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We describe it as the world of higher hierarchies: Angels, Archangels, Archai, Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes, and so on; we describe it as the world of the higher hierarchies and the deeds and experiences of these hierarchies. Here the world is outside us, we are surrounded by the world of the mineral kingdom, of the plant kingdom, of the animal kingdom. When we have passed through the portal of death, these spiritual beings that we have enumerated as the higher hierarchies, and even the worlds of these beings, are within us. We are united with them, we cannot at first distinguish ourselves from them. We live in them through their permeating us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Mystery of the Double: Geographic Medicine","site_heading":"Geographic Medicine and the Ahrimanic Double in Human Nature","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, indem wir durch die Pforte des Todes gehen, Verhältnisse zu ihr haben, mit jener geistigen Welt verwachsen, die wir hier durch die Geisteswissenschaft beschreiben. Wir beschreiben sie als die Welt der höheren Hierarchien: Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai, Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes und so weiter, als die Welt der höheren Hierarchien und der Taten und Erlebnisse dieser Hierarchien. Hier ist die Welt außer uns; die Welt des Mineralreichs, des Pflanzenreichs, des Tierreichs ist in unserem Umkreise. Wenn wir durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen sind, da sind diese geistigen Wesenheiten, die wir in den höheren Hierarchien aufzählen, ja ihre Welten selbst in uns. Wir sind mit ihnen verbunden; wir können uns zunächst nur nicht von ihnen unterscheiden; wir leben in ihnen drinnen, indem sie uns erfüllen. Es ist das schon ein schwieriger Begriff, aber man muß sich ihn aneignen: Hier sind wir außerhalb der Welt, dort sind wir innerhalb der Welt. Unser Wesen breitet sich aus über die ganze Welt; aber wir können uns nicht unterscheiden. Wir sind gewissermaßen nach dem Tode vollgepfropft mit den Wesen der höheren Hierarchien und mit dem, was diese Hierarchien tun. Aber es handelt sich vor allen Dingen darum, daß wir die nächsten Hierarchien, von denen wir erfüllt sind, die Hierarchie der Angeloi, Archangeloi und Archai, loslösen können von den höheren Hierarchien. Wir kommen drüben gar nicht zu einem ordentlichen Ich-Bewußtsein — von andern Gesichtspunkten habe ich in Zyklen und Vorträgen dieses Heranreifen des Ich-Bewußtseins ja schon geschildert —, aber wir kommen nicht zu einem ordentlichen Ich-Bewußtsein, wenn wir nicht in uns die Kraft finden können, drüben zu unterscheiden: Was ist in uns — Angelos? Elohim? Was ist ein Wesen aus der Hierarchie der Angeloi, was ein Wesen aus der Hierarchie der Exusiai, der Formgeister? Wir müssen da drüben unterscheiden lernen, wir müssen die Kraft haben, loszulösen von dem, was mit uns verbunden ist, dasjenige, was wir erkennen wollen; sonst ist es in uns, steht nicht außer uns. Hier müssen wir mit dem, was draußen ist, zusammenkommen, es anschauen; dort müssen wir es von uns loslösen, damit wir mit ihm verbunden sein können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":459,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-16/p013"}],"english":["GA 178/1917-11-16/p017","GA 178/1917-11-16/p018"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":459,"en_words":480,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10164,"original_word_count":10093,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alice Wulsin","identified_edition":"MP1986","book_title":"Geographic Medicine","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA178/English/MP1986/19171116p01.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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