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Otto Liebmann's “ghost” temporarily detaches itself from the physical, and a purely spiritual-soul relationship is established between the state as one gains it through spiritual development and the state of sleep; a relationship as between what I am now experiencing and a memory of what I once experienced. As I look at what I once experienced, so I look at the state of sleep and find that the spiritual and soul-life is outside the physical and bodily from the moment I fall asleep until I wake up. One must connect with it spiritually and mentally. So one overlooks the two parts of human nature, the physical body that has remained in bed and that which has left, just as one overlooks hydrogen and oxygen when they have been separated from water. But even more: one sees that what has remained as corporeality is indeed a duality, namely the physical body and that which prevents it from following its own chemical laws, which makes it a living being; this is the etheric body – the word is not important – a finer body of forces. The word etheric body should not be pressed; it has nothing to do with what is called ether in physics today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-04-16/p009","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/SOL2024/19150416p01.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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It develops a dull consciousness; but this is only a paradoxical expression, since it does not come to consciousness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":147,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-04-16/p010","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/SOL2024/19150416p01.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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By forcing into it what is carried out in our thinking, we impose something alien on it; after all, its primary purpose is to convey life. Because of the tensions that arise between the ether body's two activities, the astral body cannot absorb what has been imprinted on it. During sleep, it resonates with what we ourselves have pushed into our ether body during the day; it is like a memory of what we have thought, felt and willed during the day. Thus we can say that the human being cannot develop consciousness in relation to his ego during sleep, but that the astral body resonates with everything that has taken place in us during the day through the activity of the soul. This activity of the astral body cannot come to consciousness either; for if it continued for a long time, it would intensify to such an extent that we would become fully conscious of it every morning, with a clear memory of what had been forced into the astral body. We do not have to visualize all the individual acts we have performed during the day, but rather the activity of thinking, feeling and willing. By exercising these, we give the astral body a structure, a general imprint – not through the individual acts – in which it resonates. Then, in the morning, we have, in the image suggested, we can say, in what we experienced the day before, not in thinking, feeling, willing, something new. We would overlook this if the astral body did not have to develop the urge to return to the physical and ether bodies, that is, to wake up. The highest tension leads us to submerge into the physical body. Otherwise, one should be able to draw out, at least for a very short time, the force that one has to leave behind in the physical body and in what is called the etheric body during sleep. In what can be called the real, spiritual view, one actually revives what can be called the unconscious power of the etheric body, making it flash. One must then wait for the moments when the etheric body also detaches itself during waking life; it is like a blood pulsation: the etheric body is first more intimately connected to the physical body – and then withdraws. By using such moments, one gains consciousness of the etheric body for a brief moment. Then the supersensible consciousness flashes: one is in the spiritual world and can ask questions in it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":566,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-04-16/p011","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/SOL2024/19150416p01.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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If one really wants to be honest, in spiritual science one cannot allow anything to become fixed in one's memory; rather, one must always speak anew out of the inner work of the soul, not out of memory. That is why a lecture is as new the fourteenth or fifteenth time as it was the first time. It is much more a deliberate performance, a continuous active process in the soul that develops activity. Therefore, in the case of an honest spiritual presentation, the person who presents something from direct contact with the spiritual world will try to shape the words anew each time. It is precisely for this reason that only inner, genuine honesty can lead to the presentation of spiritual science. It is said that anyone who wants to lie must have a good memory. The spiritual researcher, on the other hand, must be imbued with honesty to the highest degree. He must not color; then what he says will already correspond to what he does not need to remember in the ordinary way. But the way of remembering of ordinary consciousness cannot be applied.