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Today I would just like to speak about how anthroposophy can clarify that with ordinary consciousness one is not at all able to look at something fully real in this respect. And what I would like to hint at today in this regard, I will then explain in more detail in the next lecture, because today it is still my duty to point out another aspect.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":108,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-07-04/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-07-04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-07-04/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":111,"en_words":108,"ratio":0.97,"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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If we take together much of what I have often discussed here in this house, then we will be able to realize that when we look back on our thinking, we have only one side of this thinking. In this sense one can even speak of a reality — but one can speak of a reality in this way, as when one gets to know a person only from behind. Imagine the grotesque thing: you only know a person from the back! Then you know him, but you do not know his nature. At most, you can sometimes grasp something of his nature. But then cases like that of the student who once came to Heidelberg as a young badger, registered with the famous Professor Kuno Fischer, and now, in his great joy, before going to the lecture hall, rushed to the barber's, had himself dressed up, and because he is so full of the fact that he is going to hear the famous man, also talks to the barber about it. 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The front side escapes ordinary observation. For when one approaches the observation of human beings with anthroposophy and asks oneself: Is it all about thinking, that one forms abstract ideas about the external things grasped by the senses? — then one comes to the conclusion that this is not all about thinking, but thinking, apart from representing this sum of abstract thoughts, is also still another sum of forces. Thoughts cannot actually do anything, and one actually thinks best when one does nothing, when one sits quietly, when one cultivates calm. Thoughts are powerless, like mirror images are powerless. But if you now follow the human being, from infancy until he has grown taller, and if you later follow the growth processes that are still present in the human being - even if the human being is no longer growing taller, growth processes are still there - if you look at what the forces of growth are in the human being, then these are the same forces, now seen from the other side, that show themselves backwards in abstract thought. Man sends abstract thoughts outwards; inwards they are the forces that shape his brain. In the early childhood years, the brain is formed plastically. The forces that otherwise work as growth forces are the forces of thinking. 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And if one continues to research, one finds that what is represented by the other side - in relation to the human being it is the rear side, but in relation to thinking it is the front side - is not brought down by dead thinking, which only appears to us from the front, but by living thinking from its pre-earthly existence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-07-04/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-07-04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 224/1923-07-04/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":181,"en_words":191,"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. 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When this task is completed, the phenomenon occurs over there, which I have often described to you: the soul turns to earth life. But then this thinking has a new task: the task of forming the human body. And that is the significance of man's earthly thinking, of man's thinking that comes from the spiritual, that it is directed towards the human body in a formative way. Thus, in our true, in our real thinking, we have an heirloom from the spiritual world, but one that is only something on earth, because in the spiritual world it has lost its purpose. We have to thank this for the fact that our thinking can become so clear on earth. 