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In this way, it warms the soul with what it has gained in the consciousness soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1909-10-29/p043","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19091029p01.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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This carrying up and down of what has been gained... this is how we understand what character is, what moral character is.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":56,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1909-10-29/p044","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19091029p01.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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What elevates human beings above animals is the free mobility of their limbs and the subordination of their limbs to the sensations and concepts of their soul life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1909-10-29/p045","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19091029p01.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 werden wir im Leben zu handelnden Menschen, die nicht bloß Triebe und Leidenschaften ausleben, sondern zu solchen, die das Licht der moralischen Ideale hinuntertragen, sodass in ihnen kein Widerspruch besteht zwischen dem, worin sie die Leidenschaften tragen, und dem, was da leuchtet als moralische Urteile und Ideale. So trägt das Ich wieder hinunter in die unteren Regionen des Seelenlebens, was es oben gewonnen hat. So durchwärmt es die Seele mit dem in der Bewusstseinsseele Gewonnenen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1909-10-29/p043"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1909-10-29/p044","passage_number":44,"text":"Dadurch, dass das Ich sich in die Bewusstseinsseele hinaufentwickelt, wird der Mensch ein Charakter. Dadurch, dass [er] es wieder herunterträgt in die unteren Glieder, wird der Mensch ein moralischer, ein sittlicher Charakter. 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Was den Menschen über das Tier hinaushebt, ist die freie Beweglichkeit seiner Glieder und die Unterordnung seiner Glieder unter die Empfindungen und Begriffe seines Seelenlebens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":123,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1909-10-29/p045"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1909-10-29/p046","passage_number":46,"text":"Eine Bewegung, die das innere Seelenleben [besonders] ausdrückt, ist die Mimik [und Gestik]. Wir sehen, wie besonders die [Betätigung] seiner Seele in dem mimischen [und gestischen] Ausdruck sich eine äußere Prägung verschafft. Derjenige, der den mimischen Ausdruck, die Gebärden des Menschen in der richtigen Weise zu deuten vermag, der sieht, wie sich in der äußeren Leiblichkeit zeigt das ganze Spiel des Ich auf den verschiedenen Seelengliedern in der äußeren Gebärde. 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