{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 156/1914-12-13/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I would like to give you another example. In spiritual science today, we consciously speak of how, through initiation, one can experience oneself in the I and astral body, separate from the physical body and etheric body, a conscious experience of oneself, as otherwise happens unconsciously during sleep. At the same time, spiritual science is able to provide the necessary information about the experience of death. What the spiritual scientist experiences outside the body with regard to the physical body and ether body is the same as what the soul experiences after death, looking back at its physical body and the fate of the ether body. spiritual scientist speaks in a special way of a view of the physical body and the ether body merging into the world process from the point of view that the soul gains when it has passed through the gate of death. It means an infinity for the further development of all human consciousness, of all human spiritual-cultural life, that such conceptions can enter into this spiritual-cultural life, such as the conception that people will more and more come to know that when the soul has passed through the gate of death, it looks back on the whole past life and on what is happening to the body, just as you now look back in your memory on your experiences in the ordinary life between birth and death. When the time comes that it is as trivial as looking back at experiences in the body after death, just as one looks back at experiences of earlier times in the life between birth and death, when it has become natural to look back in this way, then something tremendous will have been achieved. And from various things that I have discussed with you, you will realize how necessary it is that such an awareness of general humanity be achieved as quickly as possible.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Second Lecture","site_heading":"The Four Members and Cosmic-Astral Correspondences","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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Wir reden in der Geisteswissenschaft heute ganz bewußt davon, wie durch die Initiation erreicht werden kann ein Sich-Erleben im Ich und Astralleib, getrennt vom physischen Leib und Ätherleib, ein bewußtes Sich-Erleben, wie sonst das unbewußte Sich-Erleben im Schlafe geschieht. Damit aber ist zu gleicher Zeit die Geisteswissenschaft in der Lage, über das Erlebnis des Todes die nötigen Aufschlüsse zu geben. Denn was der Geisteswissenschafter erlebt außerhalb des Leibes im Hinblicke auf den physischen Leib und Ätherleib, das ist ja dasselbe, was die Seele nach dem Tode erlebt, indem sie zurückblickt auf ihren physischen Leib und auf die Schicksale des Ätherleibes; so daß der Geisteswissenschafter in besonderer Weise spricht von einem Anschauen des in den Weltprozeß aufgehenden physischen Leibes, des in den Weltprozeß aufgehenden Ätherleibes von jenem Standpunkte her, den die Seele gewinnt, wenn sie durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen ist. Nicht wahr, es bedeutet Unendliches für die Fortentwickelung des ganzen menschlichen Bewußtseins, des ganzen menschlichen Geisteskulturlebens, daß solche Vorstellungen in dieses Geisteskulturleben übergehen können, wie die, daß die Menschen immer mehr und mehr dazu kommen werden, zu wissen, daß, wenn die Seele durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen sein wird, sie im Rückblick das ganze vergangene Leben und das, was mit dem Leibe vorgeht, anschaut, gerade so, wie Sie jetzt in Ihrer Erinnerung zurückblicken auf Ihre Erlebnisse in dem gewöhnlichen Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod. Wenn es einmal - um den trivialen Ausdruck zu gebrauchen - in Fleisch und Blut übergegangen sein wird, daß man nach dem Tode zurückschaut auf die Erlebnisse im Leibe, so wie man jetzt zurückschaut auf Erlebnisse früherer Zeiten im Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod, wenn es selbstverständlich geworden sein wird, daß man so zurückschaut, dann wird etwas Ungeheures erreicht sein. Und aus verschiedenem, das ich mit Ihnen besprochen habe, werden Sie einsehen, wie nötig es ist, daß möglichst schnell ein solches Bewußtsein für die allgemeine Menschheit erreicht wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-12-13/p024"}],"english":["GA 156/1914-12-13/p025"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":322,"en_words":317,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5971,"original_word_count":5709,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"How Does One Enter the World of Ideas?","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/SOL2024/19141213p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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