{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-12/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When our foot imprints itself in the damp earth, this imprint is a negative, a counter-image of our foot. So is it too with our thoughts. In the higher spiritual world there is a counter-image for every thought. Image and counter-image are as interconnected as seal and sealing wax. The substance is the higher spiritual being which corresponds in our analogy to the sealing wax. Now we call thought, in so far as it corresponds to the sealing wax, intuition, and the impression we call abstract thought. We can say when we think: ‘I feel the traces of what is happening in higher worlds.’ It is with regard to this fact that in religious writings, for instance in the Revelation of St. John, the expression ‘seal’ is used. This corresponds with reality. It is also because a higher being is working with us in our words that every word is the impression of a seal. With the mystics the counter-image is called Imagination. Thus we have three levels of the thought element: the intuitive, the imaginative and the ordinary abstract thinking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XVII","site_heading":"Actions, Words, and Thoughts: The Three Karmic Spheres","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."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1905-10-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-12/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-12/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":315,"en_words":340,"ratio":1.08,"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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Man kann sagen, wenn man denkt: Ich fühle die Spuren dessen, was in den höheren Welten geschieht. - Im Hinblick auf diese Tatsache wird in religiösen Schriften, zum Beispiel in der Offenbarung des Johannes, der Ausdruck «Siegel» gebraucht. Er entspricht der Wirklichkeit. ‚Auch weil ein höheres Wesen in unseren Worten mitwirkt, ist jedes Wort ein Siegelabdruck. Man nennt das Gegenbild des Wortes bei den Mystikern «Imagination». So haben wir drei Stufen des Gedanklichen: das Intuitive, das Imaginative und das gewöhnliche Abstrakte. Wenn der Mensch sich weiterentwickelt, wenn der abstrakte Gedanke selbst sich entwickelt zu der Stufe, auf der die Wesenheiten inkarniert sind, die mitwirken, wenn gesprochen wird, dann ist der Mensch ein Chela, ein Geheimschüler. Meister sein, heißt: in dem Stoffe wirken, in dem die Wesenheiten inkarniert sind, die in unseren Gedanken mitwirken. — Die Imagination gibt das Bild. Deshalb haben die großen Religionslehrer in früheren Zeiten bildlich gesprochen, denn die Imagination gibt das Bild, nicht den abstrakten Gedanken. In allen Religionen wird in Bildern gesprochen. Das Bild ist für den Menschen zunächst das Untergeordnete, aber wenn der Mensch versteht, aus jedem Gedanken selbst wieder ein Bild zu machen, dann ist er auf einer höheren Stufe angelangt. Dies ist die Vorbedingung zu einer ganz neuen Art von Wahrnehmung. Tatsächlich kommt es darauf an, daß der Mensch sich dazu entwickelt, nicht mehr bloß abstrakt zu denken, sondern seine Gedanken jedesmal im Bilde zu haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":315,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-12/p006"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-10-12/p006","GA 93a/1905-10-12/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":315,"en_words":340,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3225,"original_word_count":2999,"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/RSP1982/19051012p01.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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