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I have not mentioned the star spheres as they correspond to astronomy. What I have mentioned is what man lives in between death and a new birth. And when the seer sees the human souls, he sees that they are still in the lunar sphere for a time after death. 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From these star spheres, i.e. from what the sun, Mars and so on mean spiritually, very different influences emanate on the human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":93,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1913-02-27/p024","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19130227s01.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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The forces of the old Saturn, the old sun and the old moon have an influence there. Only the soul of the human being has a relationship to the other planetary forces.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1913-02-27/p025","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19130227s01.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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The dead person is then not isolated in a cruel loneliness, but has the company of the living, so to speak. Man still needs this company for a long time, because it is the only thing he lives from in his soul. Only at a later time is it possible for the soul to find a connection with the spirits of higher hierarchies. Only in the Venus sphere can one actually make the acquaintance of these higher beings, if one is sufficiently prepared. Before that, you can only be in contact with fellow living beings from the last or previous incarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":242,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1913-02-27/p026","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19130227s01.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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Many a soul in these spheres would long for what sleep is in a certain sense here in life. Souls cannot become unconscious there, only lonely, as if living alone on an island. This solitude is a kind of sleep of death. Even in the sphere of Mercury one cannot get along without a moral attitude, but in the sphere of Venus it is one of the most important conditions. If you want to live in the Venus sphere, if you want to get to know human souls and beings of the higher hierarchies, then you have to arrive there not only with moral, but also with religious feelings, because there you will find yourself together with souls who are religiously attuned.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1913-02-27/p027","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19130227s01.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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They are of a special kind. They are not of the kind that can be understood by everyone at once. There is a certain separateness there.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1913-02-27/p028","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19130227s01.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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Ich habe die Sternensphären jetzt angeführt nicht so, wie sie stimmen mit der Astronomie. Das, was ich da angeführt habe, in das lebt sich der Mensch zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt herein. Und wenn der Seher die Menschenseelen sieht, dann sieht er, dass sie eine Zeit lang nach dem Tode noch in der Mondensphäre sind. Diese Sphäre erstreckt sich in der Ausdehnung, die wir erhalten, wenn wir einen Kreis ziehen, der einschließt Erde und Mond.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1913-02-27/p023"},{"locus":"GA 246/1913-02-27/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"In einer späteren Zeit finden wir die Seelen, die sich ausdehnen und immer größer werden in der Merkursphäre; noch später in der Venussphäre, dann in der Sonnensphäre, in der Marssphäre, dann in der Jupitersphäre, dann in der Saturnsphäre und dann in der Sternensphäre. Alle diese Sphären durchlebt der Mensch zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt. Von diesen Sternensphären, also von dem, was geistig Sonne, Mars und so weiter bedeuten, gehen ganz verschiedene Einflüsse aus auf den Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":76,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1913-02-27/p024"},{"locus":"GA 246/1913-02-27/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Wenn wir hier den Menschen auf der Erde betrachten, so tritt er uns ja zunächst in seiner physischen Leiblichkeit entgegen. Auf diesen physischen Menschen hat nur einiges von den geistigen Kräften und Wesenheiten der Sternensphären Einfluss. Nämlich auf den physischen Menschen, den wir trennen müssen in zwei Glieder. Das eine Glied ist alles das, was eingeschlossen ist in die nach außen fest abgeschlossene Knochenkapsel des Gehirns und die Ringe des Rückenmarkes. Das ist der eine Teil. Das ist eine Welt für sich im Menschen. Und was draußen ist, außerhalb dieses Teiles, ist wiederum ein Teil für sich. Auf das, was außerhalb des Gehirns und der Rückenwirbel liegt, auf das haben nur Einflüsse die geistigen Wesenheiten von Sonne, Mond und Erde. Auf das, was innerhalb der Schädelknochen und der Rückenwirbel liegt, hat nichts Einfluss von dem, was uns jetzt umgibt. Da haben Einfluss die Kräfte des alten Saturn, der alten Sonne, des alten Mondes. Zu den anderen Planetenkräften hat nur das Seelische des Menschen ein Verhältnis.