{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 140/1913-10-10/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When the Christian of the Middle Ages, or indeed the Christian of but a few centuries ago, turned his thoughts when at prayer to the dead who were near and dear to him, his feelings and sentiments were then more able than are such thoughts today to press up to the souls of the dead. It was much easier then for the souls of the dead to feel permeated with the warm breath of the love of those who thought of them and looked up to them in their prayers than it is today, if we only follow the external culture of the age. At the present time the dead are much more shut off from the living than they were a short time ago. It is, in a sense, much more difficult for them to perceive what lives in the souls of those they left behind. This lies in the evolution of mankind, but in this evolution of ours must also lie the recovery of this connection, this living intercourse between the living and the dead. In former times it was still natural to the human soul to be in touch with the dead, although no longer with full consciousness, for men had ceased to be clairvoyant for a very long time. In still earlier ages they could look up at their dead with clairvoyant vision and follow their subsequent life, and just as it was then natural to have living intercourse with the dead, so the soul today, if it acquires thoughts and ideas about the higher spiritual worlds, will acquire the power of establishing intercourse, living intercourse, with the dead. 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Man findet nämlich, daß der Verkehr zwischen Lebenden und Toten immer schwieriger und schwieriger wird, daß noch vor einer verhältnismäßig kurzen Zeit die lebendige Wechselwirkung der Lebenden und der Toten eine viel regsamere war. Wenn der Christ des Mittelalters oder auch der Christ noch gar nicht lang verflossener Jahrhunderte mit seinem Gebet das Gedenken an die ihm verwandten oder bekannten Verstorbenen gerichtet hat, so waren in diesen verflossenen Jahrhunderten die Gefühle, die Empfindungen eines solchen Betenden viel kraftvoller, als sie heute sind, um zu den verstorbenen Seelen hinaufzudringen. Viel leichter fühlte sich die verstorbene Seele in der Vergangenheit durchdrungen von dem warmen Hauch der Liebe derjenigen, die im Gebet zu ihr hinaufschauten oder hinaufdachten, als das heute der Fall sein kann, wenn wir uns nur der äußeren Zeitbildung hingeben. Und wiederum sind heute die Toten viel abgeschnittener von den Lebenden, als es noch vor einer verhältnismäßig kurzen Zeit der Fall war. Die Toten haben es heute gewissermaßen viel schwieriger, dasjenige zu erblicken, was in den Seelen der Zurückgebliebenen lebendig vorgeht. Dieses liegt in der Evolution der Menschheit. Aber in der Evolution der Menschheit muß es auch liegen, diesen Zusammenhang, diesen lebendigen Verkehr zwischen den Lebenden und den Toten wiederum zu finden. Es war in früheren Zeiten der Menschenseele ein lebendiger Zusammenhang mit den Toten noch auf natürliche Weise eigen, wenn auch nicht mehr mit vollem Bewußtsein, weil ja schon seit einer längeren Vergangenheit die Menschen nicht mehr hellsichtig sind. In noch früherer Zeit konnten die Lebenden auch noch hellsichtig aufblicken zu den Toten, das Leben der Toten verfolgen. Wie früher es der Seele natürlich war, eine lebendige Wechselwirkung zu haben mit den Toten, so kann heute die Seele dadurch, daß sie sich aneignet Gedanken und Ideen über die höheren, geistigen Welten, wieder die Kraft finden, den Verkehr mit den Toten, die lebendige Wechselwirkung herzustellen. Und unter den praktischen Aufgaben des anthroposophischen Lebens wird auch diese sein, daß wiederum die Brücke immer mehr und mehr gebaut werde durch die Geisteswissenschaft zwischen den Lebenden und den Toten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":442,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/140/1913-10-10/p006"}],"english":["GA 140/1913-10-10/p005","GA 140/1913-10-10/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":442,"en_words":426,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6352,"original_word_count":6736,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Henry Collison","identified_edition":"APC1928","book_title":"Descriptive Sketches of the Spiritual World","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA140/English/APC1928/19131010p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","note":"rsarchive's lecture list spells the credit 'Harry Collison'; the lecture pages of this edition print 'Henry Collison', which is served.","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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