{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 185/1918-10-26_02/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Every branch of culture, of course, has many ramifications and consequently all kinds of secondary effects, but art by its very nature embodies something that leads to a deeper and more concrete understanding of man. He who makes a thorough study of the artistic forms in painting and sculpture, or of the nature of the inner rhythms in music and poetry—and the artists themselves often fail to do this today—he who has a deep inner experience of art is imbued with something which enables him to understand the human being in his picture-nature. In the epoch of the Consciousness Soul mankind must develop the capacity to comprehend man symbolically. You are already familiar with some of the basic principles of this symbolical understanding. When we look at the human head we are reminded of man's earliest beginnings. Just as a dream is seen as a memory of the sensible world and thereby receives its characteristic stamp, so for those who understand reality everything pertaining to the sensible world is an image of the spiritual. We must learn to perceive the spiritual archetype of man through his picture-nature. In future man will become to some extent transparent to his fellow man. The form of his head, his gait, will awaken in us an inner sympathy and understanding of a different nature from what we find in human tendencies today. For we shall only know man as an ego being when we have this conception of his picture-nature, when we can approach him with the fundamental feeling that what the physical eyes perceive of man bears the same relation to the true super-sensible reality of man as the picture painted on canvas bears to the reality which it depicts. We must develop this fundamental feeling in ourselves. We must approach man in such a way that we no longer see him as a combination of bones, muscles, blood, etcetera, but as the image of his eternal, spiritual being. Supposing a man walks past us; we would not recognize him if he did not awaken in us the realization of what he is as an eternal spiritual super-sensible being. This is how we shall see man and this is how we shall be able to see him in the future. When we perceive human forms and movements and all that is associated with them as an image of the eternal, we shall feel warmth or coldness and of necessity will gradually be filled with inner warmth or coldness. As we go through life we shall come to know man very intimately; towards some we shall feel warm, towards others cold. Worst of all will be the situation of those who evoke neither warmth nor coldness. We shall have an inner experience of others in the warmth ether that penetrates our etheric body; this will be the reaction of the enhanced interest that must be developed between men.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Supersensible Element in the Study of History","site_heading":"Death and Evil as Evolutionary Forces in Consciousness","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1918-10-26","location":null,"word_count":484,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/185/1918-10-26_02/p016","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. 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Wer sich wirklich vertieft in die künstlerischen Formen, die zum Beispiel die Malerei, die Plastik schaffen, oder in das Wesen der inneren Bewegungen, die durch Musik und Dichtung pulsieren, wer sich da hinein vertieft, wer Kunst wirklich innerlich erlebt — das tun oftmals die Künstler selber nicht in der heutigen Zeit-, wer Kunst wirklich innerlich erlebt, der durchdringt sich mit etwas, was ihn befähigt, den Menschen nach einer gewissen Richtung, nach der Richtung der menschlichen Bildnatur aufzufassen. Denn das wird es sein, was in diesem Zeitalter der Bewußtseinsseele über die Menschheit kommen muß: den Menschen bildhaft auffassen zu können. Sie haben schon einiges gehört über die Elemente zu diesem bildhaften Auffassen. Sieht man hin auf den Menschen und sieht sein Haupt, so weist es einen zurück in die Vergangenheit. Wie der Traum aufgefaßt wird als eine Reminiszenz des äußeren sinnenfälligen Lebens und dadurch seine Signatur erhält, so wird für den, der die Dinge der Wirklichkeit durchschaut, alles äußere Sinnenfällige wiederum Bild eines Geistigen. Das geistige Urbild des Menschen müssen wir durchschauen lernen durch seine Bildnatur. Durchsichtig gewissermaßen wird gegen die Zukunft hin der Mensch dem Menschen werden. Wie das Haupt geformt ist, wie der Mensch geht, wird mit anderem innerem Anteil und mit anderem innerem Interesse geschaut werden, als es heute noch in den menschlichen Neigungen liegt. Denn man wird den Menschen nur dann seinem Ich nach glauben kennenzulernen, wenn man eine solche Auffassung von seiner Bildnatur hat, wenn man mit dem Grundgefühl vor den Menschen hintreten kann, daß sich dasjenige, was die äußeren physischen Augen vom Menschen sehen, zu des Menschen wahrer geistig-übersinnlicher Wirklichkeit verhält wie das Bild, das auf die Leinwand gemalt ist, zu der Wirklichkeit, die es wiedergibt. Dieses Grundgefühl muß sich ausbilden. Man muß dem Menschen nicht so entgegentreten — das muß man lernen -, daß man in ihm nur empfindet den Zusammenhang von Knochen, Muskeln, Blut und so weiter, sondern man muß den Menschen empfinden lernen als das Bild seines ewigen, geistig-übersinnlichen Wesens. Da geht der Mensch an uns vorüber, und wir würden nicht glauben ihn zu erkennen, wenn dasjenige, was an uns vorübergeht, in uns nicht den Hinblick auferweckte auf das, was er als ein ewiger, übersinnlich-geistiger Mensch ist. So wird man den Menschen sehen. Und man wird den Menschen so sehen können. Denn dasjenige, was man so sehen wird an dem Menschen, wenn man die menschlichen Formen und die menschlichen Bewegungen und alles, was damit zusammenhängt, als Bild des Ewigen erfassen wird, das wird einem warm oder kalt machen, das wird einem mit innerer Wärme oder mit innerer Kälte nach und nach erfüllen müssen, und man wird durch die Welt wandeln, indem man die Menschen sehr intim kennenlernt. Der eine wird einem warm, der andere wird einem kalt machen. Am schlimmsten werden die Leute daran sein, die einem weder warm noch kalt machen. Man wird ein innerliches Erlebnis haben im Wärmeäther, der einen durchdringt im Artherleib. Das wird der Reflex sein des gesteigerten Interesses, das von Mensch zu Mensch entwickelt werden muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":541,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/185/1918-10-26_02/p015"}],"english":["GA 185/1918-10-26_02/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":541,"en_words":484,"ratio":0.89,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 185/1918-10-26_02/p015"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.9,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6187,"original_word_count":6853,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"A. H. 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