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These creative forces that raise man above the animal can really be perceived in a sleeping man. So we should have to say that whatever it is that repairs in sleeping man the forces he spends in his waking life, must be the forces that raise him above the animals.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-03/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-06-03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":755,"en_words":587,"ratio":0.78,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Science, however, is on the way and one day will reveal these forces by purely external methods. Indeed, there are already exceptions to the statement that the forces leading man out beyond the animal nature are ordinarily unobservable in him. When science once learns to distinguish these forces in man it will discover in the sleeping human body the physical evidence of man's transcending the animal kingdom. When it distinguishes the regenerative forces in man from what is present in the animal kingdom also, it will recognize how the creative forces active in the earth's life to raise man beyond the animal are awake only when man sleeps. From all this we can gather that in self-knowledge man's creative forces, the real human forces, can only be perceived by man when he becomes clairvoyant during sleep; that is, when in a condition otherwise like sleep he awakes clairvoyantly. In the fifth lecture we already indicated this fact.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":173,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-03/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-06-03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":755,"en_words":587,"ratio":0.78,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. 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That is very nearly possible ordinarily. Everyone whose intellect is bound to the world of sense will now say, “Inside there is no air, only an empty space; we cannot go any farther, there cannot be less than no air inside.” Actually that is not true. We can pump until no air at all is left, then go on pumping until we get a space still more empty of air than a vacuum. People dependent on the material will find it difficult to imagine this “less than nothing.” Or, suppose you have ten shillings in your pocket. You can gradually spend them until you have nothing left. In this domain of life there is a real “less than nothing.” It is often one of the strongest realities—you can go into *debt* for a few shillings. In practical life less-than-nothing is often more intensely real than the reality of possession.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-03/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-06-03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p006"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":331,"en_words":176,"ratio":0.53,"partial":true},"correspondence":"partial","note":"PARTIAL CORRESPONDENCE. The aligner paired 2 German passage(s) with 1 English, but the English side holds only ~53% of the German side's length (176 vs 331 words). One or more of the German passages above is likely NOT represented in this translation at all. 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We must imagine the world that surrounds us, which we know in the forces of nature throughout the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms, reduced down to nothing, then down to below nothing. Then it is that those forces arise that are creatively active in man when he sleeps. Natural science knows only the external side of these forces. In fact, it holds fast to a mere abstraction about them and therefore cannot enter into or appreciate them because ordinary science is to the reality in the forces of nature as the abstract number ten, for example, is to ten beans or ten apples. If we eliminate quality and say that all these are “ten” and nothing else, we are doing what natural science does, making no distinctions, touching only the surface of things. Suppose it gains the idea that regenerative forces must be present building up the organism again in sleep, then it will treat these forces as does a man who, when someone meets him saying, “I have fifteen shillings in my pocket,” replies, “Not so, you have *fifteen*.” The man leaves out of account the very thing that matters. Consequently science will confuse these forces with the ordinary natural laws, and will fail to recognize that higher laws are at work in