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In the course of our lives, we prepare ourselves to have certain powers when we have passed through death, so that Ahriman cannot do too much to us between death and a new birth. But sometimes we clearly show ourselves that we do not even welcome the fight against Ahriman, for example when we regret every tooth loss. But with every tooth that falls out, we gain a power that we can put to very good use. I am not, of course, speaking against the filling or insertion of teeth, because nothing Ahrimanic grows in us through this, at most the gold itself, but that is not the point. So there is no question of this being a bad thing. The fact that we gradually lose our Ahrimanic teeth is due to the fact that in evolution we also receive certain impulses that defeat Ahriman. And regardless of whether we have a tooth inserted again or not, once it has been lost, we have gained an impulse that helps us in the forces that we have to develop between death and a new birth at the very lowest level. It is a small thing at first, but it can show us how, when we approach reality and look beyond the appearance and the great deception that usually surrounds us, we really have to get into the habit of looking at things in life quite differently than they are usually looked at. And even the weakness of old age, for example, is a strength that, by feeling it, we gain directly to have something against Ahriman when we have passed through the gate of death. 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And we must now consider what the seer of this Ahriman actually is.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":90,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/150/1913-03-14/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-03-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":89,"en_words":90,"ratio":1.01,"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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It is really the case that the sleeping human body, physical body and etheric body, is of the same value as a plant; and what is outside, the I and the astral body, reflect their rays back onto the physical and etheric body, acting like the sun and stars and causing the forces that we have destroyed during the day to sprout out. Vegetable life grows, and the thinking during the day is actually only there to remove what the night has caused to sprout. When we wake up, we flit over our vegetative life, just as autumn flits over the plants of the earth. And what winter does to the vegetation of the earth, we do in exactly the same way to our physical and etheric body when we wake up, to that which they bring forth in the summer time of the soul, namely during the time when we are asleep at night. When we are awake, it is wintertime, the soul's real wintertime, and if we want to have the soul's springtime, we have to fall asleep. It is so. And from this point of view, it is actually easy to understand why people who do not at least mix something from the soul's summertime into their waking lives dry up so easily. Dry scholars, scrawny little professors, they are those who do not like to take in what is not fully conscious, who do not like to take in something of the soul's summer time. Then they dry up, then they become quite pronounced winter people. And to the seer, the whole development of human daily life presents itself as quite similar to what I have just said for nature. When man forms his ordinary thoughts that relate to the external, when he thinks only in a materialistic way about what happens externally, then his thoughts engage the brain in such a way that the brain secretes substances that Ahriman can put to good use, so that Ahriman actually accompanies the waking life of the day. And the more materialistic we are, the more possessed we are by Ahriman. 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And what we should get from anthroposophy is not just that we know this or that, that we know there is Ahriman, Lucifer, a physical body, an etheric body. That is the very least. What we are to acquire from anthroposophy is a certain mood of the soul, a basic feeling for human life, what is actually there in these depths of the soul. Therefore, it is necessary that we keep the words that are connected with these higher things with a certain sacred awe. If we always have them on our lips, then it all too easily happens that their seriousness and dignity become dulled for us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":123,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/150/1913-03-14/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-03-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":125,"en_words":123,"ratio":0.98,"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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So he stands there in full form before us, so he stands by our side, so we walk with