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If a person is outside of their physical body with their astral body and I between falling asleep and waking up, then they are in a region that is completely different in relation to the folk soul, to which they primarily belong in a particular incarnation, than the region in which the person is in relation to the folk soul when they are in their physical body. Through his language and many other things, man is born into the realm of his folk soul. How does this folk soul affect the human soul, that which is taken out of the physical and etheric bodies during sleep, but which is present in the body during waking? How does the folk soul of the people to which a person belongs affect the individual soul of the person?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174a/1914-12-03/p005","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Central Europe Between East and West","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174a/English/SOL2024/19141203p01.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 experience what we experience in communion with the folk soul during our waking hours, only that the folk soul does not speak directly into what is fully conscious in the I, that it speaks more into the subconscious of the astral body from the etheric body, that it tinges, nuances, gives our feeling and temperament a certain direction. This is the essential way in which we relate to it. The one who, through his corresponding initiation, is able to observe all that is involved when a person submerges into the physical body, he sees, looks at the encounter with the folk soul when submerging into the physical body. But he also sees something else. And when I speak of this, you will soon recognize that objectivity must prevail within what the spiritual researcher has to say about one or other folk soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":270,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174a/1914-12-03/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Central Europe Between East and West","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174a/English/SOL2024/19141203p01.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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In the state of sleep, he is with all the other national souls of the time in question, with the exception of the one with which he is in the physical body during the waking state.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174a/1914-12-03/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Central Europe Between East and West","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174a/English/SOL2024/19141203p01.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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When you enter your physical body, you get to know the individual folk soul with its essential characteristics, essentially its activity in its effect on you, albeit in the subconscious. During sleep or in the state of initiation, one gets to know the other folk-souls, not as individuals, but in their interaction; only one's own folk-soul is not present. The others interact as in a round dance, and in that which their round dance activity is, one lives in it, as one lives with one's own folk-soul in the physical body during the day. 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There is only one thing by which one can be condemned, quite certainly condemned, to be torn out of the normal togetherness with the dance of the national souls and to be together with only one foreign national soul in the body-free state, that is, in sleep. Do understand me: it is not normal to be with a foreign folk soul; but you can achieve it if you passionately hate this other folk soul. In this way you condemn yourself to be torn out of the dance of the other folk souls and to be together with this one folk soul in a sleeping state, as you are with your own folk soul during the waking state.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174a/1914-12-03/p009","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Central Europe Between East and West","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174a/English/SOL2024/19141203p01.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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If one takes spiritual science seriously precisely where it points to the spheres that are connected with our life, then one must bear that spiritual science points to conditions in the spiritual world that are so uncomfortable to immerse oneself in, even just with one's consciousness, that one resists it with one's will. One does not want to submerge, one would like the truth to be different with regard to very many things. That not only the intellect but also the will resists what spiritual science often has to say as something bitterly serious, that is something we may also bring before our soul one day. And from feelings that can be stimulated by such a discussion as the one just expressed, we feel that the principle we have within our spiritual movement, of a certain work, without distinction of race, color, nationality and so on, is so closely connected with the deeper essence of our spiritual-scientific movement that it is actually nonsense for anyone who truly understands the profound seriousness of spiritual-scientific truths not to support this first principle. It is indeed nonsense, for to hate the nature of some folk soul in the deepest human being means to condemn oneself to be in the subconscious with this folk soul during sleep in exactly the same way as one is in one's subconscious during waking with the folk soul that is one's own. For the normal interaction with national souls during sleep is this: to be together with the whole range of others for an age. That man must not become one-sided, the wise arrangement of the world takes care of that.