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The inner world has become an outer world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p012","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19160315p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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If we take the extreme case of having hurt or offended someone during our physical existence, we have felt something by offending them. But they have also felt something. What we felt is what drove us out of our feelings to insult him, and then also what we felt, perhaps even a certain satisfaction with the act. In short, you can imagine what a person feels, in the good or bad sense, when he does something on the physical plane. But the other person, the one at whom we were aimed, feels something different. The one who is offended feels something different than the one who offends. After death, in this regression, which is to be characterized now, we feel the effects that we have caused in other people, but also in other beings, with our actions, with our will impulses, and even with our thoughts. So we do not feel what we already felt while we were in the physical body, but what we have done in other souls, in other beings. What was external, what remained external during our physical life, now becomes internal. Just as the separation of the etheric body turns the inner into the outer, so this reliving turns the outer into the inner. Our soul is filled with the effects of our physical existence. This now becomes our inner life: the external becomes an internal. Thus the internal becomes an external and the external becomes an internal. In this way the human being is, as it were, turned around after passing through the gate of death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":401,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p013","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19160315p01.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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With their spiritual eye, if I may use the image, the Form Spirits, the Spirits of Movement, the Spirits of Wisdom, the Spirits of Will, look down on that remarkable, meaningful spectacle that takes place after the human being, between birth and death, has , through his impulses of will, inwardly experiences this or that between birth and death; what he now experiences after he has passed through the gate of death, where he gathers up the effects, as it were, in order to make them into a new inner being, that inner being which can then live itself further out in karma during the building of the later incarnation. From their spiritual heights, the aforementioned spirits observe how everything that spreads out into the world as our effects becomes inner. And what they observe in this way is now material for them to incorporate something else into the lower spirits of the ongoing world development, in order to provide help above all so that karma can be effected, so that what is pushed from the outside inwards provides the foundation for a slow process that unites between 'death and a new birth that tissue that then descends to the physical hereditary substance in order to connect as a spiritual being with what the person inherits from father and mother. Much is necessary for that to come about, which descends from the spiritual heights and must connect with the hereditary substance that comes from the ancestors. After the human being has passed through the gate of death, discarded his etheric body, and undergone the return journey through the world of the soul, as mentioned earlier, the work that must be done between death and a new birth begins, so that the new birth, the new incarnation, can come about.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":384,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p014","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19160315p01.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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Do not be anxious about where there could be space for all these weavings: the spiritual permeates itself, and all these weavings are within this sphere.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p015","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19160315p01.