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You will all notice - quite apart from what I myself have said about it here in this room: feeling is not as clear as thinking. Feeling is something that occurs in a different form, but in the same way as dreaming. The state of mind during feeling is basically the same as during dreaming, except that feeling occurs in a completely different form. Why is that so? Well, in feeling, just as in thinking, we only have the back side for this earthly life. But the front side is not only directed towards the human body, but, as man descends to earth from the pre-earthly existence, from the existence between death and a new birth, he also retains what lies behind feeling as an heirloom. But that still remains turned towards the spiritual, it does not just have an earthly task. Therefore, every night when a person falls asleep, he does not take his thinking with him into sleep, but he does take his feeling with him. 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But how the thought slides down into the body, how the will to move the hand continues to work, remains as dark as the state remains dark in sleep. But for that, a person retains the most from the eternal for his will. And again, one can see from the activity of the human being, for if the human being does not move, there is not a will present, but only a desire. Seen from the other side, the will represents something completely eternal. Thinking also represents something eternal, but it has been transformed into an earthly activity. 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Ich möchte heute nur davon sprechen, wie Anthroposophie verdeutlichen kann, daß man ja mit dem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein gar nicht in der Lage ist, in dieser Beziehung auf ein voll Reales hinzuschauen. Und das, was ich heute einleitend andeuten möchte in dieser Hinsicht, das werde ich dann im nächsten Vortrag weiter ausführen, denn es obliegt mir heute, noch vor allen Dingen auf eine andere Seite hinzuweisen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":111,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p008"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-07-04/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Wenn der Mensch heute ehrlich in sich selbst hineinsieht, dann muß er sich gestehen: Dasjenige, was er an Gedanken in sich trägt, ist zumeist — ja, für die meisten ist alles, was an Gedanken in ihnen getragen wird — aus der Außenwelt genommen. Die Gedanken sind mehr oder weniger nur Spiegelbilder dessen, was in der äußeren physisch-sinnlichen Wirklichkeit auf die menschlichen Sinne einen Eindruck macht. Versuchen Sie nur einmal deutlich das Selbstbeobachtungsexperiment zu machen und sich zu fragen: Wieviel Gedanken sind denn in diesem menschlichen Bewußtsein, die auf etwas anderes hinweisen — außer dem, daß wir Worte haben: Denken, Fühlen, Wollen, Gott, Unsterblichkeit und so weiter —, die auf etwas hinweisen in dem Geistesleben der gewöhnlichen Zivilisation, was nicht von der Außenwelt gespiegelt ist. Die Menschen trachten ja nur danach, alles so aufzufassen, wie es von der Außenwelt gespiegelt werden kann. Und wenn man heute vielen Menschen das Geistige klarmachen will, dann verlangen sie eigentlich schon auch für das Geistige Lichtbilder, vielleicht einen Film oder dergleichen, weil sie sagen: Wenn uns das nicht veranschaulicht wird, wenn uns nicht sinnliche Bilder vor Augen gestellt werden, dann begreifen wir ja nichts vom Geistigen!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p009"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-07-04/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"In solchen Momenten, wo die Leute verlangen, daß man ihnen auch das Geistige in sinnliche Bilder kleidet, da sind sie ehrlicher, als wenn sie etwa als Seelenkundige über die Seele sprechen. Wenn wir vieles von dem zusammennehmen, was ich gerade hier in diesem Hause öfter besprochen habe, dann werden wir uns darüber klarwerden können, daß wir, wenn wir so zurückschauen auf unser Denken, nur eine Seite dieses Denkens haben. In diesem Sinne kann man sogar von einer Wirklichkeit sprechen — aber so kann man von einer Wirklichkeit sprechen, wie wenn man einen Menschen nur von hinten kennenlernt. Stellen Sie sich die groteske Sache vor: Sie kennen einen Menschen nur von der Hinterseite! Dann kennen Sie ihn zwar, aber Sie kennen nicht sein Wesen. Sie können höchstens manchmal irgend etwas von seinem Wesen erfassen. Dann aber müssen schon solche Fälle eintreten, wie bei dem Studenten, der einmal als ein ganz junger Dachs nach Heidelberg gekommen ist, sich hat einschreiben lassen bei dem berühmten Professor Kuno Fischer, und nun in seiner großen Freude, bevor er ins Kolleg ging, zum Friseur eilte, sich herrichten ließ, und weil er so voll davon ist, daß er den berühmten Mann hören werde, auch mit dem Friseur darüber redet. Da sagt der Friseur: Ja, heute schreibt der Kuno Fischer was auf die Tafel! - Da frägt ihn der Student: Woher wissen Sie denn das, daß der Kuno Fischer heute etwas auf die Tafel schreibt? — Ja, wenn er etwas auf die Tafel schreibt, dann läßt er sich vor der Vorlesung hinten einen Scheitel machen; da dreht er sich um!