{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p007-p014","extent":"range","passage_number":7,"through":14,"paragraph_count":8,"first_locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p007","last_locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Lecture V","date":"1916-02-08","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Necessity and Freedom","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA166/English/AP1988/19160208p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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We know of our physical body because we can picture it with our observation outside in space; and we know of our *I* through the fact that we can will. Everything else underlying the physical body cannot at first be discovered through physical observation. We can see how the physical body has developed and what it is composed of. Yet the description we have to give of this composition in the course of our passage through the Saturn, sun, moon, and earth evolutions remains a mystery if we consider the physical body only. 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Therefore, Schopenhauer[^1] regarded the will as the only reality, because he had an inkling that in the will we actually become conscious of ourselves. But of how this will enters into us we know nothing at all on the physical plane. On the basis of the physical world, we know only that in our *I* we can take hold of our will. I pick up this watch, but how this act of will passes through the etheric body into the physical body and actually turns into a picking up of the watch remains a mystery even for the physical body. The will descends straight from the *I* into the physical body. 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Humanity evolves, and the way human beings relate to the world changes in the different epochs.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":94,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/166/1916-02-08/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1916-02-08","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":243,"en_words":245,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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You all know the description in my book *Knowledge of the Higher Worlds* that if we observe one seed, we see it shining differently from other grains of seed.[^2] Nowadays this perception can only be achieved through training, but in earlier centuries it was still quite an ordinary, everyday phenomenon. People did not first have to investigate, possibly with a microscope, what plant a seed came from—even that can in many cases no longer be done today—for they were able to determine such things from the light aura surrounding the seed. And in the case of minerals too, you will find descriptions in old writings classifying them in a certain way according to their value in the world. When the ancients looked at gold, what they described was not invention, for to them gold really appeared in a different way from silver, for instance. When they connected gold with sunlight and silver with moonlight, this was really founded on observation. 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Today, we must acquire a feeling for how very different it was when the ancients spoke of the will. They had much more of a feeling of how the will, which nowadays lives only in the *I*, entered the organic realm, the astral body as we would say today. They still felt the *I* continuing on into the astral body. This can be explained in a quite specific field.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/166/1916-02-08/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1916-02-08","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":91,"en_words":87,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Dieses, daß wir wollen können, das macht uns aufmerksam darauf, daß wir ein Ich sind. Der Schlaf besteht nur darin, daß wir alles Wollen herabgedämpft haben, daß wir eben während des Schlafes durch Gründe, die wir ja oftmals besprochen haben, nicht wollen können. Da ist also das Wollen herabgedämpft, herabgelähmt. Wir wollen nicht während des Schlafes. Was sich also ausdrückt in dem Worte Ich, das ist ein wirklicher Willensakt, und dasjenige, was wir vorstellen über das Ich, das ist Spiegelbild, das dadurch entsteht, daß das Wollen anschlägt an