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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All this is incorporated by the spirits of form, spirits of movement, spirits of wisdom and willpower working on the person between death and new birth. And when the time has come for the new incarnation to take place, this web is ready. Then there is a mighty sphere. Again, there is no need to worry that there would be no space for all these spheres; they can all be inside one another. It is, of course, a picture for a spiritual thing. Then this sphere begins to become smaller and smaller, and it turns, just as you turn a glove inside out, so that the inside becomes the outside and the outside becomes the inside. That which is, as it were, on the outside, all goes inside, turns completely and becomes so small that it can unite with the human germ as it develops in the mother's body. That is also a picture.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":299,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p016","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19160315p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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But today we want to imagine the matter in such a way that, in proportion to what a person has given to the beings of the higher hierarchies during his life between birth and death, these spirits of the higher hierarchies work both on the world and on the establishment of the spiritual foundations for the new incarnation of the human being. I think that is a tremendous thought when it settles in our soul in an emotional way, when we become aware of what our life actually means for the entire universe when we are in it. And it is necessary that, from this moment on, more and more people imbibe this awareness of being connected to the spiritual world throughout their lives.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p017","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19160315p01.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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Aber so, wie wir weiterleben zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt, ist unser seelischer Blick unablässig hingerichtet auf dasjenige, was wir so imstande waren hinzugeben zu dem allgemeinen Weltenäther-Gewebe. Und wie wir selber nun wiederum mitzuarbeiten haben an der Herstellung dessen, was sich dann mit der physischen Materie verbindet, um uns eine neue Inkarnation zu geben, so wirkt in diese unsere Arbeit hinein der Anblick dessen, was wir so der großen Welt gegeben haben. Kurz, ob wir auf etwas zu blicken haben, woraus wir neue Antriebe für eine nächste Inkarnation schöpfen können in diesem, dem Weltenäther einverwobenen Gedankengewebe, oder ob wir das nicht können, davon wird vieles abhängen in bezug auf die Art, wie wir imstande sein werden, für unsere neue Inkarnation vorzuarbeiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p011"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1916-03-15/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"So sind unsere Gedanken an unsere Körperlichkeit gebunden, bevor wir durch die Pforte des Todes gehen. Dann werden sie uns in einer gewissen Weise genommen, und sie werden in dem, was die genannten Wesenheiten aus ihnen gemacht haben, dem allgemeinen Weltenäther einverwoben, um nun nicht ein Dasein in uns zu haben, sondern ein Dasein außer uns. Daher kann man in der Geisteswissenschaft diesen Vorgang, um ihn sich immer zu merken, um ihn gewissermaßen zur Meditation immer vor sich zu haben, mit den Worten bezeichnen: Das Innere wird ein Äußeres. Denn genau so, wie wir hier mit dem physischen Auge auf Berge, Flüsse, Wolken, Sterne sehen, so sehen wir nach dem Tode auf das aus unserem Denken Gewobene hin als auf das Äußere, das von uns genommen und dem allgemeinen Weltenäther einverwoben ist. Außenwelt ist es jetzt, uns erhebende oder uns betrübende, uns stärkende oder schwächende Außenwelt. Das Innere ist ein Äußeres geworden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p012"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1916-03-15/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Dann wissen wir, daß es eine fernere, sehr lange Zeit dauert, in der wir rückwärtsgehend auf eine gewisse Art dasjenige zu durchleben haben, was wir hier im Erdenleben durchgemacht haben, aber anders, als wir es im Erdenleben durchgemacht haben. Wir durchleben ja, wie wir wissen, mit dreifacher Schnelligkeit das abgelaufene Leben zwischen dem Tode und der Geburt in umgekehrter Reihenfolge, also das, was wir im letzten Jahre erlebt haben, zuerst, dann das vom vorletzten Jahre und so weiter. So leben wir das Leben nach dem Tode in Imaginationen zurück, aber anders, als wir es hier im physischen Leib gelebt haben. Nachdem unser Atherleib von uns getrennt ist, leben wir das Leben zurück, so aber, daß wir jetzt nicht das erleben, was wir in unserem