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The average European says to himself with regard to certain instincts and drives: “You must not follow them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":53,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68d/1908-01-29/p029","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068d/English/SOL2024/19080129p01.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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Of course, everyone has learned an enormous amount. All of this has a transforming effect on the astral body, changing the astral body. But if we were a hot-tempered or melancholy child at seven or eight years old, let us examine whether this hot temper or melancholy has changed. Some of it will usually still emerge at a later age. Schopenhauer therefore says that the qualities do not change at all. But that is not the case. They just change slowly. When the astral body changes, as the minute hand on the clock advances, so do the temperament and character change, the habits, as the hour hand of the clock advances, because the ether body is the carrier of it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":280,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68d/1908-01-29/p030","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068d/English/SOL2024/19080129p01.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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When a person does this with something that captures their soul, allowing themselves to be drawn to it again and again, the impulses have the same effect on their etheric or life body as the etheric body of the plant that drives out leaf after leaf. We call the forces of the transformed life body Lebensgeist or Budhi.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68d/1908-01-29/p031","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068d/English/SOL2024/19080129p01.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 transformed part of the principle of the physical body is called a spiritual man or Atman, because Atma means breathing. He thus forms the three limbs of the higher being; the fifth limb, Manas, is the transformed astral body, the sixth limb, Budhi, is the transformed etheric body; the seventh limb, Atman, is the transformed physical body. In the ordinary human being, the four limbs are fully present, the three higher limbs developed according to the degree of development. These seven members of the human being enclose the transitory in him, but they also enclose the eternal. The arrangement that has been mentioned is the one we have between birth and death. When the human being passes through the gate of death, this arrangement changes. 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Der europäische Durchschnittsmensch sagt sich bei gewissen Instinkten und Trieben: Denen darfst du nicht folgen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":47,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1908-01-29/p029"},{"locus":"GA 68d/1908-01-29/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Vergleichen wir den Durchschnittsmenschen mit Schiller. Er unterscheidet sich von dem Durchschnittsmenschen dadurch, dass er manche Instinkte und Begierden umgewandelt hat in höhere Eigenschaften. Der Heilige hat gar nichts mehr von Begierden, über die er nicht Herr geworden ist. Bei dem astralischen Leibe eines fortgeschrittenen Menschen können wir zwei Teile unterscheiden, einen Teil, den das Ich veredelt hat, und einen Teil, der noch nicht umgewandelt ist. Den umgewandelten Teil des Astralleibes nennen wir Manas oder Geistselbst, das fünfte Glied der menschlichen Wesenheit. So ist der Mensch imstande, aufgrund der vier Glieder der menschlichen Wesenheit ein fünftes im Laufe seiner Vervollkommnung zu erzeugen. Ja, er ist imstande, ein sechstes zu erzeugen. Er kann nicht nur umgestalten den Astralleib, sondern auch den Äther- oder Lebensleib. Wir wollen uns erinnern an das Lebensalter von sieben oder acht Jahren, und was wir dazu gelernt haben seit jener Zeit. Jeder hat natürlich ungeheuer viel dazu gelernt. Alles das wirkt umgestaltend auf den astralischen Leib, verändert den Astralleib. Wenn wir aber mit sieben oder acht Jahren ein jähzorniges oder melancholisches Kind waren, so prüfen wir einmal, ob dieser Jähzorn oder diese Melancholie sich geändert haben. Etwas davon wird auch im späteren Alter gewöhnlich noch auftauchen. Schopenhauer meint daher, die Eigenschaften ändern sich gar nicht. Aber das ist nicht so. Sie ändern sich nur langsam. Wenn der Astralleib sich ändert, wie der Minutenzeiger an der Uhr vorrückt, so ändern sich im Vergleich dazu Temperamente und Charakter, die Gewohnheiten, wie der Stundenzeiger der Uhr vorrückt, weil der Ätherleib der Träger davon ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":254,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1908-01-29/p030"},{"locus":"GA 68d/1908-01-29/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Es gibt etwas im gewöhnlichen Leben, wodurch der Mensch seinen Ätherleib verwandeln kann. Solche Impulse sind die der wahren Kunst, die uns in Form, Farbe und Ton das Göttliche ahnen lässt. Diese Kunst wirkt umgestaltend auf dasjenige, was im Ätherleib wirksam ist. Darauf wirkt auch umgestaltend alles das, was in den religiösen Impulsen der Menschheit gegeben wird. Wenn zum Beispiel die religiösen Impulse im Gebet jeden Tag durch die Seele ziehen, dann wirken sie durch die Wiederholung im Äther- oder Lebensleib. Dass der Ätherleib das Prinzip der Wiederholung vertritt, das können wir beobachten, wo es noch ungetrübt wirkt, draußen an der Pflanze. Immer wieder nimmt sie ihre Kraft zusammen und entfaltet Blatt für Blatt. Tut das der Mensch mit etwas, was seine Seele packt, dass er immer wieder sich davon durchzichen lässt, so wirken die Impulse so auf seinen Äther- oder Lebensleib, wie der Ätherleib der Pflanze wirkt, die Blatt an Blatt hervortreibt. Die Kräfte des umgestalteten Lebensleibes nennen wir Lebensgeist oder die Budhi.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1908-01-29/p031"},{"locus":"GA 68d/1908-01-29/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Wenn der Mensch in die sogenannte Geheimschulung aufgenommen wird, wodurch er noch intensiver wirken kann auf sein Inneres, durch bedeutsame Impulse, dann wirkt er noch stärker auf den Äther- oder Lebensleib, sodass er die Erweckung erleben kann. Für den Ätheroder Lebensleib ist die Umänderung der Gewohnheiten wichtiger als alles Lernen. Für die eigentliche geheimwissenschaftliche Schulung hat man unendlich viel getan, wenn man sich die geringste Gewohnheit bewusst abgewöhnt. Der Mensch kann auch lernen, die stärkste Kraft des Geistes zu entwickeln, durch die er die niedere Kraft des physischen Leibes überwindet. Anfangen wird dieser Prozess mit einer Regulierung des Atmungsprozesses. Wenn er diesen Prozess regulieren kann, dann beginnt er umzubilden das Prinzip des physischen Leibes. Diesen umgewandelten Teil des Prinzips des physischen Leibes nennt man Geistesmensch oder Atman, weil Atma das Atmen bedeutet. Er gestaltet so die drei Glieder der höheren Wesenheit heraus; das fünfte Glied, Manas, ist der umgestaltete Astralleib, das sechste Glied, Budhi, ist der umgestaltete Ätherleib; das siebente Glied, Atman, ist der umgestaltete physische Leib. Beim gewöhnlichen Menschen sind die vier Glieder vollständig vorhanden, die drei höheren Glieder je nach dem Grade der Entwicklung ausgestaltet. Diese sieben Glieder des Menschen umschließen das Vergängliche bei ihm, aber sie umschließen auch das Ewige. Die Anordnung, die genannt wurde, ist die, wie wir sie haben zwischen Geburt und Tod. Wenn der Mensch die Pforte des Todes durchschreitet, dann ändert sich diese Anordnung. Wenn wir hineinschauen in das Geheimnis des Todes, dann löst sich uns auch das Rätsel des Lebens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":248,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1908-01-29/p032"}],"beads":[{"from":[29],"to":[29],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[30],"to":[30],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[31],"to":[31],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[32],"to":[32],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}