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Certainly, the powers of the intellect, the active part of the intellect, depends on the soul of the human being – and we will have to consider this soul later – depends on what the human being unconsciously carries within him for earthly consciousness in the form of an etheric organism, a body of formative forces, an astral body and the I organization.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":94,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/225/1923-07-21/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Cultural Phenomena — Three Perspectives of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA225/English/SOL2024/19230721p01.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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Thus man owes the greatness of his intellect in the present age to the reflection of his inner soul activity through the physical body. But while man will never mistake his mirror image for himself, this is precisely what happens with intellect. Man ultimately mistakes as intellect that which lives only in the physical web as the mirror image of the intellect. He surrenders himself to the mirror image. 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If man succeeds in truly surrendering himself completely to the physical body with his intellect, then this intellect becomes highly perfected. When we allow our inner being to be active, then we still occasionally grope our way through all kinds of feelings and urges that we have, through prejudices, through sympathies and antipathies, then we grope our way into the intellect. There we make it imperfect. But if we become completely dry, sober, cold natures, if, to speak in the Hamerling sense, we combine the male soullessness of the billionaire with the female soullessness of the mermaid, as Hamerling has portrayed such a union in his “Homunculus,” and thereby acquire the ability to think as we must think in accordance with our physical bodies, then a relative perfection of our intellectuality is precisely possible in this age. Then we learn to think in such a way that, in a sense, the intellect moves itself within us, that the intellect becomes, in a certain sense, an automaton, playing at a relatively highest perfection.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/225/1923-07-21/p009","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Cultural Phenomena — Three Perspectives of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA225/English/SOL2024/19230721p01.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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Gewiß, die Kräfte des Intellektes, das Aktive des Intellektes hängt ab von dem Seelischen des Menschen — und wir werden nachher dieses Seelische ins Auge zu fassen haben -, hängt ab von dem, was der Mensch zunächst für das Erdenbewußtsein unbewußt in sich trägt als ätherischen Organismus, Bildekräfteleib, als astralischen Leib und als die Ich-Organisation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/225/1923-07-21/p007"},{"locus":"GA 225/1923-07-21/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Aber der Mensch ist einfach in der gegenwärtigen Entwickelungsperiode der Erde nicht so weit, daß er die Aktivität des Intellektes, wiie er in diesen drei Gliedern der Menschennatur lebt, auch wirklich zum Dasein bringen kann. Hätte der Mensch seinen physischen Leib nicht, so würde der Intellekt während des Erdendaseins schweigen müssen. Es wäre so, wie sich etwa ein Mensch, der gegen eine Wand geht, fühlt: Wenn er geradeaus geht und nicht einmal seine Arme und Hände beachtet, sieht er nichts von sich, wenn aber die Wand, der er zugeht, ein Spiegel ist, dann sieht er sich. So wie ein Mensch, der sich nicht sieht, so würde der Intellekt des Menschen sein: Er würde sich nicht wahrnehmen, wenn er nicht den physischen Körper hätte, der seine Tätigkeit spiegelt, der seine Tätigkeit zurückwirft. Also der Mensch verdankt die Größe seines Intellektes im gegenwärtigen Zeitalter der Spiegelung seiner inneren Seelentätigkeit durch den physischen Leib. Nur wird es beim Spiegelbild dem Menschen ja nicht passieren, daß er sich mit ihm verwechselt, beim Intellekt aber passiert das dem Menschen. Was nur im physischen Weben als das Spiegelbild des Intellektes lebt, das verwechselt der Mensch zuletzt mit diesem Intellekt selbst. Er gibt sich hin dem Spiegelbild. Dann aber wird das Spiegelbild in ihm selbst herrschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":209,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/225/1923-07-21/p008"},{"locus":"GA 225/1923-07-21/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Der Mensch gibt sich gewissermaßen mit seinem Intellekt ganz an seinen physischen Leib hin. Wenn es dem Menschen gelingt, sich wirklich ganz an den physischen Leib hinzugeben mit seinem Intellekt, dann wird dieser Intellekt von einer hohen Vollkommenheit. Wenn wir unser Inneres tätig sein lassen, dann tapsen wir immer ab und zu noch durch allerlei Gefühle und Triebe, die wir haben, durch Vorurteile, durch Sympathien und Antipathien, dann tapsen wir so in den Intellekt hinein. Da machen wir ihn unvollkommen. Wenn wir aber ganz trockene, nüchterne, kalte Naturen werden, wenn wir, um im Hamerlingschen Sinne zu reden, die männliche Seelenlosigkeit des Billionärs vereinigen mit der weiblichen Seelenlosigkeit der Nixe, wie Hamerling eine solche Verbindung in seinem «Homunkulus» dargestellt hat, und dadurch die Fähigkeit bekommen, so zu denken, wie wir nach Maßßgabe unseres physischen Leibes denken müssen, dann ist eine relative Vollkommenheit unserer Intellektualität in diesem Zeitalter gerade möglich. 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