Fühlen, in unseren Willensimpulsen während unseres physischen Daseins erlebt haben. Nehmen wir den extremen Fall, wir hätten während unseres physischen Daseins jemanden verletzt, beleidigt, so haben wir etwas gefühlt, indem wir ihn beleidigt haben. Aber er hat auch etwas gefühlt. Das, was wir gefühlt haben, ist dasjenige, was uns aus unserem Fühlen heraus getrieben hat, ihn zu beleidigen, dann auch, was wir gefühlt haben vielleicht sogar als eine gewisse Befriedigung über die Tat. Kurz, Sie können sich ausmalen, was ein Mensch fühlt, im guten oder im schlimmen Sinne fühlt, wenn er irgend etwas auf dem physischen Plan bewirkt. Aber der andere, auf den sich das richtete, was wir getan haben, der fühlt etwas anderes. Derjenige, der beleidigt wird, fühlt etwas anderes als der, der beleidigt. Nach dem Tode, bei diesem Zurücklaufen, das jetzt charakterisiert werden soll, da fühlen wir die Wirkungen, die wir mit unseren Taten, mit unseren Willensimpulsen, ja auch mit unseren Gedanken in anderen Menschen, aber auch in anderen Wesenheiten angerichtet haben. Also nicht das, was wir schon gefühlt haben, während wir im physischen Leibe waren, fühlen wir jetzt, sondern das, was wir bewirkt haben in anderen Seelen, in anderen Wesenheiten. Das Äußere, das, was Außerliches geblieben ist während unseres physischen Lebens, das wird jetzt Inneres. Wie durch die Abtrennung des Ätherleibes das Innere ein Äußeres wird, so wird durch dieses Zurückleben das Äußere ein Inneres. Unsere Seele erfüllt sich mit dem, was wir innerhalb unseres physischen Daseins als Wirkungen angestellt haben. Das wird jetzt unser Innenleben: das Äußere wird ein Inneres. So wird das Innere ein Äußeres und das Außere ein Inneres. So wird der Mensch gleichsam gewendet, nachdem er durch die Pforte des Todes getreten ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":404,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p013"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1916-03-15/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Stellen Sie sich vor, wie Sie sich vorhin die Angeloi, Archangeloi und Archai in einem gewissen Verhältnisse zur menschlichen Gedankenwelt vorstellen mußten, jetzt die Geister der höheren Hierarchien vor: die Geister der Form, die Geister der Bewegung, die Geister der Weisheit, ja sogar noch die Geister des Willens, die Throne, die stellen Sie sich so vor, daß sie nun auch in einer Art Verhältnis zu dem stehen, was ich jetzt charakterisiert habe, wie der Mensch ein neues Inneres erwirbt, das jetzt aus dem Äußeren zusammengeschweißt wird. Mit ihrem geistigen Auge — wenn ich das Bild gebrauchen darf - sehen die Formgeister, die Geister der Bewegung, die Geister der Weisheit, die Geister des Willens herab auf jenes merkwürdige, bedeutungsvolle Schauspiel, das sich abspielt, nachdem der Mensch zwischen der Geburt und dem Tod dies oder jenes durch seine Taten, durch seine Willensimpulse innerlich erlebt hat; was er jetzt erlebt, nachdem er durch die Pforte des Todes geschritten ist, wo er die Wirkungen aufsammelt gleichsam, um sie zu einem neuen Inneren zu machen, zu jenem Inneren, das dann im Karma sich weiter ausleben kann bei dem Aufbau der späteren Inkarnation. Wie da alles, was sich draußen in der Welt als unsere Wirkungen ausbreitet, Inneres wird, das schauen die genannten Geister aus ihren geistigen Höhen an. Und das, was sie so anschauen, ist für sie nun Material, um noch etwas anderes als die genannten niedrigeren Geister der fortlaufenden Weltenentwickelung einzuverleiben, um vor allen Dingen Hilfe zu leisten, damit das Karma bewirkt werden kann, damit dasjenige, was so von außen nach innen gedrängt wird, die Grundlage abgibt in einem langsamen Aufbau, der da zwischen dem 'Tod und einer neuen Geburt jenes Gewebe vereinigt, das sich dann herabsenkt zu der physischen Vererbungssubstanz, um sich als Geistiges mit dem zu verbinden, was der Mensch von Vater und Mutter ererbt. Es ist vieles notwendig, damit das zustande komme, was sich so herabsenkt aus den geistigen Höhen und sich verbinden muß mit der Vererbungssubstanz, die von den Vorfahren abstammt. Nachdem der Mensch durch die Pforte des Todes geschritten ist, seinen Atherleib abgelegt hat, nachdem er jenen Rücklauf durch die Seelenwelt bewirkt hat, von dem gesprochen worden ist, da beginnt ja bereits die Arbeit, die verrichtet werden muß zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt, damit eben die neue Geburt, die neue Inkarnation zustande kommen könne.