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In our will, by placing the moral impulses into the world, which is otherwise only a world of images for us, we bring down the substance of the higher beings into our world. What we really do out of moral impulses is nothing other than bringing down the substance of the beings of the higher hierarchies into our world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":159,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-12-19/p032","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-12-19","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 156/1914-12-19/p032","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-12-19/p032"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":149,"en_words":159,"ratio":1.07,"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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As we immerse ourselves in our physical body, emerging from the worlds of thought, they flicker and glitter, reflecting back, forming the corpses of thoughts in the nervous system. We just do not perceive this flickering and glittering in our ordinary lives. Thoughts live in us, but they are not living beings in us; they are reflected, and what we perceive is a kind of reading of the dead thoughts. But these thoughts that reflect themselves are a living thing, and that has great significance in the order of the world. When a person stands before you and you look at this person and are aware: he perceives, he thinks, what is in his mind as a web of thoughts goes into his nervous system, is reflected in everything perceptible, in sounds and colors - what happens to the spiritual light that goes into him, that makes impressions on his nervous system? What happens to the impressions that arise? You see, the cherubim come, collect this light and use it for the further world order, and we are all the candlesticks that are set up in the world order. By thinking, perceiving and imagining, we are the candlesticks of the cherubim in the world order. Just as this light here in the physical world illuminates space, so we are the candlesticks in the spiritual world for the cherubim. When we think, light arises in us; the light of thought radiates out from us and illuminates the world in which the cherubim live.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":386,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-12-19/p033","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-12-19","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 156/1914-12-19/p033","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-12-19/p033"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":353,"en_words":386,"ratio":1.09,"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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Under the influence of moral action, the seraphim acquire the powers by which the cosmic world order is maintained, just as physical warmth maintains the physical world order.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":141,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-12-19/p034","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-12-19","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 156/1914-12-19/p034","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-12-19/p034"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":136,"en_words":141,"ratio":1.04,"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 brings us to the realization: When you think, when you imagine, you are the kindled light of the cherubim. When you act, when you do something, when you unfold the will, then you are the source of warmth, the source of fire of the seraphim. We stride through the world, conscious that we are not useless good-for-nothings in it, but stand in the world order for the benefit of the whole world order, and conscious that it is also in our power to be a source of darkness in the world. For if we want to be dull and stupid and not think, then we increase the darkness, and the consequence of this is that the cherubim have no light. If we are bad and immoral, we increase the coldness in the whole world order, and the seraphim have no warmth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-12-19/p035","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-12-19","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 156/1914-12-19/p035","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-12-19/p035"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":147,"en_words":154,"ratio":1.05,"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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Die Wesen der höheren Hierarchien sind nicht bloß Gedankenwesen, sie sind reale Wesen, sie haben Substanz, und dasjenige, was sie als Substanz haben, das erleben wir nun nicht in unseren Gedanken, sondern in unserem Willen, namentlich in dem von der Liebe durchwalteten Willen. In unserem Willen, indem