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But this wisdom flows through our astral body as the work of the gods. Where does it come from that we know nothing of this wisdom? If we knew anything about it, we would not be able to learn freedom as human beings. We would always be guided. It is wisely arranged in the world that we know nothing of this wisdom between birth and death; for this is our school of freedom. Therefore, through the wise guidance of the higher hierarchies, we are made to see nothing of this wisdom in our astral body. How can we see nothing? Yes, of course this wisdom must be obscured. And it is obscured by all the feelings that live in our astral body, which numb us to what is happening. These feelings always spread like a fog over the wisdom that actually shines into our astral body from all sides from the whole world. The fact that I walk across the street, that I have impressions, all this covers the wisdom that shines into my astral body for normal consciousness ... 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Aber diese Weisheit strömt als Götterwerk durch unseren astralischen Leib. Woher kommt es denn, dass wir von dieser Weisheit nun nichts wissen? Wüssten wir etwas von ihr, dann würden wir nicht die Freiheit lernen können als Menschen. Wir würden immer geleitet werden. Es ist weise in der Welt eingerichtet, dass wir von dieser Weisheit zwischen Geburt und Tod nichts wissen; denn das ist unsere Lehrschule der Freiheit. Daher sind wir durch die weisheitsvolle Führung der höheren Hierarchien dazu gebracht, von dieser Weisheit in unserem astralischen Leibe nichts zu sehen. Wodurch können wir denn nichts sehen? Ja, es muss natürlich diese Weisheit verdunkelt werden. Und sie wird verdunkelt durch alle die Gefühle, die in unserem astralischen Leibe leben, die uns betäuben über dasjenige, was geschieht. Diese Gefühle breiten sich immer wie ein Nebel aus über die Weisheit, die eigentlich aus der ganzen Welt von allen Seiten hereinscheint in unseren astralischen Leib. Dass ich über die Straße gehe, Eindrücke habe, das alles deckt mir die Weisheit, die in meinen astralischen Leib hereinstrahlt, für das normale Bewusstsein zu ... Daher wird jetzt so viel gelogen in der Welt, weil die Wahrheit quälend wäre, weil die Wahrheit furchtbar wäre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":264,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1916-03-03/p031"},{"locus":"GA 246/1916-03-03/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Nun, so decken wir uns auch die Weisheit zu, die wir nicht ertragen können; jenes ungeheuer weite Licht der Weisheit, das immerzu unseren astralischen Leib durchsetzt, das decken wir uns dadurch zu, dass wir immer Gefühle und Empfindungen erwecken über das Positive, das wir erleben, wodurch wir gerade eben durchgehen. 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