them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":330,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-03/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-06-03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p008"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p009"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p010"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p011","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p011"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 146/1913-06-03/p008","GA 146/1913-06-03/p009","GA 146/1913-06-03/p010","GA 146/1913-06-03/p011"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":618,"en_words":330,"ratio":0.53,"partial":true},"correspondence":"partial","note":"PARTIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 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By introducing animal sleep into the argument one would speak the same fallacy as if someone were to say, “I sharpen my pencil with a knife and I also shave with a knife,” and another person replied, “That is impossible, knives are there to cut meat.” People are always making that kind of judgment. They think that a given thing must have the same function in different realms of nature. Sleep is an altogether different function in man from what it is in the animals.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-03/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-06-03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 146/1913-06-03/p012"],"length_check":{"de_words":238,"en_words":193,"ratio":0.81,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Now these forces are closely related to other forces, those that also develop in man with a certain unconsciousness. I mean the forces having to do with the propagation of the race. We know that up to a certain age man's consciousness is filled with a pure and straightforward unconsciousness of these forces; the innocence of childhood. Then at a certain age this consciousness awakens. From that time onward the human organism is permeated by an awareness of the forces afterward known as sensual sex-love.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":112,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-03/p012","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-06-03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 146/1913-06-03/p013"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":457,"en_words":418,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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One who is sensitive to these things feels something like a gentle breath of God in the activity of these forces withdrawn into reticence in childhood, whatever the naughtiness, obstinacy and other more or less unpleasant characteristics a child may have. These innocent qualities of the child are those of the grown-up person, but in childlike form. One who recognizes them as among the generative forces feels the breath of divine powers. While in later life they appear in man's lower nature, they are so wonderful because they really breathe the pure breath of God so long as they work in unconscious innocence. We must feel these things and be sensitive to them, then we shall perceive how wonderfully human nature is composed. 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In every human being two persons confront us—the one that we are from the time we waken until we go to sleep, the other, from going to sleep to waking again. In our waking state we are continually at pains to wear and worry our nature down to the animal level with all that is not pure knowledge, pure spiritual activity. What raises us above humanity holds sway like a pure, sublime force within the generative powers as they were during innocent childhood, and then in sleep it is awakened in the regeneration of what is worn away in waking life. So we have in ourselves one person who is related to the creative forces in man, and another who destroys them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-03/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-06-03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 146/1913-06-03/p014"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":248,"en_words":216,"ratio":0.87,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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When at last the latter have been removed altogether, we wake up again.