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During the course of human evolution on earth, a tremendous metamorphosis has taken place in man's inner life. The Christ event represents a turning point in the development of earthly humanity. Therefore, in the fourth part of my considerations and as a culmination of this evening, I would still like to describe how this entrance of man's soul-spiritual being into spirit land appears since the beginning of Christian evolution.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/215/1922-09-15/p030","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-09-15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p028","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p028"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":120,"en_words":122,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Just as your outer life proceeds under the influence of the physical sun's light and warmth, so, after death, the lofty Sun Being claims you, sets you free from your burden of destiny and bears you into the sphere of the stars. There, with the help of your Sun Guide, you can work out the spirit germ of your future physical organization. Then, after having worked sufficiently under the guidance of your Sun Leader on the formation of your physical organism in the spiritual realm, you can return again to life on earth. On this return to earth, you are again received by the moon sphere. In it you find the destiny being which you carried out of your earlier life on earth through the gate of death. You unite with it again and now, after having prepared the spirit germ of your future physical organism together with the great Sun Being, you can control it quite differently. You can unite this destiny being with the forces in you that are drawn toward your physical organism. 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Under the after-effect of the earthly Christ Event, the soul shapes its future physical organism with the other beings of the starry worlds and finds in turn the seed of its destiny, into which is placed the tendency for the destiny that will develop in the earth lives to come. 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He struggles free of the moon sphere in such a way that he can in turn work in the starry sphere in a specific manner so that, when he returns again to the moon sphere and the core of his destiny confronts him, he can incorporate into himself as a free spiritual deed this seed of destiny. For he must tell himself: World evolution can only proceed in the right way if I incorporate into myself the seed of my own destiny and adjust what I have thus prepared as my destiny as compensation in future earth lives.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":209,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/215/1922-09-15/p034","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-09-15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p032","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p032"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":171,"en_words":209,"ratio":1.22,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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There comes a moment in cosmic existence when man in a self-reliant manner brings his destiny, his karma, into relation with his own advancing being. In the following earth life, the earthly reflection of this deed, which is accomplished in the supersensible realm, is human freedom, the feeling of freedom during earthly life. A true understanding of the idea of destiny, which traces this idea right into the spiritual worlds, does not establish a philosophy of determination but an actual philosophy of freedom, as I set forth in the nineties of the last century in my book, *The Philosophy of Freedom*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":119,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/215/1922-09-15/p035","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-09-15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p033","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p033"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":100,"en_words":119,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Inasmuch as he experiences the Christ within him, modern man can experience freedom; and in connection with freedom he can also have the feeling of being pervaded by God, the permeation with the divine on earth which can be a recollection of what he has undergone in passing through the world of the stars to the moon sphere, and through the moon sphere itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/215/1922-09-15/p036","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-09-15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p034","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p034"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":92,"en_words":113,"ratio":1.23,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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In