{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 46/46-03-43/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The stages of soul experience arise when one thinks in an internalized way about what is perceived in the states of consciousness as the external world. First, there is the dullest state of consciousness that precedes dreamless sleep. In this latter state, the soul works harmoniously on the body; its corresponding state of life is the harmonization of one's own inner being. It thus permeates itself with a world of sounding movement. Before that, in the dullest state of experience, it was in its own motionless inner being. It felt this inner being through on all sides with indiscriminate indifference. This lowest state of life is called the first elemental realm. It is an experience of matter in its original state. Matter comes into being through the most diverse directions of movement and agitation. The first level of life is the first elementary realm, which is the self-awareness of this mobility. The second level is reached when rhythm and harmony arise from these movements. The corresponding level of life is the inner awareness of rhythm as sound. This is the second elementary realm. The third stage develops when the movements transform into images. Then the soul lives in itself as in a world of images that are both formed and dissolved. This is the third elementary realm. In the fourth stage, the images take on fixed forms: a single element emerges from the changing panorama. This means that it can no longer be experienced inwardly, but perceived outwardly. This realm is the realm of the outer bodies. In this realm, one must distinguish between the form that it has for the bright day-consciousness of man and the form that it experiences in itself. The body actually experiences its form within itself, that is, the substance forming itself into regular shapes. On the next level, this mere experience of form is overcome; instead, the experience of changing form occurs. The form forms itself and transforms itself. It can be said that at this stage the third elementary realm appears in a higher form. In the third elementary realm, movement from form to form can only be experienced as an image; in this fifth realm, the image solidifies into an external object, but this external object does not die in the form, but retains its ability to change. This realm is that of growing and reproducing bodies. And its ability to transform itself is manifested in growth and reproduction. In the next realm, the ability to experience the external in its effect on the internal is added. It is the realm of sentient beings. The last realm to be considered is that which not only experiences the effect of external things within itself, but also experiences their internal reality. This is the realm of compassionate beings. 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Da hat man zunächst jenen dumpfesten Bewusstseinszustand, welcher dem traumlosen Schlafe vorangeht. In diesem Letzteren schafft die Seele harmonisierend am Leibe; ihr entsprechender Lebenszustand ist die Harmonisierung des eigenen Innern. Sie durchdringt sich also mit einer Welt tönender Bewegung. Vorher, in dem dumpfesten Erlebenszustand, war sie in einem eigenen, bewegungslosen Innern. Sie fühlte dieses Innere in unterschiedloser Gleichgültigkeit allseitig durch. Man bezeichnet diesen niedersten Lebenszustand als das erste Elementarreich. Es ist ein Erleben des Stoffes in seiner ursprünglichen Eigenschaft. Der Stoff kommt nach den verschiedensten Richtungen hin in Erregung und Bewegung. Und sein Selbsterleben dieser Beweglichkeit ist als erste Lebensstufe das erste Elementarreich. - Die zweite Stufe wird erreicht, wenn Rhythmus und Harmonie aus diesen Bewegungen wird. Die entsprechende Lebensstufe ist das innerliche Gewahrwerden des Rhythmus als Klang. Das ist das zweite Elementarreich. - Die dritte Stufe bildet sich aus, indem die Bewegungen sich zu Bildern umformen. Dann lebt die Seele in sich als in einer Welt sich gestaltender und sich wieder auflösender Bilder. Das ist das dritte Elementarreich. - Auf der vierten Stufe nehmen die Bilder feste Formen an: es tritt Einzelnes aus dem Wandelpanorama heraus. Dadurch kann es nicht mehr bloß innerlich erlebt, sondern äußerlich wahrgenommen werden. Dieses Reich ist das Reich der äußeren Leiber. Man muss in diesem Reiche unterscheiden zwischen der Gestalt, die es hat für das helle Tagesbewusstsein des Menschen, und der Gestalt, die es in sich selbst erlebt. Der Leib erlebt tatsächlich in sich seine Form, also den in regelmäßige Gestalten sich formenden Stoff. - Auf der nächsten Stufe wird dieses bloße Formerleben überwunden; es tritt dafür das Erleben des Formwandels ein. Die Gestalt bildet sich selbst und bildet sich um. Man kann sagen, dass auf dieser Stufe das dritte Elementarreich in einer höheren Gestalt erscheint. Im dritten Elementarreich kann die Bewegung von Gestalt zu Gestalt nur als Bild erlebt werden; in diesem fünften Reich geht das Bild bis zur Verfestigung im äußeren Gegenstande über, aber dieser äußere Gegenstand erstirbt nicht in der Form, sondern er behält seine Wandelfähigkeit. Dies Reich ist das [der] wachsenden und sich fortpflanzenden Leiber. Und seine Umwandlungsfähigkeit kommt eben in Wachstum und Fortpflanzung zum Vorschein. - Im nächsten Reiche tritt die Fähigkeit hinzu, das Äußere in seiner Wirkung auf das Innere zu erleben. Es ist das Reich der empfindenden Wesen. — Das letzte Reich, das in Betracht kommt, ist dasjenige, welches nicht nur die Wirkung der äußeren Dinge in sich erlebt, sondern deren Inneres miterlebt. Es ist dies das Reich der mitfühlenden Wesen. 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