den Leib. Dieses Anschlagen, das ist geradeso, wie wenn wir, in den Spiegel schauend, unseren physischen Leib sehen. So sehen wir unser eigenes Ich, sich aussprechendes Wollen, von unserem physischen Leib zurückwirken. Das gibt uns die Vorstellung des Ich. Das Ich lebt also auf dem physischen Plane als ein Willensakt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p007"},{"locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"So haben wir eigentlich Zweiheit auf dem physischen Plane: wir haben unseren physischen Leib, und wir haben unser Ich. Den physischen Leib haben wir dadurch, daß wir ihn durch die Anschauung vorstellen können außen im Raume; das Ich haben wir dadurch, daß wir wollen können. Alles übrige, das hinter dem physischen Leibe steht, bleibt uns zunächst für die physische Betrachtung ein Geheimnis. Wir sehen den physischen Leib, wie er entstanden ist, wie er sich zusammengefügt hat. Wir wir dieses Zusammenfügen beschreiben müssen durch das Durchgehen des Menschen durch die Saturn-, Sonnen-, Monden- und Erdenzeit, das bleibt Geheimnis, wenn man nur den physischen Leib anschaut. Also, was hinter diesem physischen Leibe ist, bleibt zunächst für die physische Betrachtung der physischen Welt Geheimnis.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p008"},{"locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Wie der Wille untertaucht auf der anderen Seite in unseren physischen Leib hinein oder in alles, was wir überhaupt sind, das bleibt wieder Geheimnis. Denn, nicht wahr, des Willens können Sie sich bewußt werden, und Schopenhauer hat deshalb im Willen das einzig Wirkliche gesehen, weil er zu der Ahnung gekommen ist, daß man im Willen eigentlich seiner selbst bewußt wird. Aber wie dieser Wille untertaucht, davon weiß man auf dem physischen Plane gar nichts. Vom physischen Plane wissen Sie im Grunde genommen nur, daß Sie in ihrem Ich den Willen fassen können. Ich ergreife diese Uhr, aber wie dieser Wille übergeht durch den Ätherleib hinunter in den physischen Leib und dann wirklich zu der Handlung des Uhr-Ergreifens wird, das bleibt für den physischen Leib selbst ein Geheimnis. Der Wille taucht also von dem Ich gleich in den physischen Leib hinein. Es bleibt im Ich nichts anderes vorhanden als das innere Erspüren des Willens, das innere Erleben des Willens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p009"},{"locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"So wie ich das hier beschreibe, ist es eigentlich erst für den weitaus größten Teil der Menschheit seit ein paar Jahrhunderten richtig, und das übersieht man ja gewöhnlich. Uns könnte es schon durch die vielen Betrachtungen, die wir angestellt haben, in Fleisch und Blut übergegangen sein. Wenn wir zurückgehen in die Mitte des Mittelalters, da ist es nur eine Phantasie, wenn man glaubt, die Menschheit habe damals wirklich genauso gelebt wie die jetzige Menschheit. Die Menschheit entwickelt sich, und die Art und Weise, wie der Mensch in der Welt drinnensteht, ist verschieden in den verschiedenen Epochen. Wenn wir hinter das 15., 14. Jahrhundert zurückgehen, da finden wir weitaus mehr Menschen als in der Gegenwart, die nicht bloß von dem physischen Leib wissen, sondern die da wirklich wissen, daß im physischen Leib etwas lebt, was wir heute mit dem Ausdruck «Ätherleib» bezeichnen, die wirklich etwas Aurisches an dem physischen Leib wahrnahmen. Natürlich waren es im Mittelalter, ich möchte sagen, nur noch die letzten Überreste, die letzten Fetzen eines alten Wahrnehmens; aber immerhin schaute man auch im 10. Jahrhundert dem Menschen nicht bloß so wie heute ins Auge, indem man einfach sein physisches Auge betrachtete. Man sah noch, indem man das physische Auge betrachtete, etwas vom Aurischen, etwas vom Ätherischen. Man sah noch in gewisser Weise ein aufrichtiges Auge, ein falsches Auge, aber nicht bloß etwa durch ein äußeres Urteil, sondern indem man unmittelbar das Aurische, das das Auge umspielte, wahrnahm. Und so mit anderem.