ancient times, this intuition was produced according to instructions by those who were then initiates. These instructions directed man to mortify his outer physical organism through asceticism. By mortifying and subduing his physical body, man's independent will, which otherwise only expresses a craving for the physical organism, emerged with all the more intensity. Through asceticism, the physical organism becomes so mortified that it is difficult for the will to enter into the body and there to express itself. The will is driven back, as it were. The more difficult it becomes for the will to submerge and live in the physical organism, the more it finds its way into the spiritual world and develops intuitions. This is what was brought about by asceticism. It is wrong, however, to continue with this old asceticism in modern times. Since the Mystery of Golgotha, the human physical body has assumed a form that is no longer able to tolerate a successful practice of asceticism. By means of such asceticism, modern man would at the same time deaden his physical organism to the point where the ego consciousness that must develop could not properly do so. Man would then never attain a consciousness of freedom. He would also be unable to unite himself in a proper, free manner with the Christ Impulse.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":241,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/215/1922-09-15/p037","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-09-15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p035","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p035"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":241,"en_words":241,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Nor could the old ascetic between death and rebirth encounter the Sun Being, Who at that time had to accomplish for him after death what now, ever since the Christ passed through the Mystery of Golgotha, the human being can find within himself the strength to accomplish.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/215/1922-09-15/p038","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-09-15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p036","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p036"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":177,"en_words":185,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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In einer ganz anderen Weise kam der Mensch in diese Welt hinein in der Zeit der Menschheitsentwickelung, die vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha liegt, und in einer anderen Weise in derjenigen Zeit, die nach diesem Ereignis liegt. Es ist eben durchaus im Laufe der Menschheitsentwickelung auf Erden mit dem Innenleben des Menschen eine gewaltige Metamorphose vorgegangen. Das Christus-Ereignis bildet einen Wendepunkt in der Entwickelung der irdischen Menschheit. Deshalb will ich heute im letzten Viertel meiner Auseinandersetzungen noch dieses Eintreten des menschlichen Seelisch-Geistigen in das Geisterland durch die christliche Entwickelung schildern, als Beschluß des Abends.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p028"},{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Ehe der Mensch die eigentliche geistige Welt betritt, das heißt, in das Zusammenleben mit anderen Menschenseelen kommt, die nicht verkörpert sind, die auch in einem ähnlichen Zustande sind — er lebt übrigens schon früher mit solchen Seelen zusammen -, aber namentlich ehe er eintreten kann in das Zusammenleben mit denjenigen geistigen Wesenheiten höchster Art, die in den Sternenkonstellationen ihr physisches Abbild haben, muß er im Bereiche der Mondensphäre die Wesenheit zurücklassen, die seine moralische Bewertung ausmacht. Er muß ohne sie in die Region eintreten, die nicht die Mondenregion, sondern die Sternenregion ist, in welcher aus dem Zusammensein mit anderen geistigen Wesenheiten höchster Art sich die Kräfte ihm in der Seele ergeben, durch die er nun wirklich den Geistteil des künftigen menschlichen physischen Organismus vorbereiten, erarbeiten kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p029"},{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Wenn in der Zeit vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha die alten Initiierten die Art und Weise charakterisieren wollten, wie sich für die damalige Menschheit dieser Übergang in das Geisterland vollzog, so mußten sie zu denen, die es hören wollten, sagen: Wenn ihr nach dem Tode übergehen sollt aus der Seelenwelt in das Geisterland, so müßt ihr das zurücklassen in der Mondensphäre, was aus euren guten und bösen Taten