{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 273/1919-01-19/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As I said, take three moments in Goethe's *Faust*. Take purely artistically what you can feel as Faust stands before Manto; what you feel when Mephistopheles becomes a Phorkyad among the Phorkyads. And take the third moment when Homunculus crashes against Galatea's shell-chariot—feel what this Homunculus is. We come from the spiritual world seeking through conception and birth for physical existence. In this physical existence we meet with what, out of this physical existence, is given us as our physical body. Every evening we go back into the world that we leave at birth; every morning we, as it were, repeat our birth when we plunge again into our physical body. Then we can feel how, coming in from without, we do not arrive at what man is; we meet only with Homunculus, the manikin, the human being in embryo, and we realise how difficult it is to come to the real man. We might arrive at the real man could we contrive to have a perfectly clear conception just before waking, when all the evolutionary possibilities of the night are exhausted. This clear conception, my dear friends, would be a world-conception, it would be such that we should no longer feel ourselves hemmed in by any boundary, but feel as if poured out over the whole universe, over all cosmic light, all cosmic sound, all cosmic life, and in front of us a kind of abyss. One the far side of this would be a continuation of what we were feeling before we met the abyss on waking—namely, warmth. Warmth flows out over the abyss. Now, however, we cross the abyss by waking, into air, water and earth of which our organism is composed. Certainly we are approaching man, and by letting Homunculus fructify in the spiritual world, we have prepared ourselves to understand man. But in the ordinary course of life we do not do what I have just mentioned. The living conception we develop when sleep should have had its effect upon us before we wake, would have to be brought with us into waking life. This conception would be an experiencing ourselves in light, in cosmic sound, in cosmic life, a meeting with the beings of the higher hierarchies, just as here the physical body comes into connection with the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms. This conception, developed concisely just before waking when sleep has done its work upon us, we should have to bring deep down into our physical body; then we should be able to understand what this human body is. But alas “the Gods will not suffer it”. We plunge down; it flashes, flames up, and we hardly notice it. Instead of looking into ourselves, we hear with our external ears; instead of feeling ourselves within our skin, we feel what is outside with our sense of touch. If we did not sink down into what we are able to reach only by the physical eye, the physical ear, through physical sound and physical touch, Homunculus would receive new life and become man, but against the resistance of the elements he is dashed to pieces. The light of the eye flames up instead of cosmic light, we begin to hear physical sound in the ear instead of cosmic sound, the life of the body is aroused instead of cosmic life—Homunculus is shattered. If we experience this consciously, we experience the end of the Classical Walpurgis-night. Thus, this end scene is taken from actual, true life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. 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Jeden Abend kehren wir zurück in die Welt, aus der wir heraustreten durch die Geburt; jeden Morgen müssen wir die Geburt bildhaft erneuern, indem wir wiederum in den physischen Körper untertauchen. Da können wir fühlen, wie wir von außen hereinkommend nicht das erreichen, was der Mensch ist, sondern wie uns nur der Homunkulus, das Menschlein, das embryonale -Menschentum entgegentritt, und wie schwierig es ist, zum wirklichen Menschen zu kommen. Wir könnten zum wirklichen Menschen kommen, wenn es uns gelingen würde, knapp vor dem Aufwachen, wenn alle Entwickelungsmöglichkeiten der Nacht ausgeschöpft sind, eine ganz helle Vorstellung zu haben. Diese helle Vorstellung wäre eine Weltvorstellung; diese helle Vorstellung wäre so, daß wir uns nirgends begrenzt glaubten, daß wir uns ausgegossen fühlten über die Welt; daß wir uns ausgegossen fühlten über alles Weltenlicht, allen Weltenton, über alles Weltenleben. Vor uns etwas wie einen Abgrund; jenseits des Abgrundes die Fortsetzung desjenigen, was wir gerade noch fühlen, bevor wir den Abgrund betreten beim Aufwachen: Wärme. Wärme, sie strömt über den Abgrund hinüber. Nun aber treten wir über den Abgrund ein durch das Aufwachen in Luft, Wasser, Erde, die ja unseren eigenen Organismus zusammensetzen. Allerdings, wir treten dem Menschen nahe, wir haben uns vorbereitet, indem wir den Homunkulus befruchten ließen in der geistigen Welt, den Menschen zu erfassen. Aber im gewöhnlichen Verlauf des Lebens tun wir das nicht, was ich jetzt eben angedeutet habe. Die lebendige Vorstellung, die wir haben, die ein Sich-Erleben im Licht, im Weltenton, im Weltenleben wäre, die ein Sich-Zusammenfinden wäre mit den Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien, die ebensogut sich verbunden fühlen würde mit den Wesen der höheren Hierarchien, wie sich hier der physische Leib verbunden fühlt mit dem mineralischen, mit dem pflanzlichen, mit dem tierischen Reich, diese Vorstellung, die wir entwickeln würden, wenn der Schlaf knapp vor dem Aufwachen an uns sein Werk getan hätte, die müßten wir mitbringen ins Aufwachen hinein, müßten wir hineinversenken in unseren Leibesmenschen. Dann würden wir das verstehen können, was der Leibesmensch ist. Aber, ach:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":422,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/273/1919-01-19/p034"},{"locus":"GA 273/1919-01-19/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"> Die Götter wollen’s nicht leiden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":6,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/273/1919-01-19/p035"},{"locus":"GA 273/1919-01-19/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Wir tauchen unter. Es flammt auf, es blitzt - das bemerken wir kaum. Statt in uns selber hineinzuschauen, schauen wir aus dem Auge heraus, statt in uns selber hineinzuhorchen, hören wir aus dem Ohre heraus, statt in uns selber hineinzufühlen, fühlen wir mit den Tastnerven aus der Haut heraus. Homunkulus, der aufleben würde und zum Menschen werden, wenn wir nicht untertauchen würden in das, was durch die physischen Augen nur erreichbar liegt, durch die physischen Ohren, durch den physischen Ton, durch das physische Getaste nur erreichbar liegt, Homunkulus zerschellt in dem Augenblicke an dem Widerstand der Elemente. Das Augenlicht flammt auf statt des Weltenlichtes, der Ohrenton beginnt statt des Weltentones, das Körperleben beginnt statt des Weltenlebens: Homunkulus zerschellt. Und wenn man es bewußt erlebt, so ist der Schluß der «Klassischen Walpurgisnacht» erlebt. So ist dieser Schluß der «Klassischen Walpurgisnacht» aus dem wahren, wirklichen Leben genommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":145,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/273/1919-01-19/p036"}],"english":["GA 273/1919-01-19/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":573,"en_words":582,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 273/1919-01-19/p034","GA 273/1919-01-19/p035","GA 273/1919-01-19/p036"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6706,"original_word_count":6662,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams","identified_edition":"UNK1930","book_title":"The Problem of Faust","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA273/English/UNK1930/19190119p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 273/1919-01-19/p034","GA 273/1919-01-19/p035","GA 273/1919-01-19/p036"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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