{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us now turn to the soul. I tried to indicate the nature of the soul when I referred you to Aristotle. In speaking of the soul we must realize that Aristotle's ideas were not far removed from the truth, for the psychic life, that which pertains to the inner life, originates more or less with each individual. Aristotle, however, lived in an age when he could no longer fully comprehend the soul's relationship to the Cosmos. He declared that with the birth of a human being a new soul is created. He was an advocate of “creationism”, but accepted that after death the soul continues to survive in some undefined way. He did not enter into further details because in his day knowledge of the soul had already become somewhat nebulous. The manner in which the soul lives after death is in fact bound up with what is called, more or less symbolically, “original sin”—or whatever we prefer to call it, the terminology is not of the slightest importance—for “original sin” has undoubtedly modified the whole life of the soul. Consequently, at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha the souls of men were in danger of such wholesale corruption that they could not find their way back to the Kingdom of Heaven. They were chained to earthly existence, to the destiny of the Earth. This psychic life therefore follows its own separate path which will be described in further detail later.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Christ's Cosmic Mission and the Transformation of Faith","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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Wenn man es mit dem Seelischen zu tun hat, dann muß man sogar sich klar sein darüber, daß die Vorstellungen des Aristoteles nicht so ganz falsche sind. Denn das Seelische, das, was man Seelisches nennen kann, entsteht in der Tat mehr oder weniger mit jedem einzelnen Menschen. Nur lebt Aristoteles in einer Zeit, in der er schon nicht mehr vollständig einsehen kann, welchen Zusammenhang die Seele mit dem Kosmos hat. Daher sagt er: Indem ein Mensch gezeugt wird, entsteht mit dem physischen auch das seelische Dasein. Er vertritt dasjenige, was man Kreatianismus nennen kann, aber er läßt die Seele nach dem Tode weiterleben in unbestimmter Art. Darüber spricht sich Aristoteles nicht weiter aus, denn die Seelenerkenntnis war in seiner Zeit schon getrübt. Wie dieses Seelische weiterlebt nach dem Tode, das hängt in der Tat mit dem zusammen, was man nun mehr oder weniger symbolisch - oder wie man es nennen will, auf diese Dinge kommt es ja so ganz und gar nicht an — die Erbsünde nennt. Denn das hat wirklich gewirkt auf das Seelische, was man die Erbsünde nennt. Und das hat bewirkt, daß um die Zeit, in der das Mysterium von Golgatha eintrat, die Seelen der Menschen in Gefahr waren, so weit korrumpiert waren, daß sie den Weg in die Reiche der Himmel nicht zurückfinden konnten, daß sie verbunden waren mit dem Erdensein, beziehungsweise mit dem, was mit dem Erdensein wird. Also dieses Seelische geht eigene Wege. 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