{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 66/1917-03-31/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us take a more obvious example than the one Nietzsche discussed in *Asceticism*. A person once wrote to me and often said: “I devote myself to a certain scientific direction; actually, I don't have the slightest sympathy for this scientific direction, but I consider it a mission, a duty, to work in this direction because humanity needs it in the present. I would actually rather do anything than what I am doing. I was not embarrassed to keep telling the man in question that, according to how he appeared to me, this was a superficial view of his soul about himself. Deep in the subconscious, in those layers of the soul's life of which he knows nothing, there lives in him a greed to carry out precisely that which he said he actually dislikes, that he only accepts as a mission. And in truth, I said, the whole thing seems to me that he regards this as a mission for the reason that he wants to develop these things out of the most selfish motives. So one can see, without going deeper into the soul life, that the superficial soul life almost falsifies the subconscious. But in this falsification lies a remarkable activity of the soul.","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":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/66/1917-03-31/p017","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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Ich würde ja eigentlich alles lieber tun als gerade dasjenige, was ich da ausführe. — Ich genierte mich nicht, dem betreffenden Manne immer wiederum zu sagen, nach dem, wie er mir erschiene, sei das eine oberflächliche Anschauung seiner Seele über sich selber. Tief im Unterbewußten, in jenen Schichten des Seelenlebens, von denen er nichts weiß, da lebt in ihm eine Gier, gerade das auszuführen, von dem er sagte, daß es ihm eigentlich unsympathisch ist, daß er es nur als eine Mission hinnehme. Und in Wahrheit, so sagte ich, erscheint mir die ganze Sache so, daß er das als eine Mission ansieht aus dem Grunde, weil er aus den egoistischsten Motiven heraus gerade diese Dinge ausbilden will. Da kann man sehen, ohne nun tiefer in das Seelenleben einzugehen, daß das oberflächliche Seelenleben das unterbewußte geradezu fälscht. 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