{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-21/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Most of us will remember that the consciousness we at present possess as earth-men between birth and death, is only one of the possible forms of consciousness. If, for instance, we study ‘Occult Science,’ we shall see that our present consciousness is a stage among seven different stages of consciousness, and that this consciousness which we possess today developed out of three other preceding stages of consciousness, and that it will at a later period develop into three other succeeding forms of consciousness. When we were Moon beings we had not yet an Ego. The Ego became united with man only during the Earth period. That is why we could not gain our present consciousness before the Earth period. Such a consciousness as we have today between birth and death, presumes that the Ego co-operates with the other three members exactly as it is doing today and is the most exalted of the four members of the human entity. Before we were impregnated with the Ego we comprised only physical body, etheric body, and astral body. The astral body was then our most exalted member, and our consciousness then was such as can to-day be compared only with our dream consciousness which is a survival of the past. But we must not think of the present dream consciousness, but one in which the dream images represent realities. If we study the dream as it is to-day, we shall find in its manifold images much that is chaotic, because our present dream consciousness is an ancient inheritance. But if we study the consciousness that preceded that of today, we should find that we could not at that time see external objects such as plants, for instance. Thus it was impossible for us to receive an external impression. Anything that approached us evoked an impression analogous to that of a dream, but corresponded to a certain external object or impression.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. The Relationships Between Karma and Accidents","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-05-21","location":null,"word_count":318,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-21/p015","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Manifestations of Karma","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA120/English/RSP1984/19100521p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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Das Ich verband sich mit dem Menschen erst während der Erdenzeit. Daher konnte der Mensch auch die heutige Art des Bewußtseins erst während der Erdenzeit haben. Ein solches Bewußtsein wie das, was wir heute haben zwischen Geburt und Tod, setzt voraus, daß das Ich genau so, wie es heute der Fall ist, mit den andern drei Gliedern zusammenwirkt und das höchste ist unter den vier Gliedern der menschlichen Wesenheit. Bevor der Mensch mit dem Ich befruchtet worden ist, bestand er nur aus physischem Leib, Ätherleib und astralischem Leib. Da war der astralische Leib sein höchstes Glied, und sein Bewußtseinszustand war ein solcher, daß wir ihn heute höchstens, wenn wir etwas aus dem gewöhnlichen Leben nehmen, mit dem vergleichen könnten, was der Mensch sich wie ein altes Erbstück erhalten hat im Traumbewußtsein. Aber Sie müssen sich nicht das heutige Traumbewußtsein vorstellen, sondern ein solches, das in den Bildern des Traumes Realitäten wiedergibt. Wenn Sie den heutigen Traum studieren, werden Sie in den verschiedensten Bildern recht viel Chaotisches finden, weil das heutige Traumbewußtsein ein altes Erbstück ist. Aber wenn Sie das Bewußtsein, welches dem heutigen vorangegangen ist, studieren würden, dann würden Sie finden, daß Sie äußere Gegenstände, zum Beispiel Pflanzen, damals nicht würden gesehen haben. Also es wäre ein äußerer Eindruck auf den Menschen unmöglich gewesen. 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