10. The Supernatural Human Being III

GA 67/1918-04-20/p034 ·1918-04-20 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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One must first realize that the immortal essence of the human being lies in a free human act in order to understand that natural science is quite right when it speaks of no free actions; for it does not consider the immortal essence of the human being, nor is that its task. But until one understands this immortal being, one cannot penetrate to what rises up from the subconscious depths and is expressed in moral actions. The human will is not free in these impulses, but the development toward freedom lies within it. Human beings are beings who are becoming increasingly free. And the more they develop what lives within them as an eternal core of their being, the more freedom they attain. We are free because we are immortal; we are free with that part of our being with which we are immortal.

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