{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 124/1911-01-16/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It can therefore be said that the principles a man may accept for the guidance of his life and the whole content of his consciousness belong to the second phase of development beginning at the point of time referred to. In the first phase he has a quite different relation to the environment; he feels much more closely connected with it. The only way to understand this thoroughly is to imagine what would happen if the form of consciousness which has produced this feeling of direct connection with the surrounding world in early childhood were to remain in later years. If that were the case human life would take a very different course. Man would not feel so isolated; even in later years he would feel himself to be an integral part, a member, of the Macrocosm, the Great World. As things are he loses his feeling of oneness with the Great World and believes himself to be isolated from it. In ordinary life this isolation comes into a man's consciousness in an abstract form only, for instance, in his egoisms, or in a tendency to shut himself off more and more within his own skin. The view that man's life is enclosed within his skin is complete nonsense. Whenever he exhales he becomes part of the outer world for the breath previously indrawn is now outside. Man's picture of himself is pure maya but his form of consciousness makes this inevitable. Human beings nowadays are neither particularly inclined nor indeed mature enough to understand karma. If, for instance, anyone gets his windows broken he is apt to take this as an offence directed against himself, and he is annoyed by it because he feels himself to be an isolated being. But were he to believe in karma he would feel related to the whole Macrocosm and would know that in point of fact it is we ourselves who have broken the windows. For in truth we are interwoven with the whole Cosmos and it is sheer nonsense to imagine that we are enclosed by our skin. But it is only in very early childhood that this feeling of oneness with the Cosmos exists; in later life it is lost at the point to which memory reaches.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. The Son of God and the Son of Man. The Sacrifice of Orpheus","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-01-16","location":null,"word_count":377,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/124/1911-01-16/p030","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. 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Dann würde sich der Mensch nicht so isoliert fühlen, sondern er würde in späteren Jahren sich als ein Glied des gesamten Makrokosmos fühlen, er würde sich darinnen fühlen in der großen Welt. Das geht ihm verloren. Er hat keinen Zusammenhang später mit der großen Welt, glaubt sich isoliert dastehend. Wenn er ein Mensch des gewöhnlichen Lebens ist, kommt ihm diese Isolation nur abstrakt zum Bewußtsein. Da kommt sie ihm namentlich zum Bewußtsein, wenn er immer mehr die Egoismen ausbildet, wenn er immer mehr sich sozusagen in seiner Haut abschließen will. Wenig Geschulte glauben - was eigentlich ein vollständiger Unsinn ist -, daß man als Mensch nur in der Haut lebt. Denn in dem Augenblick, wo man ausgeatmet hat, ist doch die ganze eingeatmete Luft draußen, so daß wir also schon durch Ein- und Ausatmen fortwährend mit der ganzen Umwelt in Korrespondenz stehen. Es ist eine absolute Maya, wie sich der Mensch sich selbst als ein Wesen vorstellt. Aber sein Bewußtsein ist schon so geartet, daß er in dieser Maya leben muß. Er kann gar nicht anders. Denn Karma zu erleben, dazu sind die Menschen wirklich weder sehr geneigt noch auch ganz besonders reif in unserer Zeit. Wenn heute zum Beispiel jemandem die Fenster eingeschlagen werden, so empfindet er das, weil er sich als ein isoliertes Wesen fühlt, als einen ihm persönlich zugefügten Schaden und ärgert sich. Wenn er aber an Karma glauben würde, dann würde er sich zugehörig fühlen zu dem ganzen Makrokosmos und würde wissen, daß es ja richtig ist, daß wir eigentlich diejenigen sind, welche die Fenster eingeschlagen haben. Denn wir sind in Wahrheit dem ganzen Kosmos einverwoben. Es ist ein völliges Unding zu glauben, daß wir in unserer Haut eingeschlossen sind. Aber dieses Gefühl des Verbundenseins mit dem Makrokosmos hat nur noch das Kind in den ersten Jahren. 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