{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-02-28/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"After the ether body has dissolved, the astral body still remains. An individual now passes through a condition during which he gradually adjusts to being without a physical environment. We must realize that everything a person has experienced as lower enjoyment clings to the astral body. The physical body has no cravings; it experiences no pleasure, but is the instrument that enables the astral body to obtain enjoyment. Take the case of a gourmet. It is not the physical body that enjoys the food, but the astral body that uses the physical body as a tool to enjoy it. The craving remains after the physical body is laid aside, but now the tool for obtaining satisfaction is lacking. This indicates the nature of the astral body's existence after death, comparable to someone suffering thirst in a region for the length and breadth of which there is no water. Instincts, cravings and passions are now felt by the astral body as burning thirst, not because the objects of its desires are not there, but because the organs are lacking through which satisfaction can be obtained. That is why religion speaks of the ordeal by fire that human beings undergo after death.","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":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-02-28/p009","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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Das ist mit dem Lebensleib ebenfalls verbunden, und das gibt dem physischen Leibe gerade die menschliche Form. Dann geht der Mensch durch einen Zustand durch, in dem er sich allmählich den Zusammenhang mit der physischen Welt abgewöhnt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-02-28/p008"},{"locus":"GA 55/1907-02-28/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Jetzt ist nach dem Tode noch der Astralleib des Menschen da. Um uns klarzumachen, welches Leben jetzt der Astralleib führt, stellen wir uns vor: alles, was der Mensch auch an den niedrigsten Genüssen erlebt, bleibt an seinem Astralleib haften. Der physische Leib fühlt nicht die Freude und hat keine Begierden; er ist das Werkzeug des Astralleibes, und der hat daran seine Freude und seinen Genuß. Wenn wir zum Beispiel einen Feinschmecker vor uns haben, so hat nicht sein physischer Leib Genuß an den Genußmitteln, sondern der Astralleib empfindet ihn, indem er sich des physischen Werkzeuges zum Genuß bedient. Die Sucht zu genießen bleibt auch, wenn er den physischen Leib abgelegt hat; nur die Werkzeuge fehlen jetzt. Daraus ersehen Sie die Natur des Astralleibes, wie der jetzt nach dem Tode lebt. Es ist so, wie wenn Sie durch eine Gegend gehen, lechzend vor Durst, aber diesen Durst nicht befriedigen können, weil weit und breit keine Quelle ist. In ähnlicher Weise empfindet der Astralleib aus einem guten Grunde Begierden, Genußsucht, Affekte, die er früher gehabt hat, als einen brennenden Durst — nicht weil die Dinge nicht da sind, sondern weil ihm die Organe fehlen, um den Genuß zu befriedigen. 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