{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1915-12-10/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we now look at ordinary life, at the ordinary inner experiences of the soul, we must say that these inner experiences of man are such that, without his knowing it, the objects of clairvoyance and clairaudience are continually within him, that these objects are continually active in his ordinary mental life. What enters from the spiritual world remains active in us by going through conception and birth. This is what man, when he notices it, calls more the spiritual in his soul life. But that which passes through the gate of death, which lies in the will, so that it is like an inner spectator, that is what man, when he has it not in connection with the whole macrocosm but in the ordinary experience of the soul, calls more the soul in him. And the spiritual and soul aspects in all their diversity and variety ultimately lead back to these two aspects of human nature. The spirit always lies in what we develop on the side of thinking. One becomes ingenious — if the word may now be used only in a technical sense — without going the paths of the spiritual researcher, which may still remain in the unconscious, by developing one's thinking to ever greater inner mobility, to ever greater inventiveness, so that thoughts flow more abundantly and are more related to what belongs together in the sequence of ideas that one can have. Through this spiritualization, in which that lives which can be found in its true essence through the above-mentioned path of thinking and meditation, through this spiritual life in the human soul, one learns in life – but now practically, not theoretically – that which can be called knowledge of human nature. One learns what guides one to place the human being in the right way into the world. One learns what reveals the connections of the world before one's own soul. One thereby distances oneself in a certain way, by developing the spirit, from what expresses itself as a physical human being. Through the development of one's spiritual self, one approaches that which was primarily active when we entered the world of the senses. In a sense, then, by becoming spiritual, one distances oneself from what is directly experienced in the world of the senses. This is why, by becoming spiritual, one enters into a certain cool atmosphere. But by surveying the wise connections of the world, which reveal themselves to the inner soul, one can go far in this direction. One can gather a lot in the world, feel what the other does not feel, be able to express a lot about world connections, also invent things that are then translated into reality from the world connections. One can go far in this way. The whole process is such that the world, I would say, becomes more luminous, that it becomes transparent to us. It is the process of becoming spiritual, of the spirit rising within the human being like a preliminary stage, like a preliminary stage not yet imbued with true clairvoyance, of entering into the world from which we have come through conception or through birth.","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":527,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1915-12-10/p025","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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Dasjenige aber, was durch die Pforte des Todes schreitet, was in dem Willen liegt, so liegt, daß es wie ein innerer Zuschauer ist, das ist dasjenige, was der Mensch, wenn er es nicht im Zusammenhange mit dem ganzen Makrokosmos, sondern im gewöhnlichen Seelenerlebnis in sich hat, mehr das Seelische in sich nennt. Und das Geistige und Seelische in all der Mannigfaltigkeit, in all der Vielartigkeit, wie sie auftreten, führen zuletzt auf diese beiden Einschläge in die menschliche Natur zurück. Der Geist, der liegt immer in dem, was wir nach der Denkseite hin entwickeln. Man wird dadurch geistreich — wenn das Wort jetzt nur im technischen Sinne gebraucht werden darf —, daß man, ohne die Wege des Geistesforschers zu gehen, die einem da noch im Unbewußten bleiben können, dieses Denken zu immer größerer innerer Beweglichkeit, zu immer größerer Erfindungsgabe ausbildet, so daß einem Gedanken reichlicher zufließen, so daß sie verwandter sind dem, was innerlich zusammengehört in der Ideenfolge, die man haben kann. Durch dieses Geistreicherwerden, in dem also das lebt, was seiner wirklichen Wesenheit nach durch den angeführten Denk-Meditationsweg gefunden werden kann, durch dieses Geistige in der Menschenseele lernt man vorzugsweise im Leben — aber jetzt praktisch, nicht theoretisch gemeint — dasjenige, was man Menschenkenntnis nennen kann. Man lernt, was einen anleitet, den Menschen in der richtigen Weise in die Welt hineinzustellen. Man lernt, was überhaupt die Zusammenhänge der Welt vor der eigenen Seele enthüllt. Man entfernt sich dadurch in einer gewissen Weise, indem gerade der Geist sich ausbildet, von dem, was sich so recht als physischer Mensch ausdrückt. Man nähert sich durch die Ausbildung seines Geistigen dem, was nun gerade vorzugsweise tätig war, damit wir in die Sinneswelt hereinkamen. Dadurch entfernt man sich in einer gewissen Weise durch das Geistreichwerden von dem, was unmittelbar in der Sinneswelt erlebt wird. Daher rührt es, daß man durch das Geistreichwerden in eine gewisse kühle Atmosphäre hineinkommt. Aber durch das Überschauen der weisheitvollen Zusammenhänge der Welt, die sich vor der inneren Seele enthüllen, kann man in dieser Richtung weit kommen. Man kann vieles zusammentragen in der Welt, empfinden, was der andere nicht empfindet, in der Lage sein, vieles auszusprechen an Weltzusammenhängen, auch Dinge erfinden, die dann aus den Weltzusammenhängen heraus in die Wirklichkeit umgesetzt werden. Man kann auf diese Weise weit kommen. Das ganze verläuft so, daß die Welt, ich möchte sagen, lichtvoller wird, daß sie für uns durchschaubar wird. Es ist das Geistreichwerden, das Aufgehen des Geistes im menschlichen Innern wie eine Vorstufe, wie eine noch nicht von wahrer Hellsichtigkeit durchtränkte Vorstufe eines Hineingehens in die Welt, aus der wir herausgekommen sind durch die Empfängnis oder durch die Geburt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":527,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1915-12-10/p025"}],"english":["GA 65/1915-12-10/p025"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":527,"en_words":527,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"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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