{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p005-p016","extent":"range","passage_number":5,"through":16,"paragraph_count":12,"first_locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p005","last_locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Our Thought Life in Sleep and Wakefulness and in the Afterlife","date":"1923-06-21","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7128,"original_word_count":6805,"may_be_abridged":false},"site_heading":null,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p005-p016","json_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p005-p016.json","lecture_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21#p005","word_count":2838,"quote_safe":true,"passages":[{"passage_number":5,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p005","text":"But you know from previous lectures I have given here that this activity we spend in unconscious sleep is not without experiences. Between falling asleep and waking up, the ego and the astral human being go through experiences that simply do not shine into consciousness. And if you look more closely, you will find that those unconscious forces that are at work between falling asleep and waking up also continue to live in the waking state. They continue to live there, one might say, a kind of sleep life. They work in our entire will activity, which we are no more aware of in our ordinary consciousness than we are of the states of sleep. They continue to work in a large part of our emotional life, which forms a kind of dream existence. Precisely when we look at what comes out of our deepest being, out of our fundamental nature, we must also look at something unconscious during our waking life. And then, through spiritual scientific observation, we come to the conclusion that what is effective in the human being between falling asleep and waking up continues to work in the waking state, continues to work as the I and the astral human being, but that these do not enter the sphere of ordinary consciousness, but only appear in their effects, in the effects of the will, in the effects of the emotions. This gives what is actually present in full waking consciousness, the life of thought, a special character. And it is precisely this special character that becomes understandable to us when we consider the existence that human beings do not spend on earth, but between death and a new birth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":283,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p005","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":241,"en_words":283,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p005"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":6,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p006","text":"When a person passes through the gate of death, they go through states that I have often described to you, which are also recorded in our literature, and which you are familiar with, at least from certain sources. If we examine precisely and exactly to which individual members of the human being our thinking and our imagining actually adhere, we come to the conclusion that we need the physical body for earthly thought formation. The physical body is really what must be set in motion when human beings have thoughts as earthly human beings. Furthermore, in order to achieve this goal, to have thoughts, the etheric body must also be set in motion. But these are precisely the two members of human nature that, between falling asleep and waking up, remain lying in bed, unconscious, as we perceive it. However, if we attain a certain development of consciousness, a certain training of our soul, which then enables us to see physical things from a spiritual point of view, we come to realize that human beings think all the time while they sleep. Human beings never cease thinking during their earthly life, if we consider the whole human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":191,"en_words":198,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p006"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":7,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p007","text":"When we wake up in the morning and return to our physical and etheric bodies, our ordinary consciousness is very quickly pushed into these bodies, and this ordinary consciousness only becomes aware that external things then begin to make an impression, that we then have sensory perceptions which we process mentally, that we have sensory perceptions of the external objects present. But when a person becomes much more conscious of immersing themselves in their physical and etheric bodies, then upon waking they encounter the thinking that has been going on continuously within them between falling asleep and waking up. They were just not there with their ego and astral body. They think, that is, the physical body and the etheric body are in a continuous thought activity between falling asleep and waking up, but the person with their ego and astral body is outside this thought activity, they do not participate in it and believe that it does