{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-19/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But what is it that is actually taking place as we unfold our life of thought?—Reality is becoming *semblance!* It is very important to be clear about this. We carry about with us our head, which with its hard skull and tendency to ossification, presents, even outwardly, a picture of what is dead, in contrast to the rest of the living organism. Between birth and death we bear in our head that which, from an earlier time when it was reality, comes into us as semblance. From the rest of our organism we permeate this semblance with the element issuing from our metabolic processes; we permeate it with the real element of the will. There we have within us a seed, a germinating entity which, first and foremost, is part of our humanity, but also means something in the cosmos. Think of it—an individual is born in a particular year; before then she was in the spiritual world. When she passes out of the spiritual world, thought which there is reality, becomes semblance, and she leads over into this semblance the forces of her will which come from an entirely different direction, rising up from parts of her organism other than the head. That is how the past, dying away into semblance, is kindled again to become reality of the future.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Path to Freedom and Love and Their Significance in World Happenings","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-19","location":null,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-19/p024","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Gerald F. 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Wir tragen unser Haupt, das in seiner Verknöcherung und in seiner Neigung zum Verknöchern bildhaft ja schon äußerlich das Erstorbene gegenüber der anderen, frischen Körperorganisation zeigt. Wir tragen in unserem Haupte zwischen Geburt und Tod dasjenige, was aus einer Vorzeit, wo es Realität war, hereinragt als Schein, und wir durchstrahlen von unserem übrigen Organismus den Schein mit dem realen Elemente, das aus unserem Stoffwechsel kommt, mit dem realen Elemente des Willens. Da haben wir eine Keimbildung, die zunächst in unserem Menschentum abläuft, die aber eine kosmische Bedeutung hat. Denken Sie sich, ein Mensch ist geboren in irgendeinem Jahre, vorher war er in der geistigen Welt; er geht aus der geistigen Welt heraus, indem dasjenige, was da als Gedanke Realität war, in ihm zum Schein wird, und er überführt in diesen Schein die Willenstätigkeit, die aus einer ganz anderen Richtung herkommt, die aus seinem übrigen, nichthauptlichen Organismus aufsteigt. 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