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When I say, I am, I live within the seed of my next incarnation; when I say, I will, I live in what acts across from my previous incarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-10/p035","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1917-07-10","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p027","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-10/p027"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 176/1917-07-10/p027"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":340,"en_words":340,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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When a person says, I will this or that, and carries out an action, will flows into him from his previous incarnation, whereas his satisfaction or dissatisfaction in life depend upon himself as he is now, and the circumstances of his present incarnation. You will realize what mysterious connections we are dealing with. However, in ordinary life they are felt as if they were jumbled together. People believe the *I* is a kind of substantial something hidden in their inner being and that they express this something at different times variously as: “I think,” “I was,” “I am,” “I will.” But things are not like that. When I say, “I am,” I rely on a force which I have within me, the way this year's plant has within it the seed that will develop only next year. Thus when I say, “I am,” I am within a force which becomes a human being in a future incarnation. 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That is why I could write in the article that appeared in the April 1916 issue of the Bern periodical *The Realm*: “Our path through the spiritual world can be traversed when we discover what thinking and willing encompass,” because neither thinking nor willing live in us as something belonging exclusively to the present life.[^11] Rather, they point through their spiritual connection from a former life on earth across to a future one. 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Sie können das schon daraus entnehmen, daß Leute, wie der von mir vor einiger Zeit angeführte Theodor Ziehen, auf das Wollen überhaupt nicht kommen. Sie finden im gegenwärtigen Menschen wiederum das Wollen nicht und sie haben, wie ich in öffentlichen Vorträgen jetzt an vielen Orten ausgeführt habe, damit nicht unrecht. Franz Brentano schaltet sogar das Wollen ganz aus von den Seelenkräften, unterscheidet nur Vorstellen, Urteilen und die Gefühlsphänomene des Liebens und des Hassens, so daß er das Wollen gar nicht in der Seele eigentlich anschaut. Er schaltet es auch als Psychologe aus. Und daran ist das richtig, daß, wenn man wiederum den Menschen, wie er in der gegenwärtigen Inkarnation ist, auf sein Wollen hin prüft, man das Wollen gar nicht findet. Man findet von dem Wollen im gegenwärtigen Menschen bloß, daß es einen befriedigt oder unbefriedigt läßt, daß es einem Freude macht, Trauer macht und dergleichen. Man findet sozusagen wirklich von dem Wollen nur den Gefühls-, den Gemütseindruck, aber das Wollen selber, es bleibt im Geheimnisvollen. Sie wissen nicht einmal, warum Sie eine Hand erheben; Sie wissen, warum, welches Gefühl Sie dazu verleitet hat, welche Vorstellung, aber wie Sie es machen, was eigentlich als Wille wirkt: Sie können es nicht im gegenwärtigen Menschen finden. Warum? Weil es nicht im gegenwärtigen Menschen drinnen ist. Das wollende Ich ist gar nicht im gegenwärtigen Menschen drinnen, sondern es ist das Ergebnis der vorigen Inkarnation. Was in der vorigen Inkarnation war, das lebt sich jetzt aus als Wille, der aus dem Ich herausfließt. Sage ich «Ich bin», so lebe ich in diesem Gedanken «Ich bin» in dem Keim der nächsten Inkarnation. Sage ich: «Ich will», dann lebe ich in dem, was herauswirkt aus der vorhergehenden Inkarnation in die gegenwärtige hinein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":340,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-10/p027"},{"locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Das ist außerordentlich interessant, weil es begreiflich erscheinen läßt, daß hier leicht Lebensenttäuschungen liegen können. Das Befriedigtsein oder Nicht-Befriedigtsein, das hängt ab von der Gegenwart, das liegt an dem gegenwärtigen Menschen, aber der Wille führt hinein aus dem Menschen der vorigen Inkarnation. Jedesmal, wenn ich irgend etwas vollführe, was mit den Worten ausgedrückt wird: ich will das oder jenes —, fährt der Wille aus der vorigen Inkarnation in meinen gegenwärtigen Gemütszustand hinein. Denken Sie, was das für ein geheimnisvoller Zusammenhang ist. Aber der Mensch im gewöhnlichen Leben wirft das alles durcheinander. Er glaubt: dieses Ich, das ist so irgendein geheimnisvolles Substantielles in seinem Innern, und einmal sagt es: «Ich denke», einmal «Ich war», einmal «Ich bin», einmal «Ich will». So ist es aber nicht; sondern wenn ich sage: «Ich bin», so entwickele ich eine Kraft, die jetzt in mir so ist wie die Keimkraft in der heurigen, in der diesjährigen Pflanze, die sich aber erst im nächsten Jahr entfaltet. Sowie ich sage «Ich bin», bin ich in einer Kraft, die Mensch wird in einer nächsten Inkarnation. Wenn ich sage: «Ich will», wirke ich aus einer Kraft heraus, die in mir war in einem vorhergehenden Erdenleben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":195,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-10/p028"},{"locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Wenn man dies gehörig begriffen hat, dann weiß man, daß man eigentlich nur in seinem Fühlen — wie der Philosoph sagt —, im modus praesens lebt, in der Gegenwartsform lebt. Real in der Gegenwartsform ist eigentlich nur das Gefühlserlebnis; und wir sind wirklich zeitlich gewissermaßen eine dreifach ineinandergeschachtelte Wesenheit. Wir sind so zusammengeschachtelt, daß in uns lebt das, was herüberwirkt.aus der vorigen Inkarnation, dasjenige, was jetzt erfühlt wird, und dasjenige, was herüberwirkt in die nächste Inkarnation. Wie die Pflanze herauswächst aus dem, was Same des vorigen Jahres war, der vertrocknet, so ist das Vertrocknende der vorigen Inkarnation, das allmählich in die übrige Welt Übergehende, das Wollen, das aus dem Ich quillt. Der Keim für die nächste Inkarnation ist dasjenige, was wir als Ich denken. Aus diesem Grunde, weil das so ist, schrieb ich in dem Aufsatze, der von mir im April-Heft 1916, dem ersten Heft vom «Reich», der Bernusschen Zeitschrift enthalten ist: «Der Weg in die geistige Welt wird also zurückgelegt durch die Bloßlegung dessen, was im Denken und Wollen enthalten ist», weil das Denken und Wollen, so wie es in uns lebt, in der Tat nicht in uns als bloß gegenwärtig lebt, sondern durch den geistigen Zusammenhang hinüberweist aus früherem Erdenleben in späteres Erdenleben. Man kann dann wirklich sagen: Es kann nicht in einer ähnlichen Art das Gefühlserleben durch einen inneren Seelenanstoß entwickelt werden, weil das Gefühlserleben als geistiges Gefühlserleben auch wirklich erfahren wird. Daher ist dasjenige, was dem Gefühl entspricht, drüben in der geistigen Welt etwas, was selbst an einen herankommen muß. Man kann meditierend, sich konzentrierend, Wollen und Denken ausleben, aber man kann nicht das Gefühlsleben kultivieren. Das muß man führen lassen, und das ergibt sich dann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":280,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-10/p029"}],"beads":[{"from":[34,35],"to":[27],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[36],"to":[28],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[37],"to":[29],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"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)."}}