{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 159/1915-03-13/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we look now with the glance of the seer at the life of this soul, something stupefying becomes apparent to us that at the same time lights up the divine-spiritual secrets of the world. Not long after the boy's death, the whole aura of the Dornach construction changed. While I say this, I say something to you that is connected with my experiences. If anybody himself has to work for the Dornach construction of the Anthroposophical Society, if one has to instigate what is to be carried out there, then one knows what one has to thank the supporting forces for working from such an aura into one's soul. Since those days, the still unused etheric body of the boy is really connected with the aura of the Dornach construction. After the human being has taken off his etheric body, he goes on with his ego and astral body; this is something different. But the etheric body if it is taken off at such a tender age has forces in itself which could still have supplied the physical body and its life for decades. Now these forces have gone unused through the gate of death. They are taken off after some days. These forces just co-operate with the aura of our construction. One is not allowed to say that it is the soul itself of this individuality, but it is the unused etheric body. Nothing gets also lost in the spiritual world. The physicist knows that nothing of physical forces gets lost that the forces only change. Also in the spiritual world we have to look for transformed forces, unused etheric forces which ascend from early-deceased human beings to the spiritual world. We approach these matters if we observe them in concrete cases. That is why I may talk to you only about such concrete cases today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Intervention of the Christ-Impulse in History—Bridging the Abyss Between the Living and the Dead","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-03-13","location":null,"word_count":308,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-13/p022","alignment_confidence":"high","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/UNK2013/19150313p02.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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Seit jenen Tagen ist mit der Aura des Dornacher Baues wirklich verbunden, echt verbunden dasjenige, was der noch unverbrauchte Ätherleib des Knaben war. Denn der Ätherleib ist ja dasjenige, was vom Menschen abgelegt wird. Die Individualität, aus dem Ich und Astralleib bestehend, geht dann weiter, das ist etwas anderes. Aber der Ätherleib, wenn er in so zartem Kindesalter abgelegt wird, hat Kräfte in sich, die noch jahrzehntelang den physischen Leib und das physische Leben hätten versorgen können. Nun sind diese Kräfte unverbraucht durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen. Sie werden nach einigen Tagen abgelegt. Und diese Kräfte wirken nun gerade mit der Aura des Baues zusammen. Man kann also nicht sagen, daß es bei dieser Individualität die Seele selbst ist, sondern es ist der unverbrauchte Ätherleib. Nichts geht auch in der geistigen Welt verloren. Der Physiker weiß, daß nichts verlorengeht von physischen Kräften, daß sich die Kräfte nur verwandeln. Auch in der geistigen Welt haben wir verwandelte Kräfte zu suchen, unverbrauchte Ätherkräfte, die von frühverstorbenen Menschen in die geistige Welt hinaufgehen. Wir kommen diesen Dingen nah, wenn wir an konkreten Fällen diese Dinge beobachten. 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