{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 219/1922-11-26/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Picture vividly to yourselves how man goes out after death into the wide space of the Cosmos. He passes through the planetary spheres around the Earth. I have spoken of these things in recent lectures here. He passes the Moon-sphere, the Venus-sphere, the Mercury-sphere, the Jupiter-sphere, the Saturn-sphere. Having passed right out into the Cosmos he will see the stars always from the other side. You must picture the Earth and the stars around it. From the Earth we look up to the stars; but when we are in the Cosmos we look from outside inwards. The forces that enable us here on Earth to see the stars, give us the physical image of the stars. The forces that enable us to see the stars from the other side, do not allow them to appear to us as they do here, but from that other world the stars appear to us as spiritual Beings. And then, when we leave the planetary spheres—I am obliged to use earthly expressions—then, as conditions now are in world-evolution (the ‘now’ is, of course, a cosmic ‘now’ of lengthy duration), we realize with the understanding acquired through the higher consciousness belonging to our life between death and a new birth, what an infinite blessing it is for us that the forces of Saturn not only shine inwards into the planetary world of the Earth, but also outwards into the cosmic expanse. There, of course, they are something altogether different from the tiny, insignificant, bluish rays of Saturn that can be visible to us here on Earth. There they are spiritual rays, radiating out into the Universe—even ceasing to be spatial; they *radiate into a sphere beyond space*. They appear to us in such a way that between death and rebirth we look back in gratitude to the outermost planet of our earthly planetary system (for Uranus and Neptune are not actual Earth planets; they were added at a later stage). We are aware that this outermost planet not only shines down upon the Earth but out into the far spaces of the Cosmos. And to the spiritual rays which it radiates out into the Cosmos we owe the fact that we are now divested of earthly gravity, divested of the physical forces of speech, divested of the physical forces of thought. Saturn, as it radiates out into cosmic space is in very truth our greatest benefactor between death and a new birth. Regarded from a spiritual standpoint it constitutes, in this respect, the very antithesis of the Moon-forces.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. The Spirit-Seed of Man's Physical Organism. 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Die Kräfte, welche uns befähigen, die Sterne von der andern Seite zu sehen, lassen uns die Sterne nicht so erscheinen, wie sie uns hier erscheinen, sondern von der andern Seite sehen wir die Sterne durchaus als geistige Wesenheiten. Und wenn wir dann, ich muß mich natürlich irdischer Ausdrücke bedienen, aus dem Gebiete unserer Planetensphäre hinauskommen, so wie die Weltenentwickelung jetzt eben ist — dieses «jetzt» ist allerdings ein kosmisches Jetzt, das dauert lange -, dann sagen wir uns aus dem Verständnis, das wir uns aneignen durch das höhere Bewußtsein, das wir zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt haben: Die größte Wohlrat ist es für uns, daß die Kräfte des Saturns nicht nur hereinscheinen in die Planetenwelt der Erde, sondern auch in die Weiten des Weltenraumes. — Da sind sie allerdings etwas ganz anderes als die kleinen unbedeutenden bläulichen Strahlen des Saturns, die hier auf der Erde sichtbar sein können. Da erscheinen uns die Geiststrahlen, die ins Weltenall hinausstrahlen und die sogar aufhören, räumlich zu sein, die in ein Unräumliches hineinscheinen, so, daß wir uns zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt sagen: Wir schauen in Dankbarkeit hierher zurück zu dem äußersten Planeten unseres Erden-Planetensystems, zu dem Saturn — denn Uranos und Neptun sind ja nicht eigentliche Planeten der Erde, sie sind später hinzugekommen -, wir sind uns bewußt, er scheint nicht nur auf die Erde nieder, er scheint auch in die Weiten des Weltenraumes hinaus. Dem, was et da hinausstrahlt an Geiststrahlen, verdanken wir es, daß wir entkleidet werden der irdischen Schwere, entkleidet werden dessen, was die physischen Sprachkräfte sind, dessen, was die physischen Denkkräfte sind. Saturn ist in der Tat unser größter Wohltäter zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt in seinem Hinausstrahlen in die Weltenweiten, er ist in dieser Beziehung vom geistigen Gesichtspunkte aus das Entgegengesetzte der Mondenkräfte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":412,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/219/1922-11-26/p033"}],"english":["GA 219/1922-11-26/p025"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":412,"en_words":423,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 219/1922-11-26/p033"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.88,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5708,"original_word_count":6458,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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