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We would be born without heads! The structure of our head is something that we are unable to build. In its whole structure, the human head is such a lofty image of the universe, that the human being would be unable to form it, even with the aid of that life-wisdom which is woven into him; he would be unable to prepare it for the next incarnation. All the divine Hierarchies must cooperate in this work. Your head, this slightly irregular and somewhat transformed sphere, is a real microcosm, a true image of the great world-sphere. Within it lives, within it is collected everything that exists outside, in the universe. All the forces that are active in the different Hierarchies cooperate in order to produce the head. 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Just as after our death we can only hand over to the earth what comes from the earth, so our parents and grand-parents only give us that part of our being which pertains to the earth. Our earthly part is merely our exterior, it is merely the external expression within this earthly part. 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Wenn es einem allmählich gelingt, im geistigen Anschauen diesen wunderbaren Prozeß zu erleben, dann tritt einem doch eines entgegen. Es wird Ihnen allerdings sonderbar erscheinen, wenn ich dieses sage, aber die höheren Geheimnisse müssen für das physisch-sinnliche Anschauen des Menschen zunächst immer sonderbar erscheinen, und dasjenige, was uns da vor die Seele tritt, muß uns erschüttern, je mehr, desto besser. Denn diese Dinge, so wie sie sind, sollen gar nicht so an unsere Seele kommen, daß wir sie nüchtern, trocken erkenntnismäßig aufnehmen und dabei gleichgültig bleiben. Wir sollen gerade durch diese Dinge einen Gemütseindruck bekommen von der Erhabenheit und Größe der göttlich-geistigen Welt. Man könnte sagen: Wenn jemand nur darauf sich einläßt, Geisteswissenschaft so trocken vorzubringen, daß sie nicht zugleich den ganzen Menschen ergreift, und er mit dem Eindruck davon nicht zugleich einen Eindruck hat von der Größe und Erhabenheit desjenigen, was als Göttlich-Geistiges die Welt durchpulst und durchwest, dann würden wir nämlich alle, nach dem, was ich eben beschrieben habe, trotz allem, was wir können, nach den jetzigen Verhältnissen der Welt kopflos geboren werden. Denn den Bau des Kopfes, den könnten wir nicht bewirken. Das menschliche Haupt ist in seinem Bau ein so erhabenes Abbild des Universums, daß der Mensch selbst mit dem, was ihm einverwoben wird als Weisheit eines Lebens, es nicht bauen könnte, daß er es nicht vorbereiten könnte für die nächste Inkarnation; da müssen eben mitwirken alle Götterhierarchien. Das, was in Ihrem Haupte, in dieser nur von dem Hinterhaupt lose durchbrochenen Kugel, etwas umgeformten Kugel, vorhanden ist, das ist für sich noch ein wirklicher Mikrokosmos, ein wirklicher Abdruck der großen Weltenkugel. Darinnen lebt alles, was draußen im Universum lebt, zusammen, da wirkt alles zusammen, was in den verschiedenen Hierarchien tätig sein kann. Indem wir anfangen zu bauen aus unserer in der Ermüdung angesammelten Weisheit an unserer nächsten Inkarnation, greifen in diese Tätigkeit ein alle Hierarchien, um dasjenige, was dann unser Haupt wird, als Abdruck aller Götterweisheiten uns einzuverleiben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":395,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/168/1916-02-22/p028"},{"locus":"GA 168/1916-02-22/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Während das alles geschieht, bereitet sich auf der Erde durch Generationen hindurch dasjenige vor, was unsere physische Vererbungslinie ist. Geradeso wie wir nur dasjenige, was von der Erde kommt, der Erde übergeben nach unserem Tode, so bekommen wir von Eltern, Voreltern nur dasjenige, was irdisch ist an uns. Und dasjenige, was irdisch ist an uns, das ist eben nur das Äußere, ist eben nur der äußere Ausdruck in diesem Irdischen. Da ist alles dasjenige einverwoben, was wir erstens selber auf die geschilderte Weise weben können, und dasjenige, was ganze Götterhierarchien weben, bevor wir durch die Empfängnis eine Beziehung bekommen zu dem, in das wir uns einhüllen, einkleiden, wenn wir den physischen Plan betreten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/168/1916-02-22/p029"},{"locus":"GA 168/1916-02-22/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Ich sagte, je mehr wir in unser Gefühl aufnehmen können von diesen erhabenen Erkenntnissen, desto besser für uns. Denn bedenken Sie doch nur einmal: Wir benützen unseren Kopf, wir haben aber keine Spur von Wissen in der Regel, insofern wir im Materiellen lebende Menschen sind, daß ganze Götterhierarchien ihre Arbeit darauf verwenden, unseren Kopf zu formen, das zu formen, was geistig unserem Kopfe zugrunde liegt, damit wir überhaupt sein können. Wenn wir das im Sinne der geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis fassen, so durchdringt es uns von selber mit Dankesempfindungen und Dankesgefühlen gegenüber dem ganzen Universum.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":93,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/168/1916-02-22/p030"}],"beads":[{"from":[65,66,67],"to":[28],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[68],"to":[29],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[69],"to":[30],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}