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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,"title":"8. 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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. 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