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Man's will — and here again only experience can show us — becomes, by grasping his fate as being fully identical with his own nature, by will-ing his fate, is thereby greatly strengthened. Man's will, by becoming so strengthened, becomes that which, in a different way from what has been characterized in thinking, is now, as it were, detached from man as he stands before others. While we have driven thinking out of us through concentration, we succeed in such a strengthening of the will, as it has been described in the grasping of the fate thought, that we enter into something that lies outside of us, which, as we say, falls to us. We enter into something with our will that we otherwise ascribe to the outside world. When we steel our will in this way, strengthening and intensifying it, we then have a second spiritual experience. The intensifying of the will now in its turn becomes independent of our being and follows the thinking that has gone out of us. And so we are able to strengthen this thinking, which threatens to die due to the first experience, from the will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":223,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-02-26/p019","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/SOL2024/19150226p01.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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We look back at the spatial and temporal aspects of our human nature. We become acquainted with that in us which has separated itself from that which is mortal.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-02-26/p020","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/SOL2024/19150226p01.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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But we also begin to notice what ordinary thinking, feeling and willing, in short, the ordinary life of the soul actually is.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":133,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-02-26/p021","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/SOL2024/19150226p01.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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Because then you realize: everything that this mortal, this physical body actually is – I would like to use a comparison that is not just a comparison, but that points to the truth – you recognize: this physical body is a mirror that is able to reflect that that a person in ordinary life knows nothing about, that he can only know when he, as it were, peels it out of the physical, that he only knows something when he stands in his immortal self opposite the body. He knows that the body is only a mirror and that thoughts have the same relationship to the body as the mirror images have to the observer. Just as if one had a number of mirrors on the wall and passed by the mirrors and saw one's own figure as long as one was there, but no longer saw oneself when one was not there and saw oneself again when one was there again, so man sees that of which he lives, but of which he knows nothing, when he is in the body and the body reflects its own nature back to him. And thoughts are present in the form in which we have them in ordinary life only as long as the mortal body reflects them. But something else is that which thinks; something else is that which exercises the immediate activity that reflects itself as a thought in the mortal body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":319,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-02-26/p022","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/SOL2024/19150226p01.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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That something lives in this thought, which one has to describe as the will within the thoughts, as the will that is active there, - man is usually not aware of this at all, or when he becomes aware of it, he draws a conclusion, as Schopenhauer did. Then he has no direct vision, then he does not grasp himself in this volitional thinking, in the thinking volition, in what he is, but in what this thinking volition gives him, namely in the thoughts, which are only mirror images. Only when man has brought about the marriage between thinking and willing as I have described it, only then are the soul powers so strong that all thinking appears permeated by a supersensible human entity, which is of a will-like nature, but in such a way that it shows its true, will-like nature, mirrored as thoughts. As truly as it is really our countenance when we see ourselves in the mirror, so truly do we mirror ourselves in our thoughts; but it is not what we are in this mirror image. That which we are is mirrored in such a way that we can never grasp in life, in strength, in thinking, what stands behind thinking and of which thinking is only a reflection. Just as the reflection lasts no longer than the time we stand before the mirror, so too this thinking in the material body lasts no longer than it is stimulated by the actual immortal in us, which is reflected in the thought.