{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-07/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Everything that is now known only by means of anatomy was at that time known in quite another way. The occult investigator made his researches with the help of the Kundalini light. The pupil was prepared for this in the following way. He came to a Master. If the latter found him trustworthy he received as instruction, not actually a teaching—today it has become different, today man must find his way by means of intellect and concepts—but the Master spoke somewhat as follows: ‘Every day for about six weeks you must spend several hours in meditation and give yourself up to some sentence of eternal value, completely sinking yourself into it.’ At present man cannot do this because life in modern civilisation makes too many demands on him. At that time the pupil meditated six to ten hours daily. He cannot do this nowadays without withdrawing from the whole life around him. At that time however the pupil required hardly any time for external needs. He found his nourishment in outer nature. He therefore made use of his time for meditation, perhaps uninterruptedly for ten hours. By this means he very soon progressed so far that he brought his body, which at that time was less dense, into such a condition that the Kundalini light was awakened within him. This is for the inner being what sunlight is for the outer world. Actually we do not see external objects, but reflected sunlight. The moment when, with the help of the Kundalini light, we can illuminate the soul, it becomes as visible as an object shone upon by the sun. So for the yoga pupil the whole inner body gradually became illuminated. All ancient anatomies were seen from within, through inner illumination. Thus the (Indian) monks, who clothed their experiences in legends, spoke of what they had perceived through the Kundalini light.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XII","site_heading":"The Four-Fold Human Being and Evolutionary Development","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Notizen von einem esoterischen Lehrgang","evidence_translation":"Notes from an esoteric course","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-07/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Alle Dinge, die jetzt durch die Anatomie allein bekannt sind, wurden damals auf ganz andere Weise bekannt. Die okkulten Forscher untersuchten mit Hilfe des Kundalinilichtes. Ein Schüler wurde in folgender Weise darauf vorbereitet. Er kam zu einem Meister. Wurde er von diesem als zuverlässig erkannt, so bekam er als Unterricht nicht etwa eine Lehre — heute ist das anders geworden, heute muß der Mensch durch den Verstand und die Begriffe seinen Weg nehmen -, sondern der Meister sagte ihm etwa: Du mußt jeden Tag mehrere Stunden, zunächst etwa sechs Wochen lang, in Meditation verbringen und dich einem der ewigen Sätze hingeben, dich ganz in ihn vertiefen. Heutzutage kann der Mensch das nicht, weil das Leben mit der heutigen Kultur zu viele Anforderungen an ihn stellt. Damals aber meditierte der Schüler sechs bis zehn Stunden täglich. Er kann das jetzt nicht, ohne sich aus der Kultur herauszuziehen. Damals brauchte der Schüler fast keine Zeit für die Kultur. Seine Nahrung fand er drauBen. Er verwendete daher seine Zeit zur Meditation, vielleicht zehn Stunden ununterbrochen. Da kam er sehr bald dazu, daß er den damals noch nicht so dicht gewordenen Körper dahin brachte, daß im Inneren das Kundalinilicht erwachte. Dieses ist für das Innere, was für die Außenwelt das Sonnenlicht ist. In Wahrheit sehen wir auch draußen nicht Gegenstände, sondern das zurückgestrahlte Sonnenlicht. In dem Augenblicke, wo wir imstande sind, mit Hilfe des Kundalinilichtes die Seele zu beleuchten, wird die Seele so sichtbar, wie ein von der Sonne beschienener Gegenstand. So erleuchtet sich für den Jogaschüler allmählich der ganze innere Leib. Alle alten Anatomien sind von innen, durch innere Beleuchtung gesehen. So redeten die [indischen] Mönche, die ihre Erfahrungen in Legenden umsetzten, von dem, was sie durch das Kundalinilicht geschaut hatten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":288,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p014"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-10-07/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":288,"en_words":311,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.12,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3113,"original_word_count":2772,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051007p01.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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