{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 181/1918-04-09/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now it is interesting to follow up the connection which exists between our Ego-consciousness here in physical life and this disintegrating corpse. Curiously enough the disintegrating corpse and the Ego-consciousness are connected in a certain respect. I say the Ego-consciousness: not of course the real, true Ego, for that passes of course through the portal of death and continues its life between death and rebirth. But what here in physical life floats before man is a picture of the Ego—for he has no consciousness of the Ego, only a picture of it in his consciousness—that is bound to the corpse, and indeed to that combination of substances which is dissolved into the Universe after death. The dissolution of the corpse into the Universe is nothing but the external picture of the collective Ego-consciousness; for in truth our Ego-consciousness belongs to the Universe into which our corpse is dissolved. The reason that between birth and death we maintain the opinion—a strange one for the occultist but a comprehensible and obvious one for ordinary man—that we are here, confined within the boundaries of our skin, is only because the substances in our body are held together between birth and death. It is also because of this cohesion that we believe ourselves to be in this content of space which we fill out with our flesh and blood. This is really absurd, we are not there at all. We are really everywhere; and between sleeping and waking we even try to be where the particles of matter and our body will be after death. Only between our birth and death does this Maya-consciousness come to us, of being within that content of space which is limited by our skin. But that is a Maya-consciousness which is produced in us. And death among many other things also disproves this Maya-consciousness concerning the physical material world. It leads the particles of our corpse where in reality our Ego-consciousness always dwells. This is already a very far-reaching concept.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. The Eternal and the Imperishable","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-04-09","location":null,"word_count":332,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/181/1918-04-09/p008","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRC0049","book_title":"Anthroposophical Life Gifts","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA181/English/LRC0049/19180409p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Aber was hier im physischen Leben dem Menschen als Bild des Ich vorschwebt - er hat ja kein Bewußtsein von dem Ich, hat nur ein Bild des Ich im Bewußtsein -, das ist an den Leichnam gebunden, und zwar an denjenigen Stoffzusammenhang gebunden, der sich eben nach dem 'Tode im Universum auflöst. Diese Auflösung des Leichnams im Universum ist nichts anderes als das äußere Bild für das gesamte Ich-Bewußtsein; denn in Wahrheit gehört unser Ich-Bewußtsein diesem Universum an, in das sich unser Leichnam auflöst. Und daß wir in der Zeit zwischen Geburt und Tod in der sonderbaren Anschauung - für den Okkultisten sonderbaren Anschauung, für den gewöhnlichen Menschen selbstverständlichen Anschauung — verharren: Da innerhalb der Grenzen unserer Haut sind wir —, daran ist nur Schuld, daß die Stoffmassen unseres Leibes zwischen Geburt und Tod zusammengehalten werden. Von diesem Zusammenhalt kommt es her, daß wir auch diesem Rauminhalt, den wir mit unserem Fleisch und Blut ausfüllen, es stets zuschreiben, daß wir da sind. Denn eigentlich ist es absurd, wir sind gar nicht da. Wir sind in Wahrheit überall dort und versuchen sogar vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen überall dort zu sein, wo nach dem Tode die Stoffteilchen unseres Leibes sein werden. Es wird uns nur zwischen Geburt und Tod das Majabewußtsein beigebracht, daß wir in diesem Rauminhalt seien, der durch unsere Haut begrenzt ist. Das ist aber ein Majabewußtsein, das uns beigebracht wird. Und der Tod ist unter vielem andern, was er ist, die Widerlegung dieses Majabewußtseins für die physisch-materielle Welt. Er führt die Teile unseres Leichnames dahin, wo in Wahrheit unser Ich-Bewußtsein immer weilt. Das ist schon etwas sehr Weittragendes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":341,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/181/1918-04-09/p008"}],"english":["GA 181/1918-04-09/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":341,"en_words":332,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4905,"original_word_count":4762,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRC0049","book_title":"Anthroposophical Life Gifts","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA181/English/LRC0049/19180409p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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