{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 214/1922-08-05/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now so long as we are between birth and death and are not strong enough in our Ego to perceive all that is going on down there even with our memories—so long are we quite unaware of how it is with us as humanity in modern time. But when we die, then it becomes a very serious matter, this spiritual world from out of which we lift ourselves in physical existence, like a fish that gasps at air. Then we no longer look back on our life imagining that we perceive unreal memory-pictures, giving ourselves up to the illusion that the perspective of time kills the reality. For that is how man lives in relation to time when he gives himself up to his memory. He is like one who would consider what he perceives in the distance, in the perspective of space, as unreality, as a mere picture. He is like one who would say: ‘When I go far away from it, the castle there in the distance is so small, so tiny that it can have no reality, for surely no men could live in so tiny a castle. Therefore the castle can have no reality.’ Such, more or less, is the conclusion he draws in time. When he looks back in time he does not think his memory-pictures realities, for he leaves out of account the perspective of time. But this attitude ceases when all perspective ceases, that is to say when we are out of space and time. When we are dead it ceases. Then that which lives in the perspective of times emerges as a very strong reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Christ and the Evolution of Consciousness","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-08-05","location":null,"word_count":273,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/214/1922-08-05/p026","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA214/English/Singles/19220805p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Unsere Erinnerungswelt bleibt unten im Meere der geistigen Welt. — Sehen Sie, solange wir zwischen Geburt und Tod stehen und nicht mächtig genug sind in unserem Ich, um all das zu sehen, was da unten selbst mit unseren Erinnerungen vor sich geht, so lange merken wir nichts davon, wie es eigentlich mit uns in der neueren Zeit als Menschheit steht. Wenn wir aber sterben, dann wird es mit dieser geistigen Welt, aus der wir uns wie ein luftschnappender Fisch heraus erheben im physischen Dasein, sehr ernst. Und da blicken wir nicht so zurück, daß wir glauben, wesenlose Erinnerungsbilder zu sehen, indem wir uns dem Irrtum hingeben, daß die Zeitperspektive auch die Realität tötet. Der Mensch gibt sich der Erinnerung für die Zeit so hin, wie einer, der das, was er in der Entfernung sieht, weil eine Raumperspektive da ist, nicht für Realität hält, sondern bloß für Bilder; der also sagen würde: Ja, wenn ich weit fortgehe, so ist das Schloß dort ja so klein, so furchtbar klein, daß es doch keine Realität haben kann, denn in einem so kleinen Schloß können doch nicht Menschen drinnen wohnen, also kann es auch keine Realität haben. — So ungefähr ist auch hier die Schlußfolgerung. Wenn der Mensch zurückblickt in der Zeit, da hält er die Erinnerungsbilder nicht für Realitäten, weil er die Zeitperspektive nicht berücksichtigt. Das aber hört auf, wenn alle Perspektive aufhört, wenn wir aus Raum und Zeit heraußen sind. Wenn wir gestorben sind, dann hört das auf. 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