{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p005-p013","extent":"range","passage_number":5,"through":13,"paragraph_count":9,"first_locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p005","last_locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"12. Occult Development","date":"1906-09-02","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E.H. 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These pictures are not directly related to the external world and ordinary reality. We may call this the dream-state, and it is interesting to study how it takes its course. Many people suppose that dreams are nonsense, but this is not so. Even with people today dreams have a meaning, but not that of experiences in waking life. When we are awake, our mental pictures always correspond to definite facts and experiences; in our dreams they do not. For instance, you may dream that you hear the clatter of horses' hooves, and when you wake up you realise that you were hearing the ticking of the clock by your bedside. Dreams are symbolic pictures. You may have a dream which tells a whole story. A student, for instance, may dream about a duel and all its preliminary details, from the request for pistols to the report of the shot which wakes him—and then he realises that he has knocked down the chair that stood by his bed. Or again, a peasant woman may dream that she is on her way to church; she enters; she hears the priest utter lofty sayings, with his arms moving; suddenly his arms turn into wings and then the priest starts to crow: she wakes up and hears the cock crowing outside!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":290,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-09-02/p005","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. Goddard and Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSPAP1986","book_title":"At the Gates of Spiritual Science","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA095/English/RSPAP1986/19060902p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 95/1906-09-02/p005"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. 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In this way you yourself transpose time into the dream.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-09-02/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. Goddard and Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSPAP1986","book_title":"At the Gates of Spiritual Science","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA095/English/RSPAP1986/19060902p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 95/1906-09-02/p006"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. 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In short, our manner of perception in dreams is quite different from that of ordinary life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-09-02/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. Goddard and Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSPAP1986","book_title":"At the Gates of Spiritual Science","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA095/English/RSPAP1986/19060902p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 95/1906-09-02/p007"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. 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Again, you may notice that your dreams are concerned with things which do not exist at all in the outside world and which you cannot possibly experience physically. You will find that in your dreams you no longer see things which originate in the outer world or symbolic conditions such as those I described above, but, as I have just said, you will experience pictures of things which have no existence in the sense-world, and you will then notice that your dreams are saying something important. For instance, you may dream that a friend of yours is in danger from fire and you may see him getting nearer and nearer to the danger. The next day you may learn that this friend was taken ill during the night. You did not actually see him falling ill; you saw a symbolic picture of it. Thus your dreams may be influenced from higher worlds, so that you experience something which does not exist in the physical world; that is how impressions from higher worlds pass over into dreams. This is a very important bridge to higher occult development.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-09-02/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. Goddard and Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSPAP1986","book_title":"At the Gates of Spiritual Science","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA095/English/RSPAP1986/19060902p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 95/1906-09-02/p008"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. 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That is wrong; it is just these delicate points that we should attend to; then we shall make progress.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-09-02/p009","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. Goddard and Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSPAP1986","book_title":"At the Gates of Spiritual Science","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA095/English/RSPAP1986/19060902p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 95/1906-09-02/p009"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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If he exercises conscious control over them, a stage is soon reached when the pupil not only sees what is physically present but can truly perceive the astral element in a man, his soul and his aura. He then learns to understand what the shapes and colours in the astral body signify—what passions, for example, they express. So he learns gradually to spell out, as it were, the soul-world. But he must always realise that everything there is symbolical.