{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 232/1923-11-24/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have already indicated here that with Imaginative vision a man’s life can be followed beyond the gate of death and that in actual fact after his physical body has been laid aside and returned to the elements of Earth, he is to be found in the world of spirit. After Iris etheric body has been received into the etheric sphere connected with our Earth, soul-and-spirit remain, that is to say, his Ego and astral body and all that is part of them. But when we follow with Imaginative vision this being who has passed through the gate of death, he still presents himself to us in a definite form: it is the form which gives shape to the physical matter which the man bears within him. Compared with the robust physical body this form is little more than a shadow but makes a very forceful impression upon the soul. In this form, the head of the man makes only a weak impression, whereas a very powerful impression is made by what, in the course of the life between death and a new birth, is gradually transformed into the head of the next incarnation. But there is something important to say about this form that is visible to Imaginative perception after a man has passed through the gate of death: the form is a kind of physiognomical expression of his life on Earth; it is a faithful portrayal of the manifestations of good or evil for which he was responsible in his physical life on Earth. In earthly life a man can conceal whether the evil or the good is active in his soul. After death that is no longer possible. The spirit-form present after death is the physiognomical expression of what the man was on Earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. The Effect Of The Soul Upon Physical Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-11-24","location":null,"word_count":297,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/232/1923-11-24/p012","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Mystery Knowledge & Mystery Centres","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA232/English/RSP1972/19231124p01.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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Es ist die Gestalt, die die physische Materie, die der Mensch in sich trägt, zur eigentlichen Form bringt. Diese Form bleibt der robusten physischen Körperlichkeit gegenüber wie ein Schattenbild, dem seelischen Empfinden und Wahrnehmen gegenüber aber von kräftigem, intensivem Eindruck. Verblaßt ist das Haupt des Menschen an dieser Gestalt für den seelischen Eindruck; stark ist das Übrige, das nach und nach dann beim Durchgang durch das Leben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt sich verwandelt in das Haupt der nächsten Inkarnation. Aber etwas ist zu sagen über diese Gestalt, die da von der imaginativen Anschauung erblickt werden kann, nachdem der Mensch durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen ist: sie trägt einen gewissen physiognomischen Ausdruck. Sie ist ein getreues Abbild gewissermaßen der Art und Weise, wie der Mensch hier im physischen Erdenleben gut oder böse war. Hier im physischen Erdenleben kann der Mensch verbergen, ob in seiner Seele das Böse oder das Gute wirkt. Nach dem Tode kann er das nicht verbergen. Schaut man auf die Geistgestalt, die geblieben ist nach dem Tode, so trägt diese den physiognomischen Ausdruck desjenigen, was der Mensch auf der Erde war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/232/1923-11-24/p013"}],"english":["GA 232/1923-11-24/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":293,"en_words":297,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4946,"original_word_count":5362,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. 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