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":311,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-04-16/p012","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/SOL2024/19150416p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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In Vienna, I described this process as the separation between the physical and etheric bodies on the one hand, and the astral body and the I on the other. This is only to be understood relatively; relationships remain and are established. While the astral body, as it were, resonates in its feeling back, it encounters the ether body in its ordinary experience, and in this way, what it would experience purely is mixed with what happens in ordinary life, and dreams arise. They are chaotic or more or less lawful, even prophetic, mixed with what can happen in ordinary life. If Schopenhauer had not judged merely from the ordinary philosophical point of view, he would not have seen the world merely as will and representation; but he would have seen that the representation can be condensed in itself, that one can soul-spiritual can be consciously experienced in it as spiritual, and that what he sees as will in the human organism pours out into the whole environment and is revealed for the spiritualization of the entire world. In the astral body, that which makes a person more at the end of the day than at the beginning resonates. The same occurs in all of life. To understand this, let us think of a plant and the ripening seed; let us let this image take effect on us. But that remains in the etheric body; the astral body only resonates. But it takes the ether body with it through the gate of death: and now, drawn out of the physical body, the astral body can develop full consciousness together with the ego; it is now suddenly imbued with the life-force of the ether body, and consciousness emerges. But then, when it is so animated – because the etheric body is actually the provider of life for the physical body and cannot serve for more – when the extract is drawn from it, so to speak, what only maintains the life functions is expelled into the rest of the etheric world. Through the spiritually held consciousness, which arises from the impetus of the astral body and the ego on the extract of the ether body, the human being must first struggle until he comes to the use of the new consciousness, in which he spends the time between death and a new birth. During this time, the human being accomplishes a great deal. We can only gain insights into the length of time that passes if we consider the individual human life in the context of all earthly lives. Then we can see what attracted him to the earth, what led him from the spiritual realm to this life; the forces that led the human being down have thus found their conclusion, their goal. Meanwhile, the earth must have changed so much that the person can experience something new. Therefore, it takes centuries for a person to gather his strength to descend into a new life on earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":513,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-04-16/p013","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/SOL2024/19150416p01.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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Otto Liebmanns «Gespenst» löst sich zeitweilig vom Leiblichen los, und zwar wird ein rein geistig-seelisches Verhältnis hergestellt zwischen dem Zustand, wie man ihn durch geistige Entwickelung gewinnt, und dem Schlafzustand; ein Verhältnis wie zwischen dem, was ich jetzt erlebe, und einer Erinnerungsvorstellung von dem, was ich einmal erlebt habe. Wie auf dasjenige, was ich einmal erlebt habe, so schaue ich auf den Schlafzustand und finde, daß sich das Geistig-Seelische vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen außerhalb des Physisch-Leiblichen befindet. Man muß sich geistig-seelisch in Verbindung damit setzen. Also man überschaut die zwei Glieder der menschlichen Natur, das Physisch-Leibliche, das im Bett zurückgeblieben ist, und das, was herausgegangen ist; so wie man Wasserstoff und Sauerstoff überschaut, wenn sie aus dem Wasser herausgetrennt worden sind. Aber noch mehr: Man sieht, daß das, was als Leiblichkeit zurückgeblieben ist, in der Tat eine Zweiheit ist, nämlich der physische Leib und dasjenige, was verhindert, daß er seinen eigenen chemischen Gesetzen folgt, was macht, daß er ein lebendes Wesen ist; das ist der Ätherleib — es kommt nicht auf das Wort an -, ein feinerer Kräfteleib. Das Wort Ätherleib sollte nicht gepreßt werden, es hat nichts mit dem zu tun, was heute in der Physik Äther genannt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-04-16/p009"},{"locus":"GA 