":"GA 9/pfad_der_erkenntnis/p018","anchor_mapped":true,"anchor_method":"positional","anchor_confidence":"medium"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1971","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/9/l04/p018?edition=AP1971","paragraph_aligned":true},{"lang":"en","edition":"RSP1965","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/9/l04/p018","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"pfad_der_erkenntnis","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 9/pfad_der_erkenntnis/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/9/pfad_der_erkenntnis/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":332,"en_words":387,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Und dadurch gewinnt der Erkenntnis Suchende die *Ruhe* und *Sicherheit* in der Seelenverfassung, die für das Forschen in der Geisteswelt nötig sind. Eine große Lust wird ihn nicht mehr bloß jauchzen machen, sondern ihm Verkünderin sein können von Eigenschaften der Welt, die ihm vorher entgangen sind. Sie wird ihn ruhig lassen; und durch die Ruhe werden die Merkmale der lustbringenden Wesenheiten sich ihm offenbaren. Ein Schmerz wird ihn nicht mehr bloß mit Betrübnis ganz ausfüllen, sondern ihm auch sagen können, welche Eigenschaften das Schmerz verursachende Wesen hat. Wie das Auge nichts für sich begehrt, sondern dem Menschen die Richtung des Weges angibt, den er zu gehen hat, so werden Lust und Schmerz die Seele ihre Bahn sicher führen. Dies ist der Zustand des seelischen Gleichgewichtes, in den der Erkennende kommen muss. Je weniger Lust und Schmerz sich in den Wellen erschöpfen, die sie im Innenleben des Erkennenden aufwerfen, desto mehr werden sie Augen bilden für die übersinnliche Welt. Solange der Mensch in Lust und Leid lebt, so lange *erkennt* er nicht durch sie. Wenn er *durch* sie zu leben lernt, wenn er sein Selbstgefühl aus ihnen herauszieht, dann werden sie seine Wahrnehmungsorganen; dann sieht, dann erkennt er durch sie. Es ist unrichtig, zu glauben, der Erkennende werde ein trockener, nüchterner, lust- und leidloser Mensch. Lust und Leid sind in ihm vorhanden, aber dann, wenn er in der Geisteswelt forscht, in verwandelter Gestalt; sie sind «Augen und Ohren» geworden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":332,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/9/pfad_der_erkenntnis/p010"}],"english":["GA 9/l04/p018"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":332,"en_words":387,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":null,"band":"no_original","note":null,"word_count":6588,"original_word_count":null,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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