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-03/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-06-03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 146/1913-06-03/p014"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":248,"en_words":216,"ratio":0.87,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Wenn man also suchen würde im gewöhnlichen Tagesleben, in dem Leben, das dem äußeren physischen Plane angehört, nach den Tatsachen des Erkennens, so würde man einen Zerstörungsprozeß im Nervensystem finden. Man würde also keinen schöpferischen, keinen aufbauenden Prozeß finden. Aber die schöpferischen Kräfte, die den Menschen erst eigentlich zuwege bringen, indem sie ihn über die Tierheit erheben, können sich im wachen Tagesleben, in dem Leben, das für gewöhnlich das erkennende ist, überhaupt nicht entfalten. Die müssen da so zur Geltung kommen, daß sie die Zerstörung der Nervenstruktur nicht aufhalten. Das heißt aber, sie ruhen, sie schlafen im wachen Tagesleben. Man hat schon viel erkannt, wenn man den Satz durchdrungen hat, daß alles, was man erkennen müßte, um schon auf dem physischen Plan den materialistischen Darwinismus als einen Unsinn zu erkennen, eigentlich schläft vom Aufwachen bis zum Einschlafen, und daß statt dessen ein Zerstörungsprozeß da ist, während das ruht, was den Menschen über die Tierheit heraushebt. Die schöpferischen Kräfte, die den tierischen Organismus hervorbringen, stehen an Vollkommenheit hinter denjenigen zurück, die am menschlichen Organismus arbeiten. Während des wachen Tageslebens wirken diese schöpferischen Prozesse gar nicht, sondern ein anderer, der fortwährend gerade dasjenige zerstört, was über die Tierheit herausgeht, die schöpferischen Kräfte des Menschen. Diese Kräfte werden gerade während des wachen Tageslebens zerstört. Sie sind also gar nicht da. Während des wachen Tageslebens schlafen also die Kräfte, die eigentlich den Menschen über die Tierheit heben. Während des Schlafes treten sie nun auf. Da wird dasjenige, was zerstört worden ist, wiederum hergestellt, da wird das gleichsam wiederum ausgefüllt. So daß wahrgenommen werden könnten die schöpferischen Kräfte, die den Menschen über die Tierheit herausheben, eigentlich nur an dem schlafenden Menschen. Wir würden also zu sagen haben: Dasjenige, was am schlafenden Menschen wiederum herstellt die Kräfte, die während des tagwachen Lebens abgebraucht werden, das müssen Kräfte sein, die den Menschen über die Tierheit herausheben. Diese Kräfte sind ja zwar heute der äußeren Naturwissenschaft noch unbekannt; sie gelangt erst allmählich dazu, sie zu ahnen. Aber sie ist auf dem Wege, diese Kräfte ganz mit äußeren Mitteln einmal bloßzulegen. Wirklich beobachtet könnten sie nur im Menschen werden, wenn man beobachten würde, wie beim Menschen der Reorganisationsprozeß im Schlafe sich vollzieht. Denn das erleidet allerdings schon Ausnahmen, daß nicht beobachtbar sind am Menschen für gewöhnlich diejenigen Kräfte, die über die Tierheit hinausführen. Wenn einmal die Naturwissenschaft unterscheiden wird diejenigen Kräfte im Menschen, die in ihm vorhanden sind über die Tierheit hinaus, dann wird sie gerade am schlafenden Menschenleibe das Herausgehobensein des Menschen über die Tierheit auch physisch konstatieren, weil man erkennen wird, wie schöpferisch während des Schlafens dasjenige wirkt, was zerstörend wirkt während des Tagwachens. Wenn einmal die Naturwissenschaft unterscheiden lernen wird die Regenerationskräfte im Menschen von dem, was in der Tierheit vorhanden ist, dann wird sie erkennen, wie die schöpferischen Kräfte, die im Erdenleben walten, um den Menschen über die Tierheit herauszuführen, nur wachen, wenn der Mensch schläft. Es schlafen also des Menschen eigentliche Schöpferkräfte, wenn der Mensch wacht; und es wachen des Menschen eigentliche Schöpferkräfte, wenn der Mensch schläft. Aus alle dem können wir entnehmen, daß in Selbsterkenntnis, in wirklicher Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen schöpferische Kräfte, die eigentlich menschlichen Kräfte, nur dann wahrgenommen werden können, wenn der Mensch hellsichtig wird während des Schlafens, das heißt, in einem, dem sonstigen Schlafe gleichen Zustand hellsichtig aufwacht. Im fünften Vortrage dieser Betrachtungsreihe habe ich ja schon darauf hingewiesen. Heute aber habe ich ja schon gesagt, daß in einer gewissen Weise man aus den Prozessen, die sich am schlafenden Menschen zeigen, nach und nach naturwissenschaftlich Hinweisungen finden wird auf diese Kräfte, die den Menschen heraufheben über die Tierheit. Aber es werden eben immer nur Hinweise bleiben. Denn diese Kräfte stellen sich gerade, wenn sie sich heute dem hellsichtigen Bewußtsein darstellen, als solche dar, daß sie ihre wahre, ureigentliche Gestalt nicht nach außen den Sinnen zeigen können. Man wird einmal auf diese Kräfte Schlüsse ziehen können aus naturwissenschaftlichen Tatsachen. Aber aus einem ganz anderen Grunde als dem, daß diese Kräfte eigentlich nicht wahrnehmbar sind, werden diese Kräfte - zwar nicht wahrnehmbar, so doch erschlossen werden können: aus dem Grunde nämlich, weil diese Kräfte, welche die menschenschöpferischen Kräfte genannt werden können, sich zu allem, was sonst Naturkräfte sind, in einer ganz besonderen