{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-04-15/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Something else. So in humans we are not only dealing with evolution, but also with devolution, with regression. And precisely because humans are more regressed than animals, they can become the bearers of the spiritual-soul. Everything I have said so far is essentially connected with something else. Anyone who can truly observe how animals express what — already according to observation — must be the organ of imagination, the organ of perception, of feeling, that is, the forward-facing parts of the animal organization, will find that what is expressed in form is expressed objectively. They will find that everything located at the front of the animal organism has to do with the life of imagination, perception, and feeling, and that everything located at the back has to do with the element of will. The two sides are, of course, connected again. Because the animal is placed in its equilibrium, it has, in a sense, side by side what the human being has one above the other: the will organization on the one hand and the intellect and instinct organization on the other. This creates a completely different connection in the animal between everything intellectual, everything imaginative, and everything that concerns the will. In humans, the organs of imagination are superimposed on the organs of will. This creates an inner contact between the organs of will and imagination. Anyone who knows how to observe the soul life will see that this human life of imagination is characterized by the fact that the will extends into it. Study the problems of attention and you will see that the will exerts its power there. This gives rise to the capacity for abstract thinking, which animals cannot have because their imagination lies alongside the will and not above it. Conversely, the will and the life of imagination exert their influence on each other, so that the will is also influenced by the imagination. It is only because the organs of the will belong to the subconscious that the will itself is expressed only as in sleep consciousness. In the state of sleep consciousness, human beings experience the actual process of the will in the same way as the other processes of sleep consciousness. This also highlights the unique connection between imagination and will that is peculiar to human beings: the life of imagination, which in animals is always in a dull, dreamlike state, is illuminated by the will. And likewise, the life of will in animals is much more intimately connected with the life of imagination; animals feel a much deeper connection with their will. This in turn means that in humans, the free life of feeling relates to the life of imagination and will in a completely different way, expressing itself much more deeply than in animals. In animals, the life of feeling rests in the organism; it is, in a sense, only a formal expression of the life of thought. On the other hand, the life of feeling in animals is only inhibited or uninhibited will, depending on whether it can achieve something or not. This is expressed in its entire life. Precisely because of this, it is much more connected with the entire external world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. The Super-Sensible Human Being I","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-04-15","location":null,"word_count":534,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-04-15/p029","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/SOL2018/19180415p01.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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Er wird finden, daß alles, was nach der vorderen Seite der tierischen Organisation gelegen ist, zu tun hat mit dem Vorstellungsleben, Wahrnehmungsleben, Fühlen, und wie das, was nach rückwärts gelegen ist, mit dem Willenselement zu tun hat. Die beiden Seiten stehen natürlich wieder in Verbindung. Dadurch, daß das Tier in sein Gleichgewicht hineingestellt ist, gewissermaßen nebeneinander hat, was der Mensch übereinander hat: die Willensorganisation einerseits und die Verstandes- und Instinktorganisation andererseits, dadurch ist ein ganz anderer Zusammenhang im Tier geschaffen zwischen allem Intellektuellen, allem Vorstellungsmäßigen, und allem, was den Willen betrifft. Beim Menschen lagern die Vorstellungsorgane über den Willensorganen. Dadurch ist ein innerer Kontakt geschaffen zwischen Willens- und Vorstellungsorganen. Wer nun das seelische Leben zu beobachten versteht, der wird sehen: dieses menschliche Vorstellungsleben ist dadurch charakterisiert, daß sich da hineinerstreckt der Wille. Studieren Sie die Probleme der Aufmerksamkeit, Sie werden sehen: der Wille kraftet da hinein. Und dadurch entsteht die Fähigkeit des abstrakten Denkens, welches das Tier nicht haben kann, weil sein Vorstellen neben dem Willen und nicht über ihm liegt. Und wieder umgekehrt, es kraften zusammen Wille und Vorstellungsleben, so daß auch wieder der Wille beeinflußt wird von dem Vorstellen. Nur weil die Organe des Willens zu den unterbewußten gehören, kommt der Wille selbst nur wie im Schlafbewußtsein zum Ausdruck. Der Mensch hat den eigentlichen Vorgang des Willens so im Schlafbewußtsein wie die anderen Vorgänge des Schlafbewußtseins. Auch dadurch wird der ganze, dem Menschen eigentümliche Zusammenhang zwischen Vorstellen und Wollen hervorgehoben: es wird durch das Wollen aufgehellt das Vorstellungsleben, das beim Tier immer in einem dumpfen, traumartigen Zustande ist. Und ebenso ist das Wollensleben beim Tier viel inniger zusammenhängend mit dem Vorstellungsleben, es fühlt innerlich viel mehr Zusammenhang mit seinem Wollen. Das bedingt wieder, daß sich beim Menschen das freie Gefühlsleben in einer ganz anderen Weise zum Vorstellungs- und Willensleben verhält, sich viel tiefergehend auslebt als beim Tier. Beim Tier ruht das Gefühlsleben in der Organisation; es ist gewissermaßen nur eine formelle Ausgestaltung des Gedankenlebens. Und auf der andern Seite ist das Gefühlsleben beim Tier nur gehemmtes oder ungehemmtes Willensleben, je nachdem es etwas erreichen oder nicht erreichen kann. Das kommt in seinem ganzen Leben zum Ausdruck. Gerade dadurch ist es mit der ganzen äußeren Welt viel mehr in Zusammenhang.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":475,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/67/1918-04-15/p029"}],"english":["GA 67/1918-04-15/p029"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":475,"en_words":534,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 67/1918-04-15/p029"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9594,"original_word_count":9286,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2018/19180415p01.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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