{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now there is something present however, that could appear to be a contradiction. But one would like to say, the world lives in such living paradoxes. It must be said: one must strengthen oneself in the soul; precisely the ego, the I must become stronger in order to penetrate into the spiritual world. But if a spiritual step up were only to develop selfishness, then it would not get very far. But what does that mean? It means: one must enter into the spirit world without selfishness; or rather that one cannot enter without selfishness—which each of us who enters into the spiritual world must painfully acknowledge, so one must have all selfishness so objectively before one, that one sees one's own selfishness, to which one is bound in the outer world. 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,"title":"7. Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-01-15","location":null,"word_count":457,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-01-15/p030","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA063/English/eLib2015/19140115p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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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"}],"english":["GA 63/1914-01-15/p030"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":428,"en_words":457,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 63/1914-01-15/p032","GA 63/1914-01-15/p033"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10981,"original_word_count":10241,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA063/English/eLib2015/19140115p02.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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