not exist. They are in a state of great self-deception about themselves. And since what is beautifully and harmoniously integrated into the whole nature of human beings, indeed into the whole nature of beings, can be recognized particularly well when it is torn out of harmony and appears abnormally, human beings can also come to the conclusion from external experiences, when these arise in the context of the world, that they not only think between falling asleep and waking up, but that they even think more intelligently between falling asleep and waking up when they are not present than when they are present. For when we survey the whole situation, we come to the, I might say, depressing self-admission that our etheric body thinks worse when we, following the ego and the astral body, are stuck in it with our normal consciousness than when we are not stuck in it. We spoil the thoughts that take place in our etheric body by being stuck in it with our ordinary consciousness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":328,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":301,"en_words":328,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p007"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":8,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p008","text":"Therefore, those who have insight into these things can confirm stories such as the following: Once there were two university students. One was a philologist and knew nothing about arithmetic—I must add—knew nothing at all about arithmetic. The other was a mathematics student. Now, we all know from experience that when it comes to certain parts of mathematics, you have to sweat a little over the problems. Philology is usually easier. And so it was with these two students who, as is often the case with students, shared a room and also slept together, so that when they had finished preparing for their exams one evening, the philology student was very pleased with himself, but the mathematics student was not at all, because he could not solve a problem that he was supposed to solve for a written assignment. He went to bed feeling extremely dissatisfied, and a strange thing happened: at a certain hour, the philology student woke up and saw the math student get up, go to his desk, and continue brooding, writing for a long time, and then go back to bed and sleep. The next day, when both got up, the math student said, “We didn't skip class yesterday, did we? I have a terrible hangover today.” The other replied, “That's no surprise. If you get up at three in the morning and spend hours doing math, you're going to have a foggy head the next morning.” The first student said, “I didn't get up!” He knew absolutely nothing about getting up. Now they looked, and lo and behold, he had solved his problem, but he knew nothing about it. Such things are by no means mere fairy tales. I have chosen an example from literature so that it can be verified. I could tell you many similar stories. I am not concerned with this individual case, but rather with the fact that this is indeed a reality: when consciousness is not present—and I emphasize that the person concerned knew nothing about it—the physical body and etheric body are, in a sense, acted upon by external impulses, and the etheric body works alone in the physical body to continue the task.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":365,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":374,"en_words":365,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p008"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":9,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p009","text":"Yes, I already know what is in the hearts of some people; I know that some would very much like it if this happened quite often. But it is not so easy for the younger generation. In this case, I and the astral body worked only through external impulses, and when the etheric body is able to work alone in the physical body, it often proves to be even more ingenious than what is often achieved when the ego and astral body are present. As I said, this is only to illustrate the fact that human beings have thoughts throughout the night, that is, the physical body and the etheric body of human beings, and are not present with their ego and astral body. For thoughts are formed directly from the outer world through the mediation of the etheric body, and then the physical body is called upon to help cherish the thoughts as a physical human being on earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":160,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p009"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":154,"en_words":160,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p009"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":10,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p010","text":"We must therefore find the life of thought to be completely bound to the physical body and the etheric body. This is not the case with the life of feeling and the life of the will. It is only a superstition of today's official science that the life of feeling and the life of will are dependent on the physical and etheric bodies in the same way as the life of thought. I have spoken about this often, and I do not wish to dwell on it today, but only to refer to the manifold considerations I have presented to many of you.