{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 46/46-03-43/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, the ordinary dream world is only a faint echo of this world of the initiate. It can only be this because self-awareness is not involved in it. But where is this self-awareness during the dream? It has withdrawn into a higher world in which the human being is not present as such at first. The relationship between the human being and this world can initially be clarified by means of a comparison. Think of a human hand and a tool that it is holding. As long as the hand holds the tool, the two form a unity, as it were. The latter performs the actions determined by the former. But as soon as the hand lets go of the tool, the tool is left to its own devices; and the movements of the hand are only expressions of the will in the person to whom it belongs. Thus, during the waking hours of daily life, the physical body must be seen as a tool of the limb of a higher being. When this higher being extends a member into the physical body, sensory activity and thus self-awareness occur in the body. When this member leaves the body, self-awareness ceases. Thus, the innermost being of the human being, which can have self-awareness, is a member of a higher being, from which it is temporarily extended and covered with the physical body. But we shall form an even better idea of this if we regard the stretching out as a severing, as if during wakefulness a drop detached itself from the higher being, and during sleep it is absorbed again. For during wakefulness man is not conscious of his connection with a higher entity; he is therefore actually cut off from it. During sleep he must lack self-consciousness, for it withdraws into the higher entity; this absorbs it; and he thus rests enclosed in it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"43. Consciousness – Life – Form","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":314,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/46/46-03-43/p014","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":null,"publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA046/English/SOL2024/46-03-43.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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Sie kann dies ja auch nur sein, weil das Selbstbewusstsein nicht an ihr beteiligt ist. Wo aber ist dieses Selbstbewusstsein während des Traumes? Es hat sich zurückgezogen in eine höhere Welt, in welcher der Mensch zunächst nicht als solcher vorhanden ist. Welches Verhältnis er zu dieser Welt hat, kann zunächst ein Vergleich klarmachen. Man denke an eine Hand des Menschen und an ein Werkzeug, das von ihr gehalten wird. Solange die Hand das Werkzeug hält, bilden beide gleichsam ein Ganzes. Das Letztere führt die Tätigkeiten aus, welche von der Ersteren bestimmt werden. Sobald aber die Hand das Werkzeug weglegt, ist dieses sich selbst überlassen; und die Bewegungen der Hand sind nur Ausdrücke des Willens im Menschen, dem sie angehört. So muss der physische Leib während des wachen Tageslebens als ein Werkzeug des Gliedes einer höheren Wesenheit angesehen werden. Streckt diese höhere Wesenheit gleichsam ein Glied in den physischen Leib hinein, so tritt in diesem die Sinnestätigkeit und damit das Selbstbewusstsein auf. Verlässt dieses Glied den Leib, so hört das Selbstbewusstsein auf. So ist die innerste Wesenheit des Menschen, die Selbstbewusstsein haben kann, ein Glied einer höheren Wesenheit, aus der es zeitweilig gewissermaßen hervorgestreckt und mit dem physischen Leibe überzogen wird. Noch besser wird man die entsprechende Vorstellung aber gestalten, wenn man das Vorstrecken zugleich als ein Abschnüren ansieht, wie wenn während des Wachens sich ein Tropfen loslöste aus dem betreffenden höheren Wesen, der während des Schlafes wieder aufgesogen wird. Denn der Mensch ist sich während des Wachens seines Zusammenhanges mit einer höheren Wesenheit nicht bewusst: er ist also von ihr tatsächlich abgeschnürt. Während des Schlafes muss ihm das Selbstbewusstsein fehlen, denn es zieht sich da in die höhere Wesenheit zurück; diese saugt es auf; und er ruht also in derselben eingeschlossen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/46/46-03-43/p014"}],"english":["GA 46/46-03-43/p014"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":306,"en_words":314,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.09,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":15368,"original_word_count":14043,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":null,"publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA046/English/SOL2024/46-03-43.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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