{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 145/1913-03-29/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The further the human being progresses in his development, the more the Self manifests the tendency to split up, to divide. It sends out, as it were, the contents of its consciousness, and these make ‘messenger paths’ in the world. If, for example, a human being wishes to learn to know a being belonging to the Hierarchy of the Angels, it is not sufficient for him to exercise the ordinary forces of perception; if he really wishes to know this being he must be able to transfer his consciousness; that is, he must be able to separate the forces of his Self and transpose a part of his self-consciousness into the being of the Angel. Whatever sort of being we wish to know, we can only do it by transposing our self-consciousness into this being. It is the impulse of the Self to go out of itself, to transpose itself into the other being and allow that which at first lived only in oneself to enter the life of the other being. At a lower stage in the development of the human being, at the stage of ordinary human existence, this manifests as a certain impulse to remove its consciousness out of itself; this can be seen in the need for sleep. And that which psychically drives man to sleep is exactly the same that in higher development directs the consciousness, not into the unconscious world of sleep, but into the consciousness of the Angels or the Spirits of Form or still Higher Hierarchies. Thus one might be paradoxical by inquiring: What does it imply when a man becomes acquainted with one of the Elohim, one of the Spirits of Form? It means that he has developed so far that he is able to sleep over into the consciousness of the Elohim and to awaken within the Elohim, possessing the consciousness of this Spirit of Form, of this spirit belonging to the Higher Hierarchies. This is recognition of a higher being: consciousness must be resigned as in sleep, but so resigned that by reason of the higher forces awakened within, it reawakens and radiates towards us as the consciousness of the higher being. Thus, an astral body under true occult development becomes like a sun which radiates its world-interests; but when the Self is more highly developed it becomes like the planets which circle round the sun of the astral body, and which, in their circling through the world, meet other beings, and by means of this bring messages from them to the perceptive nature of man. Thus the astral body and the Self of a human being undergoing occult development present the picture of a sun—which is the astral body—surrounded by its planets—that are a number of multiplications of the Self, sent out into other beings in order that the student through that which his multiplied Self rays back to him from these other beings may know their nature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture X","site_heading":"Physical and Spiritual Transformation Through Occult Development","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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Was wir immer für ein Wesen kennenlernen, wir können es nur so kennenlernen, daß wir unser Selbstbewußtsein in dieses Wesen hineinverlegen. Das ist der Drang des Selbstes, aus sich herauszugehen, sich in das andere Wesen hineinzuverlegen und das, was zuerst nur in einem selbst gelebt hat, weiterleben zu lassen in dem anderen Wesen. Dieser Drang zeigt sich auf einer niedrigeren Menschheitsstufe der menschheitlichen Wesenheit, auf der Stufe des gewöhnlichen Menschendaseins, in einem gewissen Drange, sein Bewußtsein aus sich selber heraus zu entfernen; es zeigt sich dieses in dem Bedürfnis nach Schlaf. Und dasjenige, was den Menschen seelisch zum Schlafen treibt, das ist ganz derselbe Impuls, der in höherer Ausbildung das Bewußtsein nicht in die unbewußte Schlafenswelt hinüberleitet, sondern in das Bewußtsein der Angeloi oder des Geistes der Form oder höherer Hierarchien. So könnte man das paradoxe Wort aussprechen: Was heißt es, einen der Elohim, einen der Geister der Form kennenzulernen? Das heißt, sich so weit entwickelt haben, daß man imstande ist, hinüberzuschlafen in das Bewußtsein des Elohim und im Elohim aufzuwachen mit dem Bewußtsein dieses Geistes der Form, dieses Geistes der höheren Hierarchien. Das heißt Erkennen einer höheren Wesenheit: sein Bewußtsein aufgeben, wie man es im Schlaf aufgibt, aber es so aufgeben vermöge der höheren in ihm erwachten Kräfte, daß dieses Bewußtsein aufwacht und einem als das Bewußtsein dieses höheren Wesens entgegenleuchtet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":328,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/145/1913-03-29/p008"},{"locus":"GA 145/1913-03-29/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"So wird ein astralischer Leib in richtiger okkulter Entwicklung wie eine Sonne, welche ihre Weltinteressen hinausstrahlt. 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