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Only those in which the ego participated, which the ego had really assimilated because it is at about the same time, according to the demands of a certain law, that the child can start to develop his ego visualization. Only such visualizations are remembered at all in our physical life as were received while the ego took part as an active force, conscious of itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":123,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/115/1910-11-04/p024","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-11-04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p025"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 115/1910-11-04/p025"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":333,"en_words":231,"ratio":0.69,"partial":true},"correspondence":"partial","note":"PARTIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 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Up to that time the whole life of ego visualizations was lived purely in the life of the present; now it emerges, faces the future in freedom, and is equipped to receive whatever comes to meet it out of the future, but past visualizations it places behind itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":108,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/115/1910-11-04/p025","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-11-04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p025"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 115/1910-11-04/p025"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":333,"en_words":231,"ratio":0.69,"partial":true},"correspondence":"partial","note":"PARTIAL CORRESPONDENCE. The aligner paired 1 German passage(s) with 2 English, but the English side holds only ~69% of the German side's length (231 vs 333 words). 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To sum up: While all other visualizations—those that relate to physical space—are received by the physical human being, the ego consciousness, the ego visualization, arises when the ego fills out the etheric body and is reflected, as it were, from its inner walls. 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Only through this does the ego become conscious as the result of inner reflection. We learned, you remember, that the astral body comes to meet the etheric body. It is the ego that fills out the etheric body and, through inner reflection, becomes conscious of it as such. This ego consciousness is powerfully gripped by all interest, all desires, for these implant themselves firmly in the ego. Nevertheless, even though this takes place to such a degree that we characterize it as egotism, there is something peculiar about this ego perception, something in a certain way independent of desires. There is a certain demand that the human soul makes upon itself, readily attested by the soul; every soul knows that mere desire cannot possibly call forth the ego. However much you want to do it, it cannot be done. Ego consciousness does not consist of the stream of desires any more than it does of the stream of visualizations. It is an element fundamentally different from either, but one that assimilates both streams. We can represent this state of affairs graphically by drawing the ego current at right angles to the stream of time. 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The latter cannot possibly enter the process from the direction of the past, and unless the ego can enter simultaneously with desire, it is impossible for reasoning to meet the future-past current. What is indispensable if reasoning activity is to enter with the ego current? A reflection, and this must come about in such a way that the ego has the unconsciously flowing visualizations positively behind itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/115/1910-11-04/p030","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-11-04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p030","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p030"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 115/1910-11-04/p030"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":179,"en_words":122,"ratio":0.68,"partial":true},"correspondence":"partial","note":"PARTIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 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Now, if the ego is reflected inwardly at the moment when the child arrives at self-consciousness, the entire soul life from then on signifies that experiences and impressions of the past are reflected as well. That is why you can remember nothing that occurred before the ego became a means of reflection. If something out of the past is to be seen in the mirror, you naturally see nothing of the future, just as you see nothing behind the quicksilver that lines the mirror.