{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When the human being passes through the gate of death, his ether-body dissolves away into the Cosmos when the physical body has been laid aside at the moment of death itself. To-day we shall not be studying this first stage after death, when the ether-body is dissolving, but the stage which follows. This can best be understood by thinking, to begin with, of the earthly life between birth and death. This earthly life runs its course in two sharply different conditions: waking and sleeping. You know from Anthroposophy that during the waking state the four members—physical body, ether-body, astral body and Ego—interpenetrate, mutually stimulating and sustaining their several functions. But in sleep the physical body and etheric body remain in the bed, leading temporarily a plant-like existence, while the astral body and Ego-organisation live independently in the spiritual world, separated from the physical and etheric bodies. We know from ordinary experience that when we are recollecting our earthly life, our remembrances are falsified in a certain sense. For when we look back with ordinary consciousness over our life, this retrospect seems to be a continuous, onward flowing stream, one event proceeding from another consecutively, and as a rule we ignore the fact that the stream of our memories is continually interrupted by the nights. In remembrance, therefore, there is a sequence of day-night-day-night; a period of clear consciousness passes over into one of darkness and this again into one of light. With the exception of dreams which arise from sleep, the part of earthly life which is spent in sleep remains, for the most part, unconscious. Generally speaking, this constitutes a third of the earthly life—if a man is not an abnormally long sleeper. Even taking into consideration the many more hours a child spends in sleep, it will be found that sleep occupies about a third of the time of life on the Earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"Cosmic Karma: Planetary Spheres and Human Destiny","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1924-06-01","location":null,"word_count":315,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-06-01/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Nun wissen Sie aus den verschiedenen anthroposophischen Betrachtungen, daß der Wachzustand dadurch entsteht, daß die vier für den heutigen Menschen wesentlichen Glieder - der physische Leib, der ätherische Leib, der astralische Leib und das Ich — ineinandergefügt sind, in ihren Tätigkeiten gegenseitig sich anregen und stützen; daß aber der Schlafzustand dadurch entsteht, daß im Bette liegenbleiben der physische Leib und der ätherische Leib, die gewissermaßen provisorisch, vorübergehend ein Pflanzendasein führen, während der astralische Leib und die Ich-Organisation selbständig in der geistigen Welt, losgetrennt vom physischen und ätherischen Leibe, leben. Nun wissen Sie aber aus der gewöhnlichen Lebenserfahrung, daß der Mensch, wenn er die Erinnerung zurückschickt in sein Erdenleben, eigentlich diese Erinnerung in einem gewissen Sinne fälscht. Denn wenn wir zurückblicken mit dem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein in unser Erdenleben, dann erscheint uns der Rückblick wie ein kontinuierlich fortwirkender Strom; ein Ereignis geht aus dem anderen hervor, und wir geben dabei zumeist nicht acht, daß wir es ja gar nicht zu tun haben mit einem solchen fortwirkenden Strom von Erinnerungen, sondern daß der Erinnerungslauf fortwährend unterbrochen ist durch die Nächte, so daß wir eigentlich die Erinnerung so sehen müßten: Tag, Nacht, Tag, Nacht; immer sozusagen ein Helles, gewissermaßen fortgesetzt in einem Dunklen, dieses wieder fortgesetzt in einem Hellen und so weiter. Unbewußt zum größten Teile, mit Ausnahme der Träume, die aufsteigen aus dem nächtlichen Schlafe, bleibt derjenige Teil des Erdenlebens, den wir verschlafen: es ist in der Regel ein Drittel des Erdenlebens, wenn der Mensch nicht gerade eine Schlafratte ist. Man kann durchaus zusammenzählen - auch wenn man in Betracht zieht, wieviel mehr das Kind schläft —, was geschlafen wird: man bekommt ungefähr ein Drittel der Lebenszeit auf der Erde heraus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":382,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p005"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Zunächst können wir uns fragen: Was machen die Ich-Organisation und der astralische Leib während dieser Schlafenszeit? Sie befinden sich ja in der geistigen Welt. Aber sie nehmen in der geistigen Welt nicht wahr, sie bleiben, wie gesagt, mit Ausnahme der Träume, unbewußt. 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