64/1915-04-16/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Über dasjenige, was im Schlaf herausgeht, namentlich über das Wort, das man dafür anwendet, kann gespottet werden. Man lasse den Leuten den Spott. Das was herausgeht, ist der astralische, der eigentliche Seelenleib und das Ich. Man hat also die viergliedrige Menschennatur vor sich: auf der einen Seite das Leibliche und das Ätherische, auf der andern Seite das Seelische, in dem die Ichnatur gleichsam eingebettet ist. Im gewöhnlichen Schlaf ist das Ich nicht fähig, ein Bewußtsein zu erzeugen, weil es auf der gegenwärtigen Stufe der Menschheit seine Ichtätigkeit im Zusammenhang mit dem Leiblich-Physischen entwickelt. Man kann auch nicht in der Luft gehen, und ebensowenig kann das Ich-Bewußtsein sich entwickeln ohne den Widerstand des Leiblich-Physischen; es entwickelt sich daran. Im Schlaf findet es diesen Widerstand nicht und kann daher nicht zum Bewußtsein kommen. Es entwickelt ein dumpfes Bewußtsein; aber dies ist nur ein paradoxer Ausdruck, da es eben nicht zum Bewußtsein kommt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":150,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-04-16/p010"},{"locus":"GA 64/1915-04-16/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Ebenso ist vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen der Seelenleib fortwährend tätig. Vergleichsweise könnten wir sagen: so wie wir tätig sind, wenn wir über etwas nachdenken, das vor einiger Zeit geschehen ist. Seine Tätigkeit ist ein Nachschwingen dessen, was er im Äther- und physischen Leib erlebt hat. Welchen Sinn dieses Nachschwingen hat, das haben wir uns folgendermaßen vorzustellen: Wir denken, fühlen, wollen im Wachen mit unserm Ätherleib, der den Widerstand leistet innerhalb des physischen Leibes. Das heißt, nur die Gedanken schwingen sich durch, welche die Wirkung des Ätherleibes zurückspiegeln. Dadurch, daß wir im Ätherleibe so tätig sind, prägen wir die Nachwirkungen am Ätherleibe ein: was wir am Tage denken, drückt sich ihm ein. Aber er bietet einen Widerstand, er hat seine eigenen inneren Bewegungen; sie sind es, was das den physischen Leib durchdringende Leben ausmacht. Indem wir das hineinzwängen, was in unserem Denken vollführt wird, drängen wir ihm ein Fremdes auf; denn er hat ja zunächst den Zweck, das Leben zu vermitteln. Wegen der Spannungen, die zwischen der einen und der anderen Tätigkeit des Ätherleibes entstehen, kann der Astralleib das nicht aufnehmen, was so eingeprägt wird. Im Schlafe schwingt er nach in dem, was wir selber während des Tages in unseren Ätherleib hineingedrängt haben; es ist wie eine Erinnerung dessen, was wir während des Tages gedacht, gefühlt, gewollt haben. So können wir sagen, daß der Mensch in bezug auf sein Ich kein Bewußtsein entwickeln kann während des Schlafes, daß aber der Astralleib in dem nachschwingt, was da alles am Tage durch die Seelentätigkeit in uns vorgegangen ist. Auch diese Tätigkeit des Astralleibes kann nicht zum Bewußtsein kommen; denn würde sie lange so fortschwingen, so würde sie sich zu einem Zustand steigern, wo wirkliches Bewußtsein auftreten würde, an jedem Morgen ein genaues Bewußtsein, ein Erinnerungsbild dessen, was in den Astralleib hineingezwängt worden ist. Unter dem, was wir uns während des Tages angeeignet haben, haben wir uns nicht alle die einzelnen Akte vorzustellen, sondern die Tätigkeit des Denkens, Fühlens und Wollens. Indem wir diese ausüben, geben wir dem Astralleib ein Gefüge, einen allgemeinen Abdruck — nicht durch die einzelnen Akte —, darin schwingt er nach. Dann, am Morgen haben wir in dem angedeuteten Bild, wir können sagen, in dem, was wir am Tag vorher erlebt haben, nicht im Denken, Fühlen, Wollen, etwas Neues angesetzt. Das würden wir überschauen, wenn nicht der Astralleib den Trieb entwickeln müßte, wieder zurückzukehren in den physischen und Ätherleib, das heißt aufzuwachen. Die höchste Spannung führt uns zum Untertauchen in den physischen Leib. Denn sonst müßte man imstande sein, die Kraft, die man im Schlafe im physischen Leib und in dem, was man den Ätherleib nennt, zurücklassen muß, herauszuziehen, wenigstens für ganz kurze Zeit. In dem, was man die wirkliche, geistige Anschauung nennen kann, belebt man tatsächlich das, was man nennen kann die unbewußte Kraft des Ätherleibes, bringt sie zum Aufblitzen. Man muß dann die Momente abwarten, in denen sich der Ätherleib auch während des wachen Lebens loslöst, es ist wie ein Blutpulsieren: der Ätherleib ist erst intimer mit dem physischen Leib verbunden — und zieht sich zurück. Indem man solche Augenblicke benützt, gewinnt man für einen kurzen Moment Bewußtsein vom AÄtherleib. Dann blitzt das übersinnliche Bewußtsein auf: man ist in der geistigen Welt, kann darin Fragen stellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":539,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-04-16/p011"},{"locus":"GA 64/1915-04-16/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Wir sehen, welch intimer Vorgang zugrunde liegt. Was real geschieht, ist wie ein Vorüberhuschendes. Wenn man es in wissenschaftliche Formen bringen