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But pure thoughts can determine man's actions. This is a fact taught by experience, if man is not led to deeds by passions, desires and instincts, but by clear thoughts. This is possible and can take place—pure ideals can be the impulses of human actions. But ideals alone cannot effect anything. I can carry out an action under the influence of a pure idea; but the idea cannot effect anything.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/179/1917-12-11/p029","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1917-12-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 179/1917-12-11/p032","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/179/1917-12-11/p032"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":135,"en_words":122,"ratio":0.9,"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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For this reason I have explained in my *The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity* that man can act freely and independently if he is guided by pure thoughts, pure thinking, because pure thoughts cannot cause or produce anything, so that the causing force must come from somewhere else. I have used the same image again in my book *The Riddle of Man*. We are free human beings because we carry out actions under the influence of Maya, and because this Maya, or the world immediately around us, cannot bring about or cause anything. Our freedom is based on the fact that the world that we perceive is Maya. The human being united himself in wedlock with Maya, and thus becomes a free being. If the world that we perceive were a reality, this reality would compel us, and we would not be free. We are free beings just because the world which we perceive is not a reality and for this reason it cannot force us to do anything, in the same way in which a mirrored reflection cannot force us to run away. 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I wish to speak to you about things that lie at the foundation of human nature—that part of human nature that can perceive reality and has not attained the required maturity in one incarnation, but must be weakened in order to become man in the next incarnation. The centaur, of whom I spoke to you, who is to be found beneath the threshold of consciousness, would be able to perceive truth and reality, but the centaur cannot as yet perceive. What we perceive is not a reality! But man can let himself be determined by that part of his being which is no longer, or is not yet, a centaur; then his actions will be those of a free being. The secret of our freedom is intimately connected with the taming of our centaur-nature. This centaur-nature is contained in us in such a way that it is chained and fettered, so that we may not perceive the reality of the centaur, but only the Maya. 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Es muß Ihnen nicht gefallen, oder es muß etwas sein, was gar nicht mit dem Spiegelbild in irgendeiner Beziehung steht, wenn Sie davonlaufen. Das Spiegelbild selbst kann nicht eine Peitsche nehmen und bewirken, daß Sie davonlaufen. Das kann keine Causa sein. Wenn aber der Mensch unter dem Einfluß seiner Spiegelbilder, also seiner Ideen handelt, dann handelt er aus der Maja heraus, handelt er eben aus dem Weltenspiegel heraus: Er muß es sein, der handelt, deshalb handelt er dann frei. Wenn er seinen Leidenschaften folgt, handelt er nicht frei; nicht einmal, wenn er seinen Gefühlen folgt, handelt er frei. Wenn er seinen Vorstellungen, die bloß Spiegelbilder sind, folgt, handelt er frei. Aus diesem Grunde ist es, warum ich in der «Philosophie der Freiheit» ausgeführt habe, daß der Mensch, wenn er reinen Ideen folgt, dem reinen Denken folgt, ein frei handelndes Wesen ist, weil reine Ideen eben nichts bewirken können, also das Bewirken von anderswoher kommen muß. Ich habe diese Sache mit diesem Bilde noch einmal durchgeführt in meinem Buche «Vom Menschenrätsel». Gerade weil dasjenige, was uns zunächst umgibt, eine Maja ist, die nichts bewirken kann, wir aber unter dem Einflusse dieser Maja handeln, sind wir freie Menschenwesen. Unsere Freiheit beruht darauf, daß unsere Wahrnehmungswelt Maja ist. Unser Wesen vermählt sich mit der Maja und ist dadurch ein freies Wesen. Wäre die Welt, die wir wahrnehmen, Wirklichkeit, dann würde diese Wirklichkeit uns zwingen, dann wären wir nicht freie Wesen. Wir sind freie Wesen gerade deshalb, weil die Welt, die wir wahrnehmen, nicht eine Wirklichkeit ist, daher uns auch nicht zwingen kann, ebensowenig wie uns ein Spiegelbild zwingen kann davonzulaufen. Darinnen beruht das Geheimnis des freien Menschen, daß man den Zusammenhang einsieht zwischen der Wahrnehmungswelt als einer Maja, der bloßen Spiegelung einer Wirklichkeit, und dem Impulsieren des Menschen durch sich selbst. 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Was Wirklichkeiten wahrnehmen würde, aber zur Wahrnehmung in einer Inkarnation noch nicht reif ist, sondern abgeschwächt erst in der nächsten Inkarnation Mensch wird, der Kentaur würde Wahrheit, würde Wirklichkeit wahrnehmen; aber der Kentaur nimmt eben noch nicht wahr. Dasjenige, was heute wahrgenommen wird, ist noch keine Wirklichkeit. Aber der Mensch kann sich bestimmen lassen durch dasjenige in seinem Wesen, was nicht mehr — oder noch nicht - ein Kentaur ist: dann handelt er als ein freies Wesen. Das Geheimnis unserer Freiheit hängt innig zusammen mit der Bändigung unserer Kentaurennatur. Unsere Kentaurennatur verhält sich so zu uns, daß sie angekettet, gefesselt ist, damit wir nicht die Wirklichkeit des Kentauren, sondern eine bloße Maja wahrnehmen. 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