{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1906-12-13/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"By investigating clairvoyantly how the “I” spontaneously begins to work on the astral body, controlling urges and cravings, and by estimating the measure of energy the “I” has brought with it, it is possible to say for how long the “I” will be able to carry out its work. After puberty, every human being has available a measure of energy according to which one can estimate when he will have transformed in his astral body all that is possible for him in this life. The life force a person manages to purify and transform in his inner nature sustains itself. As long as it lasts, a person exists at the expense of what is self-sustaining in the astral body. Once it is exhausted, an individual loses the inclination to transform his cravings further; in short, a person lacks the energy to work on the self. This is when the thread of life begins to wear out, as of necessity it must in proportion to the measure allotted each human being. It is the time when the astral body must derive its forces from the principle of life that is nearest, that is, from the ether body. The astral body now lives at the expense of the forces stored in the ether body. This comes to expression as a gradual loss of memory and creative imagination.","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. Und jetzt kommt die Zeit, wo der Astralleib auf Kosten der im AÄtherleib aufgespeicherten Kraft lebt; der Ausdruck dafür ist für den Menschen da, wenn sein Gedächtnis, seine produktive Einbildungskraft allmählich schwindet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":392,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1906-12-13/p017"}],"english":["GA 55/1906-12-13/p021","GA 55/1906-12-13/p022"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":392,"en_words":405,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 55/1906-12-13/p017"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.93,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4576,"original_word_count":4907,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19061213p02.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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