{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 61/1912-03-21/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"All this will seem to be nothing but a set of assertions. However, apart from the fact that reference can be made to the methods given in my book, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, life itself can draw attention to those things. For how does a man's life take its course in face of death? If we follow up the way in which thoughts and memories arise in us, what has been said becomes evident to the soul. We can precisely and repeatedly recall our past experiences as memory-images, but we remember very little of all we have gone through in the way of feelings and sensations, and in the exertion of our will. Who would deny that, when some painful experience comes back to him in memory, he recalls the pain in his thought but without feeling over again the pain itself? Many other things there are, too, experienced in our heart and soul, which are not felt again. But they live on withal us in a different form, to the point of making themselves felt in our whole disposition, so that afterwards this is made up of everything we have experienced in pain and sorrow, or in times of joy and pleasure. Who can fail to realise, on looking with inquiring sympathy at someone of an obviously despondent, melancholic disposition, that the experiences he has gone through in heart and soul have been drawn down deep within him, there to remain, though perceptible to an observer in this particularly melancholy guise? It is the same with the sanguine man and his joyful response to life. It can be said that our experiences are divided between those we can always recall and those that remain below, working on us and ultimately appearing in the very life of our body. If we look thoroughly at this, we become convinced that our thoughts and concepts are so weak, so lacking in colour and life, because the emotional shading, the particular mood of soul pervading the thought as it was experienced at the time, has been suppressed and is working below the level of consciousness, leaving thought empty of feeling.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Nature of Eternity","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-03-21","location":null,"word_count":358,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/61/1912-03-21/p021","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2016","book_title":"Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA061/English/eLib2016/19120321p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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Aber abgesehen davon, daß auf dasjenige hingewiesen werden muß, was Sie in meinem Buche «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» als Methoden angegeben finden, kann man schon durch das gewöhnliche Leben darauf aufmerksam werden. Wie verläuft denn das gewöhnliche Leben des Menschen gegen den Tod hin? Wenn wir verfolgen, wie unsere Gedanken und Erinnerungen auftauchen, so tritt uns das vor die Seele, was auch schon gesagt worden ist. Wir erinnern uns immer wieder und wieder recht genau vorstellungsmäßig an das, was wir in der Vergangenheit erlebt haben, aber an die Gefühle und Empfindungen, an die Stärke der Willensimpulse, die wir einmal in dem erlebt haben, woran wir uns erinnern können, daran erinnern wir uns sehr wenig. Wer wüßte nicht, wenn ein schmerzhaftes Ereignis in seiner Vorstellung auftritt, daß er sich zwar gedankenmäßig an den Schmerz erinnern kann, der ihn einmal betroffen hat, daß aber auch dieser Schmerz, der damals seine Seele getroffen hat, nicht wieder heraufkommt. Auch andere Gemütserlebnisse und so weiter kommen nicht wieder herauf. Aber in anderen Formen leben sie in uns so weiter, daß sie sich in unserer Gesamtverfassung zeigen, so daß wir darnach unsere gesamte Seelenverfassung haben, je nachdem was wir in vergangenen Zeiten an Schmerz und Leid, an Freude und lustvollen Stunden erlebt haben. Wer wüßte nicht, wenn er einen Menschen prüfend, teilnahmsvoll anschaut, der eine trübselige, melancholische Gemütsverfassung zeigt, daß dessen Gemütserlebnisse hinuntergezogen sind in die Seelentiefen, nicht heraufkommen, aber dennoch unten ruhen und in der besonderen melancholischen Art für den Beobachter zum Vorschein kommen. Ebenso ist es mit einem sanguinischen Menschen, der immer seine Freude am Leben hat. Wir können sagen: Es trennt sich, was wir erlebt haben, in das, was wir immer zurückrufen können, und in das, was da unten ist und an uns arbeitet und bis in das leibliche Dasein in uns wieder erscheint. — Wenn wir dies recht überblicken, können wir uns davon überzeugen, daß unsere Gedanken und Vorstellungen deshalb so machtlos und farblos und leblos sind, weil jene kräftige Schattierung, jene eigentümliche Seelen-Nuance, welche der Gedanke im unmittelbaren Erleben erhält, in die Tiefen der Seele hinunterzieht und da unter dem Bewußtsein arbeitet. Nur der mehr oder weniger bloße Gedanke bleibt, der gefühls- und willensentblößt ist. Gefühl und Wille, die mit dem Gedanken verbunden sind, wenn wir unmittelbar im Leben stehen, senden wir hinunter in die verborgenen Seelentiefen, aber der Gedanke bleibt allein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":409,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/61/1912-03-21/p019"}],"english":["GA 61/1912-03-21/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":409,"en_words":358,"ratio":0.88,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.9,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8000,"original_word_count":8902,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2016","book_title":"Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA061/English/eLib2016/19120321p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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