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Through Anthroposophy we become able to use in the right way the organ that will be developed in human beings of the future, the organ for the remembering of former lives on earth. In our present incarnation we must inscribe in the Akasha-substance the knowledge we acquire in order that in our next incarnation we may be able to use this organ—which is developing in man whether he wishes it or not. In the future there will be men who are able to use this organ for remembering past lives and others who are not able. Certain illnesses will appear in the latter, owing to the presence in their physical bodies of an organ which they are unable to use. 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For a long time to come it will still be possible for a human being, even if he has neglected to use this organ in the present life, to put this right in the next, for there will be several more opportunities for him to regain health and acquire anthroposophical knowledge. The time will come, however, when this possibility will cease.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1913-05-01/p042","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-05-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 152/1913-05-01/p046","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p046"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":209,"en_words":202,"ratio":0.97,"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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Dieses Organ liegt im menschlichen Gehirn, in der Nähe des Sprachorgans.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":35,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p035"},{"locus":"GA 152/1913-05-01/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Die Entwickelung dieses Organs in den Gehirnwindungen ist nicht das Ergebnis des Karma individueller Seelen, sondern sie ist ein Ergebnis der menschlichen Evolution als eines Ganzen auf der Erde, und in der Zukunft werden alle Menschen dieses Organ besitzen, ganz gleich was die Entwickelung der Seelen sein mag, die sich in diesem Körper inkarnieren werden, und ganz unabhängig von dem Karma, das mit diesen Seelen verbunden ist. 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Diejenigen werden es richtig anwenden können, die jetzt die Möglichkeit vorbereiten, die jetzige Inkarnation wahrheitsgemäß in der Erinnerung zu haben, wenn sie in der nächsten sein werden. Denn dieses physische Organ wird das physische Mittel für die Erinnerung an eine frühere Inkarnation sein, was jetzt nur erreicht werden kann durch eine höhere geistige Entwickelung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":71,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p038"},{"locus":"GA 152/1913-05-01/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"Gegenwärtig kann für die weitaus größte Zahl von Menschen die Erinnerung an frühere Inkarnationen nur erlangt werden durch höhere geistige Entwickelung, durch Initiation. Aber das, was in jetzigen Zeiten nur durch Initiation erlangt werden kann, wird später gewissermaßen Gemeingut der Menschheit. Unser heutiges Wissen war früher das besondere Wissen der atlantischen Eingeweihten allein, jetzt kann es jeder besitzen. In derselben Weise ist die Erinnerung an frühere Erdenleben gegenwärtig nur den Eingeweihten möglich, aber in der Zukunft wird jede menschliche Seele im Besitz derselben sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p039"},{"locus":"GA 152/1913-05-01/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"Dem Eingeweihten ist es möglich, gewisse Kenntnisse ohne den Gebrauch eines physischen Organes zu erlangen, aber dieses Wissen kann nur dann das Gemeingut der Menschheit werden, wenn die Menschheit als Ganzes im Laufe der Evolution ein äußeres physisches Organ entwickelt, wodurch es erlangt werden kann. Die reinkarnierten Seelen müssen jedoch dieses Organ richtig gebrauchen können, mit dessen Hilfe man sich später an seine früheren Inkarnationen erinnern wird. Nur diejenigen, die in der jetzigen Inkarnation okkulte Gedanken und Ideen deutlich in die Akasha-Substanz eingeschrieben haben, werden dieses Organ auf die richtige Weise gebrauchen können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":93,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p040"},{"locus":"GA 152/1913-05-01/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"Man hört oft sagen: Was nützt es, an frühere Leben zu glauben, wenn die Menschheit im allgemeinen sich an nichts davon erinnern kann? — Man sollte lieber denken, wie viel erstaunlicher es wäre, wenn nach dem, was man vom Leben weiß, die Menschheit im allgemeinen schon jetzt sich ihrer früheren Leben erinnern könnte. Wenn wir uns fragen, was nötig ist, damit wir uns überhaupt an etwas erinnern können, so müßten wir antworten: Wir können uns nur dessen erinnern, was wir vorher gedacht haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":83,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p041"},{"locus":"GA 152/1913-05-01/p042","passage_number":42,"text":"Das alltägliche Leben kann uns dies lehren. Denken Sie sich, daß jemand seine Manschettenknöpfe nicht finden kann, wenn er des Morgens aufsteht. Er sucht sie überall, kann sie aber nicht finden. Warum kann er sie nicht finden? Weil er, während er sie weglegte, nicht an das gedacht hat, was er tat. Lassen Sie ihn das gegenteilige Experiment machen, lassen Sie ihn jeden Abend, während er seine Manschettenknöpfe weglegt, versuchen, sich klar bewußt zu sein: Ich lege meine Manschettenknöpfe an diesen Platz, - er wird sich dann nie irren, sondern wird gerade dahin gehen, wo er sie hingelegt hat. Der Gedanke ruft den Vorgang in seine Erinnerung zurück.