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":103,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":82,"en_words":103,"ratio":1.26,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p010"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":11,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p011","text":"Now, in their present life on earth, human beings are not able to follow what their ego and astral body experience when they are separated from the etheric and physical bodies and take with them from ordinary life only their will and a part of their feelings. For this experience between falling asleep and waking up actually takes place in a completely different world, in a spiritual world, in a world where the environment is not the natural realm, the mineral realm, or the plant realm, but where the environment is the higher hierarchies, where the environment is a world of spiritual beings and spiritual events. But insofar as human beings dwell in earthly life, it is certainly true that they are not yet sufficiently developed to follow everything they experience with their ego and astral body from falling asleep to waking up into their conscious and self-conscious awareness. It remains unconscious, but is no less alive than the conscious. It is experienced, it is something that, after it has been experienced, belongs to the inner content of the human being. We also wake up every morning as changed as we have been changed by the night. We do not wake up merely in the state we were in when we went to sleep the night before, but we wake up in the state that our sleep life has made us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":231,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p011","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p011"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":232,"en_words":231,"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. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p011"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":12,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p012","text":"When we pass through the gate of death, we lay down our physical and etheric bodies. And accordingly, the experience is such that in the first few days after passing through the gate of death — the laying down of the etheric body takes only a few days — the human being feels as if his thought life is being absorbed by the world. He has only a fleeting glimpse of his earthly life. It is as if he sees his earthly life as his world in living images. The past earthly life stands before the soul as if with a blow when the soul is completely freed from the physical body and the etheric body, when the passage through the gate of death has taken place. But this process, this transition, continues for several days, so that after the physical body has been laid aside, the etheric body slowly dissolves into the general world ether. During this time, there is the impression that there is first a living, sharply contoured overview of earthly life. Then it becomes weaker and weaker, but at the same time more cosmic, until finally, after a few days, it melts away from the human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p012","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":189,"en_words":201,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p012"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":13,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p013","text":"But with this, everything that is most valuable in earthly life departs from the human being in these few days. Everything we think about the things of the world, everything we think about our entire earthly environment, everything that fills our ordinary consciousness melts away from us, melts away within a few days. And to the same extent that this content of earthly life melts away, to the same extent that which the human being has always unconsciously experienced in the sleeping state emerges. Consciousness now spreads over this. It begins to become conscious. If we had no experiences during sleep, our life as conscious life would come to an end three or four days after death. For what we consider to be our most valuable possessions during our earthly life melt away, and out of this darkening, fading consciousness emerges what we have always experienced in the sleeping state, what has remained unconscious.