{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In order to make this clear, let us call to mind what the human being really is. We have said that he is a different creature by day than by night. During the day his four human members, physical body, ether body, astral body, and ego are bound closely together. They react upon each other. We may say that when the human being is awake during the day, in a certain way his physical and etheric bodily parts are permeated and cared for by his astral and ego spiritual parts. But we have also shown that something else must be active within the etheric and physical bodily parts in order that the human being be able to exist at all in his present phase of evolution. For we have called attention to the fact that every night he draws out those members which care for this physical and ether body, namely, the astral body and ego, thus leaving his physical and ether bodies to their own fate. You all, as astral body and ego, faithlessly desert your physical and ether bodies every night. Hence you will see that Spiritual Science points out with a certain correctness that divine-spiritual powers and forces stream through the physical and ether bodies during the night so that they are, as it were, invested by these divine-spiritual forces and beings. We have also pointed out that when the astral body and ego were outside the physical and ether bodies in those periods which we call the Jahve or Jehova epochs, that Jehova was active as an inspirer. But it was the true Light, the Fullness of the Godhead or of the Elohim, the Pleroma, that was also constantly radiating through the physical and ether bodies. However, the human being, not having yet received the necessary impulse from the Christ-principle before the appearance of this Principle upon the earth, was not able to recognize it. Those principles which are to come to expression in the physical body, dwell in the higher spiritual regions of Devachan. The spiritual beings and powers which work upon the physical body are at home in the higher heavenly spheres, in higher Devachan, and those powers which work upon the ether body are in their own sphere in the lower heavenly realms. So we may say that in this physical body there are constantly active, beings from the highest regions of Devachan and in the ether body, beings from the lower devachanic regions are active. Men can recognize them only after having received the Impulse of the Christ into themselves. “If you truly understand the Son of Man, you will perceive how the spiritual forces descending from and ascending to the heavenly spheres work upon mankind. This you will know through the impulse which the Christ gives to the earth.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. The Seven Degrees of Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-05-23","location":null,"word_count":468,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-23/p011","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Maud B. Monges","identified_edition":"AP1962","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA103/English/AP1962/19080523p01.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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Wir haben gesagt, daß der Mensch ein verschiedener ist bei Tag und bei Nacht. Bei Tag sind die vier Glieder des Menschen: physischer Leib, Ätherleib, astralischer Leib und Ich, in einer festen Verbindung miteinander. Sie wirken aufeinander. Wir dürfen sagen, wenn der Mensch wacht bei Tage, dann wird in einer gewissen Weise seine physische Körperlichkeit und seine ätherische Leiblichkeit von seinem Astralisch-Geistigen und von seinem IchGeistigen durchdrungen und versorgt. Aber wir haben auch gezeigt, wie in dem Ätherisch-Leiblichen und in dem Physisch-Körperlichen noch etwas anderes wirksam sein muß, damit der Mensch überhaupt bestehen kann in seiner heutigen Entwickelungsphase. Denn wir haben uns darauf besonnen, daß der Mensch jede Nacht dasjenige, was selbst seinen physischen Leib und seinen Ätherleib versorgt, nämlich Astralleib und Ich, herauszieht und so seinen physischen Leib und Ätherleib die ganze Nacht über ihrem eigenen Schicksale überläßt. Treulos verlassen Sie alle jede Nacht Ihren physischen Leib und Ihren Ätherleib. Daraus werden Sie erkennen, daß die Geisteswissenschaft mit einem gewissen Recht darauf hinweist, daß göttlichgeistige Mächte und Kräfte in der Nacht diesen physischen Leib, diesen Ätherleib durchströmen, so daß also Ihr physischer Leib und Ätherleib sozusagen in die göttlich-geistigen Kräfte und Wesenheiten eingeschaltet sind. Wir haben auch darauf hingewiesen, daß gerade, wenn der astralische Leib und das Ich in alten Zeiten - in den Zeiten, die wir die Jahve- oder Jehovazeit nannten — außerhalb des physischen Leibes und Ätherleibes waren, daß da Jehova inspirierend wirkte. Das wahre Licht aber, die Fülle der Gottheit oder der Elohim, das Pleroma, ist es, was auch den physischen Leib und den Ätherleib immer durchstrahlt; nur kann es der Mensch nicht erkennen, weil er ja von dem Christus-Prinzip noch nicht den dazu notwendigen Impuls erhalten hat vor dem Erscheinen dieses Prinzipes auf der Erde. Diejenigen Prinzipien, die im physischen Leibe zum Ausdruck kommen sollen, sie wohnen im höheren Geistigen, im Devachan. Die geistigen Wesenheiten und Mächte, die auf den physischen Leib wirken, sind zu Hause in den höheren himmlischen Sphären, in dem höheren Devachan; und diejenigen Mächte, die auf den Ätherleib wirken, sind in den niederen himmlischen Sphären zu Hause. So können wir sagen: In diesen physischen Leib hinein wirken fortwährend Wesenheiten aus den höchsten Regionen des Devachan, und auf den Ätherleib wirken fortwährend Wesenheiten aus den niederen Regionen des Devachan. Sie kann der Mensch erst erkennen, wenn er die Impulse des Christus in sich aufnimmt: Lernt ihr den Menschensohn wirklich erkennen, dann werdet ihr erkennen, wie die geistigen Kräfte am Menschen auf- und niedersteigen aus den himmlischen Sphären. Das wird euch kund werden durch den Impuls, den der Christus der Erde gibt!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":443,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p018"}],"english":["GA 103/1908-05-23/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":443,"en_words":468,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7320,"original_word_count":6933,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maud B. 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