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":383,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-02-26/p023","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/SOL2024/19150226p01.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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You see, that which is the actual immortal in man is so quiet, so intimate, so hidden in the external sensual world that in the thought process the thought is hidden, that in the will process it is not even noticed that every smallest will process depends on what is reflected in the thought, but which cannot be noticed at all. One only notices this when one observes the course of fate in the manner described; when one strengthens the will so that it is united, standing outside us, outside mortal man, as I have described, with the thought. Then one notices how the will is united with the thought, then one notices the two sides, which always confront us separately in life as thought and will, united; for one has only brought them to marriage. One then lives in a thought-will process. But then one has only grasped that which goes beyond death, which goes through the gate of death. And then one realizes what mistake, what tremendous mistake those have made who have often thought about the immortality of the human soul in a purely philosophical way. Those who have thought about this immortality of the human soul have always wanted to hold on to something that is, after all, in a certain way similar to that which lives in sensuality or in sensual thinking. People have spoken of a substance of the soul, have searched for something that, like a fine materiality, passes through the gate of death. That one must grasp the eternal in man outside of the body and that one needs completely new concepts and ideas for this, which no external perception, no thinking bound to the brain, can give, will become clear to mankind through spiritual science. That, as it were, the immortal consists precisely in that which has nothing in common with the sensual, that is what will gradually have to be grasped.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":462,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-02-26/p024","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/SOL2024/19150226p01.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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Der Wille des Menschen — das kann wiederum nur die Erfahrung zeigen — wird dadurch, daß er so sein Schicksal als mit seinem eigenen Wesen voll identisch ergreift, daß er seinen Willen, indem er sein Schicksal will, ganz besonders verstärkt, — der Wille des Menschen wird, indem er so erstarkt wird, zu demjenigen, was sich nun auf eine andere Art, als das vorher beim Denken charakterisiert worden ist, gewissermaßen loslöst von dem Menschen, wie er dasteht vor anderen. Während wir das Denken durch die Konzentration aus uns herausgetrieben haben, gelingt es uns bei einer solchen Verstärkung des Willens, wie sie geschildert worden ist in dem Ergreifen des Schicksalsgedankens, daß wir in etwas hineingehen, was außer uns liegt, was, wie wir sagen, uns zufällt. Wir treten in etwas ein mit unserem Willen, das wir sonst der Außenwelt zuschreiben. Wenn wir so den Willen stählen, ihn stärken, intensiv machen, dann kommt es dazu, daß wir eine zweite geisteswissenschaftliche Erfahrung machen. Sie besteht darin, daß der sich verstärkende Wille sich nun wiederum wie selbständig macht von unserem Wesen und nachzieht dem Denken, das aus uns herausgegangen ist. Und dadurch sind wir imstande, dieses Denken, welches zu ersterben droht infolge der ersten Erfahrung, vom Willen aus zu verstärken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-02-26/p019"},{"locus":"GA 64/1915-02-26/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Was geschieht mit dem Denken, das auf einem gewissen Punkte schattenhaft geworden und bis zum Ersterben gekommen ist? Es wird erfüllt mit Inhalt, es bekommt Substantialität, indem wir den Willen dem Denken nachsenden, uns gewissermaßen mit dem zweiten Teil unserer Wesenheit dem Denken nachsenden. Wenn so Denken und Wollen entrückt werden aus unserem Wesen, dann kommen wir dazu, dasjenige zu erreichen, was heute allerdings für die zeitgenössische Weltanschauung kaum zuzugeben ist, — wir kommen dazu, außerhalb desjenigen zu sein, worin wir