{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 218/1922-12-04/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"During our life on earth between birth and death, our memories are extraordinarily fleeting; only pictures remain. Think how little these pictures retain of the events lived through. Just remind yourself of the unspeakable grief experienced at the death of someone very close to you, and imagine vividly the inner condition of soul attendant upon it, and then observe how this appears as an inner experience when after ten years you call it up. It has become a pale, almost abstract shadow. That is what our capacity for recollection is—pale and abstract compared with the full vigour of immediate life. Why is our recollection thus weak and shadowy? It is indeed the shadow of our experience of self between death and a new birth. Within it is the faculty of remembering, so that it really gives us our existence. That which gives us flesh and blood here on earth, between death and a new birth gives us the faculty of memory. Over there memory is robust and full-blooded—if I may use such expressions for what is spiritual—then it takes on flesh and becomes weak. When we die. for a few days—I have often described this—the last remnant of memory is still present in the etheric body. If when we go through the gate of death we look back over our past life on earth, memory fades out. And out of this memory there unwinds what the force of love on earth has given us as force for life after death. Thus the force of memory is the heritage we receive from our pre-earthly life, and the force of love is the seed for what we have after death. 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Abgeblaßt, fast abstrakt geworden ist es. So ist es mit unserer Erinnerungsfähigkeit. Sie ist blaß und abstrakt gegenüber der Vollfrische unseres Lebens. Warum ist unsere Erinnerung schwach und schattenhaft? Sie ist ja eben der Schatten unseres Selbsterlebnisses zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt. Da drinnen ist die Fähigkeit der Erinnerung, so daß sie uns eigentlich unser Dasein gibt. Was uns hier auf der Erde Fleisch und Blut gibt, das gibt uns zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt die Fähigkeit der Erinnerung. Da ist die Erinnerung vollsaftig und stark wenn ich diese Ausdrücke von Geistigem gebrauchen darf -, sie gebraucht des Fleisches und wird schwach. Und wenn wir sterben, dann ist wenige Tage — ich habe das oftmals beschrieben und Sie finden das auch in meinen Büchern — der letzte Rest der Erinnerung im ätherischen Leibe noch vorhanden. Gehen wir durch die Pforte des Todes, schauen wir zurück auf unser verflossenes Erdenleben, dann blaßt diese Erinnerung ab. Und es windet sich aus dieser Erinnerung dasjenige heraus, was uns die Kraft der Liebe auf Erden eben an Kraft für das Leben nach dem Tode gegeben hat. So ist die Kraft unserer Erinnerung die Erbschaft, die wir haben von unserem vorirdischen Leben, und so ist die Kraft der Liebe die Keimeskraft für dasjenige, was wir haben nach unserem Tode. 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