{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 334/1920-01-07/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And now something very strange comes to light when one not only exercises on one side, that of the life of imagination, but also when one exercises on the side of the life of will. We human beings live, I would say, as Faust goes through life, saying, “I have only run through the world.” We run through the world. Of course, we undergo a development between birth and death, from month to month, from year to year, from decade to decade; but we undergo this development by, as it were, abandoning ourselves to external objectivity. Hand on heart, how many people do it differently than letting themselves be carried by life, be it by childhood, where adults educate them, or by later life and its fate? They become more perfect because the world makes them more perfect. But what do most people do differently, other than just abandon themselves to the stream of life? However, by abandoning oneself to the stream of life, one does not come to the spiritual path meant here. It is necessary that one takes self-discipline into one's own hands, that one actually works on oneself in such a way that one not only develops through the life that fate brings one, but that one develops further by making up one's mind: you want to implant this or that attitude. Now one works on implanting this attitude. One can undertake something on a small scale, one can do something on a large scale. But there is a big difference between just carrying out something in yourself, in the training of your own nature, by abandoning yourself to life, or taking this training of your own self into your own hands. By taking it into your own hands, you get to know the will in its effectiveness; because you learn to recognize what kind of resistance stands in the way of this will when you want to cultivate it in self-discipline. Oh, one gets to know all kinds of things in this way, one strengthens above all one's own powers of the spiritual-soul, and one will very soon notice when one exercises such exercises in self-discipline – but one must practice them for years – that one then acquires inner powers. These inner powers are of such a nature that we do not find them in outer nature. They are of such a nature that we do not find them in the ordinary life of the soul that we have carried within us before our exercises. We discover these forces only when we engage in such an inner exercise with ourselves. These forces are capable of something very definite: they are capable of absorbing into our own self, in a much more conscious way, the moral impulses that otherwise arise in the soul as if they were instinctive, as if they were indefinite and separate from the cognitive faculties. But understand me correctly, not into the self that we develop in our body, but into the self that we develop when we step out of our body with our imagination in the way described earlier. We cannot get the true form of the moral impulses into our sensual body, into our sensual perception; but we get what stands there so isolated that Kant presented it quite isolated as the categorical imperative, we get that into our self that has separated from the body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. Moral and Religious Forces in the Sense of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-01-07","location":null,"word_count":567,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/334/1920-01-07/p012","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Unitary State to the Tripartite Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA334/English/SOL2024/19200107s01.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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Gewiß, wir machen eine Entwickelung durch zwischen Geburt und Tod, von Monat zu Monat, von Jahr zu Jahr, von Jahrzehnt zu Jahrzehnt; aber wir machen diese Entwickelung durch, indem wir uns gewissermaßen der äußeren Objektivität überlassen‘ Hand aufs Herz, wie viele Menschen tun es denn anders, als sich vom Leben, sei es vom Kindesleben, wo die Erwachsenen sie erziehen, sei es von dem späteren Leben und seinem Schicksal tragen lassen? Sie werden vollkommener, weil die Welt sie vollkommener macht. Aber was tun denn die meisten Menschen anderes, als daß sie sich eben dem Strom des Lebens überlassen? Mit diesem Sich-Überlassen dem Strom des Lebens kommt man allerdings nicht auf den hier gemeinten geisteswissenschaftlichen Weg. Da ist notwendig, daß man in Selbsttätigkeit seine Selbstzucht übernimmt, daß man tatsächlich an sich so arbeitet, daß man nicht nur durch das Leben, das an einen durch das Schicksal herantritt, sich weiterentwickelt, sondern daß man sich weiterentwickelt dadurch, daß man sich vornimmt: du willst dir diese oder jene Gesinnungsrichtung einpflanzen. Jetzt arbeitet man daran, diese Gesinnungsrichtung sich einzupflanzen. Man kann im kleinen, man kann im großen so etwas unternehmen. Aber es ist ein großer Unterschied, ob man irgend etwas an sich selbst, in der Zucht seines eigenen Wesens nur ausführt, indem man sich dem Leben überläßt, oder ob man diese Zucht des eigenen Selbst wiederum durch das eigene Selbst in die Hand nimmt. Man lernt durch dieses In-die-Hand-Nehmen den Willen in seiner Wirksamkeit kennen; denn man lernt erkennen, was für Widerstände diesem Willen entgegenstehen, wenn man ihn nun in Selbstzucht kultivieren will. Oh, man lernt auf diese Weise allerlei kennen, man verstärkt vor allen Dingen die eigenen Kräfte des Geistig-Seelischen, und man wird sehr bald bemerken, wenn man solche Übungen in Selbstzucht ausübt - aber man muß sie jahrelang ausüben -, daß einem dann innere Kräfte zuwachsen. Diese inneren Kräfte, die sind von solcher Art, daß wir sie nicht in der äußeren Natur finden. Sie sind von solcher Art, daß wir sie auch nicht in dem gewöhnlichen Seelenleben finden, das wir vor unseren Übungen in uns getragen haben. Diese Kräfte entdecken wir erst, wenn wir eben eine solche innere Übung mit uns anstellen. Diese Kräfte sind zu etwas ganz Bestimmtem imstande: Sie sind imstande, die moralischen Antriebe, die sonst wie instinktiv, wie unbestimmt und getrennt von den Erkenntnisfähigkeiten aufquellen in der Seele, in unser eigenes Selbst viel bewußter aufzunehmen. Aber verstehen Sie mich recht, nicht in das Selbst, das wir entwickeln in unserem Leibe, sondern in dasjenige Selbst, das wir entwickeln, wenn wir auf die vorhin geschilderte Weise aus unserem Leibe heraustreten mit unserer Imagination. Nicht können wir die wahre Gestalt der moralischen Antriebe in unseren sinnlichen Leib, in unser sinnliches Erkennen hereinbekommen; aber wir bekommen das, was so isoliert dasteht, daß Kant es ganz isoliert als kategorischen Imperativ hinstellte, wir bekommen das herein in unser Selbst, das sich vom Leibe getrennt hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":540,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/334/1920-01-07/p012"}],"english":["GA 334/1920-01-07/p012"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":540,"en_words":567,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7371,"original_word_count":7182,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Unitary State to the Tripartite Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA334/English/SOL2024/19200107s01.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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