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If man views his impulses, instincts, passions, and temperament, and everything that surges up from the human being, without being able to bring them into clear mental images, at least into waking mental images, then all this is not appearance; it is reality, but a reality that does not rise up in man's present consciousness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p006","unit_kind":{"kind":"second_translation","base_unit":"GA 207/1921-10-16","note":"A second English translation of the same lecture as 1921-10-16. 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This spiritual world then vanished behind the appearance, and only the appearance remained. The essential thing in the progressive development of humanity is that in more ancient times the appearance was experienced as the manifestation of a divine-spiritual world, but the divine-spiritual vanished from this appearance, so that before man's eyes lies only appearance, in order that he might discover his freedom within this world of appearance. The human being therefore must find his freedom in a world of appearance; he does not find freedom in the true world, which completely withdrew to the dull experiences of his inner being; there, he can find only a necessity. We may therefore say that man's world of perception between birth and death—everything that I say applies only to our age—is a world of appearance. 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In our last studies we suggested that after death the human being does not perceive this outer world that he sees here, between birth and death, but between death and a new birth man essentially perceives the human being himself, the inner being of man. The human being is then the world for man. What is concealed here on earth becomes manifest in the spiritual world. Between death and a new birth, man gains insight into the entire connection between the soul life and the organic life of the human being, between the activity of the single organs, and in short, everything that, symbolically speaking, lies enclosed within the human skin.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p009","unit_kind":{"kind":"second_translation","base_unit":"GA 207/1921-10-16","note":"A second English translation of the same lecture as 1921-10-16. 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The life in appearance is actually valid for him only between birth and death. The human being has come to the point today that between death and a new birth he cannot live in appearance. When he passes through death, he is imprisoned, as it were, by necessity. The human being feels that he is free in his perceiving here on earth, where he may turn his eyes where he wishes; he may combine what he perceives into concepts so as to experience his freedom of action in these concepts; between death and a new birth, however, he feels unfree regarding the world of perceptions. He is overpowered, as it were, by the world. 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The divine-spiritual worlds vanished from the appearance of the earth, but between death and a new birth, these divine spiritual worlds imprison him, so that he cannot maintain his independence. I said that only if the human being really develops freedom on earth, that is, if he takes an interest with his entire being in the appearance in life, is it possible for him to carry his own being through the portal of death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p011","unit_kind":{"kind":"second_translation","base_unit":"GA 207/1921-10-16","note":"A second English translation of the same lecture as 1921-10-16. 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Jahrhunderts, hier zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode sich erwerben kann die Freiheit, daß dann alles, was er vollbringt aus dem Impuls der Freiheit heraus, seinem Wesen in dem Leben zwischen dem Tod und neuer Geburt gewissermaßen Schwere, Realität, Sein gibt. Gerade wenn wir loskommen hier von den Notwendigkeiten des irdischen Daseins, wenn wir uns erheben zu Motiven für unser Wollen, die frei sind, wenn wir also für unser Wollen nichts aus dem Irdischen heraus nehmen, dann zimmern wir uns dadurch die Möglichkeit, zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt auch ein selbständiges Wesen zu sein. Nur gehört zu diesem gewissermaßen Sein-Selbst-Bewahren nach dem Tode in unserem Zeitalter dazu, was man nennen kann die Beziehung zu dem Mysterium von Golgatha; und man kann ja dieses Mysterium von Golgatha von den verschiedensten Gesichtspunkten aus betrachten. Wir haben schon eine große Anzahl von Gesichtspunkten im Laufe der Jahre eingenommen; wir wollen es heute einmal von dem