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That is also how it is with the original spirit in relation to our physical world. This physical world is like writing, simply writing. In ordinary everyday science, the individual objects in this world are described in the way I said. An occultist would know, however, that these individual objects mean something else as well, apart from the description given in outer terms and that they can be read, being letters of the spirit. If we look at this world as the writing of the spirit, if we consider everything in the world around us—minerals, plants, animals and people—to be letters written by the spirit, we enter into the world of the spirit of our own accord as we read the physical world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Spiritual Insight Offering Greatest Liberation II: The Mission of the Spiritual Science Movement","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-10-08","location":null,"word_count":276,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-08/p025","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2001","book_title":"Original Impulses fo the Science of the Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA096/English/CMP2001/19061008p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-08/p025"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-08/p025","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Ich sprach zu Ihnen von der Schrift. Wir schreiben irgend etwas auf, sagen wir das Wort «Geist». Wer nicht einen Begriff vom Geist hat, wird dieses Wort sicher nicht aufschreiben. Aber es könnte ein anderer kommen, der keinen Begriff vom Geiste hat, der überhaupt nicht lesen kann, und könnte beschreiben: Da ist eine krumme Linie, die abwärts geht, dann wieder eine krumme Linie aufwärts, dann wieder abwärts und so weiter. Kein Mensch könnte darauf kommen, daß das «Geist» heißt, denn wer so beschreibt, der kann nicht lesen. Aber so beschreibt heute die Wissenschaft die Tatsachen. Damit dieses Wort da hingeschrieben werden konnte, war ein Sinn notwendig, der sich in dem, was hier steht, ausgegossen hat. Der Schreiber kann weggehen, ein anderer kann kommen und aus dem, was materiell hier steht, erkennen, was der Schreiber ursprünglich gemeint hat. So ist es auch mit dem ursprünglichen Geist gegenüber unserer physischen Welt. Diese physische Welt ist eine Schrift, nichts anderes als eine Schrift. Die gewöhnliche Alltagswissenschaft beschreibt die einzelnen Dinge der Welt so, wie ich es gezeigt habe. Der Okkultist weiß aber, daß diese einzelnen Dinge, abgesehen davon, daß man sie äußerlich beschreiben kann, noch etwas bedeuten; daß man sie lesen kann, weil sie die Schriftzeichen des Geistes sind. 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