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And this different relationship of the soul to the body, as opposed to what is the case in waking life, is connected with the invocation of healing forces. Spiritual research, as we have seen, calls upon the spiritual-soul aspect of the human being to become free from the physical, from the bodily — for there is no other way to investigate the spiritual-soul aspect. Everything that the spiritual researcher investigates is investigated outside the physical body. When he puts what he has investigated into concepts and words, and when the human soul truly acquires an understanding of what he has to say, then a very special influence will be exerted on this soul, which is not itself engaged in spiritual research, but only responds with understanding to the messages conveyed. This soul will strive inwardly to summon those powers that can be called powers of understanding for the results of spiritual research. These are powers that are more or less independent of the physical body. By bringing to understanding what the senses offer us, what the mind offers us, which is bound to the brain, we remain dependent on our physicality even with this understanding, we strain the body, wear it out, let our activity run its course in the whole sphere from which illness also comes. If, on the other hand, we use our understanding — but our living understanding — to enter into what spiritual science offers, we live and weave in the sphere of healthy forces.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-04-23/p014","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","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/eLib2015/19140423p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 63/1914-04-23/p014"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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But it must be said in response: it is not by engaging with the results of spiritual science in the same way as one engages with other sciences or with ordinary life that one penetrates into it. What I called “homunculus” in the last lecture can be developed just as well in spiritual science as in other sciences. If one wants to understand spiritual science in the same way as one wants to understand the results of ordinary sciences, then one does not have the right relationship to it. Spiritual science arises from spiritual research, from the spiritual life of the spiritual researcher, from continuous activity; and the understanding that is brought to it appeals only to a very small extent to the fatigue of the physical body, that is, to what the usual powers of cognition of ordinary life appeal to. As a result, however, truth itself must become something like a living being, both for the spiritual researcher and for the believer and understander of spiritual science. And so it does. Whereas truth is otherwise received as a sum of judgments, as something that is merely thought, spiritual science is received as something that permeates the soul like spiritual blood, something that enlivens it from within. One receives truth as a sum of spiritual living beings; one feels as if one is permeated by living existence through spiritual science when one truly understands it. But then it actually has a healthy effect, a healing effect even on the physical body. And just as sleep, during which the soul is also outside the physical body, can truly be called a remedy for many illnesses, so too can spiritual science be called such a remedy. However, it can only be called a remedy by those who are willing to understand the following important point.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":367,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-04-23/p015","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","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/eLib2015/19140423p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 63/1914-04-23/p015"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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Certainly, spiritual science will also reveal what real, concrete remedies are; but one must understand that it does not only want to indicate this or that remedy, but that it gives itself above all. Only it is not always accepted with understanding. What spiritual science can say when asked for a method of healing is the answer: Take me myself, then you will feel my healing powers! But this is inconvenient for some who are often looking for something completely different. — Of course, it would be trivial to object that spiritual science could not help some who were engaged in it and who died early or were afflicted by this or that illness. For one would first have to prove the opposite: that someone who, with the help of spiritual science, lived to the age of 45 would perhaps have lived only to the age of 35 or 40 without it. Methods of refutation are often not so easy.