will, so ist das, was zurückbleibt, wie eine Erinnerung, — wie eine Erinnerung an vorüberhuschende Träume. Daher kommt man zu Erfolgen in der ‚Geisteswissenschaft nicht dadurch, daß man Schlußfolgerungen an Schlußfolgerungen reiht, an das, was man schon hat, — es ist nicht eine logische Erinnerung, nicht ein Denken, sondern es entsteht ein Wachsen durch solche vorüberhuschende Momente. Daher kann auch der Geistesforscher, wenn er niederschreibt, was er so gewinnt, nicht verfahren wie derjenige, der aus der Erinnerung beschreibt. Er kann sich zum Beispiel nicht anmaßen, zu sagen, ein Vortrag, den er zum zwölften Male hält, sei leichter, weil er in der Erinnerung gefestigt ist. Geisteswissenschaftlich kann man, wenn man wirklich ehrlich sein will, nichts so in Erinnerung übergehen lassen, sondern es muß immer neu aus der inneren Seelenarbeit heraus gesprochen werden, nicht aus der Erinnerung. Daher ist ein Vortrag das vierzehnte, fünfzehnte Mal so neu wie das erste Mal. Es ist vielmehr eine gewollte Verrichtung, ein fortwährend Aktives, Tätigkeit Entwickelndes in der Seele. Daher wird bei ehrlicher geisteswissenschaftlicher Darstellung derjenige, welcher aus unmittelbarem Zusammenhang mit der geistigen Welt etwas darstellt, jedesmal versuchen, die Worte neu zu prägen. Gerade deshalb kann allein eine innere, wirkliche Ehrlichkeit zur Darstellung des Geisteswissenschaftlichen führen. Wer lügen will, sagt man, muß ein gutes Gedächtnis haben. Der Geistesforscher muß dagegen im höchsten Grade von der Ehrlichkeit imprägniert sein. Er darf nicht färben; dann wird das, was er sagt, schon zusammenstimmen mit dem, an das er sich nicht in der gewöhnlichen Weise zu erinnern braucht. Aber die Erinnerungsweise des gewöhnlichen Bewußtseins kann man nicht anwenden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-04-16/p012"},{"locus":"GA 64/1915-04-16/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Durch solchen Einblick in die Gliederung der menschlichen Wesenheit durchschaut man die Natur des Schlafes. In Wien habe ich diesen Vorgang als Trennung zwischen physischem und Ätherleib einerseits und Astralleib und Ich andererseits bezeichnet. Das ist nur relativ zu verstehen; Beziehungen bleiben, stellen sich her. Während der Astralleib gewissermaßen in seinem Rückfühlen nachschwingt, stößt er an den Ätherleib in dessen gewöhnlichem Erleben an, und indem er so das, was er rein erleben würde, vermischt mit dem, was im gewöhnlichen Leben vorgeht, entstehen die Träume. Sie sind chaotisch oder auch mehr oder weniger gesetzlich, selbst prophetisch, durchmischt mit dem, was sich im gewöhnlichen Leben vollziehen kann. Wenn Schopenhauer nicht bloß vom gewöhnlichen philosophischen Erkenntnisstandpunkt aus geurteilt hätte, so hätte er die Welt nicht bloß als Wille und Vorstellung gesehen; sondern er hätte gesehen, daß die Vorstellung in sich verdichtet werden kann, daß man darin das Seelisch-Geistige als Geistiges bewußt erleben kann, und daß dasjenige, was er im menschlichen Organismus als Wille sieht, sich in die ganze Umwelt hineinergießt und für die Durchgeistigung der gesamten Welt zur Offenbarung gelangt. Im Astralleib schwingt dasjenige nach, wodurch der Mensch am Ende eines Tages mehr ist als vorher. Das gleiche vollzieht sich auch im ganzen Leben. Denken wir, um das zu verstehen, an die Pflanze und den reifenden Samen; lassen wir dies Bild auf uns wirken. Aber das bleibt im Ätherleibe, der Astralleib schwingt nur nach. Doch nimmt er den Ätherleib durch die Pforte des Todes mit: Und jetzt kann, herausgezogen aus dem physischen Leib, der Astralleib mit dem Ich zusammen ein volles Bewußtsein entwickeln; er wird nun durchzuckt von der Lebekraft des Ätherleibes, und das Bewußtsein taucht auf. Dann aber, wenn er so belebt ist — weil der Ätherleib eigentlich der Lebensversorger des physischen Leibes ist und zu mehr nicht dienen kann -, wenn der Extrakt sozusagen daraus gezogen ist, wird das, was nur die Lebensfunktionen unterhält, in die. übrige Ätherwelt ausgestoßen. Durch das geistig gehaltene Bewußtsein, das durch den Anstoß des Astralleibes und Ich an den Extrakt des Ätherleibes entsteht, muß der Mensch sich erst hindurchringen, bis er zum Gebrauch des neuen Bewußtseins kommt, in welchem er die Zeit zwischen Tod und einer neuen Geburt verbringt. In dieser Zeit macht der Mensch vieles dutch. Über die Zeitlänge, die da verfließt, kann man nur etwas erschauen, wenn man das einzelne Menschenleben mit dem ganzen Erdenleben in Zusammenhang bringt. Dann kann man sehen, was ihn an der Erde angezogen hat, was ihn aus dem Geisterreich zu diesem Leben geführt hat; die Kräfte, die den Menschen herunterführten, haben damit ihren Abschluß, ihr Ziel gefunden. Inzwischen muß die Erde sich so verändert haben, daß der Mensch Neues erleben kann. Daher dauert es Jahrhunderte, daß der Mensch seine Kraft sammelt, um in ein neues Erdenleben hinabzusteigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":458,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-04-16/p013"}],"beads":[{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"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)."}}