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":152,"en_words":154,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p013"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":14,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p014","text":"Now, the peculiarity of what we experience in the sleeping state is that, for sleeping, the world runs backwards. Whether sleeping is long or short when we fall asleep does not matter, because the time relations are completely different for the other state of consciousness. So whether you sleep for a long night or a few minutes, the characteristic I give is the same for both types of sleep. When a person measures the time between falling asleep and waking up, they relive what they experienced in the physical world between the last time they woke up and the time they fell asleep. They relive this in a different form, and they experience it as follows: While in our daytime consciousness we experience life more with physical nuances and with feelings about the physical nuances, the sequence of events from beginning to end, each individual event or circumstance as they follow one another, in physical intellectual nuances, in sleep we experience all this again, but with moral nuances. This is where moral and religious impulses live, where we experience things in such a way that we evaluate each event according to how valuable or worthless it makes us as human beings. We could not indulge in any illusions about this if we were consciously going through it, about what significance it has whether we have accomplished this or that, because we evaluate the events of the day in relation to our humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":242,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":237,"en_words":242,"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. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p014"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":15,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p015","text":"What applies to the human order on earth is that natural science has good reason to say that in the world there is only causality, only causation, only the justification of the subsequent from the preceding, because human beings in their waking life see only this current, perceive only this current. But there is also another current in reality, only it remains unconscious to humans in their earthly consciousness. However, humans experience this moral world order every night between falling asleep and waking up. There we evaluate things morally, especially in relation to our own human value. And we do this every night, or rather every time between falling asleep and waking up, for the previous waking period. And when we have passed through the gate of death, we go backwards through the last night, the night before last, the night before that, until the first night in which we became conscious for the first time after birth, about one third of our earthly life, because we have slept through one third of our earthly life. Before us lies the sunken physical-causal world, and before us has risen that which gods and spirits think, feel, and will about this world. But we are still connected to the coloring, the hue that earthly life has given to all of this, because we must go through it in the form in which we lived it during our earthly life. We need about a third of this time to live through this backward journey, which then proceeds as I have described, for example, in my “Theosophy,” where I described the soul land, the soul world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":259,"en_words":272,"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. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p015"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":16,"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p016","text":"Before we enter a world that is purely spiritual, we must first live through everything that we have unconsciously experienced on earth in our sleep states. In this way, we train our consciousness for the actual spiritual experience between death and a new birth. And at the same time, this backward experience of earthly life is a liberation from earthly life. We do not become free in our consciousness until we have freed ourselves through this backward experience, so that this consciousness can move among the spirits of the higher worlds in a manner entirely appropriate to it. Then we have arrived back at the starting point of our life for the higher world. And then the rest of our life between death and a new birth proceeds in such a way that it is a purely spiritual experience. Just as we live here among physical beings and physical events, we then live in the spiritual world among spiritual beings and spiritual events, among those spiritual beings and their deeds who never descend to earth, among those beings who descend to earth as human beings, who have passed through the gate of death before us, or who follow us. We meet again with all the people with whom we had fellowship during our earthly life. And this fellowship is indeed a very extensive one. For by living through the life of sleep, everything that we only touched upon with people during our earthly life is also included in this fellowship. The fact that we are already in the spiritual world in every state of sleep, but still experience earthly events in reverse as earthly human beings, is precisely what distinguishes this nightly earthly experience of human beings from what they go through when they have