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":262,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p010"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-07-04/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Nun ja, wenn solche deutlichen Zeichen vorliegen, daß der Charakter in der Scheitelung des Hinterhauptes zum Ausdruck kommt, dann kann man ja etwas erfahren von dem Inneren der Persönlichkeit, auch wenn man sie nur von hinten kennenlernt. Aber es ist erstens vielleicht nicht besonders erheblich, zweitens ist es doch bei den meisten Menschen so, daß man da nicht sehr viel erfährt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":61,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p011"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-07-04/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Bezüglich unseres Denkens, dieses für das Erdenleben wichtigsten Teiles des Seelischen, nimmt man in der Tat nur wahr, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf, die Hinterseite. Die Vorderseite entgeht der gewöhnlichen Beobachtung. Denn, wenn man mit Anthroposophie an die Menschenbeobachtung herantritt und sich frägt: Ist das alles am Denken, daß man sich abstrakte Vorstellungen über die sinnlich ergriffenen äußeren Dinge macht? — so kommt man darauf, daß das nicht alles vom Denken ist, sondern das Denken ist, außer daß es diese Summe von abstrakten Gedanken darstellt, auch noch eine Summe von Kräften. Die Gedanken können eigentlich nichts machen, und am besten denkt man eigentlich, wenn man nichts macht, wenn man sich ruhig hinsetzt, wenn man der Ruhe pflegt. Gedanken sind kraftlos, wie Spiegelbilder kraftlos sind. Aber wenn man nun den Menschen verfolgt, vom Kleinkind auf bis er größer gewachsen ist, und wenn man später wiederum die ja auch noch in dem Menschen vorhandenen Wachstumsprozesse verfolgt - wenn auch der Mensch nicht mehr größer wird, Wachstumsprozesse sind ja noch immer da -, wenn man auf das schaut, was da im Menschen die Kräfte seines Wachstums sind, dann sind das dieselben Kräfte, nun von der andern Seite gesehen, die sich nach rückwärts zeigen in den abstrakten Gedanken. Nach außen sendet der Mensch die abstrakten Gedanken, nach innen sind das die Kräfte, die sein Gehirn formen. In den ersten kindlichen Jahren wird das Gehirn plastisch geformt. Die Kräfte, die sonst irgendwo wirken als Wachstumskräfte, sind die Kräfte des Denkens. Und wie Sie sich, wenn Sie einen Menschen von hinten sehen - um die Vorstellung hegen zu dürfen, er sei ein ganzer Mensch-, die Vorderseite hinzudenken müssen, so müssen Sie zu dem abstrakten Denken das konkrete, reale Gedankenkraften hinzudenken, das in den Menschen hineingeht, am Menschen arbeitet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p012"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-07-04/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Das ist ja das Wesen einer auf die gesunde Anthroposophie gegründeten Pädagogik, daß der Pädagoge weiß: Es ist nicht getan damit, daß das Kind von dem oder jenem diese oder jene abstrakte Vorstellung bekommt. Denn ob das Kind eine lebendige, bildhafte, in sich regsame Vorstellung bekommt oder eine tote Vorstellung, das ist ein großer Unterschied. Die tote Vorstellung wirkt hemmend auf die Wachstumsprozesse, die regsame Vorstellung wirkt fördernd auf die Wachstumsprozesse. Und so kommen wir darauf, daß das Denken die eine Seite zeigt, die kraftlos nur die Außenwelt spiegelt, und nach innen gerichtet sehen wir eine lebendige, den ganzen Organismus des Menschen durchkraftende Seite, die nur die andere Seite seines Wachstums darstellt, das geistige Gegenbild seines Wachstums. Und wenn man weiter forscht, dann findet man, daß sich der Mensch dasjenige, was da die andere Seite darstellt - in bezug auf den Menschen ist es die rückwärtige, aber in bezug auf das Denken ist es die Vorderseite -, zwar nicht das tote Denken, das uns nur nach vorne, auf der andern Seite erscheint, sondern dieses lebendige Denken herunterbringt aus seinem vorirdischen Dasein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p013"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-07-04/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"In der Tat ist der Übergang aus dem vorirdischen Dasein in das irdische Dasein in bezug auf diese Sache so, daß der Mensch im vorirdischen Dasein frei entwickelt ein System von Kräften, das allseitig in der geistigen Welt wirkt. Dann steigt er herunter in das irdische Dasein. Da verwandelt sich dieses in der geistigen Welt regsame waltende Denken selber in die inneren Organisationskräfte des Leibes, und nach außen sendet es gleichsam die spiegelnde