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One must also consider how to become an unselfish person using the means of the physical life, because one no longer has the opportunity in the spiritual world to become unselfish, because there one arrives at the strengthening of the soul life. That is only an apparent contradiction. Even when we enter the spiritual world, even when we go through the gate of death into the spiritual world, we must live there with what is present as strength in our inner being. But we cannot achieve this, if we cannot achieve this through selfless life in the physical world. Selflessness in the physical worlds is mirrored as the correct selfishness that raises value in the spiritual world. We can see how difficult the concepts become, as we near the spiritual world. But now one sees at the same time, what human life can involve. So now let us assume that a human being comes through birth into physical being. In that case, it means, that if that being that was in the spirit world before birth or conception, between the last death and the present birth, is clothed in the physical body, then the possibility is present that the person with this, which must at the same time be the life force of the spirit world, pulls through to its physical body unjustifiably; that the soul strays into the bodily, in that it brings down into the physical world that which is good in the spirit world. Then, what is good in the spirit world becomes evil, becomes wickedness in the physical world! That is a significant secret of existence, that a human can bring down what it necessarily needs in order to be a spiritual being, what in a certain sense can be portrayed as its highest being for its spiritual being, into the physical world, and that its highest and best spiritual nature can become the deepest error in the physical sense world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":457,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-01-15/p030","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-01-15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p032","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p032"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p033","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p033"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 63/1914-01-15/p032","GA 63/1914-01-15/p033"],"length_check":{"de_words":428,"en_words":457,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Was nun in der physisch-sinnlichen Welt als Egoismus hervortritt, das muß erkraftet werden, muß intensiver gemacht werden, wenn der Mensch in die geistige Welt hinaufsteigt. Denn nur die in sich erstarkte Seele, welche die Kräfte in sich erstarkt, die die ihrigen sind, die in ihrem Ego, in ihrem Ich wurzeln, nur diese Seele kommt in die geistigen Welten hinauf. Gerade das muß auf dem Wege in die geistigen Welten hinauf verstärkt werden, was der Mensch ablegen muß, der sich moralische Prinzipien für die physische Welt aneignen will. Ein bedeutender Mystiker hat den Ausspruch getan:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p024"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"> Wenn die Rose selbst sich schmückt,  \n> schmückt sie auch den Garten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":13,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p025"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Es ist dies gewiß innerhalb gewisser Grenzen richtig. Aber im Menschenleben würde dennoch der Egoismus auch hervortreten, wenn die Menschenseele sich nur als «Rose» betrachtete, die selbst sich schmückt. Für die geistige Welt aber gilt das vollkommen. In der geistigen Welt ist in einem höheren Maße das vorhanden, was in dem Ausspruche liegt: «Wenn die Rose selbst sich schmückt, schmückt sie auch den Garten». Wenn die Seele in die geistige Welt hinaufkommt, ist sie dort ein dienendes Glied um so mehr, je mehr sie in sich erstarkt ist und das herausgearbeitet hat, was in ihrer inneren Fülle liegt. Wie man ein Instrument nicht gebrauchen kann, das nicht vollkommen ist, so kann sich die Seele selbst nicht brauchen, die nicht alles aus ihrem Ich, aus ihrem Ego herausgetrieben hat, was in ihr liegt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":132,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p026"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Aus dieser Gegenüberstellung, die uns von aller Phrase hinwegführt und hineinführt in den Tatsachenbestand, der nicht verhehlt werden soll, sehen wir zunächst, daß diese Welt des Geistigen der Welt des Physisch-Sinnlichen so gegenübersteht, daß die letztere gegenüber der ersteren ihre volle Aufgabe haben muß. Könnte der Mensch nur in der geistigen Welt leben, so würde er, weil das Gesetz gelten muß: «Wenn die Rose selbst sich schmückt, schmückt sie auch den Garten», nur die inneren Fähigkeiten entwickeln können; er könnte nicht jene Fähigkeiten entwickeln, die ihn als Altruisten mit den Menschen, mit der weiten Welt zusammenbringen. Die Stätte müssen wir gerade in der physischen Welt finden, die uns den Egoismus überwinden läßt. Wir sind nicht umsonst in der Welt zum Altruismus verpflichtet, sondern deshalb, daß wir uns den Egoismus gründlich aberziehen, wenn ich dieses triviale Wort gebrauchen darf.