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":232,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/115/1910-11-04/p031","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-11-04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p031","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p031"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Sie gewinnen eine Anschauung über den Grund, daß eine solche Spiegelung entsteht, wenn Sie sich an etwas erinnern, was ich sogar schon neulich im öffentlichen Vortrage über «Leben und Tod» gesagt habe: daß als eine höchst wichtige Tatsache im Seelenleben zu beobachten ist, daß die rückwärtslaufende Erinnerung des Seelenlebens bei einem bestimmten Punkt aufhört. Von diesem Punkte an rückwärts erinnert sich der Mensch nicht mehr. Bei diesem Punkte fängt dann im Menschen die Erinnerung an. Mit andern Worten: Welche Vorstellungen werden überhaupt im gewöhnlichen physischen Leben des Menschen erinnert? Nur diejenigen, bei denen das Ich dabeigewesen ist, die wirklich das Ich hereingenommen hat. Denn ich habe schon darauf aufmerksam gemacht: Ungefähr so weit zurück, als die Erinnerung an die früheren Ereignisse zurückreicht, liegt auch der Moment, wo das Kind überhaupt fähig geworden ist, die Ich-Vorstellung, das Ich-Bewußtsein zu entwickeln. Nur diejenigen Vorstellungen, die so aufgenommen worden sind, daß das Ich tätig dabei war, daß eine aktive Kraft dabei war, indem das Ich sich als bewußtes Ich gefühlt hat, nur diese Vorstellungen werden im gewöhnlichen Menschenleben überhaupt erinnert, können nur erinnert werden. Was macht denn also dieses Ich, indem es sozusagen geboren wird, sagen wir im zweiten oder dritten Jahre des kindlichen Lebens? Früher hat es sozusagen unbewußt die Eindrücke aufgenommen, war nicht selbst dabei. Dann fängt es an, als Ich-Bewußstsein sich wirklich zu entwickeln, und mit diesem Ich-Bewußtsein beginnt dann das Kind alle Vorstellungen zu verknüpfen, die es von außen hereinnimmt. Das ist der Moment, wo das menschliche Ich beginnt, sich vor seine Vorstellungen zu stellen und diese hinter sich zu setzen. Sie können das fast handgreiflich erfassen: Vorher war das Ich sozusagen in seinem ganzen Vorstellungsleben darinnen; dann tritt es heraus und stellt sich so, daß es nunmehr frei der Zukunft entgegengeht und sozusagen gewappnet ist, alles das, was aus der Zukunft herankommt, aufzunehmen, aber hinter sich stellt die vergangenen Vorstellungen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":333,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p025"},{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Wenn wir das, was wir jetzt gesagt haben, festhalten, was muß denn dann geschehen in dem Moment, wo das Ich anfängt, alle Vorstellungen sozusagen in sich hereinzunehmen, wo das Ich bewußt wird? Da muß das Ich sich verbinden mit dem fortfließenden Strom, mit dem, was wir den Ätherleib genannt haben. Und in der Tat, in dem Moment, wo das Kind anfängt, sein Ich-Bewußtsein zu entwickeln, da hat der Strom des Seelenlebens einen Eigeneindruck auf den Ätherleib gemacht. Dadurch entsteht aber auch die Ich-Vorstellung. Denn bedenken Sie einmal, daß die Ich-Vorstellung Ihnen niemals von außen gegeben werden kann. Alle andern Vorstellungen, die sich auf die physische Welt beziehen, sind Ihnen von außen gegeben. Die Ich-Vorstellung, schon die Ich-Wahrnehmung kann Ihnen niemals von außen zufließen. Das wird Ihnen erst erklärlich, wenn Sie sich jetzt vorstellen, daß das Kind, bevor es die Ich-Vorstellung hat, unfähig ist, den eigenen Ätherleib zu verspüren; in dem Augenblick, wo es anfängt, das Ich-Bewußtsein zu entwickeln, verspürt es seinen Ätherleib, und es spiegelt zurück in das Ich das Wesen des eigenen Ätherleibes. Da hat es den «Spiegel». Während also alle andern Vorstellungen, die sich auf den physischen Raum und auf das Leben im physischen Raum beziehen, durch den physischen Leib des Menschen aufgenommen werden, nämlich durch die Sinnesorgane, entsteht überhaupt das Ich-Bewußtsein dadurch, daß das Ich den Ätherleib ausfüllt und sich gleichsam an seinen Innenwänden spiegelt. Das ist das Wesentliche des Ich-Bewußtseins, daß es der nach innen sich spiegelnde Ätherleib ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":243,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p026"},{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Durch was kann das Ich denn nur