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-09-02/p010","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. 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Das ist aber nur ein Zustand; ein anderer ist der, der zwischen Wachen und Schlafen liegt. Da ist der Mensch sich bewußt, daß Bilder durch seine Seele ziehen, Traumbilder. Sie beziehen sich nicht direkt auf die äußere Welt, auf die gewöhnliche Wirklichkeit, sondern indirekt. Diesen Zustand können wir den Traumzustand nennen. Es ist sehr interessant zu studieren, wie dieser Zustand verläuft. Viele Menschen werden der Meinung sein, daß der Traum etwas ganz Sinnloses ist. Das ist nicht der Fall. Auch beim heutigen Menschen haben die Träume einen gewissen Sinn, nur nicht den Sinn, den die Erlebnisse im Wachzustande haben. Im Wachen stimmt unsere Vorstellung immer mit bestimmten Sachen und Erlebnissen überein; beim Traum gestaltet sich das anders. Man kann zum Beispiel schlafen und träumen, daß man auf der Straße Pferdegetrappel hört; man wacht auf und merkt, daß man das Ticken einer Uhr gehört hat, die man neben sich liegen hatte. Der Traum ist ein Symboliker, ein Sinnbildner, er drückte das Ticktack der Uhr sinnbildlich durch Pferdegetrappel aus. Man kann ganze Geschichten träumen. Ein Student zum Beispiel träumt von einem Duell mit allen vorangehenden Einzelheiten, von der Forderung auf Pistolen bis zum Krachen des Schusses, der ihn aufweckt. Da zeigt es sich, daß er den Stuhl, der neben seinem Bett stand, umgeworfen hatte. Ein anderes Beispiel: Eine Bäuerin träumt vom Kirchgang. Sie tritt in die Kirche, der Priester spricht erhabene Worte, seine Arme bewegen sich; auf einmal werden seine Arme zu Flügeln, und dann fängt der Geistliche plötzlich an zu krähen wie ein Hahn. Sie wacht auf, und draußen kräht der Hahn.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":316,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-09-02/p005"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Man sieht daraus, daß der Traum ganz andere Zeitverhältnisse hat als das Tagesbewußtsein, denn bei den angeführten Träumen trat die eigentliche Ursache zeitlich als letztes Ereignis ein. Das rührt davon her, daß ein solcher Traum, verglichen mit der physischen Wirklichkeit, in einem Augenblick durch die Seele schießt und im Nu eine ganze Reihe von Vorstellungen erweckt; der Mensch verpflanzt dabei selbst die Zeit in den Traum hinein. Man muß sich das in der folgenden Weise vorstellen: Indem der Aufwachende sich an alle Einzelheiten erinnert, dehnt er innerlich die Zeit selbst aus, so daß es ihm erscheint, als ob die Ereignisse in der entsprechenden Zeitlänge abgelaufen wären. Ein kleines Geschehnis wird also im Traum oft zu einem langen dramatischen Vorgang. Hier können wir einen Einblick gewinnen, wie die Zeit im Astralen erscheint.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-09-02/p006"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Auch innere Zustände können sich im Traum symbolisch darstellen, zum Beispiel ein Kopfschmerz: Der Mensch träumt, er sei in einem dumpfen Kellerloch mit Spinnweben. Ein Herzklopfen und eine innerliche Hitze wird als glühender Ofen empfunden. Leute, die eine besondere innere Sensitivität haben, können noch anderes erleben. Sie sehen sich zum Beispiel in einer unglücklichen Lage im Traum. Da wirkt der Traum als Prophet; das ist dann ein Symbol dafür, daß eine Krankheit in ihnen steckt, die in einigen Tagen herauskommt. Ja, manche Menschen träumen sogar die Heilmittel gegen eine solche Krankheit. Kurz, eine ganz andere Art des Wahrnehmens ist in diesen Traumzuständen vorhanden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":103,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-09-02/p007"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Der dritte Zustand des Menschen ist der traumlose Schlafzustand, wo nichts in der Seele aufsteigt, wo der Mensch bewußtlos schläft. Wenn nun durch die innere Entwickelung der Mensch beginnt, die höheren Welten wahrzunehmen, so kündigt sich das zuerst in seinem Traumzustand an, und zwar dadurch, daß die Träume regelmäßiger werden und sinnvoller sind als vorher. Vor allen Dingen gewinnt der Mensch Erkenntnisse durch seine Träume; er muß nur recht auf sie achtgeben. Später bemerkt er dann, daß die Träume häufiger werden, bis er meint, die ganze Nacht hindurch geträumt zu haben. Ebenso kann er beobachten, daß die Träume sich mit Dingen verbinden, die es in der Außenwelt gar nicht gibt, die man physisch gar nicht erleben kann. Er merkt, daß in den Träumen ihm jetzt nicht mehr bloße Dinge erscheinen, die entweder äußerlich auf ihn einwirken oder Zustände versinnbildlichen, wie sie oben geschildert wurden, sondern er erlebt, wie gesagt, Bilder von Dingen, die in der sinnenfälligen Wirklichkeit gar nicht existieren, und er merkt dann, daß ihm die Träume etwas Bedeutungsvolles sagen. Zum Beispiel kann es in der folgenden Weise anfangen: Er träumt, ein Freund befinde sich in Feuersgefahr, und er sieht, wie er in die Gefahr hineinrückt. Am nächsten Tag erfährt er, daß dieser Freund in der Nacht krank geworden ist. Er hat nicht gesehen, daß der Freund krank geworden ist, aber ein Sinnbild dafür hat er geschaut. So können auch von den höheren Welten Einflüsse auf die Träume erfolgen, so daß man etwas erfährt, was es gar nicht in der physischen Welt gibt; da gehen Eindrücke von den höheren Welten in den Traum über. Das ist ein sehr