passed through the gate of death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":301,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-06-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p016"],"length_check":{"de_words":291,"en_words":301,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p016"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}],"witnesses":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"first_passage":1,"last_passage":33,"passage_count":33,"word_count":6805},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"first_passage":1,"last_passage":33,"passage_count":33,"word_count":7128,"completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null}}],"aligned_witness":{"status":"aligned","lang":"de","edition":"original","confidence":"medium","passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Aber Sie wissen aus früheren Vorträgen, die ich hier gehalten habe, daß diese Tätigkeit, die wir im unbewußten Schlafen zubringen, nicht ohne Erlebnisse ist. Das Ich und der astralische Mensch machen zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen ihre Erlebnisse durch, die nur nicht ins Bewußtsein hereinleuchten. Und wenn man näher zusieht, dann findet man, daß jene unbewußten Kräfte, die zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen wirken, auch im Wachzustande weiterleben. Sie leben auch da, man möchte sagen, ein Schlafleben weiter fort. Sie wirken in unsere gesamte Willenstätigkeit, die wir nicht klarer vor dem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein haben als die Schlafzustände. Sie wirken in einem großen Teil unseres Gefühlslebens weiter, das eine Art Traumesdasein bildet. Gerade wenn wir auf dasjenige, was aus unserem tiefsten Wesen, aus dem Grundwesen herauskommt, hinschauen, so müssen wir auch während des wachen Tageslebens auf etwas Unbewußtes schauen. Und man kommt dann durch geisteswissenschaftliche Betrachtung darauf, daß dasjenige, was im Menschen das Wirksame ist zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen, weiter fortwirkt im Wachen, fortwirkt als Ich und astralischer Mensch, daß diese aber nicht in die Sphäre des gewöhnlichen Bewußtseins eintreten, sondern nur in ihren Wirkungen, in den Willenswirkungen, in den Gemütswirkungen auftreten. Dadurch bekommt dasjenige, was eigentlich im vollen wachen Bewußtsein vorliegt, das Gedankenleben, noch ein besonderes Gesicht. Und gerade dieses besondere Gesicht wird uns begreiflich, wenn wir jenes Dasein ins Auge fassen, welches der Mensch nicht auf der Erde zubringt, welches er zubringt zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":241,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p005"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Wenn der Mensch durch die Pforte des Todes geht, dann macht er Zustände durch, die ich Ihnen oft beschrieben habe, die auch in unserer Literatur verzeichnet sind, und die Sie ja, von gewissen Seiten her wenigstens, kennen. Wenn man genau und exakt untersucht, an welchen einzelnen Gliedern der menschlichen Wesenheit unser Denken, unser Vorstellen eigentlich haftet, dann kommen wir darauf, daß wir zum irdischen Gedankenbilden den physischen Leib brauchen. Der physische Leib ist wirklich dasjenige, was in Tätigkeit gesetzt werden muß, wenn der Mensch als Erdenmensch Gedanken hat. Ferner muß zu diesem Ziele, zum Gedankenhaben, in Tätigkeit gesetzt werden der ätherische Leib. Das sind aber gerade diejenigen zwei Glieder der Menschennatur, die zwischen dem Einschlafen und dem Aufwachen eben auch bewußtlos, wie man den Eindruck hat, im Bette liegen bleiben. Allein, kommt man zu einer gewissen Entwickelung des Bewußtseins, zu einer gewissen Schulung unserer Seele, die einem dann die Möglichkeit gibt, auch die physischen Dinge vom geistigen Gesichtspunkt aus zu sehen, dann kommt man darauf, daß der Mensch die ganze Zeit über denkt, in der er schläft. Der Mensch denkt während seines Erdenlebens niemals nicht, wenn wir den ganzen Menschen betrachten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p006"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Wenn wir nämlich des Morgens aufwachend zurückkehren in unseren physischen und Ätherleib, so wird das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein sehr rasch hineingedrängt in diesen physischen und Ätherleib, und es wird dieses gewöhnliche Bewußtsein nur gewahr, daß dann die äußeren Dinge Eindrücke zu machen beginnen, daß wir dann Sinneswahrnehmungen haben, die wir gedanklich verarbeiten, von den äußeren gegenwärtigen Gegenständen Sinneswahrnehmungen haben. Wenn der Mensch aber dazu gelangt, viel bewußter in seinen physischen und Ätherleib unterzutauchen, dann trifft er beim Aufwachen auf das Denken, das fortwährend zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen stattgefunden hat in ihm. Er war nur nicht dabei mit seinem Ich und astralischen Leib. Er denkt, das heißt, der physische Leib und der Ätherleib sind in einer fortwährenden Gedankentätigkeit zwischen dem Einschlafen und dem Aufwachen, nur ist der Mensch mit seinem Ich und astralischen Leib außer dieser Gedankentätigkeit, er macht sie nicht mit und