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However, when growing into the spiritual worlds, it sees that this no longer hinders it , if a person has a clear awareness of these shortcomings before his separation and, when the soul emerges from its corporeality, gains an insight into the fact that these weaknesses and shortcomings become sources of action in the spiritual world as soon as he can look courageously and boldly at his faults. Indeed, the spiritual researcher must train his senses to such an extent that he can look at all ugly passions; for if he does not allow them all to enter into his fully clear consciousness, they will have all the stronger an effect on the spiritual field of perception, penetrating his views and turning them into errors, hallucinations and fantasies. Thus a connection is established between the evil, the work of the spiritual researcher and his ascent into the spiritual world. What is available to the spiritual researcher and provides him with clarity rests in the depths of the soul of the undeveloped human being. When the spiritual researcher visualizes evil in his mind's eye and compares it to the forces that could lift him up into the spiritual world, it turns out that the forces through which the human being commits evil deeds in the world of the senses are transformed in the spiritual world, so that through them one can see with spiritual senses in the spiritual world. Seen there, they are the germs for the blossoming of clairvoyant powers. But this should not be misunderstood as if these elevated powers, which are transformed into their opposite in the physical world and develop into a source of evil and badness, would now readily develop clairvoyant powers in the human soul if they were preserved from taking possession of the physical body. It is precisely this that shines a deep light into human life and explains why it is an obstacle for the spiritual researcher if he does not recognize evil and it then flows into his soul life, where it then presents itself as illusion and error. Evil is like gravity, for example, at a lower level of nature, when it manifests itself in avalanches, volcanic eruptions, which can lead to great misfortune, while gravity, when it is properly and moderately directed, as in the case of a waterworks, will become a blessing for the population.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":461,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-03-29/p013","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19140329p01.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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We thus become aware of how, on the one hand, forces must be developed that become evil on the other, and it is precisely these that can lead human beings up into the spiritual worlds; for in these forces, which have an evil effect in the physical world, higher forces prevail in a good, beneficial sense in the sphere that suits them. Thus, evil becomes transparent in its meaning as a product of the transformation of forces in human life, so that we finally arrive at the fact that this evil is the reversal of a higher good in a sphere of activity that is not appropriate for it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-03-29/p014","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19140329p01.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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Die Seele fühlt sich dann im Besitz von Kräften, die sie innerhalb des physischen Leibes nicht entfalten kann, mit dessen Neigung zum Verkehrten, Hässlichen und Irrtümlichen, sie sieht dann aber beim Hineinwachsen in die geistigen Welten, dass sie dieses nicht mehr behindert, wenn der Mensch vor seiner Trennung ein deutliches Bewusstsein dieser Mängel und beim Hinausgehen der Seele aus ihrer Leiblichkeit einen Einblick dahingehend bekommt, dass diese Schwächen und Mängel zu Quellen von Taten in der geistigen Welt werden, sobald er sich mutig und kühn auf seine Fehler hin anschauen kann. Ja, der Geistesforscher muss seine Sinne so ausbilden, dass er auf alle hässlichen Leidenschaften hinschauen kann; denn lässt er sie nicht alle ins völlig klare Bewusstsein treten, so wirken sie umso stärker auf dem geistigen Wahrnehmungsfelde, durchdringen seine Anschauungen und verkehren sie zu Irrtümern, Halluzinationen und Phantastereien. So stellt sich ein Zusammenhang heraus zwischen dem Bösen, dem Wirken des Geistesforschers und seinem Hinaufsteigen in die geistige Welt. Was dabei dem Geistesforscher zur Verfügung steht und ihm Klarheit verschafft, ruht bei dem in diesem Sinne unentwickelten Menschen in den Tiefen seiner Seele. Wenn nun der Geistesforscher sich das Böse vor das geistige Auge stellt und es vergleicht mit jenen Kräften, die ihn in die geistige Welt hinaufheben konnten, dann stellt sich heraus, dass die Kräfte, durch die der Mensch in der Sinneswelt das Böse vollbringt, in der geistigen Welt verwandelt werden, sodass man durch sie in der geistigen Welt mit geistigen Sinnen schauen kann, sie sind, dort angeschaut, die Keime zum Aufblühen von hellseherischen Kräften. Das darf aber nicht so missverstanden werden, als ob diese hochgehobenen Kräfte, die, in der physischen Welt in ihr Gegenteil verkehrt, sich zum Quell des Bösen und Schlechten ausgestalten, wenn sie bewahrt blieben vor dem Besitzergreifen des physischen Leibes, nun ohne Weiteres hellseherische Kräfte in der menschlichen Seele entwickeln würden. Gerade dieses leuchtet tief hinein in das menschliche Leben und gibt Aufklärung darüber, warum es ein Hindernis für den Geistesforscher ist, wenn er das Böse nicht erkennt und es dann hineinfließt in sein Seelenleben, wo es sich dann als Illusion und Irrtum darstellt. Es ist mit dem Bösen wie zum Beispiel mit der Schwerkraft auf einer niedrigeren Naturstufe, wenn sie sich in Lawinenstürzen, niederfallenden Vulkanausbrüchen äußert, die zu großem Unglück führen können, während die Schwerkraft, wenn sie, wie zum Beispiel bei einem Wasserwerk, richtig und maßvoll geleitet wird, zu einem Segen für die Bevölkerung werden wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":439,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-03-29/p013"},{"locus":"GA 69d/1914-03-29/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Nur um zu erläutern, sei es betont, dass die geisteswissenschaftlichen Tatsachen zeigen, wie sich das menschliche Leben nicht vorstellen lässt, wenn man es als einfaches Ding erklären will, sondern es ist aufzufassen als ein Durcheinanderspielen verschiedener Welten-Sphären, deren Kräfte in der einen Welt gut, in der anderen schädlich wirken können. Der menschliche Gesamt-Organismus muss andere Kräfte entwickeln in der einen besonderen Lebens-Sphäre als in einer anderen. So kann eine Lokomotive einen Menschen ohne Weiteres überfahren, wenn sich dieser in Verzweiflung vor ihr Räder auf die Schienen wirft und so in Konflikt gerät [m?] den Kräften, die ihm, wenn er als Reisender den Zug benützt hätte, zum Heil hätten gereichen können. Wir werden also gewahr, wie auf der einen Seite Kräfte entwickeln werden müssen, die auf der anderen Seite böse werden und gerade diese können den Menschen in die geistigen Welten hinaufführen; denn in diesen auf der physischen Welt böse wirkenden Kräften walten höhere Kräfte im guten, fördernden Sinne in der ihnen zusagenden Sphäre. Dadurch also wird nun das Böse durchsichtig in seine Bedeutung als ein Verwandlungsprodukt von Kräften im Leben des Menschen, sodass wir endlich zu der Tatsache kommen: Dieses Böse ist die Verkehrung eines höheren Guten in einer diesem nicht zusagenden Wirkungs-Sphäre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":203,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-03-29/p014"}],"beads":[{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"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)."}}