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":243,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p010"},{"locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Aber indem man dieses Aurische beim Menschen wahrnahm, nahm man es in viel, viel größerem Maße beim Tiere wahr, auch bei der Pflanze. Was heute wiederum, nur künstlich, hervorgerufen werden kann - Sie kennen alle diese Beschreibung aus meinem Buche «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten» -, daß, wenn man ein Samenkorn betrachtet, man es anders aufstrahlen sieht als ein anderes Samenkorn, das war den Leuten in früheren Jahrhunderten noch eine ganz alltägliche, allgewöhnliche Erscheinung. So daß der Mensch nicht etwa mit dem Mikroskop erst untersuchen mußte, was man ja heute in den meisten Fällen auch nicht mehr kann, von welcher Pflanze irgendein Samenkorn ist, sondern aus dem Licht, aus der Lichtaura, die das Samenkorn umschloß, konnten die Menschen solches noch bestimmen. Und bei dem Mineral finden Sie in den älteren Schriften noch Beschreibungen der Mineralien so, daß man in einer bestimmten Art untereinander die Mineralien unterschied nach deren Wert in der Welt. Wenn die Alten das Gold ansahen, sprachen sie vom Gold all dasjenige, was sie aussprachen, nicht aus ihrer Phantasie heraus, sondern weil ihnen das Gold in der Tat in einer anderen Weise erschien als zum Beispiel das Silber. Wenn sie das Gold mit dem Sonnenlicht, das Silber mit dem Mondenlicht in Zusammenhang brachten, so beruhte das wirklich auf einer Beobachtung. Es beruhte wirklich darauf, daß derjenige, der das beobachtete, niemals etwas anderes empfand, indem er aussprach: Das Gold ist reines Sonnenlicht, das nur zusammenverdichtet ist, das Silber Mondenlicht und so weiter, ebenso, wie man in der Außenwelt noch das Elementare sah, das elementar Aurische, was sich für die Menschen der neueren Zeit verloren hat, weil die Menschheit der neueren Zeit eben die Entwickelung durchmachen soll zur Freiheit hin, die nur dadurch gegeben werden kann, daß man ganz und gar nur auf das heute Physisch-Gegenständliche schauen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":300,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p011"},{"locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Wie die Menschen also die Fähigkeit verloren, solches Aurische zu sehen, haben sie auch eine andere Fähigkeit verloren. Man muß heute ein Gefühl haben dafür, wie anders es doch ist, wenn die Alten vom Willen gesprochen haben. Sie haben noch viel mehr gefühlt, wie der Wille, der heute nur im Ich lebt, untertaucht in das Organische, wie er, wie wir heute sagen würden, untertaucht in den astralischen Leib hinein, Sie haben noch die Fortsetzung des Ich in den astralischen Leib hinein gefühlt. Man kann das auf einem ganz bestimmten Gebiete klarmachen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":91,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p012"},{"locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Sehen Sie, die Tatsache, daß die Maler gar nicht mehr ohne Modell auszukommen glauben, beruht ja darauf, daß man ganz verloren hat die Möglichkeit, noch die Fortsetzung des Ich in den Organismus hinein irgendwie zu erleben, diese Fortsetzung in den astralischen Leib hinein. Warum bewundert man denn heute vielfach gerade alte Porträts? Weil das alte Porträt nicht bloß so wie das heutige gemacht worden ist, daß? man eine Person hat und nun nachmalt nach der Person und ganz darauf angewiesen ist, daß man alles das, was dagewesen ist, nachmalt, sondern weil man noch gewußt hat: bei jemand, der die Muskeln um das Auge in einer bestimmten Weise formt, bei dem geht das, was im Ich lebt, in einer ganz bestimmten Weise in den astralischen Leib, durch den er diese Form der Muskeln hervorbringt. Ginge man gar ins alte Griechentum zurück, würde man sich ganz und gar täuschen, wenn man etwa glaubte, daß die alten Griechen ein Modell gebraucht haben zu diesen wunderbaren Formen, die sie zusammengefügt haben. Sie haben kein Modell gehabt. Wer eine bestimmte Armform zu geben hatte, der wußte, wie der Wille das Ich hineinführt in den astralischen Leib, und aus diesem, was er spürte, machte er dann die Formen. Indem alles Erfühlen des astralischen Leibes erstorben ist, ist erst nötig geworden, sich so eng an das Modell zu halten, wie das eben für unsere Zeit gebräuchlich geworden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":231,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p013"}],"beads":[{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[10,11],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[12],"to":[11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[13],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[14],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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