{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-23/p040","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have put before you a few instances, which I submit as resulting from the occult point of view regarding life. Take only the three points which we have considered and you will see that by knowing in what way life is related to the Spirit of the Earth, the art of healing can be given a new direction and supplied with new impulses; how Raphael can only be understood when not only his personal forces are taken into account, but also those forces which came from his father. The third point is that we can educate children when we know the interplay of forces acting on them. Outwardly people admit that they are surrounded by numberless forces which incessantly influence them, that man is continually influenced by air, the temperature, his surroundings and the other Karmic conditions under which he lives. That these things do not interfere with his freedom everyone knows. They are the factors with which we have to reckon to-day. But that man is continually surrounded by spiritual forces and that these spiritual forces must be investigated is what Anthroposophy has to teach men: they will have to learn to take these forces into account and will have to reckon with them in important cases of health and disease, of education and life. They will have to be mindful of such influences as come from without, from the super-sensible world, when, for instance, some one’s friend dies and he then shares those sympathies and ideas that belonged to him. What has been said does not hold good for children only, but for all ages. It is not at all necessary that people should know with their ordinary consciousness in what way the forces of the super-sensible world are active. Their general frame of mind may show it, even their state of health or illness may show it. And those things which signify the connection of man’s life on the physical plane with the facts of the super-sensible worlds have a still wider bearing.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Life's Meaning Through Spiritual Science and Reincarnation","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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Nehmen Sie nur die drei Gesichtspunkte, die wir ins Auge gefaßt haben, so sehen Sie, wie man dadurch, daß man sieht, wie das Leben zum Erdgeiste steht, der Heilkunst eine neue Richtung geben kann, ihr neue Impulse zuführt; wie man Raffael nicht so betrachtet, daß die Persönlichkeit des Raffael allein es ist, welche wirksam war, sondern daß auch die Kräfte da hineinragten, die vom Vater stammen, und wie man so diese Persönlichkeit erst recht wird verstehen können. Das dritte ist, daß wir Kinder erziehen können, wenn wir wissen, wie die Sache liegt mit den Kräften, die in sie hineinspielen. Äußerlich geben die Menschen durchaus zu, daß sie selber umringt sind von einer Unzahl von Kräften, die fortwährend auf sie einwirken, daß der Mensch von der Luft, von der 'Temperatur, von der Umgebung und den anderen Verhältnissen des Klimas, in denen er lebt, fortwährend beeinflußt wird. Und daß seine Freiheit dadurch nicht beeinträchtigt ist, das weiß jeder Mensch. Das sind die Faktoren, mit denen wir schon heute rechnen. Daß aber der Mensch fortwährend umgeben ist von geistigen Kräften und daß man diese geistigen Kräfte zu untersuchen hat, das wird die Menschheit durch die Geisteswissenschaft lernen. Sie wird rechnen lernen mit diesen Kräften, und sie wird mit ihnen zu rechnen haben in wichtigen Fällen von Gesundheit und Krankheit, von Erziehung und Leben. Sie wird solcher Einflüsse, wie sie aus der Umgebung, aus der übersinnlichen Welt kommen, eingedenk sein müssen, wenn zum Beispiel einem ein Freund dahingestorben ist und er sich dann trägt mit diesen oder jenen Sympathien und Ideen, die dem Dahingestorbenen eigen waren. Das, was jetzt gesagt worden ist, bezieht sich nicht bloß auf Kinder, sondern auf alle Lebensalter. Die Menschen brauchen durchaus nicht mit ihrem Oberbewußtsein zu wissen, wie die Kräfte der übersinnlichen Welt tätig sind. 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