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First of all, the sleeping person has no inner consciousness. When we fall asleep, our feelings and desires, perceptions and ideas, ideals sink into the darkness. When we wake up, they emerge again [into our field of vision]. Spiritual science explains it this way: When a person sleeps, the physical and etheric bodies lie in the bed; the astral body and the ego are lifted out. 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We now ask: What does the astral body and the ego do throughout the night while the person sleeps? Everything in the world, in the cosmos, has its task; so too does the astral body and the ego. Everything is wisely arranged in the cosmos. A being like the human being today could not exist without sleep. 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Only in the course of time has it been incorporated into the physical body. There is not yet complete harmony with the physical body. This is expressed through fatigue. During the night, the fatigue must be carried away. We receive strength during sleep through the work of the astral body on the physical body during the night. Natural science says that the human body is refreshed by physical processes. 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For example, let us imagine two people, one of whom slaps the other one in the face. One of the two people watching the scene explains: This person had a particular inner surge of anger [therefore he raised his hand to strike]; that was the cause of the slap. But the other says: You are a dreamer, I saw it: He raised his arm, moved his hand towards the other's face, and that's how he got slapped. Of course, the soul researcher does not deny this event; but he sees that something else was going on. 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If we trace this image back in the course of the earth's development, it changes continuously. Today's relationship between waking hours and nighttime sleep is not found in all ages. Today we have a ratio between waking and sleeping of two-thirds to one-third. If we go back, we come to times when people slept much more – were outside their physical body for much longer periods of time – and in distant primeval times we find that people slept for the majority of the time and were only in their physical body for a very short time. On the other hand, the activity that the astral body can perform on the physical body is ever more powerful and mighty. At the same time, we see that the physical body is becoming ever simpler and the human spirit is being occupied more and more. 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Wenn der naturalistische Denker, welcher glaubt, rein auf naturwissenschaftlichen Tatsachen ein Bekenntnis gründen [zu] können, von diesen vier Gliedern der Menschennatur hört, dann wird er vielleicht lachen, [den Kopf schütteln] oder den als einen Dummkopf betrachten, der mit solchen Wortzusammenstellungen kommt und darauf eine Erkenntnis gründen will. Wortzusammenstellungen wären es aber gerade, wenn tatsächlich die materiellen Vorgänge des Leibes bewirken sollten die Gefühle, die Gedanken und das Ich. Die Geisteswissenschaft erkennt, dass gerade der äußere Leib nicht das Erste ist, sondern das Erste das Ich und der astralische Leib sind, und der Ätherleib und der physische Leib nichts sind als Verdichtungen des geistigen Wesens des Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-12-16/p035"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1907-12-16/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Für den Geistesforscher verhält sich der physische Leib zum Astralleib so wie Eis zum Wasser. Wenn ein Kind kommt und uns ein Stück Eis zeigt und fragt, was das ist — und wir sagen: Liebes Kind, das Eis ist Wasser in anderer Form!, - so wird es das vielleicht zuerst nicht glauben; aber wir können es ihm begreiflich machen; dann wird es das einsehen. So zeigt die Geisteswissenschaft, dass alles materielle Sein [umgeformter], verdichteter Geist ist. Alles Materielle ist aus dem Geistigen hervorgegangen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":83,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-12-16/p036"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1907-12-16/p037","passage_number":37,"text":"Blicken wir jetzt zurück auf unseren Erdenanfang im Sinne der Geisteswissenschaft, dann erkennen wir [Folgendes]: Alles das, was der hypothetische Mensch als sinnliches Werden nach und nach entstehen sehen würde, das würde er erkennen als Verdichtung eines vorherigen Geistigen, als ein Herausfließen aus dem Geiste. Im Anfang der Erdenentwicklung haben wir es mit nichts anderem zu tun als dem Geistigen. Alles Materielle - Mineralien, Pflanzen und Tiere, die ganze Sinnenwelt mit allen Wesen — sind herausentwickelt aus dem Geistigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":79,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-12-16/p037"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1907-12-16/p038","passage_number":38,"text":"[Betrachten wir einmal den Schlafzustand.] Wenn wir heute den schlafenden Menschen betrachten, was sehen wir da? Der schlafende Mensch hat zunächst innerlich kein Bewusstsein. Lust und Leid, Wahrnehmung und Vorstellung, Ideale sinken beim Einschlafen ins Dunkel hinunter. Beim Aufwachen treten sie wieder heraus [ins Blickfeld des Menschen]. Die Geisteswissenschaft erklärt die Sache so: Wenn der Mensch schläft, so liegt im Bette der physische und Ätherleib; herausgehoben sind der astralische Leib und das Ich. Weil der Mensch mit der Umwelt nur in Beziehung treten kann durch