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At first the picture is for man something of lesser importance, but when he understands how to form again for himself a picture out of every thought, then he has reached a higher stage. This is the pre-requisite for a quite new kind of perception. Everything depends on a man developing to the point at which he no longer thinks merely abstractly, but at all times has his thoughts in pictures.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":159,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93a/1905-10-12/p007","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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In this expression there already lies what is meant: ‘By means of a certain power to make an imprint in something, (to imagine).’ In creative fantasy, in the case of poet and artist, we find only a weak reflection of imagination. When a man who is seeking higher development speaks, he will try in certain cases, while speaking, to have before him the counter-image, the Imago. This is the source of the mighty pictures in religious writings. Whoever develops himself so far that he can create such pictures has attained the stage of the spiritual beings who are involved in the creation of races. One who develops in himself not only pictures, but intuitions, is not only involved in the creation of races, but in the creation of the next planetary existence. From the pictures there will resound what later will be manifested on the earth, but whoever works out of intuition creates something which is not yet existent, which is nowhere manifested, that is to say he creates out of Nirvana. This concept is inherent in every apocalypse: What will be manifested in the future can only be created out of intuition.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93a/1905-10-12/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1905-10-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-12/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-12/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":197,"en_words":215,"ratio":1.09,"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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Through Imagination a man allows himself to be fructified by the formative spirit within him. Imagination corresponds to hidden realities which have arisen through the fructifying impulse of higher beings; thus one can see these higher spiritual beings on the Astral Plane. The prerequisite for this is to develop a speech that is not the expression of abstract thoughts, but of pictures. This is why mediums also speak in imaginations, in pictures and symbols, but unconsciously. Behind them the spirit is forming the symbols. The occult pupil does this in full consciousness, nevertheless in a way that is not arbitrary. In so doing he allows himself to be fructified by the spirit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":123,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93a/1905-10-12/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1905-10-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-12/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-12/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":111,"en_words":123,"ratio":1.11,"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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Der Stoff ist die höhere geistige Wesenheit, er entspricht in unserem Bilde dem Petschaft. Nun nennt man den Gedanken, insofern er dem Petschaft entspricht, Intuition, und den Abdruck nennt man den abstrakten Gedanken. 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"},{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-12/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Der Mensch formt in der Regel bloß Gedanken. Der sich höher entwickelnde Mensch muß in Bildern denken, das heißt «imaginieren». In dem Ausdrucke liegt schon, um was es sich handelt: durch eine gewisse Macht einer Sache etwas einprägen (imaginieren). In der Phantasie, beim Dichter und Künstler, finden wir nur ein ganz schwaches Abbild von der Imagination. Wenn der Mensch, der sich so höher zu entwickeln sucht, spricht, wird er bei besonderen Anlässen versuchen, bei seinem Sprechen das Gegenbild vor sich zu haben, die Imago. Daher die großen, gewaltigen Bilder in den religiösen Schriften. Wer sich aufschwingt zu diesem Erzeugen von Bildern, der hat die Stufe der geistigen Wesenheiten, die rassenschaffend sind, erreicht. Derjenige der nicht nur Bilder in sich entwickelt, sondern Intuitionen, der ist nicht nur rassenschaffend, sondern ist mitschaffend an dem nächsten planetarischen Dasein. In den Bildern wird nachklingen, was dann auf der Erde verwirklicht ist, aber wer aus der Intuition schafft, der schafft etwas, das noch gar nicht ist, was nirgends verwirklicht ist, das heißt der schafft aus dem Nirvana heraus. Das ist der Begriff einer jeden Apokalypse: Was erst in der Zukunft wirklich sein wird, das kann man nur aus der Intuition heraus schaffen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-12/p007"},{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-12/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Durch das abstrakte Denken schafft man ein Abbild von dem, was da ist. Bei der Imagination läßt der Mensch sich befruchten von dem gestaltenden Geist in seinem Inneren. Der Imagination entsprechen verborgene Wirklichkeiten, die durch Befruchtung höherer geistiger Wesenheiten entstanden sind; dann kann man auf dem Astralplan diese höheren geistigen Wesenheiten sehen. 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