Weise verhalten. Es ist ein ziemlich schwieriges Kapitel, auf das man da kommt, aber wir werden es uns in der folgenden Weise wohl klar machen können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":755,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p005"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Nehmen wir an, wir hätten hier den Rezipienten einer Luftpumpe, eine Glasglocke, aus der wir die Luft herauspumpen, und nehmen wir an, es würde uns gelingen, diese umgestürzte Glasglocke wirklich luftleer zu machen. Das ist ja angehend möglich für die äußere Erfahrung. Da wird nun jeder sagen, der mit seinem Verstande an der sinnlichen Welt kleben will: Da drinnen ist also keine Luft, da ist ein luftleerer Raum. Mehr kann man ja nicht machen, weniger als keine Luft kann da nicht drinnen sein. —- Wahr ist das doch nicht. Denken wir uns einmal, wir pumpten, das heißt wir machten die Luft immer dünner da drinnen. Dann können wir uns vorstellen, daß das so weit gehen könnte, daß wir gewissermaßen am Nullpunkt angelangt wären, daß wir nun aber weiter pumpten, und nun unter Null gehen könnten: dann würden wir einen Raum bekommen, der weniger als luftleer wäre. Die Menschen, die sehr am Materiellen hängen, werden sich das schwer vorstellen können, denn die Menschen können sich gewöhnlich nicht «weniger als nichts» vorstellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":170,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p006"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"In bezug auf Sinneswahrnehmungen wird diese Vorstellung schon eher vollzogen werden können. Denken wir uns einmal, wir seien in einem Walde, wo viele, viele Vögel singen. Mitten darin sind wir in diesem Vogelgesang. Nehmen wir nun aber an, wir entfernten uns immer mehr und mehr, wir gingen aus dem Walde heraus, wir hörten den Vogelsang immer weniger, kämen an einen Ort, wo wir ihn nicht mehr hören könnten, aber wir gingen noch weiter: dann muß das Verringertwerden des Hörens doch auch weiter gehen. Wir kommen zur Stille, aber wenn wir weiter gehen, doch auch in bezug auf den Vogelgesang zu dem, was unter der Stille, unter der Ruhe ist. Sie sehen, daß dieser zweite Gedanke, diese zweite Vorstellung schon besser zu vollziehen ist als die erste. Daß es gerade eine Grenze gibt, wo wir nichts mehr hören, können wir uns leicht vorstellen. Aber wir können uns auch noch vorstellen, daß wir weiter gehen können, wobei wir sogar weniger als nichts hören.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p007"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Es ist manchmal ganz wunderbar, welche Dinge wie Axiome, wie Selbstverständlichkeiten hingenommen werden. So können wir in zahlreichen philosophischen Werken des Westens lesen: Weniger als nichts kann nirgends da sein, weniger als nichts gibt es nicht. - Ja, nicht einmal das Nichts, so behaupten manche, könne da sein. Jetzt muß ich etwas recht Triviales sagen. Im Leben bemerken die Menschen schon recht gut, daß es sowohl ein «Nichts» als auch ein «Weniger-als-Nichts» gibt für gewisse Tatsachenreihen. Wenn Sie zehn Mark in der Tasche haben, so können Sie diese immer mehr verringern. Sie können fünf, vier, drei, zwei, eine Mark aus ihnen machen, und diese eine können Sie auch noch ausgeben. Da kann man schon zu einem Nichts kommen. Aber auf diesem Gebiete gibt es sogar wirklich ganz real ein Weniger-als-Nichts. Das ist sogar recht oft eine sehr starke Realität, denn jeder Mensch ist wohl zufriedener, wenn er zwei, drei, vier, fünf Mark in der Tasche hat, als wenn er zwei, drei, vier, fünf Mark schuldig ist. Das ist weniger als nichts, und dieses Weniger-als-Nichts ist in unserem praktischen Leben sogar eine recht starke, recht wirksame Realität. Denn diese Realität des Weniger-als-Nichts kann ja sogar eine viel stärkere Realität sein als die Realität des Besitzes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p008"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Was in diesem trivialen Beispiele da ist, ist in der Tat in der Welt auch da. Alle philosophischen Deklamationen von dem «Nichts», von dem «Gehen bis zum Nichts» und so weiter sind eigentlich im Grunde genommen, wenn sie auch oftmals mit axiomatischer Prätention auftreten, Wischiwaschi, so etwas, was ein verschwimmendes Nichts ist. Richtig selber wie ein verschwimmendes Nichts sind diese Axiome. Nichts sind diese Axiome über das Nichts. Es ist durchaus richtig, daß das Etwas, das physische Etwas heruntervermindert werden kann bis zu dem Nichts, und dann noch weiter, zum Weniger-als-Nichts. Es ist durchaus richtig, daß dieses Nichts überall ein realer Faktor ist. Die Welt, die uns umgibt, die wir als Naturkräfte kennen, müssen wir uns, so wie sie im mineralischen, pflanzlichen, tierischen