{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 146/1913-06-03/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What in earlier life lives as a sleeping force and only wakens with puberty, seen in its original and essential form is the very same as those forces that in sleep regenerate the outworn forces in man. Only they are hidden by the other parts of human nature in which they are mingled. Invisibly in man there are at work forces that can become capable of either good or evil only when they awaken, but that sleep, or at most dream, until the time of puberty. Since the forces that manifest themselves afterward must first be prepared, they are intermingled, though not yet awake, with the remaining forces in man even from birth onward. All this time his nature is permeated by these sleeping forces. This is what meets us in the child as such a wonderful mystery. It is the sleeping generative forces that only waken later on. One who is sensitive to these things feels something like a gentle breath of God in the activity of these forces withdrawn into reticence in childhood, whatever the naughtiness, obstinacy and other more or less unpleasant characteristics a child may have.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. The generative forces, sleeping during the most tender age of childhood, waken around the time of puberty, and from then on are still active in innocence when at night man sinks back into sleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Krishna, the Luke Jesus Child, and Human Creative Forces","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1913-06-03","location":null,"word_count":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-03/p013","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:embedding","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. 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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. 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