{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 173c/1917-01-20/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We know the reasons why those times had to go into the underground of existence. But they will return, though in a different form. The manner of their return will be brought about by human beings who achieve the mood of soul which can be achieved through spiritual science, through actively living in the pictures of the spiritual world given by spiritual science. This will enable the soul to attain a delicate attuning, and then into this delicate attuning the souls of the so-called dead will enter. Of course they are always present, but what matters now is that we should be aware of how they enter into our soul-sphere. Of course, the dead always surround those of us with whom they were karmically linked during life. But to enable them to enter our consciousness we must go to meet them with the fine attuning I have just described. For you see it is always possible for the dead to gain entry into human souls if these souls lead their life in a mood such as that described just now, where the concepts and ideas formed by these souls live, somehow, in a super-sensible sphere. From the bodily, physical aspect of man the dead have to flee, for at the moment they cannot enter there. Neither can they enter those thoughts which only rise up from the brain after the manner of the physical world. And because today human beings mostly entertain only thoughts that rise up from the brain, it is so very difficult for the dead to make contact with the living.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXI","site_heading":"Ceremonial Magic, Dead Souls, and Ahrimanic Immortality","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Aber sie wird wiederkommen, nur in einer andern Form, und sie wird kommen dadurch, daß sich die Menschen die Stimmung erwerben, welche wirklich über die Seele kommen kann durch die Geisteswissenschaft, durch die Betätigung, durch das Leben in den geisteswissenschaftlichen Vorstellungen über das Übersinnliche. Da wird es möglich, daß die Seele zu feinen Stimmungen kommt, und in diese feinen Stimmungen kommen wiederum herein die Seelen der sogenannten Toten. Die sind zwar immer da, aber daß sie bewußt in die Seelensphäre hereinkommen, darum handelt es sich ja jetzt. Gewiß, die Toten umschweben denjenigen immer, mit dem sie karmisch verbunden waren im Leben. Aber daß sie in sein Bewußtsein hereinwirken, dazu ist notwendig, daß man ihnen entgegenkommt mit der Stimmung, die ich eben jetzt andeutete. Denn sehen Sie, möglich ist es immer für die Toten, den Zugang zu finden zur Menschenseele, wenn die Menschenseele sich mit ihrem Seelenleben in einer solchen Stimmung bewegt, wie ich es angedeutet habe, wenn gewissermaßen in einer übersinnlichen Sphäre die Begriffe und Ideen leben, die die Menschenseele sich bildet. Dasjenige, was der Tote fliehen muß, in das der Tote nicht hinein kann, das ist das Leibliche, das Physische des Menschen. Da kann der Tote nicht hinein, zunächst nicht hinein. Also in die Gedanken, die nur in Anlehnung an die physische Welt aus dem Gehirn aufsteigen, in diese Gedanken kann der Tote nicht hinein. Und weil die Menschen heute zumeist nur solche Gedanken haben, die aus dem Gehirn aufsteigen, ist den Toten so schwer ein Zugang zu den Lebenden möglich. Aber wenn die Lebenden den Toten entgegenkommen, indem sie die Stimmung entwickeln, die eben dadurch da ist, daß man sich viel mit übersinnlichen Vorstellungen beschäftigt, dann können die Toten in dieses Schweben und Weben der Seele herein, welches sich abzieht von dem Leiblichen, welches sich nicht beschäftigt mit dem Leiblichen. Alles in unserer heutigen Zeit hängt davon ab, daß die Menschenseelen die Möglichkeit finden, gewissermaßen den Weg zu den Toten hinzugehen. Dann kommen ihnen die Toten entgegen. Man muß sich in einer gemeinschaftlichen Sphäre finden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":351,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/173c/1917-01-20/p011"}],"english":["GA 173c/1917-01-20/p014","GA 173c/1917-01-20/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":351,"en_words":354,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5322,"original_word_count":5331,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1988","book_title":"The Karma of Untruthfulness II","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA173c/English/RSP1988/19170120p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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