{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Then follows the time between death and a new birth, in which we have, so to speak, laid down our entire earthly existence and, as I have already explained to you, prepare for the next earthly life by forming, in union with the beings of the spiritual world, the spiritual germ of our next earthly life, above all of our next physical body. Then there comes a time when the human being again turns more toward earthly life. After the human being has lived for a long time between death and a new birth among spiritual beings and spiritual facts, it is like—of course on a completely different level, but I would like to make it clear by means of a comparison—the state of a person who feels tired and wants to fall asleep. The human being feels how the consciousness that exists in the spirit becomes weaker, how he can no longer work with the beings of the higher world, and his consciousness again turns to an interest in a new earthly life. Just as we sink into sleep every day, where our consciousness becomes completely unconscious, so we sink, in a sense, into pure spiritual consciousness, which fills most of the time between death and a new birth, but now not into unconsciousness, but into a fulfillment of interest in earthly life, now seen from the other side, from the side of the spiritual world, into an interest in earthly life. This interest in earthly life arises many years, many centuries earlier, before we descend into earthly life. We already gain an interest in our coming earthly life when not only our grandfather lives on earth, but also a distant ancestor who lived many generations before us, from whom we are descended. The interest we have had for so long between death and a new birth in the purely spiritual world is transformed into an interest in a succession of generations. At the end of this succession of generations, we ourselves are born. From the spiritual world, we follow our ancestors through long periods of time, at the end of which stand our own parents. In this way, we grow into our ancestry from the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Our Thought Life in Sleep and Wakefulness and in the Afterlife","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-06-21","location":null,"word_count":369,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p018","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. 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Nachdem der Mensch eine lange Zeit zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt unter geistigen Wesenheiten und geistigen Tatsachen gelebt hat, ist es so — natürlich auf einer ganz andern Stufe, aber durch einen Vergleich möchte ich es klarmachen -, wie es ungefähr bei einem Menschen ist, der sich müde fühlt und einschlafen will. So fühlt der Mensch, wie ihm das im Geiste vorhandene Bewußtsein schwächer wird, wie er nicht mehr so mit den Wesenheiten der höheren Welt arbeiten kann, und sein Bewußtsein geht wiederum über zu einem Interesse an einem neuen Erdenleben. So wie wir alltäglich in den Schlaf versinken, wo unser Bewußtsein ganz unbewußt wird, so sinken wir gewissermaßen im rein geistigen Bewußtsein, das den größten Teil der Zeit zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt erfüllt, herunter, aber jetzt nicht zur Bewußtlosigkeit, sondern in ein Erfülltsein von Interesse für das Erdenleben, nun aber von der andern Seite her gesehen, von der Seite der geistigen Welt her, in ein Interesse für das Erdenleben. Dieses Interesse für das Erdenleben taucht viele Jahre, viele Jahrhunderte früher auf, bevor wir zum Erdenleben heruntersteigen. Wir gewinnen schon ein Interesse für unser kommendes Erdenleben, wenn auf der Erde selbst nicht nur unser Großvater lebt, sondern ein weit zurückliegender Urahne, der viele Generationen vor uns lebte, von dem wir dann abstammen. Es verwandelt sich das Interesse, das wir so lange Zeit zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt für die rein geistige Welt gehabt haben, zum Interesse an einer Generationenfolge. Am Ende dieser Generationenfolge werden wir dann selbst geboren. Wir verfolgen in der Tat von der geistigen Welt aus lange Zeiten hindurch die Ahnen, an deren Ende unsere eigenen Eltern stehen. 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