{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Spiritual science reveals that the mental picture we commonly have of our *I* is not at all identical with the one we find through spiritual science. This discovery is of the greatest significance. The *I* of which we form a mental picture is deprived in the present incarnation of inner effective life. Purely on the basis of this *I* we could not in truth say, I exist now, at this moment in time. The mental picture we have of our *I* is no guarantee that we exist now, in the present. There is a constant danger that somehow a combination of mental pictures is conjuring up the *I*. That is the uncertainty; that is why we feel that what we are faced with is a mere picture and no reality. Why do we experience our inner self in this way? Because the *I* of which we form a mental picture contains already forces for our next incarnation. In this life it must necessarily exist in the form in which we encounter it. When we depict the *I*, we are dealing with a force belonging not to this life, but a force that will only evolve in our next incarnation. It is comparable to a plant which, if it could sense the seed within would say, This seed is in reality not me; it is the plant that will grow only next spring. In a similar way there lives in what we depict as our *I* the force that will evolve in our next incarnation. It has to exist the way it does, for if we wanted it to become more in the present incarnation, then it would unfold too soon and could not remain seed-like till our next life. Thus, the *I* we depict in thoughts must remain weak; it cannot be active now, for it has to retain the seed-like forces for the next incarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"The I Across Incarnations: Thought, Will, and Hidden Connections","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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Wir sind immer der Gefahr ausgesetzt, daß uns irgendwie ein Zusammenwirken unserer Vorstellungen das Ich selber, die Ich-Vorstellung, bloß vorgaukelt. Und das ist das Unsichere, das wir fühlen, daß wir eigentlich einem bloßen Bilde, daß wir keiner Wirklichkeit gegenüberstehen. Woher kommt das? Das kommt davon her, daß dieses Ich, das wir vorstellen, so sein muß, wie es in der Vorstellung ist, weil in diesem Ich, in diesem vorgestellten Ich, schon die Kräfte für die nächstfolgende Inkarnation liegen. Also denken Sie, wenn wir das Ich bloß vorstellen, so haben wir uns nicht als Kraft in der Gegenwart, sondern wir haben uns da schon als Kraft für die nächste Inkarnation. Es ist gerade so, wie wenn die Pflanze, die den Keim in sich fühlt, sich vorstellen müßte: Dieser Keim, der bist eigentlich nicht du, sondern das ist die Pflanze, die erst im nächsten Frühling wachsen will. — So lebt in dem, was wir uns vom Ich vorstellen, die Kraft, die in der nächsten Inkarnation sich erst entfalten wird. Und sie muß sich so ausleben, diese Kraft; denn würden wir mehr haben in der gegenwärtigen Inkarnation, so würde das, was wir haben, nicht keimhaft, sondern es würde eine gegenwärtige Wirklichkeit sein; wir trügen keine Keimanlagen in uns für die nächste Inkarnation. Es muß also das vorgestellte Ich so abgeschwächt sein, daß es für die Gegenwart nicht wirksam ist, sondern die Keimkräfte für die nächste Inkarnation enthält.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":333,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-10/p009"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-10/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":333,"en_words":316,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8241,"original_word_count":8922,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Aspects of Human Evolution","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1987/19170710p01.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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