him! Just as little as man knows Lucifer before he has stepped through the gate of death, so surely and clearly does he know him when he walks by his side between death and a new birth. Only that in the present cycle of time this consciousness can become a rather unpleasant one. We can pass through the region between death and a new birth in such a way that we have Lucifer beside us, so to speak, and realize his necessity for the world. The time is drawing near when people will only be able to pass through the life after death with Lucifer if they have already properly sensed and recognized the Luciferian impulses in the human soul here in life. Those people – and there will be more and more of them in the future – who want nothing to do with Lucifer, and that is probably the majority, will know all the more about Lucifer after death. Not only will he stand by their side, but he will continually tap their soul-forces, he will vampirize them. This is what man, through ignorance, prepares himself for, to be vampirized by Lucifer. In this way he robs himself of strength for the next life, for he gives it, in a sense, to Lucifer.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":375,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/150/1913-03-14/p017","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-03-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p017"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":411,"en_words":375,"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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The two spirits are always there between death and a new birth, but one time one is more present and the other less, the other time it is the other way around. We go there, and then back again in life between death and a new birth. At the time of passing away, Lucifer is especially at our side, and at the time of returning towards a new birth, Ahriman is especially at our side. For he leads us back to the earth, and he is an important personality in the second half of the return journey. And he too can, as it were, do harm to those people who do not want to believe in him in their life between birth and death. He gives them too much of his powers. He gives them what he always has left over, those powers that are connected with earthly heaviness, that bring illness and premature death upon people, that bring all kinds of misfortunes that look like coincidences into earthly existence, and so on. 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Im Laufe des Lebens bereiten wir uns schon vor, gewisse Kräfte zu haben, wenn wir. durch den Tod geschritten sind, so daß Ahriman uns nicht gar zu viel zu tun vermag zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt. Aber manchmal lassen wir deutlich uns selber merken, daß uns der Kampf gegen Ahriman nicht einmal willkommen ist, zum Beispiel, wenn wir jeden Zahnverlust bedauern. Aber mit jedem Zahn, der uns ausfällt, wächst uns eine Kraft zu, die wir sehr gut gebrauchen können. Ich rede selbstverständlich nicht gegen das Plombieren oder Einsetzen der Zähne, denn es wächst uns nichts Ahrimanisches zu dadurch, höchstens das Gold selber, aber darauf kommt es nicht an. Also davon kann keine Rede sein, daß das etwas Schlimmes ist. Daß wir nach und nach unsere ahrimanischen Zähne verlieren, kommt davon her, daß wir in der Evolution auch gewisse Impulse bekommen, die den Ahriman besiegen. Und gleichgültig ob wir einen Zahn wieder einsetzen lassen oder nicht, wenn er einmal verlorengegangen ist, so ist uns dadurch ein Impuls zugewachsen, der uns hilft in den Kräften, die wir entwickeln müssen zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt auf der alleruntersten Stufe. Es ist eine rechte Kleinigkeit zunächst, aber sie kann uns zeigen, wie wir im Grunde genommen wirklich uns angewöhnen müssen, wenn wir an die Wirklichkeit herantreten und über den Schein und die große Täuschung hinausblicken, die uns gewöhnlich umgibt, die Dinge ganz anders im Leben anzusehen, als sie gewöhnlich angesehen werden. Und auch die Schwäche des Alters zum Beispiel, ist eine Kraft, die, indem wir sie empfinden, uns direkt zuwächst, um wiederum etwas zu haben gegen den Ahriman, wenn wir durch die Pforte des Todes geschritten sind. Während wir hier zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode in der Tat böse sein können, wenn wir zu früh altern, müssen wir mit Bezug auf das, was wir nach dem Tode wollen, um mit Ahriman zurechtzukommen, froh sein, daß wir altern.