veranlaßt werden, sich so im Innern zu spiegeln? Dadurch allein kann es dazu veranlaßt werden, daß der Ätherleib einen gewissen inneren Abschluß erlangt. Wir sahen ja, daß dem Ätherleib entgegenkommt der Astralleib. Es ist also sozusagen das Ich, welches den Ätherleib ausfüllt und sich dieses Ätherleibes als solchem, wie durch innere Spiegelung, bewußt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":61,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p027"},{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Aber eines hat diese Ich-Vorstellung, dieses Ich-Bewußtsein: es wird mächtig ergriffen von aller Interessiertheit und von allen Begehrungen. Denn die setzen sich gehörig fest in dem Ich. Aber trotzdem sich die Interessiertheit, die Begehrungen so in dem Ich festsetzen was wir als die verschiedenen Egoismen bezeichnen -, müssen wir sagen: Diese Ich-Wahrnehmung hat wieder etwas sehr Eigentümliches. Sie hat in gewisser Beziehung doch wieder etwas Unabhängiges von den Begehrungen. Es gibt nämlich eine gewisse Forderung in der Menschenseele, die sie sich selbst stellt und die ja sehr leicht für die Seele selber beglaubigt werden kann. Es wird sich jede Seele sagen: Durch das bloße Begehren kann ich unmöglich mein Ich hervorrufen. Wenn ich noch so sehr mein Ich wünsche: dadurch ist es nicht da, daß ich es wünsche. - Ebensowenig wie das Ich etwa nur besteht aus dem fortfließenden Strom der Vorstellungen, ebensowenig besteht es aus dem andern Strom, der aus der Zukunft in die Vergangenheit geht, dem Strom der Begehrungen. Es ist ein von beiden Strömen grundverschiedenes Element, das aber beide Ströme in sich aufnimmt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p028"},{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Das können wir uns graphisch darstellen — und die graphische Darstellung entspricht in diesem Falle vollständig dem Tatbestand -, indem wir den Strom des Ich senkrecht auf den Strom der Zeit [auffallen] lassen. So muß man es nämlich tun, wenn man alle Seelenerscheinungen richtig in Betracht zieht. Sie kommen zurecht mit den Seelenerscheinungen, wenn Sie außer den beiden Strömen — dem aus der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft und dem aus der Zukunft in die Vergangenheit [Pfeil C-D] — noch eine solche Strömung in der menschlichen Seele annehmen, welche senkrecht auf den beiden andern steht [Pfeil E-F]. Das ist die, welche dem menschlichen Ich-Einschlag selber entspricht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":105,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p029"},{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Nun ist aber mit dem Ich etwas verbunden, was Sie auch wieder durch eine bloße Beobachtung des Seelenlebens leicht finden können, nämlich die Urteilsfähigkeit. Mit dem Ich schlägt die Urteilsfähigkeit herein. Sie können das an einer solchen Erscheinung wie der der Überraschung ganz leicht jetzt begreifen. Wenn das Ich - seitlich allerdings - wirkt, kann ein Ereignis an Sie herantreten, das Ihnen entgegenbringen wird eine Fülle von Interessiertheit. Aber wenn nicht seitlich zugleich einschlagen kann die urteilende Tätigkeit des Ich, dann ist es unmöglich, daß sich das Ereignis mit dem Urteil begegnet. Aber was geschieht denn, wenn das Ich seitlich einschlägt? Wir haben gesehen, es ist die Ich-Wahrnehmung wie eine innere Spiegelung in der Seele. Die Spiegelung müßte so geschehen, daß das Ich förmlich die Vorstellungen hinter sich hätte, die da unbewußt fließen. Das würde dann der Fall sein, wenn die Ich-Strömung so einströmte, daß sie tatsächlich in ihrem eigenen Einströmen die Richtung hat, die ich mit dem Pfeil E-F bezeichnet habe, im Leben aber die Richtung hätte, die ich mit dem Pfeil G-H bezeichne, nämlich der Zukunft entgegen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p030"},{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"![115-18](images/115-18.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p031"},{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Denken Sie sich: Sie stehen vor einem Spiegel und sehen hinein. Wenn auf der Rückseite des Spiegels kein Spiegelbelag ist, sehen Sie überhaupt nichts; dann sehen Sie in die unendliche Ferne hinein. Das ist zunächst der Blick des Menschen in die Zukunft. So sieht der Mensch in der Tat in den Strom hinein, der von der Zukunft hereinkommt. Der fließt seelisch auf ihn zu: er sieht nichts. Wann nur sieht er etwas? Wenn er dadrinnen - im Spiegel — etwas sieht von der Vergangenheit. Dann sieht er natürlich nicht die Zukunft, sondern die Vergangenheit! Sie sehen nicht die Gegenstände, welche vor Ihnen sind, wenn Sie in den Spiegel