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":218,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-04-23/p016","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","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/eLib2015/19140423p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 63/1914-04-23/p016"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. 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Spiritual science, either through what it is in itself or what it is able to give, provides human beings with forces that they do not already have within themselves, that are not already present in their predispositions; it opens up a higher source of healing for human beings than ordinary, normal life can provide, even with the best sleep. And what can radiate from the soul in a healing way, as it were, through a living immersion in spiritual science, can be compared to what ordinary medical science can do, by saying: Even conventional medicine can basically only call upon those healing powers for human recovery that are already within the human being, but are suppressed by opposing forces. Spiritual science, on the other hand, brings new forces into effect in the human being, forces that are only just developing, that are not yet predisposed; it appeals not only to the human being as a microcosm, but to the connection of the human being as a microcosm with the great spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-04-23/p017","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","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/eLib2015/19140423p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 63/1914-04-23/p017"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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Und dieses andersartige Verhältnis der Seele zum Leibe, als es im Wachsein der Fall ist, hängt zusammen mit der Aufrufung von gesundenden Kräften. Die Geistesforschung ruft nun, wie wir gesehen haben, das Geistig-Seelische des Menschen auf, frei vom Leiblichen, vom Physischen zu werden — denn anders kann man nicht Geistig-Seelisches erforschen. Alles, was der Geistesforscher erforscht, wird außerhalb vom physischen Leibe erforscht. Wenn er das so Erforschte in Begriffe und Worte bringt, und wenn die Menschenseele sich wirklich ein Verständnis für das erwirbt, was er zu sagen hat, dann wird sich auf diese Seele, die nicht selbst geistesforschend ist, sondern nur verständnisvoll den gemachten Mitteilungen entgegenkommt, ein ganz besonderer Einfluß geltend machen. Diese Seele wird sich innerlich bemühen, jene Kräfte aufzurufen, die man nennen kann Verständniskräfte für die Ergebnisse der Geistesforschung. Das sind Kräfte, die mehr oder weniger unabhängig von dem physischen Leibe sind. Indem wir das, was die Sinne uns bieten, was der Verstand uns bietet, der sich an das Gehirn bindet, uns zum Verständnis bringen, bleiben wir auch mit diesem Verständnis abhängig von unserer Leiblichkeit, strengen den Leib an, nutzen ihn ab, lassen unsere Tätigkeit verlaufen in der ganzen Sphäre, aus welcher auch das Erkranken kommt. Versetzen wir uns dagegen mit unserm Verständnis — aber mit unserm lebendigen Verständnis — in das, was die Geisteswissenschaft darbietet, so leben und weben wir in der Sphäre der gesunden Kräfte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":284,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-04-23/p014"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-04-23/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Wenn dies leicht geleugnet werden kann, selbstverständlich: «leicht», und wenn gesagt werden kann: nun, man kennt ja viele Leute, die sich mit den Ergebnissen der Geisteswissenschaft befassen und durchaus nicht einen solchen Eindruck machen, als ob sie im Felde der Gesundungskräfte leben, so kann dergleichen ganz berechtigt sein. Es soll durchaus nicht als unberechtigt hingestellt werden. Aber es muß dagegen gesagt werden: Nicht dadurch, daß man in derselben Weise, wie man sich mit anderen Wissenschaften oder mit dem gewöhnlichen Leben beschäftigt, sich auch mit den Ergebnissen der Geisteswissenschaft befaßt, dringt man in diese ein. Was ich im letzten Vortrage das «Homunkeltum» genannt habe, kann man ebensogut wie in andern Wissenschaften auch in der Geisteswissenschaft entfalten. Wenn man Geisteswissenschaft ebenso begreifen will, wie man sonst die Ergebnisse der gewöhnlichen Wissenschaften verstehen will, dann hat man zu ihr nicht das rechte Verhältnis. Geisteswissenschaft kommt heraus aus der Geistesforschung, aus dem geistigen Leben des Geistesforschers, aus einem fortwährenden Tätigsein; und das Verständnis, das ihr entgegengebracht wird, appelliert nur zum geringsten Teile an das Ermüden des physischen Leibes, das heißt an das, woran die gebräuchlichen