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":368,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p013"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Und jetzt sehen Sie, wie wunderbar schön sich damit zusammenfügt, daß uns der innere geistig-seelische Kern verbleibt, der durchaus, in dem er sich zwischen Geburt und Tod fortentwickelt, mit den fortschreitenden Mächten zu tun hat. Denn dieser Keim, der durch die Pforte des Todes hindurchschreitet, ist da, wo er seine stärksten innerlichen Spannkräfte entwickelt hat, rein beherrscht von den fortschreitenden Mächten. Das, was außer ihm ist, was äußerlich abwelkt, das ist dasjenige, worin die ahrimanischen Kräfte sind. Und wir müssen nun berücksichtigen, was eigentlich dem Seher dieser Ahriman ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p014"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Wenn unsere Pflanzen herauswachsen aus unserer Erde, gegen den Herbst zu verwelken und die Blätter herunterfallen, dann erscheinen überall die Elementargeister, die Ahriman an die Oberfläche der Erde schickt. Da heimst er ein alles Ersterbende; das heimst er durch seine Elementargeister ein. Wenn man im Herbst durch die Fluren geht und die ersterbende Natur hellseherisch sieht, dann streckt überall Ahriman seine Kräfte aus, und überall hat er seine Elementarboten, die ihm zutragen das, was abwelkende physische und ätherische Wesenheit ist. Aber wir sind als Menschen den ganzen Tag über eigentlich auch gewissermaßen in einer Art von Herbst- und Winterstiimmung. Wahrhaftig, die Seelensommerstimmung ist eigentlich nur vorhanden, wenn die Seele schläft. Das ist wirklich so, daß der schlafende Menschenleib, physischer Leib und Ätherleib, von dem Werte einer Pflanze ist; und das, was draußen ist, das Ich und der astralische Leib, die werfen ihre Strahlen zurück auf den physischen und ätherischen Leib, wirken wie Sonne und Sterne und lassen da heraussprossen die Kräfte, die wir den Tag über zerstört haben. Da wächst das vegetabilische Leben, und das Tagesdenken ist eigentlich nur dazu da, um das, was die Nacht hat aufsprossen lassen, wiederum hinwegzuschaffen. Wenn wir aufwachen, dann huschen wir hin über unser vegetabilisches Leben, genau wie der Herbst über die Pflanzen der Erde. Und was der Winter tut an der Vegetation der Erde, das tun wir genauso im Tagwachen an unserem physischen und ätherischen Leib, an dem, was sie an sprießendem, sprossendem Leben in der Seelensommerzeit, nämlich zur nachtschlafenden Zeit hervorbringen. Wenn wir wachen, ist Winterzeit, richtig Winterzeit der Seele, und wenn wir Frühling der Seele haben wollen, so müssen wir einschlafen. Es ist so. Und von diesem Standpunkt aus ist es eigentlich leicht begreiflich, warum Menschen, die nicht wenigstens etwas aus der Seelensommerzeit hineinmischen in ihr tagwachendes Leben, so leicht vertrocknen. Trockene Gelehrte, dürre Professorenmännlein, das sind solche, die nicht gern das aufnehmen, was nicht ganz vollbewußt ist, die nicht gern aufnehmen etwas von der Seelensommerzeit. Dann vertrocknen sie, dann werden sie ganz ausgesprochene Wintermenschen. Und dem Seher stellt sich die ganze Entwickelung des menschlichen Tageslebens damit schon dar als ganz ähnlich dem, was ich Ihnen eben für die Natur gesagt habe. Wenn nämlich der Mensch seine gewöhnlichen, auf das Äußere bezüglichen Gedanken bildet, wenn er so recht materialistisch dasjenige nur denkt, was äußerlich geschieht, dann greifen seine Gedanken in das Hirn so ein, daß dieses Hirn Stoffe ausscheidet, die Ahriman gut gebrauchen kann, so daß eigentlich Ahriman das wache Tagesleben fortwährend begleitet. Und je materialistischer wir gesinnt sind, desto besessener sind wir von Ahriman. Kein Wunder, daß wahr ist, daß der Materialismus mit der Furcht zusammenhängt. Denn wenn Sie sich erinnern an den «Hüter der Schwelle», so werden Sie gewahr werden, wie die Furcht wiederum mit Ahriman zusammenhängt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":458,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p015"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Wir sollen das Gefühl erhalten, daß wir in der Tat im Leben komplizierten geistigen Welten gegenüberstehen. Und was wir von der Anthroposophie erhalten sollen, ist nicht allein das, daß wir dieses oder jenes wissen, daß wir wissen, es gibt den Ahriman, den Luzifer, einen physischen Leib, einen Ätherleib. Das ist das Allerwenigste. Was wir uns aneignen sollen aus der Anthroposophie, das ist eine gewisse Stimmung der Seele, ein Grundgefühl des menschlichen Lebens, was da eigentlich in diesen Untergründen der Seele ist. Daher ist es notwendig, daß wir mit einer gewissen heiligen Scheu die Worte bewahren, die mit diesen höheren Dingen zusammenhängen. Wenn wir sie immer auf den Lippen führen, dann geschieht es nur allzu leicht, daß ihr Ernst und ihre Würde sich für uns abstumpfen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":125,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p016"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"So sehen wir den Menschen zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode, in seinem Verhältnis zu den fortschreitenden geistigen Wesenheiten, in einer gewissen Weise zwischen Luzifer und Ahriman stehen. Und damit die gesamte Entwickelung des Menschen in der richtigen Weise sich vollziehen kann, muß dieses Verhältnis auch zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt so bleiben, nur