{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-02-28/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us remind ourselves that at death the human being leaves behind only the physical corpse. The main difference between death and sleep is that the human being asleep possesses a physical and an etheric body; only the astral body and what we call “I” are lifted out. Just as an architect is needed to create a building, as the bricks do not come together of themselves, so do the physical forces need the ether body as an inner architect. The ether body holds together the physical matter and forces from birth to death. At every moment it prevents the chemical combinations from falling apart. But at death it leaves the physical body, which consequently is left behind as the decaying corpse. Thus, in sleep it is only the “I” and astral body, the bearer of pleasure and pain, cravings and sentiments, that leaves, whereas in death the ether body also leaves and remains with the astral body and the “I” for a short time. This is an important moment in a person's existence. During that short time there passes before the human soul with lightning speed a mighty memory tableau of his whole past life. This tableau is like a painting, and just as we do not feel the stab of the dagger depicted in a painting, so do we not experience either pleasure or pain in what the tableau portrays. We stand before our past life as objective observer.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-02-28","location":null,"word_count":241,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-02-28/p007","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/AP1987/19070228p01.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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Der wesentliche Unterschied zwischen Tod und Schlaf ist der, daß der Mensch im Schlafe im Bette liegen hat den physischen und den Ätherleib, und daß nur herausgeholt ist der Astralleib und das, was wir das Ich nennen. Ebenso wie die Ziegelsteine nicht von selbst zum Palast zusammenlaufen, so brauchen die physischen Kräfte den Ätherleib als inneren Architekten. Er ist mit dem Menschen verbunden und erhält von der Geburt bis zum Tode den Zusammenhang der physischen Stoffe und Kräfte; er rettet jeden Augenblick die chemische Mischung vor dem Verfall. Im Tode hebt er sich jetzt wirklich heraus, und daher bleibt der physische Teil als der verfallende Leichnam zurück. Im Schlafe also geht nur der Astralleib, als der Träger von Lust und Leid, Begierden und Affekten, und dazu das Ich aus dem physischen Leib heraus; im Tode trennt sich nun noch der Ätherleib heraus und ist eine Weile mit dem Astralleib und dem Ich zusammen. Dies ist ein wichtiger Augenblick im Dasein des Menschen. In diesem Augenblick geht an der menschlichen Seele blitzschnell die Erinnerung an das ganze bisherige Erdenleben vorüber, von der Geburt bis zum Tode, wie ein großes Tableau. Dieses Tableau stellt sich wie ein Gemälde dar. Alles, was uns mit Lust und Leid verknüpft hat, das empfinden wir in diesem Augenblicke nicht. Wie wir bei einem Gemälde nicht den Dolchstich fühlen, so fühlen wir auch dabei nicht all den Schmerz und all das Leid, die Lust oder Freude, die da an uns vorübergleiten. Wie objektive Betrachter stehen wir da dem verflossenen Leben gegenüber.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-02-28/p007"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-02-28/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":268,"en_words":241,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.91,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4366,"original_word_count":4806,"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/AP1987/19070228p01.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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