{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 17/l09/p004-p010","extent":"range","passage_number":4,"through":10,"paragraph_count":7,"first_locus":"GA 17/l09/p004","last_locus":"GA 17/l09/p010","lang":"en","edition":"GPP1922","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"IX. Concerning the Ego-Feeling and the Human Soul's Capacity for Love; and the Relation of these to the Elemental World","date":null,"location":null,"alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["GPP1922"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2412,"original_word_count":2232,"may_be_abridged":false},"site_heading":null,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09/p004-p010","json_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09/p004-p010.json","lecture_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09#p004","word_count":1281,"quote_safe":true,"passages":[{"passage_number":4,"locus":"GA 17/l09/p004","text":"The soul, however, cannot continuously so live as an etheric being that sympathies and antipathies are always active and clearly expressed within it. Just as waking life alternates with sleep in physical existence, so does a different state contrast with that of experiencing sympathies and antipathies in the elemental world. The soul may withdraw from all sympathies and antipathies and experience itself alone, regarding and feeling merely its own being. Indeed, this feeling may reach such a degree of intensity that we may speak of willing our own being. It is then a question of a condition of the soul's life not easy to describe, because in its pure, original nature it is of such a kind that nothing in the physical world resembles it except the strong, unalloyed ego-feeling or feeling of self in the soul. As far as the elemental world is concerned we may describe this state as one in which the soul feels the impulse to say to itself with regard to the necessary surrender to experiences of sympathy and antipathy: “I will keep entirely to myself and within myself.” And by a species of development of will the soul wrenches itself free from the state of surrender to the elemental experiences of sympathy and antipathy. This life in the self is, as it were, the sleeping state of the elemental world; whereas the surrender to events and beings is the waking state. When the human soul is awake in the elemental world and develops a wish to experience itself only, that is to say, feels the need of elemental sleep, it can obtain this by returning to the waking state of physical life with a fully developed feeling of self. For such experience, saturated with the feeling of self, in the physical world is synonymous with elemental sleep. It consists in the soul's being torn away from elemental experiences. It is literally true that to clairvoyant consciousness the life of the soul in the physical world is a spiritual sleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":335,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09/p004","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p004"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":303,"en_words":335,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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This ego-feeling developed with clairvoyance is by no means something which only enters the soul through clairvoyance; it is merely that we get to know that which always exists in the depths of the soul, but which remains unknown to the soul's ordinary life as it runs its course in the physical world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09/p005","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":138,"en_words":151,"ratio":1.09,"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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If the soul does not bring that feeling with it into the clairvoyant state from its experience in the physical world, it will prove insufficiently equipped for experience in the elemental world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":55,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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In order to develop the latter experience, the feeling of self, or ego-experience, present in the depths of the soul, must have, as it were, a veil drawn over it; and in consequence of the soul's own forces being thus dulled, one is able to feel within oneself the sorrows and joys of the other being: love, which is the source of all genuine morality in human life, springs up. Love is the most important result for man of his experience in the physical world. If we analyse the nature of love or fellow-feeling, we find it is the way in which spiritual reality is expressed in the physical world. It has already been said that it is in the nature of what is supersensible to become transformed into something else. If what is spiritual in man as he lives the physical life becomes so transformed that it dulls the ego-feeling and lives again as love, the spiritual remains true to its own elemental laws. We may say that on becoming clairvoyantly conscious the human soul awakes in the spiritual world; but we must say just as much that in love the spiritual awakens in the physical world. Where love and fellow-feeling are stirring in life, we sense the tragic breath of the spirit, interpenetrating the physical world. [In the preceding sentence, the translation of the German “Zauberhauch” is “tragic breath” ... a better translation might be, “magic touch.”