daß, was zwischen der Geburt und dem Tod innerlich ist, zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt äußerlich wird. Innerlich hat Luzifer von dem Momente an, bis zu dem wir uns zurückerinnern, seine Krallen mit der menschlichen Seele verbunden. Innerlich — der Mensch weiß nichts davon, wenn er nicht durch Geisteswissenschaft etwas erfährt und darüber fühlen lernt. Nach dem Tode ist die Sache anders. Da tritt in einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt Luzifer, ebenso sicher wie zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode innerlich, in dem Leben zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt äußerlich aüf. So steht er dort in voller Gestalt vor uns, so steht er uns zur Seite, so wandeln wir mit ihm! So wenig nämlich der Mensch den Luzifer kennt, bevor er durch die Pforte des Todes getreten ist, so sicher und klar kennt er ihn, wenn er an seiner Seite geht zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt. Nur daß im jetzigen Zeitenzyklus dieses Bewußtsein ein recht unangenehmes werden kann. Wir können so durch das Gebiet zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt durchgehen, daß wir den Luzifer - der ja auch nicht nur etwas Furchtbares hat, sondern auch etwas Schönes, Herrliches in bezug auf seine äußere Gestalt-, daß wir gewissermaßen Luzifer neben uns haben und seine Notwendigkeit für die Welt einsehen. Immer mehr und mehr kommt die Zeit heran, wo die Menschen nur so das Leben nach dem Tode mit Luzifer durchschreiten können, wenn sie hier im Leben schon ordentlich die luziferischen Impulse in der Menschenseele haben ahnen- und kennengelernt. Die Menschen — und solche wird es ja auch gegen die Zukunft immer mehr und mehr geben -, die nichts wissen wollen von Luzifer, und das ist ja wohl gut die Mehrzahl, die werden um so mehr wissen von Luzifer nach dem Tode. Denn nicht nur, daß er an ihrer Seite stehen wird, sondern er wird an ihrer Seite fortwährend von ihren Seelenkräften abzapfen, er wird die Menschen vampirisieren. Das ist es, wozu man sich durch Unkenntnis vorbereitet, zum Vampirisiertwerden durch Luzifer. Dadurch entzieht man sich Kräfte für das nächste Leben, denn die gibt man an Luzifer in einer gewissen Weise ab.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":411,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p017"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"In einer ganz ähnlichen Weise ist es mit Bezug auf Ahriman. Mit Bezug auf ihn steht die Sache so. Die beiden Geister sind ja immer da zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt, aber das eine Mal ist der eine mehr und der andere weniger da, das andere Mal ist es umgekehrt. Wir gehen hin, und dann wiederum zurück im Leben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt. Bei dem Hingang ist besonders Luzifer, beim Zurückgehen gegen die neue Geburt zu besonders Ahriman an unserer Seite. Denn der führt uns wiederum zur Erde zurück, der ist bei der Rückwanderung in der zweiten Hälfte eine wichtige Persönlichkeit. Und auch er kann denjenigen Menschen, die nicht an ihn glauben wollen in ihrem Leben zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode, gewissermaßen Schlimmes zufügen. Er gibt ihnen nämlich dann zuviel von seinen Kräften. Er verleiht ihnen das, was er immer übrig hat, diejenigen Kräfte, die mit der irdischen Schwere zusammenhängen, die über die Menschen Krankheit und frühzeitigen Tod verhängen, die allerlei Unglücksfälle, die wie Zufälle aussehen, in das Erdendasein hineinbringen und so weiter. Das alles hängt zusammen mit diesen ahrimanischen Gewalten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p018"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Von einem etwas anderen Gesichtspunkte habe ich die Sache drüben in München dargestellt. Da habe ich nämlich aufmerksam darauf gemacht, daß die menschliche Seele nach dem Tode der dienende Geist sein kann für die Mächte, die Krankheit und Tod hereinsenden aus den übersinnlichen Welten in die sinnliche. Das, was gerade das Leben schwach macht, ist es, was Ahriman so sehr willkommen ist, und was es ihm möglich macht, unser Leben weiter zu schwächen. Aber wiederum dürfen wir nicht einseitig urteilen. Ganz falsch wäre es, wenn wir sagen wollten: Also ist es sehr schlimm, daß Ahriman uns hereingeführt hat in das Leben und daß wir etwa unter seinen Nachwirkungen im Leben zu leiden haben. — Nein, das ist gut, weil unter Umständen eine Krankheitswirkung das sein kann, was zu unserer aufsteigenden Entwickelung am allermeisten beiträgt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":134,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p019"}],"beads":[{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[17],"to":[17],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[18],"to":[18],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[19],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium"}],"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)."}}