{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-02-07/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As if compressed into a single point of the I, the human being is recognized as spirit by ordinary consciousness. If one strengthens the inner soul force, as I have described in detail in my books “How to Know Higher Worlds,” “The Secret Science,” and “The Riddle of Man,” then one finds that this I really takes on content, just as one arrives at the content of the physical body for mere inner sensations through methodical scientific research. One arrives at a real exploration of the spirit, just as one learns about the chemical changes that take place in the blood or elsewhere in the body when a person is hungry or thirsty or feels satiated. In this way, one learns to recognize how an idea that lives within us and is initially a mere idea is now filled with pictorial content that is not as abstract as the idea that prevails in ordinary consciousness, content that the spiritual researcher brings into consciousness so that the idea becomes like a perception of this pictorial, imaginative content. Imaginative processes appear before the spiritual researcher's mind's eye, and they change. For example, when an idea becomes warmer, which is what happens in the subconscious in ordinary consciousness, the idea becomes something completely different. It then becomes something that is no longer merely an idea of knowledge, insight, or perception, but an idea that motivates the will. This is a very significant step forward for the spiritual researcher when he is able to ascend to such a realization, through which he understands how the concept of knowledge — under whose influence we do nothing, but only know something about the world — is transformed into a concept of will by the change in its imaginative content, which then passes over into what becomes or can become active within us. Here we see how the spiritual stands behind the soul and is in constant real change. Just as we can describe physical chemical and physical processes in the body, so we can describe spiritually how behind the life of imagination, feeling, and will there are changes that go from the imaginative to the inspired and the intuitive. And just as hunger and thirst subjectively arise from chemical changes in the body, so too does the spiritual subjectively arise, either as a perception or as a feeling, which then transforms into a volition. In this way, one arrives quite concretely at the possibility of a real description of what lives and weaves behind the soul as a spiritual being, just as the physical lives and weaves behind the soul on the other side. One then comes to the point where what can appear before the energized soul life becomes truly concrete in the human being, so that what I have previously called the “formative forces body” is felt by us in the same way as the physical body is usually felt. Then one also learns to recognize what lives outside in the world beyond the sensory as supersensible in a very concrete way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Human beings as Spiritual and Soul Beings","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-02-07","location":null,"word_count":508,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-02-07/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2018","book_title":"The Eternal in the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA067/English/SOL2018/19180207p01.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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So lernt man erkennen, wie eine Vorstellung, die in uns lebt und zunächst bloße Vorstellung ist, jetzt erfüllt ist von einem bildhaften Inhalt, der nicht so abstrakt ist wie die Vorstellung, die im gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein waltet, einem Inhalt, den der Geistesforscher ins Bewußtsein heraufhebt, so daß die Vorstellung wie eine Wahrnehmung dieses bildhaften, imaginativen Inhalts wird. Vor das geistige Auge des Geistesforschers treten imaginative Vorgänge, und sie verändern sich. Wenn zum Beispiel eine Vorstellung wärmer wird, was für das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein alles im Unterbewußten vor sich geht, dann wird aus der Vorstellung etwas ganz anderes. Dann wird daraus etwas, was nun nicht bloß eine Wissens-, eine Erkenntnis-, eine Wahrnehmungsvorstellung ist, sondern eine den Willen motivierende Vorstellung. Das ist ein sehr bedeutsamer Fortschritt für den Geistesforscher, wenn er aufzusteigen vermag zu einer solchen Erkenntnis, durch die er einsieht, wie die Erkenntnisvorstellung — unter deren Einfluß wir nichts tun, sondern nur von der Welt etwas wissen —, dadurch, daß sich ihr imaginativer Inhalt verändert, sich umgestaltet in eine Willensvorstellung, die dann übergeht zu dem, was in uns handelnd wird oder werden kann. Da sieht man, wie das Geistige hinter dem Seelischen stehtund in fortwährender wirklicher Veränderung ist. Wie wir leiblich chemische und physikalische Vorgänge im Leibe beschreiben können, so können wir geistig beschreiben, wie hinter dem Vorstellungs-, Gefühls- und Willensleben Veränderungen liegen, die vom Imaginativen ins Inspirierte und ins Intuitive gehen. Und wie aus der chemischen Veränderung des Leibes subjektiv Hunger und Durst erscheint, so erscheint umgekehrt das Geistige subjektiv, entweder als eine Wahrnehmungsvorstellung oder auch eine Gefühlsvorstellung, die sich dann in eine Willensvorstellung umwandelt. So gelangt man ganz konkret hinein in die Möglichkeit eines wirklichen Beschreibens desjenigen, was hinter der Seele als geistige Wesenheit lebt und webt, wie hinter der Seele nach der andern Seite lebt und webt das Leibliche. Man kommt dann dazu, daß das wirklich gegenständlich wird im Menschen, was so vor dem erkrafteten Seelenleben auftreten kann, daß das, was ich vorher «Bildekräfte-Leib» genannt habe, von uns so erfühlt wird, wie sonst nur der physische Leib erfühlt wird. 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