—e.Ed] Hence rightly developed clairvoyance can never weaken sympathy or love. The more completely the soul becomes at home in spiritual worlds, the more it feels lovelessness and lack of fellow-feeling to be a denial of spirit itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":422,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":357,"en_words":422,"ratio":1.18,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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They drive it out of the good regions of the spiritual world, and towards the bad ones.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":141,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":139,"en_words":141,"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. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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When it is said that the soul needs preparation before it is able to have experiences in the supersensible world, it should be added that one of the many means of preparation is the capacity for true love, and the disposition towards genuine human kindness and fellow-feeling.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":76,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p009"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":76,"en_words":76,"ratio":1.0,"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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But in order to develop a really moral temper of mind it is necessary that the ego-feeling, though it must exist, should be moderated by feelings of good-fellowship, sympathy, and love.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":101,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":93,"en_words":101,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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Die Seele kann sich allen Sympathien und Antipathien entziehen und in sich selbst nur sich erleben, nur ihr eigenes Sein beachten, erfühlen. Ja, dieses Erfühlen kann eine solche Stärke erreichen, daß man von einem «Wollen» der eigenen Wesenheit sprechen kann. Es handelt sich da um einen Zustand des Seelenlebens, den man deshalb nicht leicht schildern kann, weil er in seiner reinen, ureigenen Natur von solcher Art ist, daß ihm in der Sinneswelt nichts anderes ähnlich ist als das starke, reine Ich- oder Selbstgefühl der Seele. Für die elementarische Welt kann man den Zustand so schildern, daß man sagt, die Seele fühle gegenüber der notwendigen Hingabe an die Sympathie- und Antipathie-Erlebnisse den Trieb, sich zu sagen: ich will auch ganz nur für mich; nur in mir sein. Und durch eine Art Willensentfaltung entreißt sich die Seele dem Zustande der Hingabe an die elementarischen Sympathie- und Antipathie-Erlebnisse. Für die elementarische Welt ist dieses In-sich-Leben gewissermaßen der Schlafzustand; während die Hingabe an die Vorgänge und Wesenheiten der Wachzustand ist. - Wenn die Menschenseele in der elementarischen Welt wach ist und den Willen zu dem Sich-Erleben entwickelt, also das Bedürfnis nach dem «elementarischen Schlaf» empfindet, so kann ihr dieser werden, indem sie in den Wachzustand des Sinnenerlebens mit vollentwickeltem Selbstgefühl zurücktritt. Denn dieses vom Selbstgefühl durchtränkte Erleben in der Sinneswelt ist eben der elementarische Schlaf. Er besteht in dem Losreißen der Seele von den elementarischen Erlebnissen. Es ist wörtlich richtig, daß für das übersinnliche Bewußtsein das Leben der Seele in der Sinneswelt ein geistiges Schlafen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p004"},{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Wenn in der *richtig entwickelten* menschlichen Geistes-Schau das Erwachen in der übersinnlichen Welt eintritt, so bleibt die Erinnerung an die Erlebnisse der Seele in der Sinneswelt vorhanden. Diese Erinnerung muß vorhanden bleiben, sonst wären in dem hellsichtigen Bewußtsein wohl die anderen Wesenheiten und Vorgänge vorhanden, nicht aber die eigene Wesenheit. Man hätte dann kein Wissen von sich; man lebte nicht selbst geistig; es lebten in der Seele die anderen Wesenheiten und Vorgänge. Man wird, dies bedenkend, begreiflich finden, daß die richtig entwickelte Hellsichtigkeit einen großen Wert legen muß auf die Ausbildung des starken «Ich-Gefühls». Man entwickelt in diesem Ich-Gefühl mit der Hellsichtigkeit durchaus nicht etwas, was erst durch die Hellsichtigkeit in die Seele kommt; man lernt eben nur dasjenige erkennen, was in den Seelentiefen immer vorhanden ist, aber für das gewöhnliche, in der Sinneswelt verlaufende Seelenleben unbewußt bleibt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p005"},{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Das starke «Ich-Gefühl» ist *nicht* durch den ätherischen Leib als solchen vorhanden, sondern durch die Seele, welche sich in dem physisch-sinnlichen Leib erlebt. Bringt es die Seele nicht von ihrem Erleben in der Sinneswelt in den hellsichtigen Zustand hinein mit, so wird sich ihr zeigen, daß sie für das Erleben in der elementarischen Welt nicht zureichend gerüstet ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":58,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p006"},{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Es