Reich uns entgegentritt, bis ins Nichts heruntergemindert denken, dann aber noch weiter, unter das Nichts heruntergemindert: dann kommen die Kräfte heraus, welche die schöpferischen Kräfte sind, wenn der Mensch schläft. So verhalten sich die Kräfte, die den Menschen regenerieren, wenn er schläft, zu den gewöhnlichen Naturkräften, die um uns herum sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p009"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Da nun aber die gewöhnliche Naturwissenschaft von den Kräften nur die Außenseite kennt, eigentlich sogar nur ein Abstraktum festhält, so kann sie auf diesen Unterschied überhaupt nicht eingehen. Denn die gewöhnliche Naturwissenschaft verhält sich zu der Wirklichkeit in den Naturkräften so, wie man sich etwa verhalten würde, sagen wir, zu zehn Linsen, zehn Erbsen, zehn Bohnen, indem man die Qualität wegläßt, und nur die Zahlen sagt: es sind ja alle drei eben zehn, nichts anderes als zehn. So unterscheidet die äußere Naturwissenschaft nicht, sondern sie hat gemeinsame Namen, die aber nur wie die Zahl die Oberfläche der Dinge berühren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":99,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p010"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Nehmen Sie nun an, daß die Naturwissenschaft einmal darauf kommen wird: es müssen Kräfte walten, wenn im Schlaf der Organismus wieder regeneriert, wieder aufgebaut wird, — so wird sie sich zu diesen Kräften verhalten, wie jemand sich gegen einen Menschen verhält, der ihm sagt: Ich habe fünfzehn Mark in der Tasche, — und dieser Jemand würde nun antworten: So, Mark interessiert mich nicht, fünfzehn hast du. — Dann käme ein anderer und sagte: Ich habe fünfzehn Mark Schulden. - Dann würde der Jemand sagen: Das ist nicht wahr, fünfzehn hast du. — Er läßt unbeachtet, um was es sich gerade handelt. So auch wird man weglassen gerade das Charakteristische der Kräfte, die den Menschen aufbauen während des Schlafes. Die Folge wird sein, daß man diese Kräfte verwechseln wird mit den gewöhnlichen Naturgesetzen und nicht erkennen wird, daß da höhere Gesetze walten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":141,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p011"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Das alles erwähne ich, um zu zeigen, welche Schwierigkeit die äußere Wissenschaft immer hat und haben muß, wenn sie die Wahrheit erkennen will. Zwar wird sie Schlüsse machen und dann wohl auf die Wahrheit kommen. Aber das wird für eine gewisse Anzahl von Menschen nicht notwendig sein, denn es wird ja diese Wissenschaft allmählich unterstützt werden von dem hellsichtigen Erkennen, für das sich allerdings diese Kräfte ganz anders verhalten als die Kräfte, die wir draußen im mineralischen, pflanzlichen, tierischen Reich regsam finden. Ich kann jetzt nicht darauf eingehen, daß ein oberflächlicher Einwand der wäre, daß die Tiere ja auch schlafen. Solche Einwände sind logisch wirklich ganz minderwertig, aber man bemerkt nicht ihre Minderwertigkeit, weil man nicht nach dem Wesen der Sache, sondern nach Begriffen urteilt. Derjenige, der den tierischen Schlaf in diese Betrachtung hereinbringen würde, der würde logisch denselben Fehler begehen, wie wenn jemand sagen würde: Ich spitze meinen Bleistift mit einem Messer und ich rasiere mich mit einem Messer, — und der andere würde sagen: Das kann ja gar nicht sein, ein Messer gehört zum Fleischschneiden. — So urteilen die Menschen überall. Die Menschen denken, dasselbe habe für andere Reiche dieselbe Funktion. Das ist aber derselbe Fehler, wie wenn jemand, der nur ein Messer beim Fleischschneiden gesehen hat, und nun sieht, wie ein Messer zum Rasieren verwendet wird, das Rasieren mit dem Fleischschneiden zusammenbringen würde. Der Schlaf ist beim Menschen eine ganz andere Funktion als beim Tier.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p012"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Ich wollte Sie hinweisen auf Kräfte, die in der menschlichen Natur walten, die also zunächst uns entgegentreten, wenn wir den schlafenden Menschen ins Auge fassen, die uns entgegentreten bei der Regeneration des Organismus im Schlafe. Aber diese Kräfte sind mit anderen Kräften verwandt, mit denselben Kräften durchaus verwandt, welche im Menschen sich auch mit einer gewissen, man möchte sagen, Unbewußtheit entwickeln. Es entwickeln sich im Menschen gewisse Kräfte mit einer gewissen Unbewußtheit: das sind die Kräfte, welche zusammenhängen mit der menschlichen Fortpflanzung, mit der menschlichen Generation. Wir wissen ja, daß im menschlichen Bewußtsein bis zu einem gewissen Lebensalter über diese Kräfte eine unmittelbare holde Unbewußtheit waltet, die Unschuld des Kindesalters. Wir