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Während man sich also auf den ersten Anhub, den man in die geistige Welt hinein macht, ich möchte sagen, der Welt seiner eigenen physischen Gedanken gegenübergestellt sieht, und, wenn einem die Verhältnisse gerade günstig sind, sich der elementarischen Welt der Gnomen gegenübersicht, lebt man noch in der Welt der höheren elementarischen Wesenheiten so drinnen, wie etwa die Wasserwelle im Wasser drinnen lebt, die sich auch dazurechnen muß zum Wasser, die ein Teil des größeren Wassers ist, der größeren Wassermasse ist; so lebt man da drinnen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":137,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/163/1915-09-04/p029"},{"locus":"GA 163/1915-09-04/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Die Dinge sind natürlich schwer zu charakterisieren, aber auch hier müssen wir uns den Bewußtseinszustand vergegenwärtigen. Wenn ich sage, daß unser ganzes Denken anfängt zu leben, daß wir hingenommen werden von den Gedanken, die lebendig werden, wie wenn die Gedanken, die wir dann haben, und die dann imaginative Gedanken sind, ihr eigenes Leben entfalten würden, so wird es [verständlich. D. Hrsg.]. Da (siehe Zeichnung S.95) bleiben zurück die früheren rein physischen Gedanken. Zurückgelassene Welt! Dann können wir uns sagen: Ja, in der Welt, der wir da unsere physischen Gedanken übergeben haben, leben auch die Gnomen. Aber in dieser Undinenwelt, in der leben wir jetzt drinnen; die bewegt sich in demselben Element, in dem wir darinnen sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/163/1915-09-04/p030"},{"locus":"GA 163/1915-09-04/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Fassen Sie das bitte recht genau ins Auge: Wir gehen aus unserem physischen Leibe, wir entfremden uns unserem physischen Leibe. Wir beginnen ein innerlich bewegtes Leben zu führen, gleichsam ein in sich fortwährend verschwimmendes, regsames Rieseln. Es wird alles innerlich lebendig, indem wir uns in unserm Ätherleibe fühlen. So auch fühlt sich, nur in getragenem Tempo, möchte ich sagen, im Ätherleib der Tote, unmittelbar nachdem der Tod eingetreten ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":69,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/163/1915-09-04/p031"},{"locus":"GA 163/1915-09-04/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Dieses Mitleben der imaginativen Welt, das ist nur eine höhere Stufe dessen, was der Mensch ursprünglich auf dem Monde mitgemacht hat. Nur hat er da eine traumhafte imaginative Welt durchlebt, eine traumhafte Bilderwelt. Auf dem Jupiter wird er eine vollbewußte Bilderwelt durchleben. Zu der lebt man sich hinauf, wenn man so aus dem physischen Leibe sich herauslebt, wie ich es beschrieben habe. Stellen Sie sich das nur recht lebhaft vor: Die Welt der Sinne erlischt; das, was die Augen sehen können, wird nicht mehr gesehen, das, was die Ohren hören können, wird nicht mehr gehört. Das Fühlen hört auch auf. Die Gedanken, die sich auf die äußere Sinneswelt beziehen, die werden so abgelegt, daß man es ausdrücken könnte mit den Worten: Ihr Gnomen, da gebe ich euch meine physischen Gedanken als Genossen; unterhaltet euch mittlerweile mit meinen physischen Gedanken! — Dafür fängt aber ein inneres Leben und Weben an, ein Mitleben in alledem auf der Erde, was so innerlich rieselt und strömt und lebt, wie alles in sich Flüssige der Erde lebt und webt, ein Miterleben mit dem Irdischen, das aber zugleich erinnert an die alten Mondenzeiten. Etwas Merkwürdiges beginnt: Neben dem, was man so wahrnimmt, daß man weiß, man lebt da in einer Welt von elementarischen Wesen, die zu den Pflanzen, die zu dem fließenden Wasser gehören, weiß man noch etwas ganz Besonderes. 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