die Instrumente des physischen Leibes, so kann der Astralleib nur Wahrnehmungen haben, er kann nur Lust und Leid erleben, wenn er in dem physischen Leib darinnen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":112,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-12-16/p038"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1907-12-16/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"Fichte sagt: Nicht die Augen sehen, sondern das Ich nimmt wahr durch sie. — In einem zukünftigen Entwicklungszustand der Menschheit wird der Astralleib für sich [Wahrnehmungsorgane] haben, womit er wahrnehmen kann; der Eingeweihte hat sie schon jetzt. Dann wird er die geistige Welt wahrnehmen, wie es der Eingeweihte schon heute tut. Der Astralleib kann im schlafenden Zustand des Menschen die Welt um sich herum nicht wahrnehmen. Aber es wäre Unsinn, wollte man sagen, abends werde der Astralleib und das Ich des Menschen vernichtet und morgen erstehen sie von Neuem. — Nein, der astralische Mensch war nur in seiner eigentlichen Heimat, der Astralwelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":102,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-12-16/p039"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1907-12-16/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"Für die Geisteswissenschaft ist der schlafende Mensch ein anderes Wesen als der wachende Mensch. Wir fragen nun: Was macht die ganze Nacht hindurch, während der Mensch schläft, der astralische Leib und das Ich? Alles, was in der Welt, im Kosmos ist, hat seine Aufgabe; so auch der Astralleib und das Ich. Alles ist im Kosmos weise eingerichtet. Ohne Schlaf könnte ein Wesen, wie es der Mensch heute ist, nicht bestehen. Wenn der Astralleib immer im physischen Körper wäre, immer in den Sinnen, Augen und Ohren, den Händen tätig wäre, so würde die Ermüdung zuletzt aufreibend wirken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-12-16/p040"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1907-12-16/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"In der Vorzeit lebte der Astralleib in der astralischen Welt. Dort war er im Einklang mit seiner Welt. Erst im Laufe der Zeit hat er sich eingegliedert in den physischen Leib. Eine völlige Harmonie mit dem physischen Leib besteht noch nicht. Das kommt zum Ausdruck durch die Ermüdung. Während der Nachtzeit muss die Ermüdung fortgeschafft werden. Stärkung erhalten wir im Schlaf durch die Arbeit des astralischen Leibes am physischen Leibe während der Nacht. Die Naturwissenschaft sagt, der Mensch[enkörper] werde erfrischt durch physische Vorgänge. Das leugnet der Geistesforscher nicht; aber auch das Andere geschieht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":93,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-12-16/p041"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1907-12-16/p042","passage_number":42,"text":"Die Geistesforschung sieht zu den äußeren Tatsachen die dahinterstehenden geistigen Gründe. Stellen wir uns zum Beispiel vor zwei Menschen, von denen der eine dem anderen eine Ohrfeige gibt. Von zwei Zuschauern erklärt der eine: Dieser Mensch hatte eine besondere innere Zornesaufwallung, [deshalb erhob er die Hand zum Schlage]; das war die Ursache der Ohrfeige. — Der andere aber sagt: Sie sind ein Träumer, ich habe es doch gesehen: Er hob den Arm, bewegte die Hand nach des andern Gesicht, und dadurch hat dieser die Ohrfeige bekommen. — Diesen Vorgang leugnet der Seelenforscher natürlich nicht; aber er sieht, dass noch etwas anderes vor sich ging. So steht der Geistesforscher dem Naturforscher gegenüber.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":111,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-12-16/p042"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1907-12-16/p043","passage_number":43,"text":"Der eigentliche Mensch — das Ich — lebt während des Nachtzustandes, wenn auch unbewusst, in einem geistigen Dasein und arbeitet an seinem physischen Körper. Wenn wir dies Bild zurückverfolgen im Laufe der Erdentwicklung, dann ändert es sich fortwährend. Das heutige Verhältnis zwischen Tagwachen und dem Schlafe der Nacht finden wir nicht zu allen Zeiten. Heute haben wir ein Verhältnis zwischen Wachen und Schlafen wie zwei Drittel zu einem Drittel. Gehen wir zurück, so kommen wir zu Zeiten, in denen der Mensch viel mehr schläft — viel längere Zeit außerhalb seines physischen Leibes ist, und in fernen Urzeiten finden wir, dass der Mensch den größten Teil der Zeit verschläft, dass er nur ganz kurze Zeit im physischen Leibe ist. 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Gleichzeitig sehen wir, dass der physische Leib immer einfacher wird und der Geist des Menschen immer mehr in Anspruch genommen wird. — Würden wir noch weiter zurückgehen, so würden wir finden, dass der Mensch noch keinen physischen und noch keinen Ätherleib hat, sondern dass er ein rein astralisches Wesen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-12-16/p043"}],"beads":[{"from":[35],"to":[35],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[36],"to":[36],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[37],"to":[37],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[38],"to":[38],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[39],"to":[39],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[40],"to":[40],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[41],"to":[41],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[42],"to":[42],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[43],"to":[43],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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