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This method of spiritual-scientific research discloses first a peculiar co-operation of the physical and etheric bodies. The lowest member of the human being, the physical body, and the second, the etheric body, enter a certain mutual relationship whereby something new occurs in the etheric body. Something that is different permeates and flows through the etheric body, and actually, men of our time don't in the least know in a conscious way what this “something” is. It saturates the etheric body as water does a sponge. Spiritual science can tell us what it is that acts thus in the etheric body. It is what corresponds today to what men will develop in a far distant future as spirit man, or atma. At present, man does not possess this atma as his own. It is bestowed upon him, so to speak, by the surrounding outer spiritual world, without his being able to participate in it. Later on, in the distant future, he will himself have developed it within him. 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Wir werden uns fragen müssen: Worauf beruht eigentlich im wahren Geiste des Wortes dieser Lebenssinn? - Da müssen wir ziemlich tief hinuntersteigen in die unterbewußten Untergründe des menschlichen Organismus, wenn wir uns ein Bild von dem machen wollen, woraus das entspringt, was Lebenssinn genannt wird. Wir können hier natürlich alles nur skizzieren. Zunächst ist vorhanden ein eigenartiges Zusammenwirken des physischen Leibes mit dem Ätherleib. Diese Tatsache ergibt sich, wenn man mit geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung versucht festzustellen, was dem Lebenssinn zugrunde liegt. Es ist wirklich so, daß das unterste Glied der menschlichen Wesenheit, der physische Leib, und der Lebensleib in ein ganz bestimmtes Verhältnis treten zueinander. Das geschieht dadurch, daß im Ätherleibe etwas anderes auftritt und sich in ihn hineinsetzt, ihn sozusagen durchtränkt. Der Ätherleib wird durchzogen und durchflossen von etwas anderem. Dieses andere ist etwas, was der Mensch im Grunde genommen heute bewußterweise in sich noch gar nicht kennt. Die Geisteswissenschaft jedoch kann uns sagen, was dadrinnen im Ätherleibe wirkt und ihn durchtränkt wie Wasser einen Schwamm, bildlich gesprochen. Wenn man dies geisteswissenschaftlich untersucht, so findet man, daß es gleich ist dem, was der Mensch einstmals in ferner Zukunft als den Geistesmenschen oder das Atma entwickeln wird. Heute hat er dieses Atma noch nicht von sich selber aus in sich; es muß ihm noch aus der umliegenden geistigen Welt sozusagen erst verliehen werden. Es wird ihm verliehen, ohne daß er bewußten Anteil daran nehmen kann. Später, in einer fernen Zukunft, wird er es in sich selbst entwickelt haben. Der Geistesmensch oder Atma ist es also, was da den Ätherleib durchdringt und durchsetzt. Was tut nun dieses Atma im Ätherleib? Heute ist der Mensch noch nicht in der Lage, einen Geistesmenschen oder Atma in sich zu haben, denn in der gegenwärtigen Zeit ist dies noch eine übermenschliche Wesenheit in dem Menschen. Dieses Übermenschliche, das Atma, drückt sich dadurch aus, daß es den Ätherleib zusammenzieht, ja zusammenkrampft. Wenn wir dafür ein Bild aus der äußeren Sinneswelt gebrauchen wollen, so könnten wir es etwa vergleichen mit der frostigen Wirkung der Kälte. Was einst das höchste Glied des Menschen sein wird, wozu er heute noch nicht reif ist, das krampft ihn zusammen. Die Folge davon, daß eben der Ätherleib sich zusammenkrampft, ist, daß der Astralleib des Menschen, das Astralische, wie ausgepreßt wird, und in dem Maße, wie der Ätherleib zusammengepreßt wird, wird auch der physische Leib gespannt. Es treten in ihm frostige Spannungen auf. Es ist also so, wie wenn Sie einen Schwamm ausdrücken. Der astralische Leib macht sich sozusagen Luft, wird herausgepreßt, herausgedrückt. Die Vorgänge im astralischen Leibe sind nun Gefühlserlebnisse, Erlebnisse der Lust und Unlust, der Freude und des Schmerzes und so weiter. Dieser Vorgang des Herausgedrücktwerdens ist es, was sich als Lebensgefühl in uns kundgibt, als Freiheitsgefühl zum Beispiel, als Kraftgefühl, als Gefühl von Mattigkeit,","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":476,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1909-10-25/p004"}],"beads":[{"from":[4,5],"to":[4],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}