glaubt, sie sei nicht vorhanden. Er befindet sich da in einer großen Selbsttäuschung über sich. Und da man dasjenige, was im normalen Leben schön harmonisch eingegliedert ist in die gesamte Natur des Menschen, überhaupt in die gesamte Natur der Wesen, besonders gut dann erkennen kann, wenn es herausgerissen aus der Harmonie, abnorm auftritt, so kann der Mensch auch schon aus äußeren Erfahrungen, wenn sich diese im Zusammenhang der Welt ergeben, darauf kommen, daß er nicht nur zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen denkt, sondern daß er sogar gescheiter denkt zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen, wenn er nicht dabei ist, als wenn er dabei ist. Wir kommen nämlich zu dem, ich möchte sagen, deprimierenden Selbstgeständnis, wenn wir die ganze Sachlage überschauen, daß unser Ätherleib schlechter denkt, wenn wir, dem Ich und dem astralischen Leib nach, mit dem normalen Bewußtsein darinnenstecken, als wenn wir nicht darinnenstecken. Wir verderben die in unserem Ätherleibe ablaufenden Gedanken dadurch, daß wir mit unserem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein darinnenstecken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":301,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p007"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Daher sind durchaus von dem, der in diese Dinge Einsicht hat, Erzählungen zu bestätigen, wie etwa die folgende: Da waren einmal zwei Universitätsstudenten. Der eine war Philologe und verstand nichts vom Rechnen - ich muß das hinzusetzen -, verstand gar nichts vom Rechnen. Der andere war Mathematikstudent. Nun, man hat ja so die Erfahrung, daß, wenn es zu gewissen Partien des Mathematikstudiums kommt, man schon ein wenig über den Problemen schwitzen muß. Bei der Philologie geht es meistens leichter. Und so war es denn bei diesen zwei Studenten, die, wie das bei Studenten schon vorkommt, das Zimmer teilten, auch zusammen schliefen, so, daß, als sie eines Abends mit ihren Vorbereitungen zum Examen zu Ende waren, der Philologiestudent sehr selbstzufrieden war, der Mathematikstudent hingegen gar nicht, weil er ein Problem, das er für eine schriftliche Aufgabe hätte lösen sollen, nicht lösen konnte. Er legte sich höchst unbefriedigt zu Bett, und es stellte sich die merkwürdige Tatsache heraus: Zu einer bestimmten Stunde wird der Philologiestudent aufgeweckt, er sieht, wie der Mathematikstudent aufsteht, zum Schreibtisch hingeht und weiterbrütet, auch schreibt, längere Zeit schreibt, und dann sich wieder ins Bett legt und schläft. Am nächsten Tage, als beide aufstanden, sagte der Mathematikstudent: Wir haben doch gestern gar nicht gekneipt, ich habe heute einen furchtbaren Kater. - Da sagte der andere: Das ist auch gar nicht zu verwundern, wenn du um drei Uhr nachts aufstehst und stundenlang rechnest, daß du dann einen wirren Kopf hast am nächsten Morgen. — Da sagte der erste: Ich bin nicht aufgestanden! - Er wußte absolut nichts davon, daß er aufgestanden wäre. Nun schauten sie nach, und siehe da, er hatte seine Aufgabe gelöst, er wußte aber gar nichts davon. Solche Dinge sind durchaus nicht bloße Märchen. Ich wähle ein Beispiel, das der Literatur angehört, aus dem Grunde, damit es nachkontrolliert werden kann. Ich könnte Ihnen viele ähnliche Dinge ja erzählen. Es kommt mir gar nicht auf diesen einzelnen Fall an, es kommt mir vielmehr darauf an, daß dies tatsächlich eine Realität ist: wenn das Bewußtsein nicht vorhanden ist - ich sage ausdrücklich, der Betreffende wußte nichts davon -, werden der physische Leib und Ätherleib gewissermaßen durch Püffe von außen bearbeitet, und der Ätherleib arbeitet im physischen Leib allein an der Fortsetzung der Aufgabe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":374,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p008"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Ja, ich weiß schon, was in den Herzen von manchen figuriert, ich weiß, daß mancher ganz gern hätte, wenn es recht oft vorkommen würde. Aber so leicht hat es die jüngere Menschheit nicht. Also in diesem Fall arbeiteten Ich und astralischer Leib nur durch Püffe von außen, und da erweist sich der Ätherleib, wenn er allein im physischen Leibe arbeiten kann, oftmals sogar als genial gegenüber dem, was man oftmals gar nicht genial macht, wenn man mit seinem Ich und astralischen Leib dabei ist. Wie gesagt, nur zur Illustrierung der Tatsache, daß der Mensch die ganze Nacht hindurch Gedanken hat, das heißt der physische Leib und der Ätherleib des Menschen, und nur nicht dabei ist mit seinem Ich und mit seinem astralischen Leibe. Denn die Gedanken werden unmittelbar von der Außenwelt durch die Vermittlung des Ätherleibes gebildet, und dann wird der physische Leib zu Hilfe genommen, um die Gedanken als physischer Erdenmensch zu hegen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p009"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"So müssen wir denn das Gedankenleben durchaus gebunden finden an den physischen Leib und den Ätherleib. Das ist beim Gefühlsleben und beim Willensleben nicht der Fall. Es ist nur ein Aberglaube der heutigen offiziellen Wissenschaft, daß das