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p027"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Dasselbe nun, was der Geistesforscher als das Maßgebende findet, nämlich die Erstarkung seiner Seele zum Hinaufgehen in die geistige Welt, das ist auch das Maßgebende, wenn der Mensch durch die Pforte des Todes auf naturgemäße Weise in diejenige Welt eintritt, welche zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt liegt. Da versetzen wir uns in jene Welt, die eben der Geistesforscher durch seine Seelenentwickelung erreicht. Da hinein müssen wir daher diejenigen Eigenschaften bringen, welche die Seele innerlich stark erscheinen lassen, welche innerhalb der Seele den Satz bewahrheiten: «Wenn die Rose selbst sich schmückt,schmückt sie auch den Garten». In dem Augenblick, wo wir durch die Pforte des Todes gehen, treten wir in eine Welt ein, in welcher es auf höchste Erhöhung und Erkraftung unseres Ich ankommt. Was wir in dieser Welt zu tun haben, werden wir in dem Vortrage «Zwischen Tod und Wiedergeburt des Menschen» hören. Jetzt soll nur darauf hingedeutet werden, daß es in dieser geistigen Welt im wesentlichen darauf ankommt, daß sich die Seele dazu anschickt, um nach Maßgabe dessen, was sie in früheren Erdenleben erlebt hat, sich die folgenden zu zimmern. Sie muß, wie es ihrem Schicksale entspricht, vorzugsweise zwischen dem Tode und der neuen Geburt in der geistigen Welt mit sich selbst beschäftigt sein. Wenn wir so die menschliche Seele betrachten, dann erscheint sie uns von diesen zwei Gesichtspunkten aus folgendermaßen. Sie erscheint uns in ihrer Bedeutung für die physisch-sinnliche Welt so, daß diese für sie die große Lehrstätte ist, wo sie aus sich herausgehen muß, wo Egoismus sich in Altruismus verwandeln kann, so daß sie etwas wird für den weiten Umkreis des Daseins. Und die Welt zwischen dem Tode und der nächsten Geburt erscheint uns als diejenige, in welcher die Seele in sich erkraftet leben muß, und für welche die Seele gerade wertlos sein würde, wenn sie in diese Welt schwach und nicht erkraftet eintreten würde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":309,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p028"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Was folgt daraus, daß die Seele diese zwei Wesenszüge hat?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":10,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p029"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Es folgt daraus, daß sich der Mensch in der Tat wohl hüten muß, dasjenige, was auf dem einen Felde, in der einen Welt ein Vorzügliches ist, nämlich die Erhöhung des Seeleninnern,in der anderen Welt zu etwas anderem anzuwenden als höchstens auch zur Erreichung der geistigen Welt; daß es aber vom Übel sein muß und in das Schlimmere umschlägt, wenn der Mensch das, was hier in der physisch-sinnlichen Welt sich als sein Wesen ausleben muß, von dem durchdringen läßt, was ihm gerade im Reich des Geistes zur würdigen Bereitung dient. Gerade deshalb müssen wir stark sein im Geistigen zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt, in der Erstarkung und Erkraftung unseres Ich, daß wir uns ein solches physisch-sinnliches Dasein vorbereiten, das im äußeren Dasein, in den Taten und Gedanken der physischen Welt möglichst unegoistisch ist. Wir müssen unseren Egoismus vor unserer Geburt in der geistigen Welt dazu verwenden, um uns so selbst zu bearbeiten, müssen so auf uns selbst hinschauen, daß wir in der physischen Welt selbstlos, das heißt moralisch werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p030"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Hier an diesem Punkte liegt alles, was man nennen kann das Wertvollste für den, der in die geistige Welt vordringen will. In der Tat muß man sich klar sein, daß man sein Böses und Unvollkommenes nicht umsonst wie sein Schattenbild sieht, wenn man in der geistigen Welt ist. Das ist es, was uns zeigt, wie wir mit der Sinneswelt verbunden bleiben