{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1914-05-08/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If you continue with the exercises, you will come to something else. To express what I want to make clear, I would like to refer to the development of the child. It can be scientifically proven that human beings enter physical life in such a way that they first have to acquire the power of direction and position for external life. Animals enter physical life in a different way; the reasons for this are only apparent. Human beings enter life in such a way that they are initially crawling, helpless creatures and must first acquire the power of orientation. Significant spirits have always pointed out what it means for human beings to stand upright and be able to look up at the heavens. Humans acquire this in childhood. The powers within them awaken, enabling them to become upright beings. They give their whole body its external physiognomy; they put what they are as spirits into their bodies, which are given to them through heredity; the spirit straightens this body through forces that are peculiar to the human spirit — this can also be proven scientifically, but that would go too far today — which are not merely forces of the body, but are contained in the spiritual-soul, permeate the body, and give it its upright direction. What we put into the body in early childhood, what we pour into the body so that we become upright beings, we can also emancipate from the body, just as we emancipate the powers of thought and speech. This is, of course, the most difficult thing to do, but gradually one acquires the ability to truly extract from the body that which gives direction to the human being in childhood, so that one can give oneself any direction outside the body. In particular, one can learn to recognize the great difference between up and down; these are not spatial directions, but the direction up is an inner experience. Once you have emancipated the upward force from the body, something rises up in the soul, outside of the body, which the soul experiences deeply morally, something about which it can say: it is like working against gravity. However, this is not meant in a directional or spatial sense, but rather, what the soul experiences can be expressed as follows: by experiencing this “upward” movement, the soul feels increasingly lonely. And then, by truly experiencing this in the soul, one goes through all those moods that can be experienced under the impression of being more and more alone. Being so alone that one knows: there is a world outside of you, but you now perceive nothing of this world spiritually. You disappear, as it were, from this world and are more and more within yourself. This goes so far that if the soul is not attuned to this loneliness, as you can read in the book “How to Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds,” this loneliness comes over the person in such a way that they feel a whole world within themselves, that they feel more and more only themselves in the ascent, as it were, and the world sinks away from them. This mood, in which the soul feels a world within itself, can in turn be associated with fear of oneself, that one is now going through all the tragic and all the blissful conflicts, that one becomes aware of everything that lies beneath the surface of the human soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-05-08","location":null,"word_count":575,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p030","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/SOL2024/19140508p01.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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Der Mensch kommt herein in das Leben so, dass er zuerst ein kriechendes unbehilfliches Wesen ist und sich die Richtekraft erst aneignen muss. Und bedeutsame Geister haben immer darauf hingewiesen, was es für den Menschen bedeutet, dass er aufrecht dasteht und in Himmelsweiten zu schauen vermag. Das erwirbt sich der Mensch in der Kindheit. Da werden die Kräfte in ihm wach, durch die er dieses aufrechte Wesen werden kann. Da gibt er seinem ganzen Leibe die äußere Physiognomie; das, was er als Geist ist, das steckt er in seinen Leib hinein, der ihm durch die Vererbungsfolge gegeben wird; der Geist richtet diesen Leib auf durch Kräfte, die beim Menschen dem Geiste eigen sind - das lässt sich auch naturwissenschaftlich erweisen, doch würde das heute zu weit führen -, die nicht bloß Kräfte des Leibes sind, sondern im Geistig-Seelischen stecken, den Leib durchdringen und ihm die aufrechte Richtung geben. Das, was wir da in den Leib anlegen in der ersten Kindheit, was wir hineingießen in den Leib, damit wir ein aufrechtes Wesen werden, das können wir auch von dem Leibe emanzipieren, wie wir die Denk- und Sprachkraft emanzipieren. Das ist allerdings am schwierigsten zu verrichten, aber man erlangt allmählich die Möglichkeit, wirklich dasjenige, was dem Menschen in der Kindheit die Richtung gibt, herauszuholen aus dem Leibe, sodass man außerhalb des Leibes sich jede beliebige Richtung geben kann. Namentlich kann man kennenlernen den großen Unterschied zwischen Hinauf und Hinunter; nicht räumliche Richtungen sind das, sondern die Richtung hinauf ist ein inneres Erlebnis. Hat man die Aufrichtekraft vom Leibe emanzipiert, so hebt sich in der Seele dann etwas hinaus, außerhalb seines Leibes, was die Seele tief moralisch erlebt, etwas, wovon sie sagen kann: Es ist wie ein der Schwerkraft Entgegenarbeiten. Es ist aber nicht richtungsgemäß, nicht räumlich gemeint, sondern, was die Seele erlebt, kann man etwa so ausdrücken: Die Seele fühlt sich, indem sie dieses «Hinauf» erlebt, immer einsamer und einsamer. Und man macht dann, indem man dies in der Seele wirklich erlebt, alle jene Stimmungen durch, die eben durchgemacht werden können unter dem Eindruck, immer mehr und mehr allein zu sein. So allein zu sein, dass man weiß: Außerhalb deiner ist eine Welt, aber du nimmst jetzt auch geistig nichts von dieser Welt wahr. Du entschwindest gleichsam dieser Welt und bist immer mehr und mehr in dir. - So weit geht das, dass, wenn die Seele nicht in der Art gestimmt wird für diese Einsamkeit, wie Sie es in dem Buche «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» nachlesen können, diese Einsamkeit so über den Menschen kommt, dass er eine ganze Welt in sich fühlt, dass er immer mehr und mehr nur sich fühlt im Aufsteigen gleichsam, und die Welt ihm wie entsinkt. Diese Stimmung, wo allerdings die Seele eine Welt in sich fühlt, kann wiederum mit Furcht vor sich selbst verbunden sein, dass man nun durchmacht alle tragischen und alle beseligenden Konflikte, dass man gewahr wird, was alles in dem Untergrund einer Menschenseele ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":572,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p030"}],"english":["GA 69d/1914-05-08/p030"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":572,"en_words":575,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10124,"original_word_count":9939,"may_be_abridged":false},"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/SOL2024/19140508p01.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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