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If one carries this experience further, then at a certain point in one's inner experience one realizes what it means to unfold inner soul activity that does not make use of the bodily organ, but stands face to face with this outer physicality as the ordinary person stands with the table or the chair or any other external object. To experience one's soul life outside of the body, that is what one can experience. And then one knows what life looks like when one passes through the gate of death, when one lives free of the body, even when the physical body is destroyed. It is an inwardly vibrant soul life that then passes over into the spiritual world in order to live through the spiritual world and to take the forces from the spiritual world from now on. One gets to know these forces in their uniqueness, which are gradually the preparation for the soul being to descend to a new earthly embodiment after passing through the life between death and new birth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. 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Man fühlt sich seinem ganzen Menschen gegenüber, so wie er im gewöhnlichen Leben dasteht, jetzt in derselben Weise, wie man sich sonst mit diesem gewöhnlichen Menschen fühlt gegenüber den Dingen, den farbigen und tönenden Dingen der äußeren Natur. Wenn man dieses Erlebnis weitertreibt, dann merkt man auf einem gewissen Punkt des inneren Erlebens, was es heißt, innere Seelentätigkeit zu entfalten, die sich nicht des Organes der Leiblichkeit bedient, sondern dieser äußeren Leiblichkeit gegenübersteht wie einem äußeren Gegenstand, wie der gewöhnliche Mensch dem Tisch oder dem Stuhl oder irgendeinem sonstigen äußeren Gegenstand gegenübersteht. Sein Seelenleben außer dem Leibe zu erleben, das ist es, was man eben wiederum nur erleben kann. Und dann weiß man, wie das Leben ausschaut, das durch die Pforte des Todes durchgeht, das leibfrei lebt, wenn ihm auch der physische Leib zerstört wird. Es ist innerlich webendes Seelenleben, das dann in die geistige Welt hinübertritt, um durch die geistige Welt sich hindurchzuleben und aus der geistigen Welt nunmehr die Kräfte zu nehmen. 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