müssen, wie unser Karma, unser Schicksal uns an die Sinneswelt binden muß, bis wir es in der geistigen Welt so weit gebracht haben, daß wir nicht nur mit uns allein, sondern mit der ganzen Welt leben können. Es zeigt sich, wie es vom Übel ist, dasjenige, was im geistigen Fortschritt das Wesentliche ist, nämlich Selbstvervollkommnung, unmittelbar auf die Dinge des äußeren Lebens anzuwenden. Geistigen Fortschritt zu suchen ist nicht etwas, wovon wir uns abhalten lassen können. Das ist vielmehr unsere Pflicht. Und Pflicht ist für den Menschen die Entwickelung, die für alle übrigen Lebewesen Gesetz ist. Aber vom Übel ist es, das, was für die geistige Entwickelung ziemt, unmittelbar auf das äußere Leben anzuwenden. Diese beiden, äußeres physisches Leben mit seiner Moralität, müssen sich notwendigerweise wie eine zweite Welt hinstellen neben das, was die Seele innerlich anstrebt, wenn sie sich der geistigen Welt nähern will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":206,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p031"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Nun liegt aber etwas vor, was wiederum wie ein Widerspruch erscheinen könnte. Aber man möchte sagen: von solchen lebendigen Widersprüchen lebt die Welt. Es mußte betont werden: man muß sich in der Seele erkraften; gerade das Ego, das Ich müsse stärker werden, um in die geistige Welt einzudringen. Aber wenn man nun bei seinem geistigen Aufstieg nur den Egoismus entwickeln wollte, so würde man nicht weit kommen. Was heißt das aber? Es heißt: man muß schon ohne den Egoismus in die geistige Welt eintreten; respektive man kann nicht ohne den Egoismus eintreten — was wehmütig jeder bekennen muß, der in die geistige Welt hineinkommt -, so muß man alles Egoistische so objektiv vor sich haben, daß man es als sein Egoistisches, mit dem man verbunden ist in der äußeren Welt, schaut. Man muß also ein unegoistischer Mensch zu werden trachten mit den Mitteln des physischen Lebens, weil man in der geistigen Welt nicht mehr Gelegenheit hat, unegoistisch zu werden, weil es dort auf die Erkraftung des seelischen Lebens ankommt. Das ist der nur scheinbare Widerspruch. Wir müssen in der geistigen Welt, auch wenn wir durch die Pforte des Todes in die geistige Welt schreiten, dort mit dem leben, was in unserem Inneren an Stärke vorhanden ist. Aber wir können diese nicht erlangen, wenn wir sie nicht erlangen durch das altruistische Leben in der physischen Welt. Altruismus in der physischen Welt spiegelt sich als der richtige, den Wert erhöhende Egoismus der geistigen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":242,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p032"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Wir sehen, wie schwierig die Begriffe werden, wenn man sich der geistigen Welt nähert. Aber jetztsiehtman zugleich, um was es sich im menschlichen Leben handeln kann. Denn nehmen wir nun an, der Mensch trete durch die Geburt ins physische Dasein. In diesem Falle, das heißt, wenn er das Wesen, das er in der geistigen Welt vor der Geburt oder der Empfängnis, zwischen dem letzten Tode und der jetzigen Geburt, war, umkleidet mit dem physischen Leib, so ist die Möglichkeit vorhanden, daß er mit dem, was gleichsam Lebenskraft der geistigen Welt sein muß, ungerechtfertigterweise sein Physisch-Leibliches durchzieht; daß sich der Geist verirrt im Leiblichen, indem er das, was gut ist in der geistigen Welt, herunterträgt in die physische Welt. Dann wird, was gut ist in der geistigen Welt, zum Übel, zum Bösen in der physischen Welt! Das ist ein bedeutsames Geheimnis des Daseins, daß der Mensch das, was er notwendig braucht, um ein geistiges Wesen zu sein, was gewissermaßen sein Höchstes darstellt für sein geistiges Wesen, heruntertragen kann in die physische Welt, und daß sein höchstes, sein bestes Geistiges sogar die tiefste Verirrung werden kann im Physisch-Sinnlichen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p033"}],"beads":[{"from":[21],"to":[24],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[22],"to":[25],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[23],"to":[26],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[24],"to":[27],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[25,26],"to":[28],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[27],"to":[29],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[28],"to":[30],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[29],"to":[31],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[30],"to":[32,33],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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