{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 64/1915-04-16/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Through such insight into the structure of the human being, one sees through the nature of sleep. 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,"title":"13. Sleep and Death from the Point of View of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-04-16","location":null,"word_count":513,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-04-16/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","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/SOL2024/19150416p01.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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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"}],"english":["GA 64/1915-04-16/p013"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":458,"en_words":513,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3844,"original_word_count":3616,"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/SOL2024/19150416p01.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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