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":107,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p042"},{"locus":"GA 152/1913-05-01/p043","passage_number":43,"text":"Wenn wir in einer zukünftigen Inkarnation leben, so werden wir uns nur dann an die vergangenen erinnern, wenn wir uns an die wahre Natur der Seele erinnern können, die fortdauert von einer Inkarnation zu der anderen. Derjenige, der im jetzigen Leben nicht okkulte Wissenschaft studiert, kann keine Erkenntnisse von der Beschaffenheit und Wesenheit der Seele erlangen, und wenn er diese Kenntnisse nicht hat, wie sollte er, wenn er wieder inkarniert ist, sich an das erinnern, woran er nie gedacht hat in der früheren Inkarnation?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p043"},{"locus":"GA 152/1913-05-01/p044","passage_number":44,"text":"Durch das Studium der Geisteswissenschaft, welches unter anderen Dingen das Studium der Wesenheit der Seele einschließt, bereiten wir in unserem Inneren dasjenige vor, was uns ermöglichen wird, in einer künftigen Inkarnation uns an das zu erinnern, was in dieser jetzigen geschehen ist. Es gibt jedoch gegenwärtig viele Menschen, die sich noch nicht dem Studium dieses Wissens widmen wollen. Diese werden wiedergeboren, vielleicht in der nächsten Inkarnation mit dem vorher erwähnten Organ für die Erinnerung an frühere Leben physisch ausgebildet, aber sie haben sich nicht so vorbereitet, daß sie sich an die Vergangenheit erinnern könnten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":94,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p044"},{"locus":"GA 152/1913-05-01/p045","passage_number":45,"text":"Was für eine Bedeutung hat dann die Geisteswissenschaft noch im heutigen Leben zu all dem hinzu, was wir bereits gesagt haben? Durch sie erlangen wir die Möglichkeit, in der richtigen Weise das Organ zu gebrauchen, welches in den Menschen der Zukunft entwickelt wird, nämlich das Organ für die Erinnerung an frühere Erdenleben. In unserer jetzigen Inkarnation müssen wir die Erkenntnisse unserer Seele in die Akasha-Substanz einschreiben, um in unserer nächsten Inkarnation das Organ für die Erinnerung an die Vergangenheit in der richtigen Weise gebrauchen zu können, das Organ, welches sich im Menschen entwickelt, ob er will oder nicht. Also in der Zukunft wird es Menschen geben, die das erwähnte Organ für die Erinnerung an frühere Erdenleben werden gebrauchen können, und andere, die es nicht werden gebrauchen können. In diesen letzteren werden gewisse Krankheiten sich zeigen, weil sie in ihrem physischen Leib ein Organ haben werden, welches sie nicht gebrauchen können. Ein Organ zu besitzen und unfähig sein, es zu gebrauchen, ruft nervöse Krankheiten von einer ganz bestimmten Art hervor, und diese Nervenerkrankungen, die dadurch entstehen werden, daß man dieses besondere Organ besitzt und es nicht gebrauchen kann, werden viel schlimmere sein als alle diejenigen, die der Mensch bis jetzt gekannt hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p045"},{"locus":"GA 152/1913-05-01/p046","passage_number":46,"text":"Wenn man auf diese Weise den Zusammenhang der Tatsachen betrachtet, fängt man an, eine Idee zu bekommen von der Mission der Geisteswissenschaft und von der wahren Bedeutung eines Verständnisses des Lebens und der Menschheit durch das Studium dieser Erkenntnis. Aber für den Fall, daß der Eindruck, den diese Betrachtung auf Sie gemacht hat, zu Mißverständnissen führen sollte, will ich noch eine andere Tatsache erwähnen, welche das mildern kann, was peinlich an diesem Eindrucke war. Obgleich der wahre Okkultist sehen kann, daß die Geisteswissenschaft in das spirituelle Leben unserer gegenwärtigen Zeit eintreten muß, damit der Mensch der Zukunft das Organ für die Erinnerung gebrauchen könne und physisch in guter Gesundheit bleibe, so kann doch zu gleicher Zeit durchaus nicht behauptet werden, daß ein Mensch, der in der jetzigen Zeit nicht bereit ist, Geisteswissenschaft aufzunehmen, für seine folgende Inkarnation auf die vorher beschriebene Weise verloren sein wird. Es wird für lange Zeit in der Zukunft einem Menschen immer noch möglich sein, wenn er auch das Angedeutete vernachlässigt hat, nämlich in diesem Leben sich den Gebrauch des Organs für die Erinnerung anzueignen, dies im nächsten Leben gutzumachen, denn er wird noch einige Gelegenheiten haben, seine Gesundheit wiederherzustellen und geisteswissenschaftliche Wahrheiten zu erlangen. Aber die Zeit wird kommen, wo diese Möglichkeit aufhören wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":209,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p046"}],"beads":[{"from":[31],"to":[35],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[32],"to":[36],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[33],"to":[37],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[34],"to":[38,39],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[35,36],"to":[40],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[37],"to":[41],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[38],"to":[42],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[39],"to":[43],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[40],"to":[44],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[41],"to":[45],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[42],"to":[46],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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