Gesichtspunkte, der sich ergibt durch die Betrachtung des Wertes der Freiheit für den Menschen, anschauen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":226,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p003"},{"locus":"GA 207/1921-10-16_02/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Wenn der Mensch hier auf der Erde zwischen Geburt und Tod lebt, dann hat er ja eigentlich im gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein keine Selbstanschauung. Der Mensch kann nicht in sich hineinschauen. Es ist natürlich nur eine Täuschung, wenn eine äußere Wissenschaft durch die Betrachtung dessen, was am Menschen tot ist, zuweilen ja wirklich nur durch die Betrachtung des Leichnams, glaubt, eine Innenerkenntnis der menschlichen Organisation zu gewinnen. Das ist ja durchaus ein Trug, eine Illusion. Der Mensch hat hier zwischen Geburt und Tod nur eine Anschauung der äußeren Welt. Aber was für eine Anschauung der äußeren Welt hat er hier? Er hat diejenige Anschauung, die wir oftmals genannt haben die Anschauung des Scheines, und auch gestern habe ich dies wiederum stark hervorgehoben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p004"},{"locus":"GA 207/1921-10-16_02/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Wenn wir unsere Sinne hinausrichten in unsere Weltumgebung zwischen Geburt und Tod, dann stellt sich uns die Welt als Erscheinung, als Schein dar. Wir können diesen Schein in unser Ich-Wesen hereinnehmen. Wir können ihn zum Beispiel in der Erinnerung behalten, haben ihn also dann in gewissem Sinne zu unserem Eigentum gemacht. Aber insofern er beim Hinausschauen in die Welt vor uns steht, ist er eben Schein, ein Schein, der sich als solcher noch ganz besonders dadurch zu erkennen gibt, daß er ja, wie ich Ihnen gestern gezeigt habe, im Tode verschwindet und in anderer Form wiederum auftritt, indem er nun nicht mehr in uns erlebt wird, sondern vor uns oder um uns erlebt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p005"},{"locus":"GA 207/1921-10-16_02/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Wenn aber der Mensch zwischen Geburt und Tod im heutigen Zeitalter die Welt nicht als Schein wahrnehmen würde, wenn er den Schein nicht erleben könnte, so könnte er ja nicht frei sein. Die Entwickelung der Freiheit ist nur möglich in der Welt des Scheines. Ich habe das angedeutet in meinem Buche «Vom Menschenrätsel», indem ich darauf hingewiesen habe, daß eigentlich die Welt, die wir erleben, verglichen werden kann mit den Bildern, die uns aus einem Spiegel heraus anschauen. Diese Bilder, die uns aus einem Spiegel heraus anschauen, die können uns nichts aufzwingen; sie sind eben nur Bilder, sie sind Schein. Und so ist das, was der Mensch als Wahrnehmungswelt hat, auch Schein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":112,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p006"},{"locus":"GA 207/1921-10-16_02/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Der Mensch ist ja durchaus nicht etwa ganz nur in den Schein der Welt eingesponnen. Er ist nur mit seinem Wahrnehmen, das sein waches Bewußtsein ausfüllt, eingesponnen in eine Scheinwelt. Aber wenn der Mensch hinblickt auf seine Triebe, auf seine Instinkte, auf seine Leidenschaften, auf seine Temperamente, auf all das, was heraufwogt aus dem menschlichen Wesen, ohne daß er es zu klaren Vorstellungen bringen kann, wenigstens zu wachen Vorstellungen, so ist ja das alles nicht Schein. Es ist schon Wirklichkeit, aber eine Wirklichkeit, die dem Menschen nicht vor das gegenwärtige Bewußtsein tritt. Der Mensch lebt zwischen Geburt und Tod in einer wahren Welt, die er nicht kennt, die aber niemals dazu angetan ist, ihm wirklich die Freiheit zu geben. Instinkte, die ihn unfrei machen, kann sie ihm einpflanzen, innere Notwendigkeiten kann sie hervorbringen, aber nie und nimmer kann sie den Menschen die Freiheit erleben lassen. Die Freiheit kann nur erlebt werden innerhalb einer Welt von Bildern, von Schein. Und wir müssen eben, indem wir aufwachen, in ein Scheinwahrnehmungsleben eintreten, damit sich da die Freiheit entwickeln kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p007"},{"locus":"GA 207/1921-10-16_02/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Dieses Scheinleben, das wir als unser waches Wahrnehmungsleben haben, es war nicht immer so innerhalb der geschichtlichen Entwickelung der Menschheit. Wenn wir zurückgehen in alte Zeiten, in die wir ja schon öfter den Blick zurückgeworfen haben, wo ein gewisses instinktives Schauen vorhanden war oder das, was Nachzügler ist dieses instinktiven Schauens, was ja als Nachzügler gewissermaßen noch fortgedauert hat bis in die Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts, wenn wir da zurückblicken, so können wir nicht im gleichen Sinne sagen, daß