{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1906-12-13/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A cultivated person does not follow his urges and passions blindly; he has purified and transformed them into moral feelings and ethical ideals. When we compare a person with a savage, we realize that a Johann von Schiller,[^1] a Francis of Assisi[^2] or indeed the average civilized person has purified and transformed, through his “I,” these urges and cravings. Consequently the astral body consists of two parts, one that contains the original tendencies and another created by the “I.” We can only understand the work of the “I” on the basis of reincarnation; we must recognize that we are subject to repeated lives on earth, which means that when we are born we bring with ourselves the fruits, the outcome of earlier lives. These fruits are contained in four separate bodies as the measure of energy and forces available to a person in life. Thanks to what a person has attained already, one person will be born with strong energy and forces with which to work on the astral body, while another will soon exhaust what is available to him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. 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Nun verstehen wir die Arbeit des Ich nur dann, wenn wir uns klarmachen, daß der Mensch einer Wiederverkörperung — wiederholten Erdenleben — unterliegt; daß der Mensch, wenn er geboren wird, gleichsam in vier voneinander geteilten Leibern sich die Früchte und Ergebnisse früherer Erdenleben mitbringt, die als ein Maß für die Energie und Kraft seines Lebens da sind. Der eine Mensch wird geboren, weil er es früher dazu gebracht hat, mit viel Lebensenergie, mit starken Kräften seinen Astralleib umzugestalten. Der andere wird darin bald erlahmen. Wenn man hellsehend untersuchen kann, wie das Ich beginnt, an dem Astralleibe frei zu arbeiten, die Begierden, Triebe und Leidenschaften vom Ich aus zu beherrschen, dann könnte man, wenn man das Maß von Energie, das das Ich sich mitgebracht hat, anzugeben vermag, sagen: dieses Maß ist so groß, daß das Ich so und so lange an seiner Umgestaltung an sich arbeiten wird und nicht mehr. Und nach der Zeit der Geschlechtsreife gibt es für jeden Menschen ein solches Maß, durch das man messen kann und angeben könnte, bis wann er alles aus seinem Astralkörper herausgearbeitet hat nach den ihm in diesem Leben zugeteilten Pfunden. Was der Mensch so in seinem Gemüt an Lebenskräften umzugestalten und zu läutern vermag, erhält sich selbst. Solange dieses Maß ausreicht, lebt er auf Kosten des sich selbst erhaltenden Astralleibes. Ist er erschöpft, findet er keinen Mut mehr, neue Triebe umzugestalten, kurz, keine Energie, an sich zu arbeiten, dann reißt der Lebensfaden ab, — und er muß nach einem Maße, das jedem Menschen zuerteilt ist, einmal abreißen. Dann ist die Zeit gekommen, wo der Astralleib seine Kräfte von dem Prinzip des menschlichen Lebens nehmen muß, das ihm zunächst liegt, vom Ätherleib. 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