wir hineinstellen die moralischen Impulse in die Welt, die sonst für uns nur eine Bilderwelt ist, holen wir herunter die Substanz der höheren Wesen in unsere Welt. Was wir wirklich aus moralischen Impulsen heraus tun, heißt nichts anderes als die Substanz der Wesen der höheren Hierarchien in unsere Welt herunterholen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-12-19/p032"},{"locus":"GA 156/1914-12-19/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Unsere Gedanken, wenn wir mit unserem geistig-seelischen Wesen im physischen Leibe leben nach dem Aufwachen, werden gespiegelt in einem Teile unseres Leibes: es werden gleichsam Ablagerungsprodukte des wachen Gedankenlebens im Nervensystem gebildet. Das Wesen der moralischen Impulse - die im Grunde genommen also aus dem Wesen der höheren Hierarchien kommen - geht in unseren ganzen Leib hinein, durchdringt unser ganzes Wesen, unseren ganzen Organismus, nicht bloß das Nervensystem; so daß der Mensch gewissermaßen als ein Zweifaches vorgestellt werden kann: als Nervenmensch, und daneben der ganze übrige physische Mensch, in den hineinströmt alles dasjenige, was in seinen moralischen Impulsen sich darlebt. Aber wir kommen aus der Welt der geistigen Wirklichkeiten, indem wir untertauchen in unseren physischen Leib. Indem wir in unseren physischen Leib untertauchen, herauskommend aus den Gedankenwelten, flimmern und glitzern sie zurückspiegelnd, im Nervensystem die Gedankenleichen bildend. Wir nehmen dieses Flimmern und Glitzern nur nicht wahr in unserem gewöhnlichen Leben. In uns leben die Gedanken, die aber in uns nicht lebendige Wesen sind; sie spiegeln sich, und was wir wahrnehmen, ist eine Art Lesen der Gedankenleichen. Aber diese Gedanken, die sich spiegeln, die sind ein Lebendiges, und das hat eine große Bedeutung in der Weltenordnung. Indem ein Mensch vor einem steht und man hinblickt auf diesen Menschen und sich bewußt ist: der nimmt wahr, der denkt, da geht dasjenige, was als Gedankenweben in seinem Innern ist, hinein in sein Nervensystem, spiegelt sich in allem Wahrnehmbaren, in Tönen und Farben - was geschieht mit dem Geisteslicht, das da in ihn hineingeht, das Eindrücke macht auf sein Nervensystem? Was geschieht mit den Eindrücken, die da entstehen? Sehen Sie, da kommen die Cherubim, sammeln dieses Licht und verwenden es zur weiteren Weltenordnung, und wir alle sind die Leuchter, die aufgestellt sind in der Weltenordnung. Indem wir denken, wahrnehmen und vorstellen, sind wir die Leuchter der Cherubim in der Weltenordnung. So wie dieses Licht hier in der physischen Welt den Raum erleuchtet, so sind wir die Leuchter in der geistigen Welt für die Cherubim. Indem wir denken, entsteht in uns Licht, das Gedankenlicht strahlt aus uns heraus, und das erleuchtet die Welt, in der die Cherubim leben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":353,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-12-19/p033"},{"locus":"GA 156/1914-12-19/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Indem wir hineintragen in unseren Leib aus der Welt der Hierarchien diejenigen Substanzen, aus denen geboren werden die moralischen Impulse und diese hineindringen in unsere ganze ÖOrganisation, geschehen unsere Willensimpulse, unsere Handlungen. Alles was wir tun, geschieht dadurch, daß diese Willensimpulse in uns tätig sind. Da geschieht nicht nur das, was äußerlich in der Welt durch uns vor sich geht, sondern, insofern es moralisches Handeln ist, sammeln dieses moralische Handeln die Seraphim, und dieses moralische Handeln ist die Wärmequelle für die ganze Weltenordnung. Unter dem Einflusse von Menschen, die unmoralisch handeln, erfrieren die Seraphim, das heißt sie bekommen keine Wärme, mit der sie heizen können die ganze kosmische Welt. Unter dem Einflusse des moralischen Handelns erlangen die Seraphim jene Kräfte, durch welche die kosmische Weltenordnung so erhalten wird, wie durch die physische Wärme die physische Weltenordnung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":136,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-12-19/p034"},{"locus":"GA 156/1914-12-19/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Sie sehen, sehr real wird die Weltanschauung, die uns die Geisteswissenschaft gibt. Sie bringt uns zum Bewußtsein: Wenn du denkst, wenn du vorstellst, bist du das angezündete Licht der Cherubim. Wenn du handelst, wenn du etwas tust, wenn du den Willen entfaltest, dann bist du die Wärmequelle, die Feuerquelle der Seraphim. Wir schreiten durch die Welt, indem wir uns bewußt sind, daß wir darin nicht nutzlose Taugenichtse sind, sondern darinnenstehen in der Weltenordnung zum Nutzen der ganzen Weltenordnung, und indem wir uns bewußt sind, daß wir es auch in der Hand haben, in der Welt eine Quelle von Finsternis zu sein. Denn wollen wir dumpf und stumpf sein und nicht denken, dann vermehren wir die Finsternis, und die Folge davon ist, daß die Cherubim kein Licht haben. 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