wichtiger Übergang zur höheren okkulten Entwickelung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-09-02/p008"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Nun kann da jemand einwenden: Das ist ja alles nur geträumt, wie kann man darauf etwas geben? — Das ist nicht richtig. Nehmen wir folgendes Beispiel an: es hätte Edison einmal geträumt, wie man eine Glühlampe macht; er hätte sich dann dieses Traumes erinnert und wirklich dem Traum gemäß eine Glühlampe angefertigt, und nun wäre jemand gekommen und hätte gesagt: Nichts ist es mit der Glühlampe, das ist ja bloß geträumt! - Es handelt sich eben darum, ob das Geträumte Bedeutung hat für das Leben, nicht darum, daß es geträumt ist. Vielfach werden nun solche Traumzustände gar nicht beachtet, weil man zuwenig aufmerksam ist. Das ist nicht gut. Gerade auf solche subtile Sachen sollten wir unsere Aufmerksamkeit wenden; das bringt vorwärts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-09-02/p009"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Später tritt nun ein Zustand ein, wo sich dem Schüler das Wesen der Wirklichkeit im Traum enthüllt, und er kann dann die Träume an der Wirklichkeit prüfen. Wenn er so weit ist, daß er nicht bloß im Schlaf, sondern auch bei Tag die ganze Bilderwelt vor sich hat, dann kann er mit dem Verstand zergliedern, ob das wahr ist, was er sieht. Man darf also nicht etwa die Traumbilder als eine Grundlage für die Weisheit ansehen und benutzen, sondern man muß warten, bis sie sich in die Tageswelt hineindrängen. Wenn man sie bewußt kontrolliert, dann kommt auch bald der Zustand, wo der Schüler nicht nur sieht, was physisch vorhanden ist, wo er auch wirklich beobachten kann, was am Menschen die Aura, die Seele ist, was astral an ihm ist. Man lernt dann verstehen, was die Formen und Farben im Astralleib bedeuten, welche Leidenschaften zum Beispiel sich darin ausdrücken. Man lernt allmählich die seelische Welt sozusagen buchstabieren. Nur muß man sich stets dessen bewußt sein, daß alles sinnbildlich ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-09-02/p010"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Man kann dagegen einwenden: Wenn man nur Sinnbilder sieht, dann kann ja ein Ereignis in allen möglichen Sinnbildern symbolisiert sein, und man kann sich gar nicht klar werden, daß so ein Bild sich gerade auf etwas Bestimmtes bezieht. - Auf einer gewissen Stufe jedoch stellt sich eine Sache immer nur unter dem gleichen Bilde dar, gerade wie sich ein Gegenstand immer nur durch die gleiche Vorstellung ausdrückt. So drückt sich zum Beispiel Leidenschaft immer durch blitzartige rötliche Farben aus. Man muß nur lernen, die Bilder auf das Richtige zu beziehen. Man erkennt an dem Bild den Seelenzustand.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":97,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-09-02/p011"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Nun begreifen Sie, warum in allen Religionsbüchern fast durchweg in Bildern gesprochen wird. Da wird die Weisheit zum Beispiel Licht genannt. Der Grund dafür ist, daß dem okkult Entwickelten die Weisheit des Menschen und der anderen Wesen immer als ein astrales Licht erscheint. Leidenschaften erscheinen als Feuer. Die religiösen Urkunden teilen Dinge mit, die sich nicht nur auf dem physischen Plan abspielen, sondern auch Geschehnisse auf höheren Planen. Diese Urkunden rühren sämtlich von Hellsehern her und beziehen sich auf höhere Welten; deshalb müssen sie zu uns in Bildern sprechen. Alles, was aus der Akasha-Chronik erzählt worden ist, wurde deshalb auch in solchen Bildern dargestellt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":104,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-09-02/p012"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-09-02/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Der nächste Zustand, den der Schüler erlebt, ist der, den man als Kontinuität des Bewußtseins bezeichnet. Wenn der gewöhnliche Mensch im Schlaf der sinnlichen Welt ganz entrückt ist, ist er bewußtlos. Bei einem Schüler ist das nicht mehr der Fall, wenn er die vorgenannte Stufe erreicht hat. Ununterbrochen, Tag und Nacht lebt der Schüler in vollem, klarem Bewußtsein, auch wenn der physische Leib ruht. Nach einiger Zeit kündigt sich der Eintritt in einen neuen, bestimmten Zustand dadurch an, daß zu dem Tagesbewußtsein, zu den Bildern Töne und Worte hinzutreten. Die Bilder reden und sagen ihm etwas; sie reden eine ihm verständliche Sprache. Sie sagen, was sie sind; da ist dann überhaupt keine Täuschung mehr möglich. Das ist das devachanische Tönen und Sprechen, die Sphärenmusik. Ein jedes Ding spricht dann seinen eigenen Namen aus und sein Verhältnis zu den anderen Dingen. Das kommt dann zum astralischen Schauen hinzu, und das ist der Eintritt des Hellsehers in Devachan. Hat der Mensch diesen devachanischen Zustand erlangt, dann fangen die Lotusblumen, die Chakrams oder Räder, an gewissen Stellen im Astralleib an, sich wie der Zeiger einer Uhr von links nach rechts zu drehen. Sie sind die Sinnesorgane des Astralleibes, aber ihr Wahrnehmen ist ein aktives. Das Auge zum Beispiel ist in Ruhe, es läßt das Licht in sich hereinkommen und nimmt es dann wahr. Dagegen nehmen die Lotusblumen erst dann wahr, wenn sie sich bewegen, wenn sie einen Gegenstand umfassen. Durch das Drehen der Lotusblumen werden Schwingungen in der Astralmaterie erregt, und so entsteht die Wahrnehmung auf dem Astralplan.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-09-02/p013"}],"beads":[{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[13,14],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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