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1913-02-27/p025"},{"locus":"GA 246/1913-02-27/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Also in einer ganz verschiedenen Weise wirken die Kräfte und Wesenheiten der Sternenwelt auf unseren Organismus ein. Das wird ganz besonders klar, wenn man das Leben der Menschen zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt betrachtet. In der ersten Zeit - für manche dauert sie länger, für andere kürzer, für Ausnahmen ist die Zeit sehr kurz oder tritt gar nicht ein, aber durchgemacht wird das Gleiche von jedem in irgendeiner Weise. In der ersten Zeit also sind die Menschen noch ganz in lebendigem Zusammenhang mit ihrem Erdenleben. Sie leben sozusagen nur von der Erinnerung. Daher ist es so schmerzlich unmittelbar nach dem Tode, wenn alle Verstorbenen in der Erinnerung zwar leben, aber nicht mehr wahrnehmen können die Seelen, an die sie sich erinnern. Daher ist es eine solche Wohltat, wenn die Seelen nach dem Tode vorgelesen bekommen von den Zurückgebliebenen. Der Tote ist dann nicht abgeschlossen in einer grausamen Einsamkeit, sondern er hat sozusagen die Gesellschaft der Lebenden. Diese Gesellschaft braucht der Mensch lange Zeit noch, denn nur davon lebt er in seiner Seele. Erst in einer späteren Zeit gibt es für die Seele die Möglichkeit, mit den Geistern höherer Hierarchien einen Zusammenhang zu finden. Eigentlich erst in der Venussphäre kann man Bekanntschaft machen mit diesen höheren Wesen, wenn man genügend vorbereitet ist. Vorher kann man nur in Zusammenhang stehen mit Mitlebenden der letzten oder der vorhergehenden Inkarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":226,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1913-02-27/p026"},{"locus":"GA 246/1913-02-27/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Aber die Bekanntschaften zu machen mit höheren Wesenheiten ist nur unter bestimmten Bedingungen möglich. Eine Seele, die zur Venussphäre kommt ohne moralische Gesinnung, die sie auf Erden aufgenommen hat, findet dort nicht die Möglichkeit des Anschlusses an andere Seelen, auch nicht einmal an solche Seelen, mit denen sie schon, früher einmal zusammen war, aber ganz und gar nicht den Zusammenschluss mit den geistigen Wesenheiten höherer Hierarchien. Die Vorbereitung zu einem Leben in der Venussphäre, das nicht in grausamer Einsamkeit verfließt, ist moralische Gesinnung hier auf Erden. Wenn wir schauen könnten in die Venussphäre, so sähen wir Seelen, die in entsetzlicher Einsamkeit leben. Sie sind geistig ganz nahe anderen Seelen, aber sie nehmen sie nicht wahr. Sie können nicht an sie herankommen. Und dazu haben sie sich verurteilt durch eine unmoralische Gesinnung. Das, was hier im Leben in gewisser Beziehung der Schlaf ist, darnach würde manche Secle in diesen Sphären lechzen. Bewusstlos können die Seelen dort nicht werden, nur einsam werden sie, wie allein auf einer Insel lebend. Es ist eine Art Todesschlaf, diese Einsamkeit. Schon in der Merkursphäre kann man nicht zurechtkommen ohne moralische Gesinnung, aber in der Venussphäre ist sie eine der wichtigsten Bedingungen. Wenn man in der Venussphäre leben will, wenn man Menschenseelen und Wesen der höheren Hierarchien kennenlernen will, dann muss man dort ankommen nicht nur mit moralischen, sondern auch mit religiösen Empfindungen, denn man findet sich dort mit Seelen zusammen, die religiös gleichgestimmt sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1913-02-27/p027"},{"locus":"GA 246/1913-02-27/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Von der Venussphäre kommt man dann in die Sonnensphäre. Dort hat man schon nötig, nicht nur mit einer religiösen Stimmung anzukommen, sondern mit einem Verständnis für alle religiösen Bekenntnisse, die auf der Erde vorhanden sind. Man kommt dort nur zurecht mit der wahren, echten, inneren Toleranz, die zuerst ausgegossen hat der Christus, und die jetzt begriffen werden soll durch die Theosophie. Denn innerhalb des Sonnenlebens finden wir sozusagen Menschen und Wesen aller Art, und unser Leben kann dort nur ein nicht gequältes sein, wenn wir Verständnis haben für jede Seele, gleichgültig, durch welche Bildungselemente sie durchgegangen ist. In der Sonnensphäre können wir Seelen nur verstehen, wenn wir tolerant sind gegenüber den religiösen Bekenntnissen und religiösen Erlebnissen, die sie durchgemacht haben. Unter den Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien gibt es zum Beispiel solche, die am leichtesten der Buddhist verstehen kann. Sie sind geartet in einer besonderen Weise. Sie haben nicht die Art, gleich von allen verstanden zu werden. Es ist da eine gewisse Abgegrenztheit vorhanden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1913-02-27/p028"},{"locus":"GA 246/1913-02-27/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Wenn wir in der Sonnensphäre mit diesen Wesen zusammenkommen, tritt noch etwas Besonderes ein. Diese Wesenheiten sind da, um uns etwas zu geben. Und wir brauchen das, was sie zu geben haben. Wenn wir kein Verständnis für sie haben, dann bleibt das, was sie uns geben können, für uns unbenutzbar. Man spricht ganz richtig, wenn man sagt: Was die Engel in der Sonnensphäre zu geben haben, das könne verstanden werden durch das, was man sich erwirbt, wenn man sich einlebt in das Zeitalter und in die Kräfte, die gegeben sind durch den Buddha. - Wenn einem das Verständnis fehlt, wenn man den Engeln, die die leitenden Mächte dieser Bekenntnisse auf Erden sind, entgegentritt, dann können sie einem etwas nicht geben, was man braucht. Dann ist es der Seele gerade so wie hier auf der Erde einem Menschen, der keine Beine oder keine Augen hat. Man wird, wenn man nicht mit voller Toleranz in der Sonnensphäre ankommt, ein seelischer Krüppel sein. Das ist eine bedeutsame Wahrheit, meine lieben Freunde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1913-02-27/p029"}],"beads":[{"from":[23],"to":[23],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[24],"to":[24],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[25],"to":[25],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[26],"to":[26],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[27],"to":[27],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[28],"to":[28],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[29],"to":[29],"confidence":"high"}],"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)."}}