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":386,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p014"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1916-03-15/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Was wird da gearbeiter? Es ist eigentlich unendlich schwierig, die Art, wie da an uns gearbeitet wird im geistigen Weltenall draußen, zu charakterisieren. Sollte ich das charakterisieren, so könnte ich es vielleicht in der folgenden Weise durch eine schematische Skizze tun. Nehmen wir an, der Mensch tritt durch die Pforte des Todes. Sein Atherleib wird dann abgelegt. Dasjenige, was er selber noch überblickt, bleibt ja verhältnismäßig lange Zeit irgendwie in der Umgebung der Erde. Ich habe Ihnen solche Dinge im Laufe der Zeit charakterisiert. Das aber, was die Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai gewoben haben, geht so weit hinaus, indem es der allgemeinen Ätherwelt einverwoben wird, daß es sich in einer weiten Kugel entfaltet, deren Mittelpunkt die Erde ist. Also wie eine Geistatmosphäre umgibt der Weltenäther die Erde. Und diesem Weltenäther wird einverwoben, was wir aus unseren Gedanken gesponnen haben. Seien Sie nicht ängstlich darüber, wo Platz sein könnte für alle diese Gewebe: das Geistige durchdringt sich, und in dieser Sphäre sind alle diese Gewebe drinnen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p015"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1916-03-15/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"In seinem weiteren Verlauf sieht der Mensch nun, nicht von innen, sondern von außen, dieses Gewebe. Und sein weiteres Leben ist eine Art Vergrößerung, ein Aufgehen im Weltenall. Und während der ganzen Zeit, während sich das Leben zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt abspielt, sieht der Mensch immer von außen herein, sieht er: Das bist du -, wie eine noch mächtigere, ausgedehntere Kugel, und auf dieser Kugel stellen Sie sich vor so etwas wie eine mächtige Landkarte. Es ist natürlich alles bildlich und grob ausgedrückt, aber es gibt schon die Tatsachen wieder. - Da, an dieser Landkarte, an diesem Globus wird gearbeitet, indem alles eingezeichnet, geistig eingearbeitet wird: Erstens dasjenige, was da vom Menschen selber erarbeitet worden ist in seinem Ätherleib, auf den der Mensch hinblicken kann, dann aber auch das, was jetzt menschliches Inneres geworden ist auf die Art, wie ich es geschildert habe. Das wird alles da eingearbeitet, indem an dem Menschen zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt Formgeister, Geister der Bewegung, Geister der Weisheit, Willensgeister arbeiten. Und wenn der Zeitpunkt gekommen ist, wo sich die neue Inkarnation ergeben soll, dann ist dieses Gewebe fertig. Dann ist also eine mächtige Kugel da. Sie brauchen wiederum keine Angst zu haben, daß kein Platz da wäre für alle diese Kugeln; die können alle ineinander sein. Es ist natürlich ein Bild für eine geistige Sache. — Dann beginnt diese Kugel immer kleiner und kleiner zu werden, und sie wendet sich, so wie Sie einen Handschuh umwenden, daß das Innere Äußeres wird und das Äußere Inneres. Das, was gleichsam außen ist, das geht alles nach innen hinein, das wendet sich vollständig und wird so klein, daß es sich vereinigen kann mit dem menschlichen Keim, wie er sich ausbildet im Leibe der Mutter. Das ist auch ein Bild.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":295,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p016"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1916-03-15/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Man kann diese Dinge natürlich auch noch in einer anderen Bildlichkeit darstellen. Das ist ja hier auch schon geschehen. Aber wir wollen uns die Sache heute so vorstellen, daß nach Maßgabe desjenigen, was der Mensch den Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien während seines Lebens zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode hingegeben hat, diese Geister der höheren Hierarchien sowohl an der Welt wie auch an der Herstellung der geistigen Grundlagen für die neue Inkarnation des Menschen arbeiten. Das, denke ich, ist ein gewaltiger Gedanke, wenn er sich in gefühlsmäßiger Art festsetzt in unserer Seele, wenn wir gewahr werden, was eigentlich, so betrachtet, unser Leben für das gesamte Weltenall bedeutet, wie wir drinnenstehen in diesem Weltenall. Und notwendig ist es, daß immer mehr und mehr die Menschen sich von der Gegenwart an mit dem Bewußtsein durchdringen, so im Zusammenhange zu stehen durch ihr ganzes Leben mit einer geistigen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":146,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p017"}],"beads":[{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[17],"to":[17],"confidence":"high"}],"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)."}}