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But impartial observation of our thoughts makes them appear widely removed from the reality of existence around us. When we are engrossed in thought we become inwardly abstract, inwardly cold, in comparison with what we are in heart and soul when we surrender ourselves to life. No impartial mind will ever doubt that thoughts, as such, have a cold, abstract, arid quality. But clear insight into the life of thought should be one of the first meditative experiences of an anthroposophist. In contemplating this life of thought he will discern in it something very similar to the spectacle presented by a corpse. What is characteristic of the sight of a human corpse? As it lies there before us, we say to ourselves: A human soul and a human spirit once lived in this structure and have now departed from it. A corpse lies there as a husk of the soul and the spirit. 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If external Nature alone were responsible for producing them, they could never be as they are: they are a corpse of the soul, comparable with a physical corpse. The very existence of a corpse is evidence that something has died. What is it that has died in the case of thoughts? It is the kind of thinking that was ours before we came down into the earthly world. Abstract thinking is the corpse of what was once *living* thinking. The thinking of a soul as yet without a body is related to the form which thinking assumes in earthly existence as the human soul and spirit are related to the corpse. And we men in the physical body are the grave in which the pre-earthly, living life of the soul has been entombed. The thoughts were once alive in the soul; the soul has died to the spiritual world. 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Das menschliche Denken, es verbreitet sich über alles dasjenige, was in der physisch-sinnlichen Erdenwelt geschieht. Wir machen uns über das, was so in der Welt vorgeht, unsere Gedanken. Wir könnten gar nicht Menschen sein, wenn wir uns nicht diese Gedanken machten; denn durch die Bildung dieser Gedanken unterscheiden wir uns von allen anderen Wesenheiten, die uns in dem irdischen Bereiche umgeben. Aber wenn wir unsere Gedanken in unbefangener Selbstbeobachtung erfassen, dann erscheinen sie uns ja wirklich recht weit entfernt von alledem, was uns sonst als Wirkliches umgibt. Man stelle sich nur in der richtigen Art vor, wie innerlich-abstrakt und kalt wir werden, wenn wir uns dem Denken hingeben, gegenüber der Art, wie wir sind, wenn wir uns mit unserer Seele dem Leben hingeben. Darüber sollte gar kein Zweifel sein vor dem unbefangenen Gemüte, daß Gedanken als solche zunächst etwas Kaltes, Abstraktes, etwas Nüchternes, Trockenes haben. Aber es sollte zu dem ersten meditativen Erleben des Anthroposophen gehören, in der richtigen Art gerade unser Gedankenleben anzuschauen. Dann wird ihm an diesem Gedankenleben etwas aufgehen, was ihm sehr ähnlich erscheinen kann wie der Anblick, den wir gegenüber einem Leichnam haben. Was ist denn charakteristisch für den Anblick eines Leichnams? Da liegt er vor uns, dieser Leichnam. Wir sagen uns: In diesem Gebilde hat eine menschliche Seele, ein menschlicher Geist gelebt; diese menschliche Seele, dieser Geist sind fort. Wie eine Schale der Seele und des Geistes liegt das da, was ein menschlicher Leichnam ist, aber uns zugleich den Beweis liefernd, daß alles, was außermenschliche Welt ist, dieses Gebilde niemals hätte hervorbringen können, daß dieses Gebilde nur aus der innersten, geistbeseelten Menschennatur selber hervorgehen konnte, daß es ein Überrest ist von etwas, das nicht mehr ist. Die Form selber zeigt uns: Der Leichnam ist ja keine Wahrheit, er ist nur ein Rest von einer Wahrheit, er hat nur einen Sinn, wenn Seele und Geist darin leben. Jetzt in der übriggebliebenen Form hat er eben vieles verloren, aber so wie er ist, zeigt er gerade, daß Seele und Geist in ihm gewohnt haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":383,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-07/p006"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-07/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Dann können wir unseren seelischen Blick auf das Denkleben richten. Es wird uns - zwar von einem etwas anderen Gesichtspunkte aus — auch so erscheinen, als ob es etwas Leichnamhaftes wäre. Das menschliche Denken, wenn wir es unbefangen in uns selber anschauen, kann eigentlich