heraus schicksalbildend ist. Aber ihr habt durch eure eigenen Kräfte der Menschenorganisation allein nicht die Macht, den Übertritt zu bewirken aus der Mondensphäre in die Sternensphäre. Deshalb tritt für euch das Sonnenwesen ein, das seinen physischen Abglanz in der physischen Sonne hat. Und so wie euer äußeres Leben unter dem Einfluß des physischen Sonnenlichtes und der physischen Sonnenwärme vor sich geht, so nimmt dann nach dem Tode eure Wesenheit das hohe Sonnenwesen in Anspruch, befreit euch von eurem Schicksalskern und nimmt euch auf in die Sternensphäre, so daß ihr darin mit der Hilfe eueres Sonnenführers ausarbeiten könnt den Geistteil eueres künftigen physischen Organismus. Dann könnt ihr wiederum, nachdem ihr genügend unter Anleitung eueres Sonnenführers an der Gestaltung eueres physischen Organismus im Geistigen gewirkt habt, zum Erdenleben zurückkehren. Auf dieser Rückkehr zum Erdenleben nimmt euch auch wieder die Mondensphäre auf. In ihr findet ihr die Schicksalswesenheit, die ihr aus euerem früheren Erdenleben durch die Todespforte getragen habt. Ihr vereinigt euch mit ihr und könnt sie jetzt ganz anders beherrschen, nachdem ihr mit dem hohen Sonnenwesen zusammen den Geistteil eures künftigen physischen Organismus bereitet habt. Ihr könnt diesen Schicksalskern zusammenfügen mit dem, was als Kräfte in euch ist nach dem physischen Erdenorganismus hin. Ihr durchschreitet wiederum die Mondensphäre. — Und dann erfolgt der Eintritt in das Erdenleben so, wie ich das in den vorangehenden Darstellungen geschildert habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p030"},{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Die Initiierten, welche Zeitgenossen des Mysteriums von Golgatha waren, oder die in den darauf folgenden Jahrhunderten bis zum 3. und 4. Jahrhundert lebten, konnten zu ihren Bekennern sagen: Die Form, die der menschliche physische Organismus im Erdenleben annimmt, die bildet immer mehr und mehr das Ich aus. Aber der Mensch verliert die Kraft, in jene Region einzutreten, in der das hohe Sonnenwesen oben sein Führer sein könnte in den geistigen Sternenregionen. Daher ist Christus heruntergestiegen auf die Erde, hat das Mysterium von Golgatha vollbracht. Und die Kraft, welche der Menschenseele dadurch wird, daß sie eine Gefühlsverbindung mit dem Mysterium von Golgatha hat, diese Kraft wirkt nach dem Tode nach und entreißt die Seele dem Schicksals-Wesenskern und der Mondensphäre, und unter der Nachwirkung des Christus bildet die Seele ihren künftigen physischen Organismus mit den anderen Wesen der Sternenwelt aus und findet dann wiederum den Schicksalskern, in den die Tendenz hineingelegt wird zur Schicksalsbildung der kommenden Erdenleben. Was die Menschenseele als Kraft aus dem Christus-Impuls aufgenommen hat, das befähigt sie wiederum, in der richtigen Weise durch das Geisterland durchzugehen und den Schicksalskern in der richtigen Weise aufzunehmen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p031"},{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Derjenige, der heute aus der Initiationswissenschaft heraus redet, muß dazu noch das folgende sagen: Ja, es ist der Christus-Impuls, der über den Tod hinaus nachwirkt, unter dessen Einfluß der Mensch sich der Mondensphäre entringt, in die Sternen-Sonnensphäre eindringt und dort aus den Impulsen, die ihm die Wesen der Sternenwelt geben, arbeiten kann an der Herausgestaltung des physischen Organismus seines nächsten Erdenlebens. Aber er entringt sich der Mondensphäre durch die Kräfte, die er in seinem Ich aufgespeichert hat durch die Hinneigung zu dem Christus-Wesen und zu dem Mysterium von Golgatha. Er entringt sich der Mondensphäre in einer solchen Art, daß er nun auch in der Sternensphäre so arbeiten kann, daß er, wenn er wieder zur Mondensphäre zurückkehrt und ihm sein Schicksalskern begegnet, in einer freien Weise als eine freie Geistestat sich diesen Schicksalskern eingliedert, weil er sich sagen muß: Die Weltentwickelung kann nur in der richtigen Weise verfließen, wenn der Mensch sich diesen seinen Schicksalskern eingliedert und dasjenige, was er als sein Schicksal zubereitet hat, auch in ausgleichenden künftigen Erdenieben wiederum zurechtbringt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":171,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p032"},{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Das ist das Wesentliche im Neu-Erleben des nachtodlichen Mondensphären-Erlebens, daß es da im kosmischen Dasein einen Augenblick gibt, wo der Mensch in selbständiger Weise sein Schicksal, sein Karma, mit seiner fortschreitenden Wesenheit in Zusammenhang bringt. Und das irdische Abbild dieser im Überirdischen vollbrachten Tat im nachherigen irdischen Leben ist die menschliche Freiheit, das Freiheitsgefühl während des Erdendaseins. Das richtige Verstehen der Schicksalsidee und ihr Verfolgen bis in die