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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/p007-p010","json_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09/p007-p010.json","lecture_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/17/l09#p007","word_count":740,"quote_safe":true,"passages":[{"passage_number":7,"locus":"GA 17/l09/p007","text":"On the other hand, it is essential for human consciousness within the physical world that the soul's feeling of self, its experience of the ego, although it must exist, should be modified. By this means it is possible for the soul to undergo within the physical world training for the noblest of moral forces, that of fellow-feeling, or feeling with another. If the strong ego-feeling were to project itself into the soul's conscious experiences within the physical world, moral impulses and ideas could not develop in the right way. They could not bring forth the fruit of love. But the faculty of self-surrender, a natural impulse in the elemental world, is not to be put on a par with what is called love in human experience. Elemental self-surrender means experiencing oneself in another being or event; love is the experiencing another being in one's own soul. 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","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 17/l09/p007"],"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. 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But by doing so the soul steeps itself in these forces, which have an injurious effect on the newly-won clairvoyance. 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","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"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. 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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","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"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","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"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. 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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":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"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)."}}