{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 159/1915-03-07/p042","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The human being must look back just at the point of his development from which he has gone through death, and he must recognise himself there. As little the human being, who stands in the physical life and looks back with the usual forces of life is able to see his own birth, as little this stands before the usual soul-forces—there is no one which can look back with the usual soul-forces at the physical birth,—in the same way it is necessary that the moment of death is permanently there at which one looks back. Death stands always before the soul's eyes as the last significant event. This death, seen from the other side, seen from beyond, is something different than that from the physical side. It is the most beautiful experience which can be seen from the other side, from the side of the life between death and new birth. Death appears as the glorious picture of the everlasting victory of the spiritual over the physical. Because death appears as such a picture, it wakes up the highest forces of the human nature permanently when this human nature lives in the spirituality between death and new birth. That is why the soul looking back or striving for looking back must look at itself at first. Just in these cases which we have gone through recently it was clear in which way the impulse originated to characterise this soul. The so-called living human being works together with the so-called dead that way. More and more such a relation will come from the so-called living to the so-called dead.","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":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-07/p042","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. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Dieser Tod ist von der andern Seite gesehen, von jenseits des Todes gesehen, etwas ganz anderes als von der physischen Seite. Er ist das schönste Erlebnis, das überhaupt erblickt werden kann von der andern Seite, von der Seite des Lebens zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt. Er ist dasjenige, was erscheint als das glorreiche Bild des ewigen Sieges des Geistigen über das Physische. Und er ist dadurch, daß er als solches Bild erscheint, der stetige Erwecker der höchsten Kräfte der Menschennatur, wenn diese Menschennatur im geistigen Erleben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt ist. Daher kommt es, daß die Seele, wenn sie zurückschaut, wenn sie zurückzuschauen trachtet, zunächst auf sich selbst schauen muß. Gerade bei diesen Fällen, die wir zuletzt durchgemacht haben, war es so klar, wodurch der’Trieb entstand, diese Seele noch besonders zu charakterisieren, um ihr entgegenzukommen in diesem Drang, beim Zurückblicken sich in Selbsterkenntnis vor sich zu haben. 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