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":400,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174a/1914-12-03/p010","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Central Europe Between East and West","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174a/English/SOL2024/19141203p01.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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Wenn nun der Mensch zwischen seinem Einschlafen und Aufwachen mit seinem astralischen Leibe und Ich außerhalb seines physischen Leibes ist, dann ist er in einer Region, die in bezug auf sein Verhältnis zu der Volksseele, der er zunächst angehört in einer bestimmten Inkarnation, eine ganz andere ist als die Region, in der der Mensch ist in bezug auf die Volksseele, wenn er in seinem physischen Leibe ist. Der Mensch wird durch seine Sprache und durch manches andere ja hineingeboren in das Gebiet seiner Volksseele. Wie wirkt diese Volksseele auf die menschliche Seele, auf das, was im Schlafe herausgenommen wird aus dem physischen und Ätherleibe, was aber im Wachen im Leibe vorhanden ist? Wie wirkt die Volksseele des Volkes, dem ein Mensch angehört, auf die individuelle Seele des Menschen?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1914-12-03/p005"},{"locus":"GA 174a/1914-12-03/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Sie wirkt eigentlich nur in der Zeit, in welcher der Mensch in den physischen Leib untertaucht vom Aufwachen bis zum Einschlafen. Der Mensch ist da untergetaucht in die Kräfte des physischen und Atherleibes, und in diese Kräfte ist auch untergetaucht mit gewissen, ich möchte sagen, Fangarmen das, was die Volksseele ist, die Seele desjenigen Volkes, dem der Mensch eben in einer Inkarnation besonders angehört. Und wir tauchen nicht nur in unseren physischen Leib unter, wir tauchen auch in einen gewissen Teil unserer Volksseele unter, leben vom Aufwachen bis zum Einschlafen, während wir in unserem physischen Leibe sind, mit dem, was im physischen Leibe vorgeht, innerhalb der Volksseele. Wir erfahren das, was wir in Gemeinschaft mit der Volksseele erfahren, während unseres Wachzustandes, nur daß die Volksseele nicht unmittelbar in das hereinspricht, was uns vollbewußt ist im Ich, daß sie vom Ätherleib aus mehr in das Unterbewußte des astralischen Leibes hineinspricht, daß sie uns tingiert, nuanciert, unserem Gefühl und Temperament eine gewisse Richtung gibt. Das ist das Wesentliche, wie wir mit ihr in Beziehung treten. Derjenige, der durch seine entsprechende Initiation fähig ist zu beobachten, was da alles mitspielt, wenn der Mensch in den physischen Leib untertaucht, der sieht, schaut die Begegnung mit der Volksseele beim Untertauchen in den physischen Leib. Aber er schaut auch noch etwas anderes. Und wenn ich davon spreche, so werden Sie bald erkennen, daß innerhalb desjenigen, was der Geistesforscher zu sagen hat über die eine oder andere Volksseele, Objektivität herrschen muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":244,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1914-12-03/p006"},{"locus":"GA 174a/1914-12-03/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Der Geistesforscher lebt ja in den Momenten, wo er in der richtigen Weise durchstärkt und durchleuchtet das Geistig-Seelische und es fähig macht, bewußt zu leben und unabhängig vom Leibe, er lebt so, daß er beobachten kann, wo der Mensch ist, auch dann, wenn er mit seinem Geistig-Seelischen, mit seinem astralischen Leibe und Ich außerhalb des physischen Leibes ist. Der Geistesforscher beobachtet da, wie jede menschliche Seele unbewußt zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen in den ganzen Umkreis der für eine Zeit in Betracht kommenden Volksseelen untertaucht. Während der Mensch also, wenn er in den physischen Leib untertaucht, mit der Volksseele seiner Nation zusammen ist, ist er im Schlafzustand mit all den anderen Volksseelen der betreffenden Zeit zusammen, mit Ausnahme derjenigen, mit der er während des Wachzustandes im physischen Leibe zusammen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1914-12-03/p007"},{"locus":"GA 174a/1914-12-03/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Der Geistesforscher hat hinlänglich Gelegenheit, die Eigentümlichkeiten der anderen Volksseelen kennenzulernen, denn sobald er in seinem leibfreien Zustand seiner selbst bewußt wird, lebt er geistig-seelisch ebenso