{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 46/46-03-43/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When dreamless sleep sets in, the world of images disappears. The physical body appears to lie there completely unconscious; in reality, however, its state of consciousness is only one that is even duller than in dream-filled sleep. The power that generates images has also left the physical body. Therefore, only the insights of the awakened can provide enlightenment about this state. The unawakened lack the perceptions about it. For the awakened, however, the image-generating body, which was previously loosely connected to the physical body, appears to be lifted out of it. And it is now not inactive, but has the task of restoring the physical body's energies, which are showing signs of exhaustion due to fatigue, to their proper strength. This explains the refreshing effect of healthy sleep. The physical body sinks into sleep exhausted. In this moment it surrenders its self-awareness to higher beings. In the intermediate state of dream sleep, the soul still remains in a loose connection with the physical body. The characteristic of this soul is its creativity. With the moment of waking up, it begins to apply its creative power to processing the perceptions mediated by the senses into the human inner life. At the moment of falling asleep, external sensory perceptions cease. In the intermediate state of dreaming, the creative process is still shaping itself into the symbols described; then these symbols also fall away; the soul applies its entire creative power to the body, which it now works on from the outside. - Anyone who wants to disregard the communications of esoteric science could, from the fact of refreshing himself in the morning upon awakening, see what characterizes the soul's nocturnal activity. The life of the day has something disharmonious and chaotic about it. The things of the physical environment affect people from all sides. Sometimes this, sometimes that, finds its way into their inner being. This disrupts the inner formative forces, which are accorded by their original nature. During the night, this is balanced out again. The soul restores order and harmony. During the waking life, the physical body gradually looks like an air mass, which is permeated on all sides by wind currents, and whose parts move in an irregular manner. When we awaken, however, it can be compared to an air mass that is set into regular vibrations by the rhythm and harmony of a piece of music. And in fact, for the initiate, the soul's work on the body during sleep appears as a resounding of the two. During sleep, the human being immerses himself in the harmony of the soul's life. And this is the same harmony from which he was formed. Before the physical body first opened itself up to the outer world through the sense organs, it was completely under the influence of this harmony, which structured it. This harmony permeates the whole world as the harmony of the soul. Man is surrounded by its sounds just as he is surrounded by the images described above. Just as this world of images becomes perceptible to the awakened one through schooling as his real environment, so too, on a still higher level, this third world. It begins to resound and resound around him. And in these tones, the meaning of the world reveals itself to him. Just as the form of the physical world arose out of the images, so these forms received their inner meaning and essence from the sounds described. From this point of view, all things are sounds that have become form.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"43. 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Scheinbar liegt nun der physische Leib ganz bewusstlos da; in Wahrheit ist aber sein Bewusstseinszustand nur ein noch dumpferer als im traumerfüllten Schlaf. Es ist auch die [bildererzeugende] Kraft aus dem physischen Leib ausgetreten. Daher können nur die Einsichten des Erweckten Aufklärung über diesen Zustand bringen. Dem Nichterweckten fehlen die Wahrnehmungen über denselben. Für den Erweckten aber erscheint der bildererzeugende Leib, der vorher mit dem physischen noch locker verbunden war, aus demselben herausgehoben. Und er ist jetzt nicht tatenlos, sondern er hat die Aufgabe, die durch Ermüdung sich als erschöpft darstellenden Kräfte des physischen Leibes wieder in der angemessenen Stärke herzustellen. Das Erfrischende eines gesunden Schlafes erklärt sich dadurch. Ermattet sinkt der physische Leib in Schlaf. Sein Selbstbewusstsein gibt er in diesem Augenblicke an höhere Wesen ab. In dem Zwischenzustand des Traumschlafes bleibt die Seele noch in einer losen Verbindung mit dem physischen Leib. Das Charakteristische dieser Seele ist ihr Schöpferisches. Sie beginnt mit dem Augenblicke des Aufwachens ihre schöpferische Kraft darauf zu wenden, dass sie die durch die Sinne vermittelnden Wahrnehmungen zum menschlichen Innenleben verarbeitet. Im Momente des Einschlafens fallen die äußeren Sinneswahrnehmungen weg. Im Zwischenzustand des Träumens gestaltet sich das Schöpferische noch zu den geschilderten Sinnbildern um; dann fallen auch diese Sinnbilder weg; die Seele wendet ihre ganze Schöpferkraft auf den Leib, den sie nun von außen bearbeitet. - Wer ganz von den Mitteilungen der Geheimwissenschaft absehen wollte, der könnte schon aus der Tatsache der Erfrischung am Morgen beim Erwachen entnehmen, wodurch sich die nächtliche Tätigkeit der Seele kennzeichnet. Das Leben des Tages hat etwas Unharmonisches, Chaotisches. Von allen Seiten wirken die Dinge der physischen Umgebung auf den Menschen. Bald findet dies, bald jenes Einlass in sein Inneres. Das bringt die inneren Bildungskräfte außer die Ordnung, die ihnen durch ihre ursprüngliche Natur zukommt. In der Nacht wird das wieder ausgeglichen. Die Seele stellt die Ordnung und Harmonie her. Durch das Tagesleben sieht allmählich der physische Leib aus wie eine Luftmasse, welche von allen Seiten von Windströmungen durchzogen wird, und deren Teile sich in unregelmäßiger Art durcheinanderbewegen. Beim Erwachen aber ist er einer solchen Luftmasse zu vergleichen, die von dem Rhythmus und der Harmonie eines Musikstückes in regelmäßige Schwingungen versetzt ist. Und in der Tat stellt sich die Arbeit der Seele am Leibe während des Schlafes für den Eingeweihten wie ein Durchtönen desselben dar. Der Mensch taucht während des Schlafes unter in die Harmonie des Seelenlebens. Und es ist dies dieselbe Harmonie, aus welcher er herausgebildet worden ist. Bevor sich der physische Leib zum ersten Male durch die Sinnesorgane der Außenwelt aufgeschlossen hat, stand er ganz unter dem Einflusse dieser Harmonie, die ihn gegliedert hat. Diese Harmonie durchzieht als Seelenharmonie, als Seelentönen die ganze Welt. Der Mensch ist von ihren Klängen so umgeben, wie er von den vorhin geschilderten Bildern umgeben ist. Wie dem Erweckten durch die Schulung diese Bilderwelt als wirkliche Umgebung wahrnehmbar wird, so auf einer noch höheren Stufe diese dritte Welt. Es fängt um ihn herum an zu klingen und zu tönen. Und in diesen Tönen erschließt sich ihm der Sinn der Welt. Wie die Form der physischen Welt aus den Bildern heraus entstanden ist, so erhielten diese Formen ihre innere Bedeutung und Wesenheit aus den geschilderten Tönen heraus. 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