{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-12/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As a rule man forms merely thoughts. The more highly developed man must think in pictures, in images; that means ‘to imagine’. 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,"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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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"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-10-12/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":197,"en_words":215,"ratio":1.09,"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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