{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 322/1920-10-03_02/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have told you that from birth until the change of teeth a soul-spiritual entity is at work structuring the human being and that this then emancipates itself to an extent. Later, between the change of teeth and puberty, another such soul-spiritual entity, which dips down in a way into the physical body, awakens the erotic drives and much else as well. All this occurs unconsciously. If, however, we use fully consciously such measures of soul as I have described to observe this permeation of the physical organism by the soul-spiritual, one sees how such processes work within man and how man is actually given over to the external world continually, from birth onward. Nowadays this giving-over of oneself to the external world is held to be nothing but abstract perception or abstract cognition. This is not so. We are surrounded by a world of color, sound, and warmth and by all kinds of sense impressions, By elaborating these with our concepts we create yet further impressions that have an effect on us. By experiencing all this consciously we come to see that in the unconscious experience of color- and sound-impressions that we have from childhood onward there is something spiritual that suffuses our organization. And when, for example, we take up the sense of love between the change of teeth and puberty, this is not something originating in the physical body but rather something that the cosmos gives us through the colors, sounds, and streaming warmth that reach us. Warmth is something other than warmth; light something other than light in the physical sense; sound is something other than physical sound. Through our sense impressions we are conscious only of what I would term external sound and external color. And when we surrender ourselves to nature, we do not encounter the ether-waves, atoms, and so on of which modern physics and physiology dream; rather, it is spiritual forces that are at work, forces that fashion us between birth and death into what we are as human beings. Once we tread the path of knowledge I have described, we become aware that it is the external world that forms us. We become best able to observe consciously what lives and embodies itself within us when we acquire above all a clear sense that spirit is at work in the external world. lt is of all things phenomenology that enables us to perceive how spirit works within the external world. It is through phenomenology, and not abstract metaphysics, that we attain knowledge of the spirit by consciously observing, by raising to consciousness, what otherwise we would do unconsciously, by observing how, through the sense world, spiritual forces enter our being and work formatively upon it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VIII","site_heading":"Western Spiritual Science: Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition","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. 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Kommt man aber mit vollem Bewußtsein durch solche seelischen Vornahmen, wie ich sie charakterisiert habe, dazu, dieses Hineindringen des Geistig-Seelischen in die leibliche Organisation zu verfolgen, dann sieht man, wie solche Prozesse im Menschen vor sich gehen, wie eigentlich der Mensch immer, von der Geburt an, der Außenwelt hingegeben ist. Man hält dieses Sich-Hingeben an die Außenwelt heute für ein bloßes abstraktes Wahrnehmen oder abstraktes Erkennen. Das ist es nicht. Indem wir umgeben sind von einer farbigen Welt, indem wir umgeben sind von einer tönenden Welt, indem wir umgeben sind von einer wärmenden Welt, kurz, indem wir umgeben sind von alldem, was Eindrücke auf unsere Sinne macht, was durch Verarbeitung der Eindrücke mit unseren Vorstellungen wiederum neuerdings Eindrücke auf unsere Organisation macht, indem wir alles dasjenige bewußt erleben, sehen wir, daß wir, wenn wir es unbewußt erleben seit der Kindheit, mit den Farbeneindrücken, mit den Toneindrücken etwas aufnehmen, was als Geistiges unsere Organisation durchdringt. Und wenn wir zum Beispiel zwischen dem Zahnwechsel und der Geschlechtsreife die Liebesempfindung aufnehmen, so ist das nicht etwas, was herauswächst aus unserem Leibe, sondern ist etwas, was der Kosmos uns gibt, was der Kosmos uns durch Farben, durch Töne, durch Wärmeströmungen, die an uns herankommen, gibt. Wärme ist noch etwas anderes als Wärme, Licht ist etwas anderes als Licht im physischen Sinne, Ton ist etwas anderes als Ton im physischen Sinne. Indem wir Sinneseindrücke haben, ist zwar nur dasjenige bewußt, was zunächst, ich möchte sagen, der äußere Ton, die äußere Farbe ist. Aber durch diese Hingebung wirkt nicht dasjenige, wovon eine moderne Physik oder Physiologie träumt, Ätherbewegungen, Atombewegungen und dergleichen, sondern es wirkt Geist, es wirken die Kräfte, die uns erst hier in der physischen Welt zwischen Geburt und Tod zu dem machen, was wir als Menschen sind. Und indem wir solche Erkenntniswege antreten, wie ich sie charakterisiert habe, werden wir gewahr, wie wir aus der äußeren Welt heraus organisiert werden. Wir verfolgen bewußt, was in uns leibt und lebt, indem wir vor allen Dingen nun einen deutlichen Sinn dafür bekommen, daß in der Außenwelt Geist vorhanden ist. Gerade durch die Phänomenologie gelangen wir dazu, deutlich zu sehen, wie in der Außenwelt Geist ist. 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