{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 54/1906-02-15/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Not only the ability to see clairvoyantly into the world, but even the intellect could teach those who think more deeply what must happen. The human being is now disembodied, he has no physical body. But what has he done throughout his life? Throughout his life, he has used his sense of taste to obtain the pleasures of eating. This pleasure of eating, the deliciousness of food, the enjoyment of the palate, is spiritual. The palate itself is physical. If humans did not have the physical, they could not obtain spiritual enjoyment. If they did not have physical ears, they could not hear; if they did not have physical eyes, they could not see. Everything we perceive, we first perceive with our physical senses. Modern humans cannot perceive anything without their physical senses. They are bound to them and accustomed to them. They are accustomed to satisfying desires that can be satisfied through the sensory organs. The habit of having desires, of having pleasures, remains, but the means by which they can satisfy them fall away; the tongue, eyes, and ears fall away. They are no longer there. Now, after death, they are missing. They still crave the pleasure that can only be obtained and satisfied through the sensory organs. The consequence of this is that after death, humans enter a state of consciousness that essentially consists of weaning themselves off being satisfied only through the sensory organs. The soul must wean itself from the desire for sensual satisfaction, must purify itself of what satisfied it on earth and can only be satisfied through sensual, physical means. This is called Kamaloka in the theosophical worldview. It lives in the form of purgatory, the fire of purification in our world. What a person experiences there can be aptly compared to a burning thirst, a kind of burning deprivation. Such is the state after death. Sensually and physically, the corresponding means are not there after death; the organ through which the thirsty soul can be satisfied is not there. When a soul has weaned itself from this connection with the physical in the course of years in Kamaloka, it lives in the spiritual world to which it belongs as a soul. And it takes this with it into the spiritual world. The spiritual scientific worldview calls this spiritual world Devachan or the spirit world. What does the soul take with it? Its purified desires and passions. These are now spiritualized and purified from the physical. When a person was incarnated on earth, they take what they have conquered with them to Devachan and process it there for a new earthly incarnation. It must become a life force from an experience they have had. It is not enough for a person to have an experience. Consider carefully the difference between experience and life force. When an undeveloped soul learns through consequence that it is impossible to devour one's fellow human beings without putting oneself in danger and harm, when this comes before the soul as experience, then this is the experience that must be transformed into force, so that an inner voice is present: You must not devour a human being. — Then it becomes will, the voice of conscience, which will become more and more perfect the more incarnations we have gone through. Experience is transformed into will, into the voice of conscience, in the course of incarnations. And now you know what man does in Devachan. In Kamaloka, they purify themselves; in Devachan, they transform the experiences they have had into strength for their next life on earth, in order to appear as a powerful, inner, individual nature. That is why you can see when an undeveloped soul appears in the wild; it can be recognized in their gestures and facial features, in their hand movements, as something generic. The more incarnations one has gone through, the more the individual emerges. And what is it that is developed? 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