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Da haben wir nicht Dinge um uns herum, wenn wir schlafen, die man abwiegen kann, so sonderbar es erscheint, wir haben auch nicht Dinge um uns herum, die man zählen kann, oder die man messen kann unmittelbar. Einen Maßstab könnte man nicht anwenden als Ich und als astralischer Leib im Schlafzustande.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-29/p010"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-29/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Aber was da ist, das sind, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf, die frei schwebenden, frei webenden Sinnesempfindungen. Nur daß der Mensch im gegenwärtigen Zustand seiner Entwickelung nicht die Fähigkeit hat, die frei schwebende Röte, die Wellen des frei webenden Tones und so weiter wahrzunehmen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":45,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-29/p011"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-29/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"![291-18](images/291-18.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-29/p012"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-29/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Will man schematisch die Sache zeichnen, so könnte man das so machen. Man könnte sagen: Hier auf Erden haben wir wägbare feste Dinge [violette Bogen], und an diesen wägbaren festen Dingen haftet gewissermaßen die Röte, die Gelbe, also dasjenige, was die Sinne an den Körpern wahrnehmen. Wenn wir schlafen, dann ist die Gelbe frei schwebendes Wesen, die Röte ist frei schwebendes Wesen, nicht haftend an solchen Schwerebedingungen, sondern frei webend und schwebend. Ebenso ist es mit dem Ton: nicht die Glocke klingt, sondern das Klingen webt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":86,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-29/p013"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-29/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Und nicht wahr, wenn wir in unserer physischen Welt herumgehen, irgend etwas sehen, so heben wir es auf; dann ist es eigentlich erst ein Ding, sonst könnte es auch eine Augentäuschung sein. Das Gewicht muß hinzukommen. Daher ist man so geneigt, etwas, was im Physischen erscheint, ohne daß man es als schwer empfindet — wie die Farben des Regenbogens -, als eine Augentäuschung zu betrachten. Wenn Sie heute ein Physikbuch aufschlagen, so ist es so, daß man da erklärt: Das ist eine Augentäuschung. — Als das eigentlich Reale sieht man den Regentropfen an. Und da zeichnet man Linien hinein, die eigentlich gar nichts bedeuten für das, was da ist, aber die man sich so durch den Raum hin denkt; man nennt sie dann Strahlen. Aber die Strahlen sind gar nicht da. Dann sagt man: Das Auge projiziert sich das hinaus. — Dieses ProjJizieren ist ja überhaupt etwas, was in einer sehr sonderbaren Weise heute in der Physik angewendet wird. Also ich greife die Vorstellung auf: Wir sehen einen roten Gegenstand. Um uns zu überzeugen, daß es keine Augentäuschung ist, heben wir ihn, und er ist schwer: dadurch verbürgt er seine Realität.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-29/p014"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-29/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Derjenige, der sich nun im Ich und im astralischen Leibe außerhalb des physischen und des Ätherleibes bewußt wird, der kommt auch endlich darauf, daß so etwas da drinnen schon ist in diesem frei schwebenden und frei webenden Farbigen, Tönenden; aber es ist anders. Es ist in einem so frei schwebenden Farbigen die Tendenz, in die Weiten der Welt hinaus sich zu entfernen; es hat eine entgegengesetzte Schwere. Diese Dinge der Erde, die wollen da herunter nach dem Mittelpunkt der Erde [siehe Zeichnung Seite 200, Pfeile abwärts], jene [Pfeile aufwärts] wollen frei hinaus in den Weltenraum.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":95,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-29/p015"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-29/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"![291-19](images/291-19.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-29/p016"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-29/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Und es ist auch schon so etwas Ähnliches da wie ein Maß. Man kommt nämlich darauf, wenn man irgendwo, sagen wir, eine kleine rötliche Wolke hat, und diese kleine rötliche Wolke ist meinetwillen eingesäumt von einem mächtigen gelben Gebilde: Dann mißt man, aber nicht mit dem Maßstab, sondern qualitativ mißt man mit dem Roten, mit dem stärker Scheinenden das schwächer scheinende Gelbe. Und so wie Ihnen der Maßstab sagt: Das sind fünf Meter -, so sagt Ihnen hier das Rote [siehe Zeichnung]: Wenn ich mich ausbreiten würde, gehe ich fünfmal in das Gelbe hinein. Ich muß mich weiten, ich muß mächtiger werden, dann werde ich auch gelb. — So geschehen die Messungen hier.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-29/p017"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-29/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"![291-20](images/291-20.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-29/p018"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-29/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Noch schwieriger ist das Zählen hier klarzumachen, weil wir beim irdischen Zählen ja doch zumeist nur Erbsen oder Apfel zählen, die gleichgültig nebeneinander liegen. Und wir haben immer das Gefühl, wenn wir aus der Eins zweie machen, so ist es dieser Eins eigentlich ganz gleichgültig, daß noch eine Zwei neben ihr ist. Im menschlichen Leben wird es ja schon anders; da ist es zuweilen so, daß Eins auf das Zwei angewiesen ist. Doch das geht ja auch schon in das Geistige hinein. Aber bei der eigentlichen physischen Mathematik ist es immer den Einteilungen gleichgültig, was sich zu ihnen gesellt. Das ist hier nicht der Fall.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":105,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-29/p019"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-29/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Wenn hier irgendwo eine Eins [siehe Zeichnung] ist von einer bestimmten Art, so fordert das irgendwelche, sagen wir, drei oder fünf andere, je nachdem es ist. Das hat immer inneren Bezug zu den anderen, da ist die Zahl eine Realität. Und wenn ein Bewußtsein anfängt darüber, wie es ist, wenn man mit dem Ich und mit dem astralischen Leib da draußen ist, dann kommt man schon auch dahin, etwas wie Maß, Zahl und Gewicht zu bestimmen, aber nach entgegengesetzter Art.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":80,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-29/p020"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-29/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Und dann, wenn einem das Schauen und Hören da draußen nicht mehr ein bloßes Schwimmeln und Schwummeln von Rot und Gelb und Tönen ist, sondern wenn man anfängt, auch da drinnen die Dinge so geordnet zu empfinden, dann beginnt das Wahrnehmen der geistigen Wesenheiten, die sich in diesen frei schwebenden Sinnesempfindungen verwirklichen, realisieren. Dann kommen wir hinein in die positive geistige Welt, in das Leben und Treiben der geistigen Wesenheiten. Wie wir hier auf Erden hineinkommen ins Leben und Treiben der irdischen Dinge, indem wir sie mit der Waage, mit dem Maßstab, mit unserer Rechnerei bestimmen, so kommen wir dadurch, daß wir uns aneignen das bloß qualitative, entgegengesetzte Schwersein, das heißt, mit Leichtigkeit sich ausdehnen wollen im Weltenraum, das Messen von Farbe durch Farbe und so weiter, hinein in das Erfassen von geistigen Wesenheiten. 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