{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 66/1917-03-31/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus, the soul presents itself only when we become attentive: a delicate feeling is extinguished when I direct a strong thought of observation towards it. This interaction of the delicate feeling and the strong thought that observes it is the first manifestation of the workings and essence of the soul. So Eduard von Hartmann regrets not being able to observe that which changes, while he should be observing change. If he were to start from a point of view that allows him to look deeper into the life of the soul and into the connection between the life of the soul and the physical life than he is able to, then he would say the following about memorization, for example. He would recognize that memorizing is based on the fact that something of the soul has become engrained in the bodily process as a result of me having activated it many times, so that when I recite what I have memorized, the body automatically carries out what has to happen so that what I have memorized comes out again, so to speak without the soul having to be present. The person who is able to observe soul experiences knows that through memorization the soul element moves deeper into the bodily organization, so that there is more activity in the bodily realm than when we form present thoughts through direct contemplation that we have not memorized. When we form thoughts directly, I would say that we are working at a higher level in the soul than when we recite what we have memorized, where we bring forth more or less automatically what the soul has engraved in the body. But then, when we automatically run what we have buried from the soul into the body, we disturb this automatism when we intervene with a directly present thought that arises at a higher level, namely in the soul. It is when we enter with our thoughts from the soul into the automatism of the body, which takes place when reciting a piece of memorized material, just as if we were to insert a stick into a machine and disturb its operation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Beyond of the Senses and the Beyond of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-03-31","location":null,"word_count":359,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/66/1917-03-31/p014","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":"Mind and Matter — Life and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA066/English/SOL2024/19170331p01.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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Würde er von einem Gesichtspunkte ausgehen, der tiefer, als er es vermag, in das seelische Leben und in den Zusammenhang des seelischen Lebens mit dem körperlichen Leben hineinblicken läßt, dann würde er zum Beispiel über das Memorieren sich folgendes sagen. Er würde erkennen, daß das Memorieren darauf beruht, daß ein Seelisches dadurch, daß ich es oftmals betätigt habe, in das körperliche Geschehen sich eingegraben hat, so daß im Aufsagen des Memorierten, gewissermaßen ohne daß das Seelische dabei sein muß, der Körper automatisch ablaufen läßt, was zu geschehen hat, damit das zu Memorierende wieder hervorkommt. Derjenige, der seelische Erlebnisse zu beobachten versteht, der weiß, daß durch das Memorieren das Seelische gewissermaßen tiefer herunterrückt in die leibliche Organisation, daß es dadurch zu einer Betätigung mehr im Leiblichen kommt, als wenn wir durch unmittelbares Nachsinnen gegenwärtige Gedanken bilden, die wir nicht memoriert haben. Wenn wir unmittelbar Gedanken ausbilden, so betätigen wir uns, ich möchte sagen, um eine Schicht höher im Seelischen, als wir uns betätigen, wenn wir das Memorierte hersagen, wo wir das, was das Seelische in das Leibliche eingegraben hat, wiederum mehr oder weniger automatisch hervorbringen. Dann aber, wenn wir nun automatisch ablaufen lassen, was wir eingegraben haben vom Seelischen aus ins Leibliche, stören wir diesen Automatismus, wenn wir mit einem unmittelbar gegenwärtigen Gedanken eingreifen, der um eine Schicht höher, nämlich im Seelischen, entsteht, Es ist, wenn wir mit unseren Gedanken vom Seelischen aus hereinfahren in den Automatismus des Leibes, der sich abspielt beim Hersagen eines Memorierstoffes, geradeso wie wenn wir etwa mit einem Stock in einegehende Maschine hereinführen und ihr Ablaufen stören würden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":329,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/66/1917-03-31/p014"}],"english":["GA 66/1917-03-31/p014"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":329,"en_words":359,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10452,"original_word_count":9922,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Mind and Matter — Life and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA066/English/SOL2024/19170331p01.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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