{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 159/1915-03-13/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A dear anthroposophical friend *(Sibyl Colazza)* died before some weeks in Zurich after a life which had brought her some ordeals, and the karma of our movement brought it about that I had to speak at the cremation. The time from death up to cremation lasted from Wednesday at six o'clock p. m. until Monday at eleven o'clock a. m. This interval was a little longer than usual. That is why the separation of the individuality from the etheric body had already happened, while the cremation took place. Now the peculiar was that in the time, in which the soul had already separated from the etheric body during the days between death and cremation, the necessity arose to me to speak certain words before and after the obituary. My own ability of coining words had really to do a little with the way these words were coined. However, by identifying with the soul of that personality the necessity resulted to characterise this personality as if an inspiration came from her soul itself. The soul said as it were: coin your words, so that they characterise my soul.—But the soul was still unconscious. The words came not consciously from the soul, but from the being of this soul. I had to characterise her as she wanted not to mirror herself in selfish way, but as she appeared to herself if another soul looked at her. For this other soul the necessity arose to speak the following words at the beginning of the funeral speech and to coin each single word. The words had to be spoken as an address to the soul who had gone through the gate of death:","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":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-13/p023","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. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Nun war das Eigentümliche, daß in der Zeit, in welcher die Seele sich in den Tagen zwischen dem Eintreten des Todes und der Einäscherung schon vom Ätherleib losgetrennt hatte, die Notwendigkeit an mich herantrat: Du mußt vor der Einäscherungsrede und nachher, gewisse Worte sprechen. Wie diese Worte geprägt waren, damit hatte dasjenige, was eigenes Können, eigenes Wortprägen tut, wirklich recht wenig zu tun, sondern es ergab sich durch die Identifikation mit der Seele der Persönlichkeit, die durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen war, die Notwendigkeit, diese Seele zu charakterisieren, aber so zu charakterisieren, daß die Charakteristik gegeben war wie eine Eingebung, wie eine Erleuchtung, die von der Seele selbst kam. Die Seele sagte gleichsam: Präge Worte, durch die dasjenige in tönenden Worten erscheint, was meine Seele charakterisiert. - Aber es war in der Seele noch Unbewußtheit. Nicht bewußt rührten die Worte von der Seele her, sondern sie rührten von dem Wesen dieser Seele her. Ich mußte sie charakterisieren, wie sie sich nicht in egoistischer Weise selbst bespiegeln wollte, sondern wie sie sich erschien, wenn eine andere Seele sie betrachtete. Und für diese andere Seele ergab sich die Notwendigkeit bis in die Prägung der einzelnen Worte hinein, am Anfang desjenigen, was man eine Leichenrede nennen könnte, das Folgende zu sprechen. 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