ebensowenig dutch sich selber bestehen, wie die menschliche Form im Leichnam. Die hat keinen Sinn, und der menschliche Gedanke, wie er die äußere Natur auffaßt, hat gar keinen Sinn, ebensowenig wie ein Leichnam. Denn die äußere Natur ist ja immer etwas, was von den Gedanken wohl erfaßt werden kann, aber niemals den Gedanken hervorbringen kann. Es könnte ja sonst keine Logik geben, die unabhängig von allen Naturgesetzen sieht, was denkerisch richtig und falsch ist. Wenn wir den Gedanken hier in der irdischen Welt auffassen und ihn richtig durchschauen, muß er uns als ein Leichnam, als ein seelischer Leichnam erscheinen, wie das als ein physischer Leichnam erscheint, was vom Menschen übrigbleibt, wenn der Mensch durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen ist. Wir verstehen die Form des Menschen nur, wenn wir sie anschauen als einen Rest dessen, was ein belebter Mensch übriggelassen hat im Tode. Denken Sie sich einmal, es gäbe nur einen einzigen Menschen auf der Erde und der wäre gestorben, und ein Marsbewohner käme herunter und schaute sich diesen Leichnam an: er würde ihn gar nicht verstehen. Er könnte alle Formen im Mineralischen, Pflanzlichen, Tierischen studieren und würde doch nicht begreifen, wie diese Form, die da tot liegt, zustande kommen konnte. Denn sie widerspricht sich selbst, und sie widerspricht der ganzen außermenschlichen, irdischen Welt. Sie verrät in sich selber, daß sie von etwas verlassen worden ist, denn sie könnte nicht so sein, wie sie ist, wenn sie nur immer so sich selbst überlassen gewesen wäre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-07/p007"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-07/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Geradeso ist es mit unseren Gedanken. Die könnten gar nicht so sein wie sie sind, wenn sie nur durch die äußere Natur da wären. Sie sind ein Seelenleichnam, dem physischen Leichnam zu vergleichen. Wenn ein Leichnam da ist, muß etwas gestorben sein. Was ist gestorben? Gestorben ist diejenige Form des Denkens, die wir gehabt haben, bevor wir heruntergestiegen sind in die irdische Welt. Da lebte das, was im abstrakten Gedanken tot ist. Es verhält sich das Denken der Seele, die noch keinen Körper hatte, zu dem Gedanken, wie wir ihn nun haben, so, wie sich der beseelte und durchgeistigte Mensch zum Leichnam verhält. Und wir Menschen im physischen Leibe sind das Grab, in dem begraben worden ist das lebendige Seelenleben des vorirdischen Daseins. Der Gedanke war in der Seele lebendig. Die Seele ist für die geistige Welt gestorben. Wir tragen nicht den lebendigen Gedanken, wir tragen den Gedankenleichnam in uns.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":150,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-07/p008"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-07/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Das ist es, was sich ergibt, wenn wir an die andere Seite des irdischen Lebens gehen, die entgegengesetzt liegt der Seite des Todes, wenn wir nach der Geburt hin gehen. Wir sagen uns: In einer gewissen Weise stirbt das Geistige im Menschen durch die Geburt; das Physische am Menschen stirbt durch den Tod. - Dann sprechen wir richtiger über diese Tatsachen, als gewöhnlich gesprochen wird in unserer Zeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":68,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-07/p009"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-06-07/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Wenn wir zuerst die Eingangspforte in die Anthroposophie suchen durch ein gemütvolles Hinlenken der Seele zu dem Tode und uns so begreiflich machen, wie das Denken ein Leichnam ist gegenüber dem vorirdischen Denken, dann weitet sich uns der Blick auf den Menschen über das Erdenleben hinaus, und wir bereiten uns erst dadurch vor, die anthroposophische Lehre, die anthroposophische Weisheit aufzunehmen. Nur weil man nicht in der richtigen Weise auf dasjenige sieht, was im Erdenleben zwar noch da ist, wenn auch als Leichnam - aber dazu ist das Erdenleben die Stelle -, deshalb findet man so schwer den naturgemäßen Weg zur Anthroposophie. Heute überschätzt man das Denken, aber man kennt es eigentlich nicht; man kennt es nur in seiner seelen-leichnamhaften Beschaffenheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-06-07/p010"}],"beads":[{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[8,9],"to":[8,9],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}