mit den anderen Volksseelen zusammen, wie er im physischen Leibe mit seiner eigenen Volksseele zusammen lebt. Da wäre es ganz unmöglich, aus den gewöhnlichen Leidenschaften heraus das eine oder das andere in einseitiger Weise über die eine Volksseele zu sagen. Aber wenn der Geistesforscher bewußt mit diesen anderen Volksseelen zusammen lebt, so zeigt ihm dieses Bewußte auch, daß jeder Mensch zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen unbewußt mit den anderen Volksseelen zusammenhängt, aber etwas anders als mit seiner eigenen Volksseele. Wenn man in den physischen Leib untertaucht, so lernt man die einzelne Volksseele mit ihren wesentlichen Eigenschaften, im wesentlichen ihrer Tätigkeit in der Wirkung auf sich kennen, wenn auch im Unterbewußten. Im Schlafe oder Initiationszustand lernt man die anderen Volksseelen kennen, aber nicht als einzelne, sondern in ihrem Zusammenwirken; nur die eigene Volksseele ist nicht dabei. Die anderen wirken zusammen wie in einem Reigen, und in dem, was ihre Reigentätigkeit ist, in dem lebt man drinnen, wie man bei Tag im physischen Leibe mit der einen Volksseele zusammen lebt. Also man lebt","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1914-12-03/p008"},{"locus":"GA 174a/1914-12-03/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"5 da nicht mit der Eigentümlichkeit der einen Volksseele zusammen, sondern mit dem Zusammenwirken. Nur eines gibt es, wodurch man im leibfreien Zustand, also im Schlafe, gleichsam verurteilt werden kann, ganz sicher verurteilt werden kann, aus dem normalen Zusammensein mit dem Reigen der Volksseelen herausgerissen zu werden und mit nur einer fremden Volksseele zusammen zu sein. Verstehen Sie mich wohl: Das ist nicht normal, mit einer fremden Volksseele zusammen zu sein; aber man kann es erreichen, wenn man in leidenschaftlicher Weise diese andere Volksseele besonders haßt. Damit verurteilt man sich, herausgerissen zu werden aus dem Reigen der anderen Volksseelen und so zusammen zu sein im Schlafzustand mit dieser einen Volksseele, wieman während des Wachzustandes mit der eigenen Volksseele zusammen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1914-12-03/p009"},{"locus":"GA 174a/1914-12-03/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Ja, das sind objektive Wahrheiten, welche die Geistesforschung ergibt. Sie zeigt Ihnen, daß es bitter ernst ist mit dem Satz, der oftmals ausgesprochen wird von seiten der Geisteswissenschaft: Daß das, was uns in der äußeren Wirklichkeit entgegentritt, Maja, große Täuschung ist, und daß hinter dieser Maja, hinter diesem Schleier Wahrheiten liegen, von denen sich derjenige, der sich nur mit dem Schleier der Maja begnügen möchte, nicht nur nichts mit seinem Verstande wissen kann, sondern auch nichts wissen möchte mit seinem Willen. — Es gibt in unserer Zeit eben noch viele, viele Menschen, die noch nicht einsehen können, was da hinter dem Schleier der Maja liegt, und deshalb nicht verstehen können, daß es eine solche übersinnliche, unsichtbare Welt gibt und in dieser ganz andere Verhältnisse der menschlichen Seele zu den anderen Volksseelen, als man sich träumen läßt. Wenn man die Geisteswissenschaft gerade da im Ernst nimmt, wo sie hineinweist in die Sphären, die mit unserem Leben zusammenhängen, dann muß man es ertragen, daß da die Geisteswissenschaft hinweist auf Verhältnisse der geistigen Welt, in die unterzutauchen, auch nur mit dem Bewußtsein, recht unbequem ist, so daß man sich dagegen sträubt auch mit seinem Willen. Man will nicht untertauchen, man möchte, daß die Wahrheit anders sei in bezug auf sehr viele Dinge. Daß nicht nur der Verstand, sondern auch der Wille sich sträubt gegen das, was die Geisteswissenschaft oftmals als bitter Ernstes zu sagen hat, das ist etwas, was wir uns auch einmal vor die Seele führen dürfen. Und aus Empfindungen heraus, die angeregt werden können durch eine solche Auseinandersetzung wie die eben ausgesprochene, verspüren wir, daß der Grundsatz, den wir haben innerhalb unserer Geistesbewegung, von einem gewissen Wirken, ohne Unterschied der Rasse, Farbe, Nationalität und so weiter, im Grunde genommen so eng zusammenhängt mit dem tieferen Wesen dieser unserer Bewegung, daß es ja eigentlich für den, der den tiefen Ernst der geisteswissenschaftlichen Wahrheiten einsieht, ein Unsinn ist, diesen ersten Grundsatz nicht zu vertreten. Ein wirklicher Unsinn ist es, denn im tiefsten Menschlichen das Wesen irgendeiner Volksseele hassen, heißt eben, sich dazu verurteilen, mit dieser Volksseele im Unterbewußten genau ebenso zusammen zu sein während des Schlafes, wie man während des Wachens in seinem Unterbewußtsein zusammen ist mit der Volksseele, die die eigene ist. Denn das normale Zusammensein mit Volksseelen im Schlafe ist dieses: mit dem ganzen Reigen der anderen für ein Zeitalter in Betracht kommenden zusammen zu sein. Daß der Mensch nicht einseitig werden darf, dafür sorgt die weise Einrichtung der Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":409,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1914-12-03/p010"}],"beads":[{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"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)."}}