Gefühlsleben und das Willensleben in derselben Weise vom physischen und Ätherleibe abhängig wären wie das Gedankenleben. Darüber habe ich öfter gesprochen, ich will mich heute nicht darüber auslassen, sondern nur hinweisen auf die mannigfaltigen Betrachtungen, die ich vor einem großen Teil von Ihnen veranstaltet habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":82,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p010"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Nun ist der Mensch im gegenwärtigen Erdenleben nicht so, daß er verfolgen kann, was sein Ich und sein astralischer Leib da erleben, wenn sie vom Äther- und physischen Leib getrennt sind und sich vom gewöhnlichen Leben nur den Willen und einen Teil des Gefühls mitnehmen. Denn dieses Erleben zwischen dem Einschlafen und dem Aufwachen geschieht in der Tat in einer ganz andern Welt, geschieht in einer geistigen Welt, geschieht in einer Welt, in der nicht die Umgebung in den Naturreichen, in dem Mineralreich, Pflanzenreich ist, sondern in der die Umgebung die höheren Hierarchien sind, in der die Umgebung eine Welt von geistigen Wesenheiten, von geistigen Geschehnissen ist. Aber insofern der Mensch im Erdenleben verweilt, ist es durchaus so, daß er noch nicht genügend entwickelt ist, um alles dasjenige, was er da erlebt mit seinem Ich und astralischen Leib vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen, in das Bewußte und Selbstbewußte zu verfolgen. Es bleibt unbewußt, aber ist deshalb nicht weniger lebendig als das Bewußte. Es wird durchgemacht, es ist etwas, was dann, nachdem es durchgemacht ist, zum inneren Gehalt des Menschen gehört. Wir wachen auch an jedem Morgen so verändert auf, wie wir verändert worden sind durch die Nacht. Wir wachen nicht etwa bloß in demjenigen Zustande auf, bis zu dem wir gekommen sind bis zum Abend vor dem Einschlafen, sondern wir wachen in dem Zustande auf, zu dem uns das Schlafesleben gemacht hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":232,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p011"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Wenn wir nun durch die Pforte des Todes gehen, so legen wir den physischen und Ätherleib ab. Und demgemäß stellt sich auch das Erlebnis so ein, daß der Mensch unmittelbar in den ersten Tagen, nachdem er durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen ist - das Ablegen des Ätherleibes dauert nur wenige Tage -, sein Gedankenleben wie von der Welt aufgesogen empfindet. Er hat erst einen flüchtigen Rückblick auf das Erdenleben. Es ist so, wie wenn er sein Erdenleben als seine Welt erblickte, in lebendigen Bildern sieht. Wie mit einem Schlage steht das verflossene Erdenleben vor der Seele, wenn die Seele sich ganz befreit von dem physischen Leibe und dem Ätherleibe, wenn also der Durchgang durch die Pforte des Todes erfolgt ist. Aber durch Tage noch findet dieser Prozeß, dieser Vorgang statt, daß, nachdem der physische Leib abgelegt ist, der Ätherleib sich langsam in dem allgemeinen Weltenäther auflöst. Während der Zeit ist der Eindruck da, daß zuerst ein lebendiger, scharf konturierter Überblick über das Erdenleben da ist. Dann wird er immer schwächer und schwächer, aber zu gleicher Zeit gewissermaßen kosmischer, bis er endlich nach einigen Tagen wie vom Menschen abschmilzt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p012"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Damit aber geht in diesen wenigen Tagen alles dasjenige vom Menschen fort, was gerade das Wertvollste am Erdenleben ist. All das, was wir über die Dinge der Welt, was wir über unsere ganze irdische Umgebung denken, was unser gewöhnliches Bewußtsein erfüllt, das schmilzt von uns weg, schmilzt innerhalb weniger Tage weg. Und in demselben Maße, in dem dieser Inhalt des Erdenlebens wegschmilzt, in demselben Maße taucht dasjenige auf, was der Mensch immer im schlafenden Zustande unbewußt durchlebt hat. Darüber breitet sich jetzt das Bewußtsein aus. Das beginnt bewußt zu werden. Hätten wir keine Erlebnisse während des Schlafes, so wäre überhaupt unser Leben drei oder vier Tage nach dem Tode zu Ende als bewußtes Leben. Denn dasjenige, was wir gerade für unser Wertvollstes während des Erdenlebens halten, das schmilzt ab, und aus diesem sich verdunkelnden, abdämmernden Bewußtsein taucht dasjenige auf, was wir immer durchlebt haben im schlafenden Zustande, was da unbewußt geblieben ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p013"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Nun ist die Eigentümlichkeit desjenigen, was wir im schlafenden Zustande durchleben, dies, daß für das Schlafen die Welt umgekehrt verläuft. Ob das Schlafen nun lange oder kurz ist, wenn wir einschlafen, das macht es nicht aus, weil die Zeitverhältnisse für den andern Bewußtseinszustand auch ganz andere sind. Ob Sie also eine lange Nacht schlafen oder ein paar Minuten, die Charakteristik, die ich gebe, ist für beide Schlafverläufe gleich. Wenn der Mensch die Zeit durchmißt zwischen dem Einschlafen und dem Aufwachen, dann durchlebt er zurück dasjenige, was er in der physischen Welt durchgemacht hat zwischen dem letzten Aufwachen