Erkenntniskräfte des gewöhnlichen Lebens appellieren. Dadurch muß aber die Wahrheit selber, sowohl für den Geistesforscher wie auch für den Bekenner und Versteher der Geisteswissenschaft, etwas werden wie ein lebendiges Wesen. Das wird es auch. Während man sonst die Wahrheit empfängt wie eine Summe von Urteilen, wie etwas, das man eben bloß denkt, empfängt man Geisteswissenschaft wie etwas, was die Seele wie ein geistiges Blut durchzieht, was sie innerlich belebt. Man empfängt die Wahrheit wie eine Summe von geistigen lebendigen Wesen; man fühlt sich wie von lebendigem Dasein durch die Geisteswissenschaft durchdrungen, wenn man ihr wirklich Verständnis entgegenbringt. Dann aber wirkt sie tatsächlich gesund, wirkt gesundend bis in den physischen Leib hinein. Und wie der Schlaf, währenddessen die Seele ja auch außerhalb des physischen Leibes ist, im wahren Sinne des Wortes ein Heilmittel gegen manches Kranksein genannt werden kann, so kann auch die Geisteswissenschaft als ein solches Heilmittel genannt werden. Sie kann ein Heilmittel genannt werden allerdings nur von denen, die folgendes wohl verstehen wollen, das wichtig ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":348,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-04-23/p015"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-04-23/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Es ist begreiflich: man wird ebenso, wie man an die äußere ärztliche Wissenschaft oder Kunst herankommt, auch an die Geisteswissenschaft herankommen, weil man dieselben Denkgewohnheiten beibehält. Oft auch, wenn man in sie eindringen will, wird man sagen: Was für ein Heilmittel hast du für diese Krankheit, welches für jene? Und oft wird von der Geisteswissenschaft die Angabe von Heilmitteln gefordert. Gewiß, die Geisteswissenschaft wird auch zutage fördern, was wirkliche konkrete Heilmittel sind; aber man muß verstehen, daß sie nicht nur dieses oder jenes Heilmittel angeben will, sondern daß sie vor allem sich gibt. Nur wird sie nicht immer mit Verständnis hingenommen. Was die Geisteswissenschaft sagen kann, wenn man nach einer Heilmethode fragt, ist die Antwort: Nimm mich selber, dann wirst du meine heilenden Kräfte verspüren! Aber das ist unbequem für manchen, der oft etwas ganz anderes sucht. -— Natürlich wäre es eine Trivialität, wenn man einwenden würde, daß manchem, der sich mit Geisteswissenschaft beschäftigte, und der früh gestorben oder von dieser oder jener Krankheit befallen worden ist, diese Geisteswissenschaft nichts helfen konnte. Denn man müßte erst die Gegenprobe bringen: ob jemand, der sich mit Hilfe der Geisteswissenschaft bis zum 45. Jahre erhalten hat, nicht vielleicht ohne sie nur 35 oder 40 Jahre alt geworden wäre. Die Methoden der Widerlegung sind oft nicht so leicht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":214,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-04-23/p016"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-04-23/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Vor allem muß darauf aufmerksam gemacht werden, daß der Schlaf nur das ausgleichen kann, was im physischen Leibe verdorben oder verbraucht ist, also im Grunde genommen Kräfte aus den geistigen Welten nur so weit schöpfen kann, als die Grenzen der geistigen Anlagen gehen, die der Mensch durch die Geburt ins Dasein bringt. Es holt die Geisteswissenschaft ihre Kräfte aus derjenigen Welt heraus, mit welcher der Mensch geistig zusammenhängt. Man kann deshalb sagen: der Schlaf ist ein Heilmittel insofern, als er verbrauchte, abgearbeitete Kräfte ausgleichen kann. Die Geisteswissenschaft führt entweder durch das, was sie selber ist, oder was sie zu geben vermag, dem Menschen Kräfte zu, die er nicht schon in sich hat, die nicht schon in seinen Anlagen sind; sie eröffnet dem Menschen einen höheren Quell der Gesundung, als ihm das gewöhnliche, normale Leben auch mit dem besten Schlafe verschaffen kann. Und was so von der Seele aus gleichsam gesundend ausstrahlen kann durch das lebendige Sich-hinein-Finden in die Geisteswissenschaft, das möchte man vergleichen mit dem, was gewöhnliche ärztliche Kunst vermag, indem man sagt: Auch die gewöhnliche ärztliche Kunst vermag im Grunde genommen nur diejenigen Heilkräfte zur Gesundung des Menschen aufzurufen, die schon im Menschen sind, die nur unterdrückt sind durch entgegengesetzte Kräfte. Die Geisteswissenschaft dagegen bringt neue Kräfte im Menschen zur Wirksamkeit, Kräfte, die sich erst entwickeln, die noch nicht veranlagt sind; sie appelliert nicht nur an den Menschen als Mikrokosmos, sondern an den Zusammenhang des Menschen als Mikrokosmos mit der großen geistigen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":244,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-04-23/p017"}],"beads":[{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[17],"to":[17],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}