Fläche, wohinein die Erde ihre Bilder wirft. Das ist der Tatbestand. Nun aber ist es allerdings so, daß der Mensch, nachdem er die Zeit zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt in genügender Weise absolviert hat, dann für dieses lebendige Denken eben in der geistigen Welt keine Aufgabe hat. Dieses lebendige Denken hat seine große Aufgabe in der Zeit zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt. Wenn die Aufgabe vollendet ist, dann tritt eben drüben die Erscheinung ein, die ich Ihnen öfter beschrieben habe: Die Seele wendet sich zum Erdenleben. Da aber hat dieses Denken eine neue Aufgabe: die Aufgabe, den Menschenleib zu bilden. Und das ist das Bedeutsame bei dem irdischen Denken des Menschen, bei dem aus dem Geistigen herkommenden Denken des Menschen, daß es gestaltend auf den Menschenleib gerichtet ist. So haben wir in unserem wahren, in unserem wirklichen Denken ein Erbstück aus der geistigen Welt, aber ein solches, das nur etwas ist auf der Erde, denn in der geistigen Welt hat es seine Aufgabe verloren. Dem verdanken wir die Tatsache, daß dieses unser Denken auf der Erde so klar werden kann. Hätte dieses Denken noch eine Aufgabe wie in der geistigen Welt, so könnte es auf Erden nicht so klar werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p014"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-07-04/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Gehen wir aber zu der andern Fähigkeit der menschlichen Seele über, zu dem Fühlen. Da werden Sie alle merken - ganz abgesehen davon, was ich selbst hier in diesem Raume darüber gesprochen habe: Das Gefühl ist nicht so klar wie das Denken. Das Gefühl ist etwas, was zwar in einer andern Gestalt, aber so wie das Träumen auftritt. Die Seelenverfassung ist während des Fühlens im Grunde ganz dieselbe wie während des Träumens, nur daß das Fühlen in ganz anderer Form auftritt. Warum ist das so? Nun, auch beim Fühlen haben wir, geradeso wie beim Denken, hier für dieses Erdenleben nur die Hinterseite. Aber die Vorderseite ist jetzt nicht bloß dem Menschenleibe zugelenkt, sondern, indem der Mensch aus dem vorirdischen Dasein, aus dem Dasein zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt, heruntersteigt auf die Erde, behält er auch dasjenige, was hinter dem Fühlen steckt, als Erbstück. Aber das bleibt noch dem Geistigen zugewandt, das hat nicht bloß eine irdische Aufgabe. Daher nimmt der Mensch jede Nacht, wenn er einschläft, sein Denken nicht mit in den Schlaf, sein Fühlen aber nimmt er mit. Und wenn Sie die Träume in der rechten Weise betrachten, so sind sie Bilder, weil die logischen Gedanken nicht fortleben; aber die Gefühle leben weiter fort. Mit jedem Schlaf taucht der Mensch in die ganze geistige Welt ein. Sein Denken nimmt der Mensch nicht mit, das Fühlen aber nimmt er mit, und erst recht das Wollen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":237,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p015"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-07-04/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Mit dem Wollen ist ja begreiflicherweise bei Tage nichts anzufangen. Ich habe öfters ausgesprochen: Der Mensch kann sich etwas vornehmen, er hat einen Gedanken. Wie der Gedanke aber hinuntergleitet in den Leib, wie der Willensentschluß, die Hand zu bewegen, weiterwirkt, das bleibt so dunkel, wie der Zustand im Schlaf dunkel bleibt. Aber dafür behält der Mensch für seinen Willen am meisten aus dem Ewigen. Und wiederum kann man beim Willen sehen, aus der Regsamkeit des Menschen — denn wenn der Mensch sich nicht regt, ist nicht ein Wille vorhanden, sondern nur ein Wünschen -, beim Willen kann man gerade sehen, daß der Mensch auf der Erde nach außen wirkt. Nach der andern Seite gesehen, stellt der Wille ein ganz und gar Ewwiges dar. Das Denken stellt auch ein Ewiges dar, aber ein solches, das sich umgewandelt hat zu einer irdischen Betätigung. Der Wille aber bleibt im Ewigen vorhanden und ist tätig an dem durch die wiederholten Erdenleben hindurchgehenden Schicksal des Menschen, an dem Karma.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p016"}],"beads":[{"from":[9],"to":[8],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[10],"to":[9],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[11],"to":[10],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[12],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[13],"to":[12],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[14],"to":[13],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[15],"to":[14],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[16],"to":[15],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[17],"to":[16],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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