bis zum Einschlafen. Das durchlebt er in anderer Gestalt durchlaufend noch einmal, und er durchlebt es so: Während wir bei unserem Tagesbewußtsein das Durchleben mehr mit der physischen Nuancierung und mit Gefühlen über die physische Nuancierung haben, den Ablauf der Ereignisse vom Anfang bis zum Ende, jedes einzelne Ereignis oder den Umstand, wie sie aufeinanderfolgen, in der physischen intellektuellen Nuancierung durchleben: im Schlafen erleben wir das alles zurück, aber mit moralischer Nuancierung. Da leben die moralisch-religiösen Impulse darin, da durchleben wir die Sache so, daß wir ein jedes Ereignis werten danach, wie wertvoll oder unwertvoll es uns als Mensch macht. Da könnten wir uns keinen Illusionen darüber hingeben, wenn wir es bewußt durchmachen würden, was es für eine Bedeutung hat, ob wir dieses oder jenes vollbracht haben, denn da werten wir die Ereignisse des Tages in bezug auf unser Menschtum.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":237,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p014"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Was für die menschliche Ordnung auf Erden gilt, ist schon einmal so, daß die Naturforschung gut reden hat, in der Welt finde sich nur Kausalität, nur Ursächlichkeit, nur die Begründung des Nachfolgenden aus dem Vorhergehenden, weil der Mensch in seinem wachen Leben nur diese Strömung sieht, nur diese Strömung wahrnimmt. Aber eine andere Strömung ist auch in der Wirklichkeit darinnen, nur bleibt sie dem Menschen für das Erdenbewußtsein unbewußt. Der Mensch durchlebt aber diese moralische Weltenordnung jede Nacht zwischen dem Einschlafen und dem Aufwachen. Da werten wir die Dinge moralisch, namentlich im Zusammenhang mit unserem eigenen Menschenwert. Und das machen wir jede Nacht beziehungsweise jedesmal zwischen dem Einschlafen und dem Aufwachen für die vorangegangene Wachensperiode durch. Und wenn wir durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen sind, dann machen wir rückwärtsverlaufend durch die letzte Nacht, vorletzte Nacht, drittletzte Nacht, bis zur ersten Nacht, in der wir uns nach der Geburt zum erstenmal bewußt geworden sind, etwa ein Drittel des Erdenlebens, weil wir ein Drittel des Erdenlebens verschlafen haben. Vor uns ist versunken der physisch-ursächliche Weltenverlauf, vor uns ist aufgestiegen dasjenige, was Götter und Geister über diesen Weltenverlauf denken, fühlen, wollen. Aber wir hängen zunächst noch zusammen mit dem Kolorit, mit der Färbung, welche das Erdenleben alldem gegeben hat, weil wir es durchmachen müssen in der Form, wie wir es durchlebt haben während des Erdenlebens. Ungefähr ein Drittel, weil wir ein Drittel verschlafen, brauchen wir zu diesem Rückwärtsdurchleben, das dann eben so verläuft, wie ich es zum Beispiel in meiner «’Theosophie» beschrieben habe, wo ich das Seelenland, die Seelenwelt beschrieben habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p015"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Wir müssen, ehe wir in eine Welt eintreten, die rein geistig ist, erst alles dasjenige durchleben, was wir auf der Erde unbewußt in den Schlafzuständen durchlebt haben. Damit schulen wir unser Bewußtsein heran für das eigentliche geistige Erleben zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt. Und es ist zu gleicher Zeit ein Freiwerden vom irdischen Leben, dieses Rückwärtsdurchleben des Erdenlebens. Wir werden nicht früher in unserem Bewußtsein so frei, daß dieses Bewußtsein sich zwischen den Geistern der höheren Welten bewegen kann in vollständig ihm angemessener Weise, bis wir uns durch dieses Rückwärtserleben eben freigemacht haben. Dann sind wir ungefähr wieder am Ausgangspunkt unseres Lebens für die höhere Welt angelangt. Und dann verläuft das weitere Leben zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt so, daß es ein rein geistiges Erleben ist. Ebenso wie wir hier zwischen physischen Wesen und physischen Geschehnissen leben, leben wir dann in der geistigen Welt zwischen geistigen Wesen und geistigen Geschehnissen, zwischen denjenigen geistigen Wesenheiten und ihren Taten, die niemals auf die Erde heruntersteigen, zwischen denjenigen Wesenheiten, die als Menschen auf die Erde heruntersteigen, die früher durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen sind als wir, oder die uns nachfolgen. Wir treffen eben mit allen den Menschen wiederum zusammen, mit denen wir Gemeinschaft gehabt haben während des Erdenlebens. Und diese Gemeinschaft ist ja eine sehr ausgedehnte. Denn dadurch, daß wir das Schlafesleben durchleben, wird eingeschlossen in diese Gemeinschaft auch alles das, was wir nur in Andeutungen mit den Menschen während des Erdenlebens durchmessen haben. Daß wir in jedem Schlafzustande schon darinnenstehen in der geistigen Welt, aber noch als Erdenmensch die Erdenereignisse rückwärts erleben, gerade diese Tatsache unterscheidet wiederum dieses allnächtliche irdische Erleben des Menschen von demjenigen, das er dann durchmacht, wenn er durch die Pforte des Todes durchgegangen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p016"}],"beads":[{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}