{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 159/1915-03-07/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When the human being goes through the gate of death, he has not a lack of consciousness, but then he lives at first in a consciousness which is much richer and fuller of contents than the consciousness here in the physical life. Because from a more encompassing consciousness the body cuts out a piece and shows everything that can be shown only in a mirror. However, what is in the body and the human being bears through the gate of death that has an encompassing consciousness in itself. When the human being has gone through the gate of death, he is in this encompassing consciousness. He then does not have not enough, but on the contrary too much, too rich a consciousness. About that I have spoken in my Vienna cycle[^8] at Easter 1914. The human being has a richer consciousness after death. When the often described retrospect, caused by the etheric body, is over, he enters into a kind of sleeping state for a while. However, this is not a real sleeping state, but a state which is caused by the fact that the human being is in a richer consciousness than here on earth. As our eyes are blinded by overabundant light, the human being is blinded by the superabundance of consciousness, and he only must learn to orientate himself. The apparent sleep only consists in the fact that the human being orientates himself in this superabundance of consciousness that he then is able to lessen the superabundance of consciousness to that level he can already endure according to the results of his life. This is the essential part. We do not have not enough, but too much a consciousness, and we are awake when we have lessened our sense of direction to the level we can endure. It is reducing the superabundance of consciousness to the endurable level what takes place after death. You must get such matters clear in your mind by the details of the Vienna cycle.[^9]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-03-07","location":null,"word_count":332,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-07/p036","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"UNK2013","book_title":"The Mystery of Death","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA159/English/UNK2013/19150307p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Er hat nicht zu wenig, sondern im Gegenteil zu viel, zu reiches Bewußtsein, wenn er durch die Pforte des Todes geht. Darüber habe ich gesprochen in meinem Wiener Zyklus an Ostern 1914. Der Mensch hat ein reicheres Bewußtsein nach dem Tode, und wenn er eine Zeitlang, nachdem jene durch den Ätherleib bewirkte, oft geschilderte Rückschau vorbei ist, in eine Art Schlafzustand eintritt, so ist das nicht ein wirklicher Schlafzustand, sondern ein Zustand, der dadurch herbeigeführt wird, daß der Mensch in einem reicheren Bewußtsein darin ist als hier. Und wie durch überreiches Licht, durch eine Überfülle des Lichtes unsere Augen geblendet werden, so ist der Mensch geblendet durch die Überfülle des Bewußtseins, und er muß sich erst orientieren lernen. Der scheinbare Schlaf besteht nur darin, daß der Mensch in dieser Überfülle des Bewußtseins so sich orientiere, daß er dann die Überfülle des Bewußtseins herabstimmen kann zu dem, was er schon ertragen kann nach den Ergebnissen seines Lebens. Das ist das Wesentliche. Nicht zu wenig, sondern zu viel Bewußtsein haben wir, und wir wachen dann auf, wenn wir unser Orientierungsvermögen herabgestimmt haben auf das, was wir ertragen können. Es ist also ein Herabdämpfen bis zum ertragbaren Grade der Überfülle des Bewußtseins, was nach dem Tode eintritt. 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