{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 64/1915-01-15/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we were to look up into the spiritual worlds only with the means of our physical observation, we would not find an answer to this question. But when we know how to combine the worldviews of the spiritual and physical worlds into a single life force, then we look into the spiritual world, and then we know that these forces are not lost, that they flow through existence, and that for future times, for whole generations, for whole epochs, those who have now passed through the gate of death prematurely have given their powers. And united with these forces we will see the work on earth in the future, the spiritual world will unite with the physical world, we will gain a new understanding of how the forces that now seem to be lost flow into our souls, which have become empty through spiritual knowledge. The people of the future, strengthened by spiritual knowledge, will have the opportunity through this spiritual knowledge not to let the seemingly now lost forces be lost. But the lost forces will continue to have an effect in the course of time; and in what people will do in the days to come, the forces that have passed through the gate of death on the battlefields of the present time will live on, but consciously, not unconsciously as in earlier times. In earlier times, nations were unconscious of the existence of their dead, as long as the nations still had remnants of ancient clairvoyance. It can touch us strangely when we hear how in the year 378 the Goths went out to fight against the Romans: while at the beginning of the battle an inarticulate cry arose on the Roman side, the Goths struck up battle songs in which they sang for the glory and honor of their invisible dead. They consciously felt themselves led by their dead; they had an understanding of the eternal continuation of the invisible. Mankind will regain this understanding – but now in a conscious way; and through this understanding, security and fertility will also develop, spread throughout this great life. So when the souls of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, all those left behind in the physical world, look up at those who have been snatched from them in their grief, they will look up at them as at the truly living , as those who, out of the confines of their physical existence, have poured out their strength into the general existence of humanity; and the dead will be not lost, because they will be felt to be alive and surviving in the general existence of humanity. Such will be the effect of spiritual science, even in the simplest human soul. For spiritual science is an elixir of life; spiritual science gives direction to life and harmonizes the soul; spiritual science is that which is able to sustain us, to carry us in joy and suffering, in success and failure, in luck and misfortune, because it is able to give us from the divine that for which we have emptied our souls. Souls that have emptied themselves through spiritual knowledge will also be empty for the inflow of what can stream into these human souls and human hearts from the spirits that have passed through the gate of death, the fallen. Only souls that have not emptied themselves in this way will have to lose themselves in the pain and suffering that the great events of the present must cause to so many individuals. But people who go through this strengthened by spiritual knowledge will find that their emptied soul will be given back by the gods what the earth has taken from them physically. They will understand the language of the spirit, which speaks to them vividly after death, when they have had to stop listening with the physical ear to the dear language of their loved one.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Intuitive Insight in the Happy and Serious Hours of Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-01-15","location":null,"word_count":651,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-01-15/p034","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Fateful Time","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA064/English/SOL2024/19150115p01.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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Und vereinigt mit diesen Kräften werden wir in Zukunft das Erdenwirken schauen, die geistige Welt sich in Einheit zusammenschließend mit der physischen, werden ein neues Verständnis dafür gewinnen, wie in unseren leeren, durch Geist-Erkenntnis leer gewordenen Seelen die Kräfte einfließen, die scheinbar jetzt verloren sind. Die Menschen der durch Geist-Erkenntnis gestärkten Zukunft werden durch diese Geist-Erkenntnis die Möglichkeit haben, nicht verloren sein zu lassen die scheinbar jetzt verlorenen Kräfte. Sondern die verlorenen Kräfte werden fortwirken im Zeitengeschehen; und in dem, was die Menschen in künftigen Tagen tun werden, wird leben an Kräften, was auf den Schlachtfeldern der heutigen Zeit durch die Todespforte geströmt ist — aber bewußt, nicht wie frühere Zeiten unbewußt. Unbewußt haben dieses Dasein ihrer Verstorbenen die Völker in früheren Zeiten gehabt, solange die Völker Reste des alten Hellsehens noch gehabt haben. Merkwürdig kann es uns berühren, wenn wir hören, wie im Jahre 378 die Goten zum Kampf gegen die Römer zogen: während zu Beginn der Schlacht auf römischer Seite ein unartikuliertes Geschrei erscholl, stimmten die Goten Schlachtenlieder an, in denen sie sangen für den Ruhm und die Ehre ihrer unsichtbaren Toten. Bewußt haben sie sich geführt gesehen von ihren Toten; Verständnis haben sie gehabt für das ewige Fortwirken des Unsichtbaren. Dieses Verständnis wird die Menschheit wiedergewinnen — jetzt aber auf bewußte Weise; und durch dieses Verständnis wird auch, ausgebreitet in diesem ganzen großen Leben, Sicherheit und Lebensertragsamkeit sich entwickeln. Indem also die Seelen der Mütter, der Väter, der Brüder, der Schwestern, aller der Übriggebliebenen in der physischen Welt zu denen hinblicken werden, die ihnen in ihrem Schmerz entrissen worden sind, werden sie hinblicken als zu wahrhaft Lebendigen, als zu solchen, die aus den Engen ihres leiblichen Daseins ihre Kräfte ausgegossen haben in das allgemeine Menschheitsdasein; und unverloren werden die Toten sein, weil man sie empfinden wird als im allgemeinen Menschendasein lebendig Fortlebende. Ein solches wird die Geisteswissenschaft auch in der einfachsten Menschenseele wirken können. Denn Geisteswissenschaft ist ein Lebenselixier; Geisteswissenschaft ist richtunggebend für das Leben und harmonisierend für die Seele; Geisteswissenschaft ist dasjenige, was uns haltend, uns in Freude und Leid, in Erfolge und Mißerfolge, in Glück und Unglück hineinzutragen vermag, weil sie uns aus dem Göttlichen dasjenige zu geben vermag, wofür wir unsere Seelen leer gemacht haben. Seelen, die sich durch Geist-Erkenntnis leer gemacht haben, sie werden auch leer sein für das Einfließen dessen, was von den durch die Todespforte gegangenen Geistern — der Gefallenen — in diese Menschenseelen und Menschenherzen hineinströmen kann. Nur Seelen, welche ihr Inneres nicht also leer gemacht haben, werden sich verlieren müssen in Schmerz und in Leid, das die großen Ereignisse der Gegenwart so vielen einzelnen bereiten müssen. Menschen aber, welche durch die Geist-Erkenntnis gestärkt hindurchgehen, werden finden, daß ihrer leergewordenen Seele von den Göttern wiederum zurückgegeben wird, was ihnen leiblich die Erde genommen hat. Sie werden verstehen die Sprache des Geistes, der nach dem Tode lebendig zu ihnen spricht, wenn sie haben aufhören müssen, hinzuhören mit dem physischen Ohr auf die liebe Sprache des teuren Angehörigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":588,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-01-15/p034"}],"english":["GA 64/1915-01-15/p034"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":588,"en_words":651,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9274,"original_word_count":8779,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Fateful Time","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA064/English/SOL2024/19150115p01.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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