schauen, sondern die, welche hinter Ihnen sind. Wenn das Ich - in dem Augenblick, wo das Kind zum Selbstbewußtsein kommt, das dadurch entsteht, daß das Ich einschlägt in den Ätherleib - sich innerlich spiegelt, so bedeutet alles seelische Leben von da ab ein Mitspiegeln der Erlebnisse, ein Mitspiegeln der Eindrücke. Daher können Sie sich an nichts erinnern, bevor sich das Ich zum Spiegelapparat gemacht hat. Die allerersten Kindheitseindrücke bleiben außer der Erinnerung. Das Wesentliche ist nämlich, daß das menschliche Ich, insofern es in den Ätherleib hineinschlägt, das heißt, aufnimmt die Vorstellungen aus der Vergangenheit, dadurch selber zu einem Seelen-Spiegelungsapparat wird. Und für alles, was es von da ab hereinnimmt in seinen Spiegelungsapparat, ist es zugänglich. Was muß denn also geschehen, damit nun das Ich sozusagen Vergangenes wirklich widerspiegeln kann?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":237,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p033"},{"locus":"GA 115/1910-11-04/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Man könnte sagen: Wenn Sie einen äußeren Eindruck haben, wie ich ihn vorhin geschildert habe - wenn Sie ein Bild neuerdings sehen, das Sie schon gesehen haben -, so wird dadurch die Spiegelung bewirkt in bezug auf die alte Seelenvorstellung, die früher unbewußt war; die wird dadurch von der andern Seite so in ihrer Strahlung zurückgehalten, daß sie in den inneren Seelenspiegel hereinfällt. Wenn aber kein neuer Eindruck, keine Wiederholung irgendeines alten Eindruckes geschieht, so muß das Ich selbst herbeiziehen, was als Spiegelung auftreten soll; da muß es von der andern Seite wirken und Ersatz schaffen für das, was sonst der äußere Eindruck bewirkt hat. Was ist denn aber dieses Ich zunächst, wie es sich im physischen menschlichen Leben auslebt? Es ist die innere Erfüllung des Ätherleibes. Also es muß innerlich diesen Ätherleib, damit es sich an seinen Innenwänden spiegeln kann, zum Spiegeln gebracht haben. Das kann nur dadurch - geschehen, daß der Ätherleib wirklich abgeschlossen wird. Für die äußeren Sinneseindrücke wird er abgeschlossen, indem Sie im physischen Leibe sind, denn dadurch sind Sie mit Augen, Ohren und so weiter umgeben, und was innerhalb des Ätherleibes lebt, kann dadurch zurückgeworfen werden. Für das aber, dessen Sie sich frei erinnern sollen, müssen Sie eine andere Kraft haben, denn wenn der Ätherleib spiegeln soll, muß er einen Spiegelbelag haben. Diesen Spiegelbelag geben für die neuen Eindrücke die Sinnesorgane, das heißt der physische Leib. Wenn aber der physische Leib nicht wirkt, wie das bei einer freien Erinnerung ist, wenn wir keine neuen Eindrücke zur Auffrischung haben, so muß der Belag von der andern Seite hergenommen werden. Das kann nur dadurch geschehen, daß wir das, was entgegenschlägt dem Ich, wir könnten sagen, seitlich entgegenschlägt dem Ich, als eine Hauptkraft verwenden, indem wir das Begehren heranziehen, den uns entgegenkommenden Strom hereinschieben und ihn zum Spiegelbelag machen. Das heißt, nur durch eine entsprechende Stärkung unseres Astralleibes können wir bewirken, daß wir die Strebenskräfte, die Begehrungskräfte entwickeln können, die uns fähig machen, eine Vorstellung, die sich weigert zur Spiegelung zu kommen, in die Erinnerung heraufrufen. Nur dadurch, daß wir unser Ich, wie es sich in der physischen Welt auslebt, stärker machen, sind wir allein imstande, diesen Strom, der sonst nicht von uns ergriffen wird, der von der Zukunft kommt, tatsächlich hereinzuziehen und ihn zum Spiegelbelag zu machen. Also nur durch eine Stärkung unseres Ich, nur durch den Umstand, daß wir das Ich zum Meister des Astralleibes, des Stromes aus der Zukunft machen, können wir das Ich zur Erinnerungsfähigkeit bringen von Vorstellungen, die sich nicht spiegeln wollen, die sich weigern, sich uns zu ergeben. Es ist da ein Kampf, den wir kämpfen mit den unbewußten Vorstellungen. Das Ich ist nicht stark genug, sie herbeizuholen, und da müssen wir eine Anleihe machen bei dem, was uns entgegenkommt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":458,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/115/1910-11-04/p034"}],"beads":[{"from":[24,25],"to":[25],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[26],"to":[26],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[27,28],"to":[27,28,29],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[30],"to":[30],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[31],"to":[31],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[32,33,34,35],"to":[33,34],"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).","uncovered":[29]}}