{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 198/1920-07-09/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In this way, we have pointed out how this work in education, in the sharing of one's thoughts – and ultimately it is a sharing of thoughts, whether I tell someone something, or whether I write a novel, or, if we think of the thought in the broader sense, whether I produce another work of art — how this whole life in thought is a living together with the spiritual world, a carrying in of that which we have experienced before birth, into this world here. This special feature of what is called spiritual experience, what is called spiritual civilization, must first be considered by anthroposophists. For it is through this that our spiritual life takes on its special character, that we, by being in this spiritual life, become aware that We are connected through it with everything that lies before our birth and everything that lies after our birth, in that children bring it to us from the supersensible worlds. But it is this that gives this spiritual life its special character. On the one hand, there is what should be, namely that the anthroposophist views the world much more realistically than other people today, that the anthroposophist learns to look at the subtleties of life. He should recognize how the outer life of civilization in the workings of the spiritual is connected with the prenatal, and how something actually unfolds there in the spiritual that is richer than the individual human being, that reaches beyond the individual human being. It is true that when we are dependent on communicating our thoughts to others, and thus also finding them in the hearts and feelings of others, spiritual life points us to a commonality, to something that we can only experience together with other people. It equips us with something that we do not want to have alone.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Twelfth Lecture","site_heading":"Spiritual Crisis, Pre-existence, and Social Renewal","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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Denn dadurch bekommt dieses Geistesleben sein besonderes Gepräge, daß wir uns, indem wir in diesem Geistesleben stehen, bewußt werden: Wir hängen dadurch zusammen mit alledem, was vor unserer Geburt liegt, was noch nach unserer Geburt liegt, indem die Kinder es uns aus den übersinnlichen Welten hereintragen. - Dadurch bekommt aber dieses geistige Leben sein besonderes Gepräge. Es ist da einmal das, was sein sollte, daß der Anthroposoph die Welt viel realer ansieht als der andere Mensch heute, daß der Anthroposoph lernt, auf diese Feinheiten des Lebens hinzuschauen. Also er soll erkennen, wie das äußere Zivilisationsleben in dem Betrieb des Geistigen zusammenhängt mit dem Vorgeburtlichen, und wie eigentlich da in dem Geistigen sich etwas entfaltet, was reicher ist als der einzelne Mensch, was über den einzelnen Menschen hinübergreift. Nicht wahr, wenn wir darauf angewiesen sind, unsere Gedanken anderen mitzuteilen, also sie auch in den Herzen, in den Empfindungen anderer zu finden, so weist uns eben das Geistesleben auf eine Gemeinsamkeit hin, auf etwas hin, was wir nur mit anderen Menschen zusammen erleben können. 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