der Mensch in seinem wachen Zustande nur eine Scheinwelt um sich hatte. Durch den Schein hindurch sprach ja für den Menschen alles das, was er in seiner Art als den geistigen Hintergrund der Welt sah. Er sah allerdings auch diesen Schein, aber in anderer Weise. Es war dieser Schein für ihn Ausdruck, Offenbarung einer geistigen Welt. Diese geistige Welt ist hinter dem Scheine verschwunden. Der Schein ist geblieben. Das ist das Wesentliche in der Fortentwickelung der Menschheit, daß ältere Zeiten den Schein als die Offenbarung einer göttlich-geistigen Welt empfunden haben, daß aber aus diesem Schein die göttlich-geistige Welt verschwunden ist und der Schein heute dem Menschen vor Augen liegt, damit er innerhalb dieser Scheinwelt seine Freiheit finden kann, daß also der Mensch seine Freiheit in einer Scheinwelt finden muß, daß er in der wahren Welt, die ganz zurückgetreten ist in die dumpfen Erlebnisse des Inneren, keine Freiheit, sondern nur eine Notwendigkeit findet. Man kann also sagen: Lebt der Mensch zwischen Geburt und Tod - alles das, was ich sage, gilt nur für unser Zeitalter -, so ist seine Wahrnehmungswelt eine Scheinwelt. Er nimmt die Welt wahr, aber er nimmt die Welt als Schein wahr.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":273,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p008"},{"locus":"GA 207/1921-10-16_02/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Wie ist es nun zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt? Wir haben ja in den letzten Betrachtungen darauf hingewiesen, daß da der Mensch nicht diese äußere Welt wahrnimmt, die er hier gewahr wird zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode, sondern daß in der Zeit zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt der Mensch wesentlich den Menschen selbst, das Innere des Menschen sieht. Der Mensch ist dann für den Menschen die Welt. Das, was gerade hier auf der Erde verborgen ist, das ist in der geistigen Welt offenbar. Der ganze Zusammenhang zwischen dem Seelischen und dem Organischen des Menschen, zwischen der Wirksamkeit der einzelnen Organe, kurz, alles, was gewissermaßen, symbolisch gesprochen, innerhalb der menschlichen Haut ist, das durchschaut der Mensch zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p009"},{"locus":"GA 207/1921-10-16_02/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Aber nun ist es wieder für unser Zeitalter so, daß da der Mensch eben nicht dazu kommt, im Scheine zu leben. Das Leben im Scheine ist ihm eigentlich nur gewährt zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode. Der Mensch kommt heute nicht dazu, zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt im Scheine zu leben. Er wird gewissermaßen gefangengenommen von der Notwendigkeit, wenn er durch den Tod tritt. So frei sich der Mensch fühlt in seinem Wahrnehmen hier auf der Erde, wo er seine Augen hinwenden kann, wohin er will, sich in Begriffen zusammenfassen kann, was er wahrnimmt, in der Weise, daß er sein freies Tun in diesen Begriffen empfindet, so unfrei fühlt sich der Mensch in dieser Beziehung auf die Wahrnehmungswelt zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt. Er wird gewissermaßen hingerissen von der Welt. Es ist geradeso, als ob in dieser Zeit der Mensch so wahrnehmen würde, wie er hier wäre, wenn er gewissermaßen hypnotisiert würde von jeder einzelnen Sinneswahrnehmung, wenn er hingerissen würde von jeder einzelnen Sinneswahrnehmung, so daß er nicht freiwillig von ihr loskommen könnte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p010"},{"locus":"GA 207/1921-10-16_02/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Das ist die Entwickelung, in die der Mensch eingetreten ist mit der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts. Aus dem Schein der Erde sind ihm verschwunden die göttlich-geistigen Welten. In der Zeit zwischen dem 'Tod und einer neuen Geburt nehmen ihn aber diese göttlich-geistigen Welten so gefangen, daß er seine Selbständigkeit ihnen gegenüber nicht bewahren kann. Nur, sagte ich, wenn der Mensch hier wirklich Freiheit entwickelt, das heißt, wenn er seinen ganzen Menschen engagiert für das Scheinleben, dann ist es ihm möglich, auch sein Eigenwesen durch die Todespforte zu tragen. Was aber dazu noch notwendig ist, es kann uns vor Augen treten, wenn wir noch auf einen anderen Unterschied unseres Anschauens von heute mit älteren menschlichen Anschauungen hinblicken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/207/1921-10-16_02/p011"}],"beads":[{"from":[3],"to":[3],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[6,7],"to":[6,7],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[11,12],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"}],"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)."}}