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I just could see in this case that such words came to me with an internal necessity which referred to the soul in question when I had to speak at the funeral and did not speak out of arbitrariness, but obeyed the divine voice which told me what I had to do.","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":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-13/p031","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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Hier im physischen Leben kann kein Mensch mit den gewöhnlichen Menschenkräften bis zur Stunde seiner Geburt zurückblicken. Eigentlich gibt es für keinen Menschen, der nicht hellsichtige Kräfte hat, eine Möglichkeit, sein Eintreten in die Welt anzuschauen; erst später tritt der Zeitpunkt ein, bis zu dem man zurückschauen kann. Gerade das Umgekehrte ist der Fall mit jener Geburt für die geistige Welt, die wir den Tod nennen. Auf diesen Zeitpunkt blickt der Mensch unausgesetzt in dem Leben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt. Allein dieser Moment gehört zum Herrlichsten, Großartigsten, zum Allerschönsten, auf das man überhaupt in der geistigen Welt sehen kann. Von der andern Seite gesehen ist der Tod immer unmittelbar beweiskräftig dafür, daß der Geist unablässig seinen Sieg über die Leiblichkeit feiert. Und das erlebt man an sich selbst. Daher dieses Streben, das, was man sein kann, auch wirklich in der Seele nach dem Tode zu erleben. Daher ist es eine Hilfe, wenn eine im Leibe lebende Seele dasjenige in Worte prägt, wonach die Seele strebt, damit ihr das, was sie ist, klar mit all dem Besten, das sie hat, vor dem eigenen geistigen Blick stehe, nachdem sie durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen ist. 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