ist dem menschlichen Bewußtsein innerhalb der Sinneswelt wesentlich, daß das Selbstgefühl der Seele (ihr Ich-Erleben), trotzdem es vorhanden sein muß, abgedämpft ist. Dadurch hat die Seele die Möglichkeit, innerhalb der Sinneswelt die Schulung für die edelste sittliche Kraft, für das *Mitgefühl* zu erleben. Ragte das starke Ich-Gefühl in die bewußten Erlebnisse der Seele innerhalb der Sinneswelt hinein, so könnten sich die sittlichen Triebe und Vorstellungen nicht in der richtigen Weise entwickeln. Sie könnten nicht die Frucht der *Liebe* hervorbringen. Die Hingabe, dieser naturgemäße Trieb der elementarischen Welt, ist nicht dem gleich zu achten, was man im menschlichen Erleben als Liebe bezeichnet. Die elementarische Hingabe beruht auf einem *Sich*-Erleben in dem anderen Wesen oder Vorgang; die *Liebe* ist ein Erleben des andern in der eigenen Seele. Um dies Erleben zur Entfaltung zu bringen, muß in der Seele über das in ihren Tiefen vorhandene Selbstgefühl (Ich-Erlebnis) gewissermaßen ein Schleier gezogen sein; und in der Seele, welche in bezug auf ihre eigenen Kräfte abgedämpft ist, ersteht dadurch das In-sich-Fühlen der Leiden und Freuden des anderen Wesens; es erkeimt die Liebe, aus der echte Sittlichkeit im Menschenleben erwächst. Die Liebe ist für den Menschen die bedeutsamste Frucht des Erlebens in der Sinneswelt. Durchdringt man das Wesen der Liebe, des Mitgefühls, so findet man in diesen die Art, wie das Geistige in der Sinneswelt sich in seiner Wahrheit auslebt. Es ist hier gesagt worden, daß es zum Wesen des Übersinnlichen gehört, sich in ein anderes zu verwandeln. Wenn das Geistige im sinnlich-physisch lebenden Menschen sich so verwandelt, daß es das Ich-Gefühl abdämpft und als Liebe auflebt, so bleibt dieses Geistige seinen eigenen elementarischen Gesetzen treu. Man kann sagen, daß mit dem übersinnlichen Bewußtsein die Menschenseele in der geistigen Welt aufwacht; man muß aber ebenso sagen, *daß in der Liebe das Geistige innerhalb der Sinneswelt aufwacht*. Wo Liebe, wo Mitgefühl sich regen im Leben, vernimmt man den Zauberhauch des die Sinneswelt durchdringenden Geistes. - Deshalb kann niemals die richtig entwickelte Hellsichtigkeit das Mitgefühl, die Liebe abstumpfen. Je richtiger die Seele sich in die geistigen Welten einlebt, desto mehr empfindet sie die Lieblosigkeit, den Mangel an Mitgefühl als eine Verleugnung des Geistes selbst.-","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":357,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p007"},{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Die Erfahrungen des schauend werdenden Bewußtseins zeigen in bezug auf das Vorgesagte ganz besondere Eigentümlichkeiten. Während das Ich-Gefühl - das aber für das Erleben in den übersinnlichen Welten notwendig ist - leicht sich abdämpft, oft sich wie ein schwacher, verlöschender Erinnerungsgedanke verhält, werden Gefühle des Hasses, der Lieblosigkeit, werden unsittliche Triebe zu starken Seelenerlebnissen gerade nach dem Eintritte in die übersinnliche Welt; sie stellen sich vor die Seele wie lebendig gewordene Vorwürfe hin, werden gräßlich wirkende Bilder. Um dann von diesen Bildern nicht gequält zu sein, greift das übersinnliche Bewußtsein oft zu dem Auskunftsmittel, sich nach geistigen Kräften umzusehen, welche die Eindrücke dieser Bilder abschwächen. Damit aber durchdringt sich die Seele mit diesen Kräften, welche verderblich wirken auf die erworbene Hellsichtigkeit. Sie treiben diese von den guten Gebieten der geistigen Welt ab und lenken sie zu den schlechten hin.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p008"},{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Auf der anderen Seite sind die wahrhaftige Liebe, das rechte Wohlwollen der Seele auch solche Seelen-Erlebnisse, welche die Kräfte des Bewußtseins in dem Sinne verstärken, wie es für den Eintritt in die Hellsichtigkeit notwendig ist. Wenn davon gesprochen wird, daß die Seele eine Vorbereitung braucht, bevor sie in der übersinnlichen Welt Erfahrungen machen kann, so darf hinzugefügt werden, daß zu den mannigfaltigen Vorbereitungsmitteln auch die wahre Liebefähigkeit, die Neigung für echtes menschliches Wohlwollen und Mitgefühl gehören.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":76,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p009"},{"locus":"GA 17/l09/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Ein übermäßig entwickeltes Ich-Gefühl in der Sinneswelt wirkt der Sittlichkeit entgegen. Ein Ich-Gefühl, welches zu schwach entwickelt ist, bewirkt, daß die Seele, die tatsächlich von den Stürmen der elementarischen Sympathien und Antipathien umkraftet ist, der inneren Sicherheit und Geschlossenheit entbehrt. Diese können nur vorhanden sein, wenn in den ätherischen Leib, der dem gewöhnlichen Leben unbewußt bleibt, ein genügend starkes Ich-Gefühl von dem sinnlich-physischen Erleben aus hineinwirkt. Zur Entwickelung einer echt sittlichen Seelenstimmung ist aber notwendig, daß dieses Ich-Gefühl, obwohl es vorhanden sein muß, doch abgedämpft wird durch die Neigungen zu Mitgefühl und Liebe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":93,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/17/l09/p010"}],"beads":[{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"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)."}}