wissen, daß mit einem gewissen Alter über diesen Kräften das Bewußtsein erwacht, daß gleichsam von einem bestimmten Alter an der menschliche Organismus durchsetzt wird vom Bewußtsein aus mit den Kräften, die später die sinnliche Liebe der Geschlechter genannt werden. Was vorher waltet wie schlafende Kräfte, die erst mit der Geschlechtsreife erwachen, das sind, wenn sie in ihrer ureigenen Gestalt betrachtet werden, genau dieselben Kräfte, die im Schlaf die zerstörten Kräfte im Menschen wieder herstellen. Verdeckt sind diese Kräfte nur von der anderen menschlichen Natur, weil sie vermischt sind mit der anderen menschlichen Natur. Es walten unsichtbar im Menschen Kräfte, welche schuldvoll erst werden, wenn sie zum Erwachen kommen, welche schlafen oder höchstens träumen bis die Geschlechtsreife eintritt. Da in der menschlichen Natur die späteren Kräfte sich erst vorbereiten, so sind diese späteren Kräfte, die noch nicht wach sind, schon von der Geburt an vermischt mit den übrigen Kräften der menschlichen Natur, und diese menschliche Natur wird wie durchsetzt von diesen schlafenden Kräften. Das ist es, was als so wunderbares Mysterium uns im Kinde entgegentritt: die schlafenden Kräfte der Generation, die erst später erwachen. Daher ist es auch, daß derjenige, der für so etwas eine Empfindung hat, etwas wie das Wehen des Götterodems empfindet, wenn er unter den mannigfachen Ungezogenheiten, Eigensinnigkeiten und anderen mehr oder weniger unangenehmen Eigenschaften des Kindesalters dieselben Kräfte wirksam findet, die nur wie zurückgezogen sind im Kindesalter, dieselben Kräfte, die bei der Geschlechtsreife erwachen. Es sind diese Eigenschaften des Kindes schuldlos die Eigenschaften des Erwachsenen. So verspürt derjenige, der unter diesen Eigenschaften die in das Kindesalter wie zurückgezogenen Generationskräfte erkennt, den Odem der Götter, der göttlichen Kräfte, die so wunderbar sich ausnehmen, weil sie, indem sie später des Menschen niedere Natur darstellen, solange sie in Unschuld walten, einen göttlichen Hauch wirklich darbieten. Diese Dinge muß man empfinden, fühlen. Dann wird man das menschliche Wesen so wunderbar zusammengefaßt erkennen aus den Kräften, die im zartesten Kindesalter wie schlafend walten und später, wenn sie erwachen, wirksam nur sind, wenn sie in Unschuld walten, wenn der Mensch in der Nacht in die Unschuld des Schlafens zurücksinkt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":457,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p013"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"So zerfällt uns die menschliche Natur gleichsam in zwei Teile. Wir haben eigentlich in jedem Menschen zwei Menschen vor uns: den einen Menschen, der wir sind vom Aufwachen bis zum Einschlafen, und den anderen Menschen, der wir sind vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen. In dem einen Menschen sind wir fortwährend bemüht, unsere Natur bis zur Tierheit herabzuquälen mit allem, was nicht Erkenntnis ist, was nicht rein im Geiste erfaßt wird. Mit alle dem sind wir immerdar bemüht, unsere Natur zur Tierheit herabzuquälen. Dies ist während unseres Wachzustandes. Was uns aber über diesen Menschen erhebt, waltet zunächst als holdselige Kraft unschuldsvoll während der Kindheit innerhalb der Generationskräfte, und waltet, wenn diese Kräfte erwachen, im Schlafe, wenn regeneriert wird, was durch das Tagwachen zerstört worden ist. So haben wir einen Menschen in uns, der verwandt ist mit den schöpferischen Kräften im Menschen, und einen Menschen, der diese Kräfte zerstört. Das Bedeutsame aber in der Doppelnatur des Menschen ist, daß man eigentlich hinter alle dem, was die Sinne wahrnehmen, zu vermuten hat einen anderen Menschen, einen Menschen nämlich, in dem die schöpferischen Kräfte walten. Dieser zweite Mensch, in dem die menschenschöpferischen Kräfte walten, ist ungemischt eigentlich nie da. Er ist niemals ohne Mischung da: während des Wachens ist er nicht da und während des Schlafens auch nicht. Denn während des Schlafens bleibt ja der physische Leib und Ätherleib durchsetzt von den Nachwirkungen des Tages, von den Zerstörungskräften. Wenn diese Zerstörungskräfte aber endlich fortgeschafft worden sind, so wachen wir ja wieder auf.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":248,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-03/p014"}],"beads":[{"from":[5,6,7,8],"to":[5],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[9],"to":[6,7],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[10],"to":[8,9,10,11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[11],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[12,13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[14,15],"to":[14],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}