{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 66/1917-03-31/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The human being not only has his physical organism as a kind of section of the whole physical world, but he also has, held together by the physical organism, an etheric organism within him that can only be perceived if one ascends to imaginative knowledge, as I have described. But then, when what is ethereal really becomes vivid, then one encounters the great difference between what underlies the etheric body of the human being and the head and what underlies the etheric body of the rest of the organism. And just as the head and the rest of the organism have very different growth rates, so that which lives and is active in the etheric body of the head and that which lives in the etheric body of the rest of the organism has very different inner developments of strength, which evoke different inner imaginations. And when one enters the imaginative world at all, then the imagination of the etheric body of the head interacts with the imagination of the etheric body of the rest of the organism. And this living interaction in the human etheric organism is the content of a higher self-knowledge. The fact that the human being comes to truly recognize himself in this way also enables him to evaluate certain soul experiences in the right way. If what I have stated were not as I have described it, the human being would never be able to have what is called a memory. The human being would be able to form ideas from sensory impressions, but these would always pass by. The fact that a person can remember something that he has once experienced is based on the fact that the etheric body of the head, in interaction with the etheric body of the rest of the organism, causes that which takes effect in the etheric body of the head to bring about changes in the etheric body of the rest of the organism that are permanent and that work their way up into the physical organism. Every time something takes hold in the soul and bodily life of a person that belongs to memory, a change first occurs in the etheric organism that can be imagined through imaginative knowledge; but this change continues into the physical organism. And through this alone we have the possibility of again bringing up certain thoughts, that what is sent from the ether organism of the head into the other ether organism is imprinted in the physical body. Only by the fact that something has made impressions in our physical body are we able to retain it in our memory. But what happens in the physical organism in the manner described, can only be observed by the seeing consciousness. This can only be observed if the observing consciousness continues the exercises that are characterized in the books mentioned, if the observing consciousness rises from mere imaginative knowledge to what I have called “inspired knowledge”. Through imaginative knowledge we enter into a world of surging ether, which is animated by thoughts that permeate it. If we continue the exercises, we will gain more strength in our soul life than is necessary for this imaginative knowledge, and then we will not only perceive a surging thought life in the ether, but we will also perceive beings within this surging thought life, real spirit beings, which do not reveal themselves in any physical body, but which only reveal themselves in the spiritual. But by coming to the real perception of a spiritual world, we also come to the possibility of achieving what can be called: to look at the actual human being as well as at things from the outside, to really face oneself, not just to feel what I have now called one's own thought life in the surging ether, in one's own ether organism, but to perceive oneself among other spirit beings as a spirit being in the spiritual world. When this happens, something occurs that is difficult to even characterize, but that can be understood with some good will.","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":678,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/66/1917-03-31/p030","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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Und gerade so, wie das Haupt und der übrige Organismus ganz verschiedenes Tempo haben mit Bezug auf ihr Wachstum, so hat dasjenige, was kraftet und lebt im Ätherleib des Hauptes, und was lebt im Ätherleib des übrigen Organismus, ganz verschiedene innere Kraftentwickelungen, die verschiedene innere Imaginationen hervorrufen. Und kommt man überhaupt zur imaginativen Welt, dann tritt einem die Imagination des Ätherleibes des Kopfes in Wechselwirkung mit der Imagination des Ätherleibes des übrigen Organismus entgegen. Und dieses lebendige Zusammenwirken im menschlichen Ätherorganismus ist dasjenige, was der Inhalt einer höheren Selbsterkenntnis ist. Dadurch, daß der Mensch auf diese Weise dazu kommt, sich nun wirklich zu erkennen, gelangt er auch dazu, gewisse Seelenerlebnisse in der richtigen Weise bewerten zu können. Wäre das, was ich angeführt habe, nicht so, wie ich es geschildert habe, so würde der Mensch niemals das haben können, was man eine Erinnerung nennt. Der Mensch würde sich nach den Sinneseindrücken Vorstellungen bilden können, die würden aber immer vorübergehen. Daß der Mensch sich an das einmal Erlebte erinnern kann, das beruht darauf, daß, indem der Ätherleib des Hauptes in Wechselwirkung tritt mit dem Ätherleib des übrigen Organismus, dasjenige, was im Ätherleib des Hauptes wirkt, in dem Ätherleib des übrigen Organismus Veränderungen hervorruft, die bleibend sind, und die heraufwirken bis in den physischen Organismus. Jedesmal, wenn etwas im Menschen Platz greift in seinem seelischleiblichen Leben, was dem Gedächtnis angehört, tritt zunächst in dem durch die imaginative Erkenntnis vorstellbaren Ätherorganismus eine Veränderung auf; die aber setzt sich fort in den physischen Organismus. Und dadurch allein haben wir die Möglichkeit, wiederum heraufzuholen gewisse Gedanken, daß sich das, was vom Ätherorganismus des Hauptesin den übrigen Ätherorganismus hineingesendet wird, ausprägt in der physischen Leiblichkeit. Nur dadurch, daß irgend etwas bis in unsere physische Leiblichkeit Eindrücke gemacht hat, sind wir imstande, es gedächtnismäßig zu behalten. Aber das, was da vom Ätherorganismus aus in der geschilderten Weise im physischen Organismus geschieht, das kann jetzt wiederum nur mit dem schauenden Bewußtsein beobachtet werden. Das kann nur beobachtet werden, wenn das schauende Bewußtsein jene Übungen weiter fortsetzt, die in den angeführten Büchern charakterisiert sind, wenn das schauende Bewußtsein aufsteigt von der bloßen imaginativen Erkenntnis zu dem, was ich da genannt habe «inspirierte Erkenntnis», Durch die imaginative Erkenntnis tauchen wir ein in eine Welt des wogenden Äthers, der beseelt ist von ihn durchdringenden Gedanken. Setzen wir die Übungen weiter fort, erkraften wir uns mehr noch in unserem Seelenleben, als zu dieser imaginativen Erkenntnis nötig ist, dann kommen wir dazu, nicht nur wogendes Gedankenleben im Äther wahrzunehmen, sondern innerhalb dieses wogenden Gedankenlebens Wesen, wirkliche Geistwesen wahrzunehmen, die nun nicht in irgend einem physischen Leibe sich offenbaren, sondern die sich nur im Geistigen offenbaren. Dadurch aber, daß wir zur wirklichen Wahrnehmung einer geistigen Weltkommen, dadurch kommen wir auch zur Möglichkeit, das zu erreichen, was man nennen kann: die eigentliche menschliche Wesenheit wie die Dinge von außen zu betrachten, sich selber wirklich gegenüberzutreten, nicht bloß das zu erfühlen, was ich jetzt das eigene Gedankenleben im wogenden Äther genannt habe, im eigenen Ätherorganismus, sondern sich selber unter anderen Geistwesen als ein Geistwesen in der geistigen Welt wahrzunehmen. Kommt man dazu, dann tritt etwas ein, was schon schwierig ist auch nur zu charakterisieren, was aber mit einigem guten Willen verstanden werden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":620,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/66/1917-03-31/p030"}],"english":["GA 66/1917-03-31/p030"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":620,"en_words":678,"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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