{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1915-12-10/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Up to the point that one remembers back in life, a process takes place in the human being, and that is first in the prenatal period, before conception, in the purely spiritual world. A process takes place that aims at activities that, so to speak, build up the organism, that lie in the direction of the organism's life. Up to the point in life that we remember, this inner activity of strength, which is the not yet thinking thinking being, thinking power, ceases to build up the human being. From this moment on, it breaks down in man, actually perpetually carrying out destructive processes, which then add up and finally bring about the external physical death of man, which take the body of man away from his soul and his spirit. So that when we examine thinking from a spiritual scientific point of view, we find it bound to a process of disintegration, to a process that, when thinking proceeds as it does in ordinary life, breaks down. The breakdown must then always be replaced by thinking standing still in sleep. But the breakdown process is stronger, more intense, and ultimately slowly causes death, insofar as it is connected with those processes of the organism that are anchored in the organism of thinking. Of course, death is also connected with other processes. Thus, by developing this ordinary everyday thinking, we depend on our organization in such a way that this thinking is actually connected with a destruction of the organism. So what brings us death in the organism is connected with that which is the highest flowering of human inner experience for this world between birth and death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. The Human Soul and the Human Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-12-10","location":null,"word_count":278,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1915-12-10/p016","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 Central European Intellectual Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA065/English/SOL2024/19151210p01.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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Von diesem Augenblicke an baut sie im Menschen ab, übt eigentlich fortwährend Zerstörungsprozesse aus, die sich dann summieren und die endlich den äußeren physischen Tod des Menschen herbeiführen, die den Leib des Menschen hinwegnehmen von seiner Seele und seinem Geiste. So daß wir gerade, wenn wir das Denken geisteswissenschaftlich durchforschen, es leiblich gebunden fühlen an einen Abbauprozeß, an einen Prozeß, der, indem das Denken so verläuft wie im gewöhnlichen Leben, abbaut. Es muß der Abbau dann immer wiederum ersetzt werden, indem das Denken stillesteht im Schlafe. Aber der Abbauprozeß ist stärker, ist intensiver und führt endlich langsam den Tod herbei, insofern er mit jenen Prozessen des Organismus zusammenhängt, die eben in dem Organismus des Denkens verankert sind. Selbstverständlich hängt der Tod auch mit anderen Prozessen zusammen. So hängen wir, indem wir dieses gewöhnliche alltägliche Denken entwickeln, von unserer Organisation so ab, daß dieses Denken eigentlich mit einem Zerstören des Organismus verbunden ist. Mit dem, was uns den Tod bringt im Organismus, ist also dasjenige verbunden, was im höchsten Maße die Blüte des menschlichen inneren Erlebens für diese Welt zwischen Geburt und Tod ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":264,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1915-12-10/p016"}],"english":["GA 65/1915-12-10/p016"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":264,"en_words":278,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":11977,"original_word_count":11532,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From Central European Intellectual Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA065/English/SOL2024/19151210p01.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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