{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 94/1906-02-19/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Initiation in the astral world is preceded by, and depends on what is called meditation. This means that the soul sinks into itself—I have often described it here. To reach a meditative experience one must make oneself blind and deaf to all sense impressions. Nothing must be able to disturb one. Cannons can go off without one being aware of it in one's inner life. One does not achieve this at once, but through constant practice one can attain this capacity. One must empty oneself also of all past experiences. Memory must be wiped out. The soul must be concerned only with itself and then out of its inner being there arise the eternal truths which are able—not only to awaken our understanding—but to release capacities which lie slumbering under a spell in our souls. These great eternal verities will rise up in man according to the maturity he has attained through his karma—the one, as Subba Row says, in seven incarnations, another in seventy years, another in seven years, others in seven months, seven days or seven hours.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"John's Gospel as Initiation into Higher Worlds","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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Rein mit sich selbst beschäftigt muß die Seele werden, dann können aus ihrem Inneren die ewigen Wahrheiten aufsteigen, ewige Wahrheiten, die geeignet sind, nicht bloß unser Verstehen zu wecken, sondern die in unserer Seele wie verzaubert schlummernden Fähigkeiten zu entbinden. Diese großen, ewigen Wahrheiten werden dem Menschen je nach der Reife aufgehen, die er durch sein Karma erlangt hat: dem einen, wie Subba Row sagt, in sieben Inkarnationen, dem anderen in siebzig Jahren, einem anderen in sieben Jahren, anderen in sieben Monaten, sieben Tagen oder in sieben Stunden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-02-19/p018"}],"english":["GA 94/1906-02-19/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":192,"en_words":179,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.96,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4768,"original_word_count":4981,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"UNK1980","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA094/English/UNK1980/19060219p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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