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In this connection it is important that we take seriously the fact that the evolving historical humanity is an organism that develops continuously. Just as in the case of the single organism we have puberty, and also later epochal transitions, so likewise, in human history, we have epochal transitions. Today, human beings still meet the doctrine of repeated earth lives with the objection that human beings do not remember their previous earth lives.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":118,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/194/1919-11-28/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1919-11-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-28/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-28/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":132,"en_words":118,"ratio":0.89,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Lisa D. 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You can only remember what you have thought.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":107,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/194/1919-11-28/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1919-11-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-28/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-28/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":119,"en_words":107,"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. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Lisa D. 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And there are not so few human beings who are able to do this. Nevertheless, the situation is such that man, also with respect to his purely bodily evolution, undergoes a transformation. These things cannot be observed externally in physiology, but they can be observed spiritual-scientifically. Mankind today does not have the same bodily constitution it had two thousand years ago, and in two thousand years from today it will again have a different constitution. I have talked to you about this subject repeatedly. Human beings live toward a time in the future in which their brains will be constructed in a way that is quite different from the way their brains are constructed today in an external sense. The brain will have the possibility of remembering former earth lives. But those who have not prepared themselves today through reflection upon their own self will sense this faculty—which will be theirs mechanically—merely as an inner nervousness, if I may use the current expression, as an inner deficiency. They will not find what they are lacking, because mankind in the meantime will have become ripe, in regard to its corporeality, to look back upon its previous earth lives, but if it has not prepared this retrospect, it cannot look back; it then will sense this faculty only as a deficiency. Therefore, proper knowledge of the present-day powers of transformation of mankind indicates by its very nature that human beings are brought to self-knowledge through the anthroposophically-oriented spiritual science. Now, it is possible, and today I shall only indicate this, it is possible to point out the nature of this special experience which will suggest to human beings to take into account previous earth lives.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":422,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/194/1919-11-28/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1919-11-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-28/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-28/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":416,"en_words":422,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Lisa D. 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Sehen Sie, es ist da notwendig, daß man ernst nehme die Tatsache, daß die sich fortentwickelnde Menschheit der Geschichte ein sich fortentwickelnder Organismus ist. Wie beim einzelnen Organismus die Geschlechtsreife eintritt, und auch später epochale Übergänge da sind, so sind schon einmal auch in der Geschichte der Menschheit epochale Übergänge da. Heute setzen die Menschen noch der Lehre von den wiederholten Erdenleben immer wieder und wieder den Einwand entgegen: ja, die Menschen erinnern sich nicht daran, die Menschen erinnern sich nicht an ihr früheres Erdenleben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":132,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-28/p013"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-28/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Wer die Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit, wie ich gerade andeutete, als einen Organismus auffaßt, der sollte sich nicht wundern — wenn er diese Entwickelungsgeschichte wirklich sachgemäß ins Auge faßt -, daß die Menschen sich heute nicht an ihre früheren Erdenleben im gewöhnlichen Erkennen erinnern. Denn ich frage Sie: An was erinnert sich der Mensch im gewöhnlichen Leben denn eigentlich? An dasjenige, was er zuerst gedacht hat. Was er nicht gedacht hat, an das erinnert er sich ja nicht. Denken Sie, wie viele Ereignisse im Tage von Ihnen unbeachtet bleiben. Sie erinnern sich nicht daran, weil Sie sie nicht gedacht haben, trotzdem sie sich vielleicht in Ihrer Umgebung zugetragen haben. Sie können sich nur an dasjenige erinnern, was Sie gedacht haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":119,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-28/p014"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-28/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Nun ist die Entwickelung der Menschheit in den früheren Jahrhunderten und Jahrtausenden nicht so gewesen, daß die Menschen sachgemäß sich wirklich das Wesen des Menschen klargemacht haben. Es gibt zwar seit dem griechischen Denken wie eine Sehnsucht das «Erkenne dich selbst», aber dieses «Erkenne dich selbst» soll erst erfüllt werden durch wirkliche Geisteserkenntnis. Erst dadurch, daß die Menschen einmal ein Leben anwenden — wozu die Menschheit erst in unserer Zeit reif geworden ist —, um in Gedanken zu erfassen das eigene Selbst, erst dadurch wird für das nächste Erdenleben vorbereitet das Erinnern. Denn man muß zuerst nachgedacht haben über dasjenige, woran man sich erinnern soll. Nur diejenigen, die in früheren Zeiten durch die Einweihung, die ja nicht immer in Mysterien erworben sein muß, wirklich sachgemäß hinschauen konnten auf das eigene Selbst, die können in der Gegenwart — und die Menschen sind ja nicht so selten, die es können — wirklich zurückblicken auf frühere Erdenleben. Aber die Sache liegt doch so, daß die Menschen auch in bezug auf ihre rein körperliche Entwickelung eine Umwandlung durchmachen. Diese Dinge lassen sich nicht physiologisch äußerlich, aber geisteswissenschaftlich beobachten. Die Menschheit ist heute nicht so, wie sie vor zwei Jahrtausenden war mit Bezug auf ihre körperliche Konstitution, und sie wird nach zwei Jahrtausenden wiederum nicht so sein wie heute. Über diese Sache habe ich ja öfter gesprochen. Die Menschen leben in eine Zeit, in eine Zukunftszeit hinein, in der — wenn ich mich banal ausdrücken möchte — die Gehirne anders konstruiert sein werden, als die Gehirne heute beim Menschen konstruiert sind in äußerer Beziehung. Das Gehirn wird die Möglichkeit der Rückerinnerung an frühere Erdenleben haben. Aber diejenigen, die heute nicht vorgesorgt haben werden durch Nachdenken über das eigene Selbst, die werden diese Fähigkeit, die doch in ihnen mechanisch sein wird, nur wie eine innere Nervosität — um den heutigen Ausdruck zu gebrauchen -, wie einen inneren Mangel empfinden. Sie werden nicht finden, was ihnen fehlt, weil die Menschheit mittlerweile mit Bezug auf ihre Körperlichkeit reif wird, zurückzuschauen auf ihre früheren Erdenleben. Aber wenn sie nicht vorbereitet hat diese Rückschau, so kann sie nicht zurückschauen. Dann empfindet sie die Fähigkeit nur als einen Mangel. Deshalb liegt es im richtigen Erkennen der gegenwärtigen Umwandlungskräfte der Menschheit selbst, daß durch anthroposophisch orientierte Geisteswissenschaft die Menschen zur Selbsterkenntnis gebracht werden. Nun kann man, und heute will ich das zunächst andeuten, nun kann man auch heute schon darauf hinweisen, wie das besondere Erlebnis sein wird, das den Menschen nahelegen wird, mit den früheren Erdenleben zu rechnen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":416,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-28/p015"}],"beads":[{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium"}],"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)."}}