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When we are addressing the living, talking to them about what this daily life should be, then, by reason of the satisfaction which these souls experience, we are creating ideas for their night-life which can be fruitful nourishment for those whose Karma has led them to die before ourselves. That is why the need is felt, not only of making Anthroposophy known by the ordinary outer methods, but there is also an inner longing to cultivate it in groups, for it is of great importance that persons who study Anthroposophy should associate together. As I have already said, the dead can only draw nourishment from those with whom they were connected in life, and they try to bring souls together so as to make the harvest-fields for the dead ever more extensive. Many a man who can find no harvest-fields after death because his whole family are materialists, can find some in the souls of the Anthroposophists with whom he has associated. That is a deeper reason why we should work together and are anxious that any member who dies should, before his death, become acquainted with persons, Anthroposophists, who while still on earth occupy themselves with spiritual things, for he can afterwards draw nourishment from them when they are asleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Living Intercourse with the Dead Through Spiritual Science","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Wenn wir in unserer heutigen Zeit, um wiederum spirituell Lebendiges in den Seelen zu haben, von dem sich die Toten nähren können, Geisteswissenschaft verbreiten, dann arbeiten wir wirklich nicht bloß für die Lebenden, nicht bloß darum, daß die Lebenden eine theoretische Befriedigung haben, sondern wir versuchen unsere Herzen und Seelen anzufüllen mit Gedanken der geistigen Welt, weil wir wissen, daß die Toten, die mit uns auf der Erde verbunden waren, nach dem Tode von diesen Ideen und diesen Empfindungen für das spirituelle Leben sich nähren müssen. Wir fühlen uns heute nicht nur als Arbeiter für die sogenannten lebenden Menschen, sondern zugleich auch als Arbeiter so, daß die geisteswissenschaftliche Arbeit, die Verbreitung des anthroposophischen Lebens auch den geistigen Welten dient. Wir schaffen, indem wir zu den Lebenden sprechen für deren Tagesleben, durch die spirituelle Seelenbefriedigung für das Nachtleben solche Ideen, die fruchtbare Nahrung für die Seelen sind, die früher hinzusterben als wir das Karma haben. Und deshalb ist der Drang vorhanden, nicht nur auf dem gewöhnlichen Wege äußerer Mitteilung die Geisteswissenschaft oder Anthroposophie zu verbreiten, sondern das liegt, man möchte sagen, insgeheim auf dem Grunde unserer Sehnsucht, diese Geisteswissenschaft oder Anthroposophie in Gesellschaften, in Zweigen zu verbreiten, weil es einen Wert hat, daß persönlich physisch in Gemeinsamkeit, in Gesellschaft diejenigen Menschen zusammen sind, die Geisteswissenschaft treiben. Denn ich habe ja gesagt, daß man als Toter nur Nahrung schöpfen kann von den Seelen, mit denen man zusammen war im Leben. Wir suchen die Seelen zusammenzubringen, um das Saatfeld für die Toten immer größer und größer zu machen. Gar mancher Mensch, der heute, wenn er dahingestorben ist, kein Saatfeld findet, weil seine Familie nur aus Materialisten besteht, findet es bei jenen Seelen der Anthroposophen, weil er mit Geisteswissenschaft zusammengebracht worden ist. 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