geistigen Welten hinauf begründet nicht eine Determinationsphilosophie, sondern eine wirkliche Philosophie der Freiheit, wie ich sie in den neunziger Jahren des vorigen Jahrhunderts in meinem Buche «Philosophie der Freiheit» zu geben hatte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p033"},{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"So bringt sich der Mensch, wenn er sich einlebt in die geistigen Regionen nach dem Tode - eingegliedert in seinen Organismus und verbunden mit seinem Weltenschicksal —, mit die Nachwirkungen der Durchdrungenheiten der geistigen Welten, die er im Geisterlande erlebt hat. Und der neuzeitliche Mensch kann erleben, indem er den Christus in sich erlebt, die Freiheit, und im Zusammenhange mit der Freiheit auch das Gefühl der Gottdurchdrungenheit, jener Gottdurchdrungenheit, die auf der Erde ein Abglanz desjenigen sein kann, was beim Durchgang durch die Sternenwelt zur Mondensphäre und in der Mondensphäre durchgemacht wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p034"},{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Die Geisteswissenschaft ringt sich hinauf zu einer Erkenntnis aller dieser Verhältnisse, indem durch Willensübungen der Seele die Intuition hergestellt wird. Diese Intuition war in älteren Zeiten nach der Anweisung der damaligen Initiierten so hergestellt worden, daß der Mensch vorzugsweise durch Askese seinen äußeren physischen Organismus abtötete. Indem er seinen äußeren physischen Organismus abtötet und ablähmt, lebt der ja unabhängige Wille, der eigentlich sonst nur ein Begehren nach dem physischen Organismus auslebt, sich mit nur um so größerer Energie aus. Durch die Askese wird der physische Organismus so abgetötet, daß es dem Willen nun schwer wird, sich bei der Willensentfaltung hineinzubegeben in diesen physischen Organismus. Der Wille wird gleichsam zurückgetrieben, und je schwerer es ihm wird, sich in den physischen Organismus untertauchend hineinzuleben, um so mehr lebt er sich in die geistige Welt hinein und bildet Intuitionen aus. Das ist es, was durch die Askese hervorgerufen wurde. Aber diese alte Askese wird zu Unrecht in die neuere Zeit hinein fortgesetzt. Der menschliche physische Leib hat nach dem Mysterium von Golgatha eine Form angenommen, durch die er eine Askese nicht mehr vertragen würde, die erfolgreich wäre. Der neuere Mensch würde durch eine solche Askese zugleich seinen physischen Organismus so weit ablähmen, daß das Ich-Bewußtsein, das sich ja entwickeln muß, sich nicht in der richtigen Weise entwickeln könnte. Der Mensch würde dann nie zum Freiheitsbewußtsein kommen. Er würde auch nicht in einer richtigen Weise, in einer freien Weise sich mit dem Christus-Impuls verbinden können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":241,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p035"},{"locus":"GA 215/1922-09-15/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Daher müssen diese Willensübungen so vorgenommen werden, daß nicht der physische Leib herabgestimmt wird, wie es in alten Zeiten geschah, sondern daß durch die Willensübungen die rein geistig-seelischen Fähigkeiten des Menschen verstärkt werden, so daß nicht der Leib sich der Seele entzieht, sondern die Seele sich hineinlebt in die geistigen Welten. Nicht nur das, was die alten Initiierten ihren Bekennern zu sagen hatten als Kunde über das Erleben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt, sondern auch das, was sie über die Übungen zu sagen hatten, die der Mensch vorzunehmen hat, um zu einer solchen Erkenntnis zu kommen, die in diese übersinnlichen Welten hineinführt, auch diese Übungen sind im Sinne der fortschreitenden Menschheitsentwickelung anders geworden. Der alte Asket konnte nicht zu dem königlichen Freiheitsbewußtsein kommen, zu dem der moderne Mensch durch seine Organisation kommen muß. Der alte Asket konnte aber auch nicht zwischen Tod und Geburt dem Sonnenwesen begegnen, das Handlungen mit ihm vornahm, die er jetzt, nachdem der Christus das Mysterium von Golgatha vollbracht hat, selbst vornehmen kann, wodurch er Kraft bekommt, nach dem Tode das Entsprechende auszuführen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/215/1922-09-15/p036"}],"beads":[{"from":[30],"to":[28],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[31],"to":[29],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[32],"to":[30],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[33],"to":[31],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[34],"to":[32],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[35],"to":[33],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[36],"to":[34],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[37],"to":[35],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[38],"to":[36],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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