{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 99/1907-06-06/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus the pupil looks up to the great Ideal. What comes to pass in the slow evolution of the whole human race is experienced earlier by the initiate. He shows us mankind's evolution in pictures and these pictures work quite differently from the abstract thoughts which have been produced by the modern materialistic age. If you picture evolution in such lofty and powerful pictures as the Grail, then the effect is different from that of ordinary knowledge, which is unable to exercise any deep influence on your organism. Imaginative knowledge works down on the etheric body and thence on to the blood and this is the medium which acts formatively on the organism. Man will become increasingly more able to work on his organism through his etheric body. All imaginative knowledge based on truth is at the same time healing and health giving, it makes the blood healthy in its circulation. The best educator is imaginative knowledge, if man is only strong and devoted enough for it to be able to work on him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIV. The Nature of Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-06","location":null,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-06-06/p029","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. 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Er zeigt uns die Menschheitsevolution im Bilde, und diese Bilder wirken ganz anders als die abstrakten Begriffe, die das heutige materialistische Zeitalter hervorgebracht hat. Wenn Sie sich diese Entwickelung in solchen hohen und gewaltigen Bildern, wie der Gral eines ist, vorstellen, dann ist die Wirkung eine andere als die der gewöhnlichen Erkenntnis, die keine tiefen Wirkungen auf Ihren Organismus auszuüben vermag. Die imaginative Erkenntnis arbeitet hinunter auf den Ätherleib und wirkt von da auf das Blut, und dieses ist der Vermittler, der umgestaltend wirkt auf den Organismus. Immer fähiger wird der Mensch, durch seinen Ätherleib an seinem Organismus zu arbeiten. Alle imaginative Erkenntnis, die von der Wahrheit ausgeht, ist zu gleicher Zeit gesundend und heilsam; sie macht das Blut in seinem Kreislauf gesund. 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