{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 108/1908-12-26/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"That is the correct beginning of a fairy tale. And every fairy tale must end with: I saw that once; and if what happened in the spiritual world has not perished, has not died, then it still lives today. That is exactly how every fairy tale must be told. You evoke the right feeling for what is being told when you always begin and end in this way. Let us suppose that someone, like our king in the second fairy tale, is looking for a wife. He is looking for a being who, as closely as possible in the human world, reflects what human beings can find as their archetype in the spiritual world, what can be found in the wise working of those powers that can be perceived through the intellectual soul. This cannot be found in outer life. Therefore, he must subordinate the outer human being to the inner human being. On the physical plane, human beings are subject to error. Therefore, he must allow the deeper forces to work if he wants to find something like this. He can do this if he puts himself, even today, into that intermediate state and brings himself into a relationship with the forces that work there. But these people who are the bearers of such forces live in seclusion, where they are not distracted by the great circumstances of life. Therefore, the king must go to his friend, the hermit who lives in poverty and solitude, but who knows the secret of the forces that bind human beings to the spiritual world, and who can give him the sprig of rosemary. And the king cannot find through any external events what can only be decided by his archetypes from the spiritual world. Therefore, he first dreams that the golden bird will come, and he remains in a kind of dream-waking state. And there, through that clear feeling of touching that one has when one is in the spiritual world, he goes through everything I have shown you. He gradually comes to discover, out of those forces that oppose human purity and human dignity, what has been preserved to this day: this pure possibility of happiness in human beings. He cannot be carried there by any of the forces that are bound to the physical world today, but only by a force that appears to him when the intellectual soul, or rather the inner soul force, is directed toward the spiritual world. This appears to him in the image of the magic horse. But this horse in the physical world is only the shadow image of the spiritual being behind it. The harmful soul forces in the physical world, these forces that are embodied in the physical world, have driven the arrow into the horse's body. But the moment these forces are removed, when it is freed from them, the power that enables the king to judge circumstances becomes active, so that if he does not look only at the outward appearance, he can find what is suitable for him. With his ordinary mind, he could travel far and wide in the world and find people here and there, but he would pass by the wife he is looking for, because he does not understand the circumstances that come into play and work against him. The former circumstances have been preserved.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"9. 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Er sucht ein Wesen, das ihm möglichst genau in der Menschenwelt das abbildet, was der Mensch als sein Urbild in der geistigen Welt finden kann, was gefunden werden kann im weisen Walten derjenigen Mächte, die durch die Verstandesseele wahrgenommen werden können. Im äußeren Leben ist das nicht zu finden. Darum muß er den äußeren Menschen dem intimeren Menschen unterwerfen. Auf dem physischen Plan ist der Mensch dem Irrtum unterworfen. Darum muß er die tieferen Kräfte walten lassen, wenn er so etwas finden will. Das kann er, wenn er sich, selbst heute noch, in jenen Zwischenzustand versetzt und sich selbst in eine Beziehung bringt zu den Kräften, die da walten. Diese Leute aber, die Träger solcher Kräfte sind, leben in der Verborgenheit, wo sie nicht abgelenkt werden durch die großen Lebensverhältnisse. Daher muß der König zu dem Freund gehen, zu dem Einsiedler, der arm und einsam lebt, der aber das Geheimnis von Kräften kennt, die den Menschen an die geistige Welt binden, und der ihm den Rosmarinstengel geben kann. Und der König kann nicht durch irgendwelche äußeren Veranstaltungen das finden, was nur an seinen Urbildern aus der geistigen Welt heraus entschieden werden kann. Daher träumt er zunächst, es komme das Goldvögelchen, und er bleibt auch weiter in einer Art Traum-Wachzustand. Und da macht er durch jenes klare Tasten, in dem man sich befindet, wenn man in der geistigen Welt ist, alles das durch, was ich Ihnen gezeigt habe. Er kommt allmählich dazu, aus denjenigen Kräften, die der menschlichen Reinheit und menschlichen Hoheit widerstreben, das herauszufinden, was sich bewahrt hat bis in unsere Tage hinein, diese reine Beglückungsmöglichkeit im Menschen. Es kann ihn nicht dahin tragen irgendeine von den Kräften, die heute an die physische Welt gebunden sind, sondern nur eine solche, die ihm erscheint, wenn sich die Verstandesseele oder überhaupt die innere Seelenkraft auf die geistige Welt richtet. Das erscheint ihm da im Bilde, hier als das Zauberpferd. Aber dieses Pferd in der physischen Welt ist nur das Schattenbild des Geistigen, das dahintersteht. Die in der physischen Welt befindlichen schädlichen Seelenkräfte, diese Kräfte, die in der physischen Welt verkörpert sind, haben dem Pferde den Pfeil in den Leib getrieben. In dem Augenblick aber, wo diese Kräfte heraus sind, als es davon befreit ist, da wird rege die Kraft, die den König dazu bringt, die Verhältnisse zu beurteilen, so daß er, wenn er nicht nur auf das Äußere schaut, dasjenige finden kann, was für ihn geeignet ist. Mit dem gewöhnlichen Verstande könnte er weit in der Welt herumgehen, würde er Menschen da und dort finden, aber die Gattin, die er sucht, an ihr würde er vorbeigehen; denn die Verhältnisse, die da in Betracht kommen, die dagegenspielen, die versteht er gar nicht. 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