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The thinking that is bound up with the ether body continues within the ether-body; but we know nothing in ordinary consciousness of how this ether body *thinks* from the time of falling asleep to that of waking, because we are outside it. It is not true that thinking ceases during sleep; we think from the moment of falling asleep until we wake. Man's thoughts are in perpetual flow in his ether-body, only he is unaware of it. Not until the moment when he returns to the body do the thoughts light up in his consciousness. Man can become free in his life of thought because his thoughts are bound, through the ether-body, with the physical life of Earth; for he has been placed upon the Earth in order that he may become free. 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Astral body and Ego pass out into a cosmic world during earthly life; not so, the ether-body. The ether-body emerges only at death. Then comes the backward review, lasting one, two, three days, of the life that has just ended; the human being sees his whole life as a panorama. Always, without exception, the human being looks back, after death, upon his earthly life which has now run its course. The whole ocean of the thoughts that have arisen in him between birth and death, both in sleeping and waking life—a great sea of inter-weaving thoughts—is present before him during these three days after death, but immediately thereafter the thoughts are claimed by the Cosmos; the thoughts dissolve, and after two or three days the whole panorama has passed away—into the Cosmos. We are accustomed to say that the ether-body has been detached and has dispersed, but in actual fact the Cosmos has absorbed it into itself. The ether-body has continued to expand, until finally it is completely absorbed into the Cosmos. Then, as Ego and astral body, the human being is received into the bosom of the Higher Hierarchies. Only when an ether-body is again bestowed upon him, can he descend to a new earthly life and continue the work which will make him a free human being. For it is the goal of earthly life that man shall become free. The foundation for freedom lies in the activity of pure thinking—a faculty that is bestowed upon man *on Earth*. Therefore is the ether-body bound to the physical body for the whole course of earthly life, releasing itself only at death in worlds where freedom is not to be acquired. 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Into this we can pour, or rather over against this we can place, the power that lives in the free activity of thoughts, in pure thinking, in the ethical and moral impulses as I described them in the book *Philosophy of Spiritual Activity* for these impulses must have their root in pure thinking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-04-06/p052","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-04-06","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-04-06/p055","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-04-06/p055"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":145,"en_words":148,"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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Das Denken, das an den ätherischen Leib gebunden ist, das setzt sich fort im ätherischen Leib. Nur wissen wir im gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein nichts davon, wie der ätherische Leib vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen denkt, weil wir draußen sind. Es ist gar nicht wahr, daß wir in dem schlafenden Zustand nicht denken, wir denken vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen. Die Gedanken laufen fortwährend ab in unserem Ätherleib, nur weiß der Mensch nichts davon. Er fängt erst wiederum an etwas zu wissen, wenn er untertaucht; da werden die Gedanken wieder lebendig für sein Bewußtsein. Deshalb, weil die Gedanken mit dem physischen Erdenleben durch den Ätherleib so verbunden sind, ist es, daß der Mensch in Gedanken frei sein kann. Denn auf die Erde ist er versetzt, um frei zu werden. Die Kraft der Freiheit kann er sich nur aus der geistigen Welt holen, die Kraft zur Freiheit im Gemüte, die Kraft zur Freiheit im Willen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-04-06/p053"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-04-06/p054","passage_number":54,"text":"Das ist der Zusammenhang mit der Tatsache, daß der Mensch seine eigentliche Denkgrundlage, den Ätherleib, durch das ganze Erdenleben hindurch behält. Der Ätherleib geht während des Erdenlebens nicht hinaus in eine kosmische Welt. Der astralische Leib und das Ich gehen hinaus. Erst wenn der Tod eintritt, geht auch der Ätherleib hinaus. Da kommt dann die Rückschau auf das Leben durch ein, zwei, drei Tage, wo der Mensch sein ganzes Leben überschaut, so ähnlich, wie ich das gestern für die Imagination, die erste Stufe des übersinnlichen Erkennens, beschrieben habe. Es tritt das nach dem Tode unter allen Umständen ein, daß der Mensch also zurücksieht auf sein verflossenes Erdenleben. Aber während das ganze Meer der Gedanken, die er schlafend und wachend zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode durchgemacht hat, da ist, während diese in den ersten drei Tagen nach dem Tode daliegen wie ein Meer von ineinanderwebenden Gedanken, nimmt der Kosmos diese Gedanken sogleich danach in Anspruch. Sie lösen sich auf, und nach zwei bis drei Tagen ist die ganze Rückschau in den Kosmos verflogen. Wir sagen, der Ätherleib hat sich auch getrennt. In Wahrheit hat der Kosmos den Ätherleib aufgenommen, aufgesogen. Er hat sich immer mehr und mehr vergrößert, bis er endlich ganz in den Kosmos aufgegangen ist. Da werden wir dann wiederum als Ich und Astralisches aufgenommen in den Schoß der höheren Hierarchien. Und erst, wenn wir wiederum einen Ätherleib bekommen, können wir zum Erdenleben heruntersteigen, können wir die Arbeit an uns zum freien Menschen fortsetzen. Denn das Erdenleben hat als Ziel, den Menschen zum freien Menschen zu machen. Das kann ihm auf Erden geschenkt werden, was im reinen Denken als Grundlage zur Freiheit liegt. Deshalb bleibt aber auch der Ätherleib durch das ganze Erdenleben mit dem physischen Leibe verbunden, das heißt, löst sich mit dem Tode auf in Welten, wo die Freiheit nicht erlernt wird. Die wird während des Erdenlebens erlernt; Sie wissen ja, auch nur während gewisser Epochen des Erdenlebens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-04-06/p054"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-04-06/p055","passage_number":55,"text":"So können wir einsehen, daß die Freiheit durchaus in richtiger Verbindung mit dem Karma steht, denn die Freiheit hat zu tun mit dem, was im Bette liegen bleibt, was mit uns auch während des Schlafes verbunden ist, was sich nicht trennt von uns. Das Karma wird gewoben von dem Ich zwischen Einschlafen und Aufwachen. Das Karma wird gewoben abseits von dem im Menschen, worin die Freiheit liegt. Das Karma webt auch nicht an den freien oder unfreien Gedanken, das Karma webt an Gemüt und Willen. Da kommt aus den Tiefen der Menschennatur heraus, aus dem träumenden Gemüt und dem schlafenden Willen, das Karma herauf. In dieses können wir hineingießen, das heißt, dem entgegenstellen dasjenige, was in der Freiheit der Gedanken, im reinen Denken, in den ethischen, moralischen Impulsen lebt, wie ich sie beschrieben habe in der «Philosophie der Freiheit»; diese müssen im reinen Denken liegen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":145,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-04-06/p055"}],"beads":[{"from":[50],"to":[53],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[51],"to":[54],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[52],"to":[55],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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