{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1922-03-04/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I am able to speak to you again after a long time. Today I would like to say a few things that can complement yesterday's public lecture. One must try to recognize man as he is now. When a person dies here in the physical world, his body remains behind as a corpse. He is abandoned by his soul and spirit and handed over to the earth. The dead person is actually no longer a person, but only an image of a person. What is death on earth is a birth in the spiritual world. If, on the other hand, the human soul builds a body after conception, this means dying for the spiritual world. The soul dies for the spiritual world. But where does this soul corpse remain? It does not remain in the spiritual world, but is buried in the human body, in the brain. And what is this soul corpse? It is the abstract thoughts of the human being. The thoughts of man are not alive, they are dead.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"78. Abstract Thoughts, Living Will","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-03-04","location":null,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1922-03-04/p004","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/SOL2025/19220304s01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1922-03-04/p004"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1922-03-04/p004","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. 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Man muss versuchen, den Menschen zu erkennen, wie er jetzt ist. Wenn ein Mensch hier in der physischen Welt stirbt, dann bleibt sein Leib als Leichnam zurück. Er wird von Seele und Geist verlassen, der Erde übergeben. Der tote Mensch ist ja eigentlich nicht mehr Mensch, sondern nur ein Abbild des Menschen. Was auf der Erde der Tod ist, ist eine Geburt in der geistigen Welt. Wenn hingegen die menschliche Seele nach der Empfängnis sich einen Leib baut, so bedeutet das ein Sterben für die geistige Welt. Die Seele stirbt für die geistige Welt. Wo bleibt aber nun dieser seelische Leichnam? Er bleibt nicht in der geistigen Welt, sondern er wird begraben in dem menschlichen Leib, in das Gehirn. Und was ist nun dieser Seelenleichnam? Es sind die abstrakten Gedanken des Menschen. 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