sonst im wachen Zustand leben. Wir sind selbst hinausgegangen mit unserem Denken und Wollen; wir stehen real außer uns. Und dasjenige, in dem wir sonst immer sind, wird für uns ein Objekt, wird etwas, was außerhalb von uns ist, wie der Tisch oder irgendein Gegenstand außerhalb des sinnlichen Leibes ist. Wir schauen zurück auf den sinnlichen Leib, auf die Lebensverhältnisse, die dieser Leib durchgemacht hat. Wir schauen auf das Räumliche und das Zeitliche unseres Menschenwesens zurück. Wir lernen kennen dasjenige in uns, was sich abgesondert hat von dem, was sterblich ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-02-26/p020"},{"locus":"GA 64/1915-02-26/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"So beantwortet sich für den Geistesforscher die Frage: Was ist am Menschenwesen sterblich? — so, daß er sagen muß: Dasjenige, was dann übrig bleibt, wenn er den durch dieses Ergreifen der Schicksalstatsachen verstärkten Willen mit dem im Weltenall durch Gedankenkonzentration verstobenen Denken vereint, vermählt und sich in seinem so im Geist ergriffenen Wesen außer sich fühlt, erblickt, dann ist dasjenige, was in uns sonst zu leise ist, das Ewige, das Unsterbliche, — das ist so weit verstärkt, daß wir es erleben, daß wir uns darinnen wissen, daß wir uns, aber außerhalb unseres Leibes, darinnen wissen. Und dann fangen wir erst an, es zu bemerken. Wir fangen aber auch an zu bemerken, was das gewöhnliche Denken, Fühlen und Wollen, kurz das gewöhnliche Seelenleben eigentlich ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-02-26/p021"},{"locus":"GA 64/1915-02-26/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Wenn wir das gewöhnliche Denken, wie es angeregt wird durch die äußerlich-sinnliche Natur, wie es verläuft gebunden an den Prozeß unseres Gehirns, ins Auge fassen, dann ist es für denjenigen, der in dem eben angedeuteten Sinne geisteswissenschaftlich die Welt zu betrachten imstande ist, etwas, was durchaus nicht so, wie es sich uns im sterblichen Leibe darstellt, zu unserem Unsterblichen gehört. Das merkt man, wenn man in seiner wahren Wesenheit außerhalb des sterblichen Leibes steht. Denn dann merkt man: alles was dieser sterbliche, dieser physische Leib eigentlich ist — ich möchte einen Vergleich anwenden, der nicht bloß ein Vergleich ist, sondern der auf die Wahrheit hindeutet —, man erkennt: dieser physische Leib ist ein Spiegel, welcher imstande ist, dasjenige zu spiegeln, wovon der Mensch im gewöhnlichen Leben nichts weiß, wovon er nur wissen kann, wenn er es sich gleichsam herausschält aus dem Leiblichen, wovon er nur dann etwas weiß, wenn er in seinem Unsterblichen dem Leib gegenübersteht. Er weiß, daß der Leib nur ein Spiegel ist und daß die Gedanken in einem gleichen Verhältnis zum Leibe stehen wie die Spiegelbilder zum Beschauer. Geradeso, wie wenn man an der Wand eine Anzahl von Spiegeln hätte und vorüberginge an den Spiegeln und seine eigene Gestalt ansieht, solange man da ist, wie man sich aber nicht mehr sieht, wenn man nicht da ist, und wieder sieht, wenn man wieder da ist, — so sieht der Mensch dasjenige, wovon er zwar lebt, wovon er aber nichts weiß, wenn er im Leibe ist und ihm der Leib sein eigenes Wesen zurückwirft. Und nur so lange sind die Gedanken da in der Form, wie wir sie im gewöhnlichen Leben haben, als der sterbliche Leib sie spiegelt. Aber etwas anderes ist dasjenige, was denkt; etwas anderes ist es, was die unmittelbare Tätigkeit ausübt, die sich spiegelt als Gedanke im sterblichen Leibe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-02-26/p022"},{"locus":"GA 64/1915-02-26/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Man kann nicht, wenn man das menschliche Denken untersucht, sagen, man könne in diesem Denken etwas finden, was irgendeinen Aufschluss geben könnte über die Unsterblichkeit; denn diese Gedanken sind Spiegelbilder, die hervorgerufen werden durch den sterblichen Leib. Und das, was unsterblich ist, das steht jetzt nicht vor dem Spiegel, sondern spiegelt sich in den Gedankenformen. Was vor dem Spiegel steht, das heißt in unserem Falle in dem Spiegel lebt, was ist denn das? Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, überhaupt mit einer menschlichen Worte dies auszudrücken? Ja, die Möglichkeit gibt es. Aber dasjenige, was hier an diesem Punkte ausgedrückt werden soll, das beobachtet der Mensch nicht; denn er ist zufrieden, wenn er zur Orientierung in der Außenwelt seine Gedanken ergreifen kann, in seinen Gedanken leben kann. Daß in diesem Gedanken etwas lebt, was man als den Willen innerhalb der Gedanken zu bezeichnen hat, als den Willen, der da tätig ist, — das wird der Mensch gewöhnlich gar nicht gewahr, oder wenn er es gewahr wird, macht er eine Schlußfolgerung, wie es Schopenhauer getan hat. Dann hat er kein unmittelbares Anschauen, dann ergreift er sich nicht in diesem willentlichen Denken, im denkenden Wollen, in dem, was er ist, sondern in dem, was ihm dieses denkende Wollen gibt, nämlich in den Gedanken, die aber nur Spiegelbilder sind. Nur dann, wenn der Mensch es dazu gebracht hat, jene Vermählung zu vollziehen zwischen Denken und Wollen, wie ich es beschrieben habe, dann sind die Seelenkräfte so stark, daß alles Denken durchzogen erscheint von einer übersinnlichen menschlichen Wesenheit, die willensartiger Natur ist, aber so, daß sie ihre wahre, willensartige Natur zeigt, gespiegelt als Gedanken. So wahr es wirklich unser Antlitz ist, wenn wir uns im Spiegel sehen, so wahr spiegeln wir uns in unseren Gedanken; aber es ist nicht dasjenige, was wir sind, in diesem Spiegelbild. Das, was wir sind, das spiegelt sich eben so, daß wir niemals dem Leben nach, der Kraft nach, in dem Denken erfassen können, was hinter dem Denken steht und wovon das Denken nur eine Abspiegelung ist. So wenig wie das Spiegelbild länger dauert, als wir vor dem Spiegel stehen, so wenig dauert dieses Denken im materiellen Leib länger, als es angeregt wird durch das eigentliche Unsterbliche in uns, das sich in den Gedanken spiegelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":373,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-02-26/p023"},{"locus":"GA 64/1915-02-26/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Ein anderes zeigt sich uns bei dem gewöhnlichen Wollensprozeß, bei dem Prozeß, durch den wir unsere Handlungen begehen, unsere Glieder regen. Während wir im Denken nicht bemerken, daß als das Wesentliche darin das sich Spiegelnde hinter dem Denken steht, bemerken wir im Handeln, in den Aktionen, die wir vollbringen, nicht, daß hinter dem Willen des Menschen überall etwas ist, was ganz gleich ist unserer Gedankenwelt, ganz gleich ist demjenigen, was sich in den Gedanken spiegelt. Man hat nur deshalb so viel streiten können in der Philosophie über die Freiheit des Willens, weil der Mensch den Willen nicht kennenlernt, so wie er wirklich ist. Er lernt von dem Willen nur die Kraft kennen, aber nicht die in der Kraft wirklich darin webende lebendige Wesenheit. Und im Willen ist die lebendige Wesenheit gedanklicher Natur. Sehen Sie, so leise, so intim, so verborgen in der äußerlichen sinnlichen Welt ist dasjenige, was das eigentliche Unsterbliche im Menschen ist, daß sich im gedanklichen Prozeß das Gedankliche verbirgt, daß im Willensprozeß nicht einmal bemerkt wird, daß jeder kleinste Willensprozeß abhängig ist von dem, was sich im Gedanken spiegelt, was aber gar nicht bemerkt werden kann. Erst dann bemerkt man es, wenn man in der geschilderten Weise den Gang des Schicksals betrachtet; wenn man den Willen stärkt, so daß er vermählt wird, außer uns stehend, außer dem sterblichen Menschen, wie ich es geschildert habe, mit dem Gedanken. Dann merkt man, wie der Wille mit dem Gedanken vereint ist, dann merkt man die beiden Seiten, die uns im Leben immer getrennt entgegentreten als Gedanke und Wille, vereinigt; denn man hat sie erst zur Vermählung gebracht. Man lebt dann in einem Gedanken-Willensprozeß. Dann aber hat man erst dasjenige ergriffen, was über den Tod hinausgeht, was durch die Pforte des Todes geht. Und man kommt darauf, welchen Fehler, welchen ungeheuren Fehler diejenigen gemacht haben, die oftmals in rein philosophischer Weise über die Unsterblichkeit der menschlichen Seele nachgedacht haben. Diejenigen, die über diese Unsterblichkeit der menschlichen Seele nachgedacht haben, sie haben sich immer an etwas halten wollen, was doch in einer gewissen Weise ähnlich ist demjenigen, was in der Sinnlichkeit oder im sinnlichen Denken lebt. Man hat von einer Substanz der Seele gesprochen, hat nach etwas gesucht, was wiederum wie eine feine Materialität durch die Pforte des Todes geht. Daß man das Ewige im Menschen erfassen muß außerhalb des Leibes und daß man dazu ganz neue Begriffe und Vorstellungen braucht, die keine äußere Wahrnehmung, kein an das Gehirn gebundenes Denken geben kann, das wird der Menschheit durch die Geisteswissenschaft aufgehen. Daß gewissermaßen gerade in demjenigen, das nichts Ähnliches hat mit dem Sinnlichen, das Unsterbliche besteht, das ist es, was allmählich wird begriffen werden müssen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":443,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-02-26/p024"}],"beads":[{"from":[19],"to":[19],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[20],"to":[20],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[21],"to":[21],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[22],"to":[22],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[23],"to":[23],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[24],"to":[24],"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)."}}