{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90b/1906-01-10/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What people usually understand by knowledge is connected with place and time; and the one who accepts this is the perishable human being. But the deeper core of human nature does not recognize through the senses. It recognizes that which has validity everywhere and at all times. Religions want to give people knowledge of that which is not bound to place and time. And the purpose of religion is to establish the connection between the human and the eternal. Theosophy is the realization of this inner man, of his essential core. Theosophy is not the realization of something other than what is around us, but only of another part of it. Suppose a blind man had been happily operated on in this room. The same objects are still there as before, but now with completely different revelations for him. In a similar way, through Theosophy, man learns about the same things as before – about people, plants, animals and minerals – but he learns different characteristics about them. Just as the operation is there to make the same object visible to the eye of the blind, so Theosophy is there to point out a different aspect of things, to show him new spiritual and psychological characteristics of things. They appear to him in other, more intimate relationships to people and to the whole of the rest of the world. In this way, the human being is uplifted, and the objects take on a new meaning for him. Theosophy is a knowledge of the immortal part in man. What the immortal essence of man is, what the essence of the God-man is, we can gauge from the words of Goethe:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXXVIII. The Transient and the Eternal","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-01-10","location":null,"word_count":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90b/1906-01-10/p006","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090b/English/SOL2024/19060110p01.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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Er erkennt das, was überall, zu allen Zeiten seine Gültigkeit hat. Die Religionen wollen dem Menschen Kunde geben von diesem nicht an Ort und Zeit Gebundenen. Und der Sinn des Religiösen ist die Verbindung zwischen Menschlichem und Ewigem. Theosophie ist Erkenntnis dieses inneren Menschen, seines Wesenskernes. Theosophie ist nicht Erkenntnis von etwas anderem, als was um uns herum ist, sondern nur von einem anderen Teil desselben. Nehmen Sie an, ein Blindgeborener wäre in diesem Zimmer glücklich operiert worden. Dieselben Gegenstände sind noch da wie vorher, aber nun mit ganz anderen Offenbarungen für ihn. In ähnlicher Weise erfährt der Mensch durch die Theosophie von denselben Dingen, wie vorher - von Menschen, Pflanzen, Tieren und Mineralien -, aber er erfährt andere Eigenschaften von ihnen. Wie die Operation da ist, um dem Blinden denselben Gegenstand für das Auge sichtbar zu machen, so die Theosophie, um auf eine andere Erscheinung der Dinge hinzuweisen, auf das, was ihm neue geistige und seelische Eigenschaften an den Dingen sind. Sie erscheinen ihm dadurch in anderen engeren Beziehungen zu den Menschen und der ganzen übrigen Welt. Auf diese Weise wird der Mensch emporgehoben, die Dinge erhalten eine neue Bedeutung für ihn. Es ist die Theosophie ein Wissen vom unvergänglichen Teil im Menschen. 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