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How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?","date":"1914-05-08","location":null,"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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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And the moment that occurs immediately in the middle between death and new birth — I have taken the liberty of calling it “the spiritual midnight hour of existence” in the mystery drama “The Awakening of the Soul” “the spiritual midnight hour of existence” because there, in fact, in the midst of the bliss of spiritual life before the next birth, the soul experiences a moment when it is completely alone with itself, experiencing only itself, but can become quite anxious in the awareness: there is a world around you, but it is outside your consciousness, you know nothing about it; a world, indeed worlds, arise from within you. You are alone with these worlds.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p031","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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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And he becomes familiar with another mood, which can be described as “going down,” the mood in which the soul feels as if it were radiating its own soul light, so to speak. Just as in physical life we see and perceive things because the sun shines on them, so in the spiritual world we must let the light of the spirit itself shine on things. And moments of loneliness flow into us when we slacken in letting the inner sun shine. When the light of the inner sun shines, we spread ourselves, as it were, over the world of other beings. What could be called “spiritual companionship,” “spiritual togetherness” with the souls who died before or after us, with those we lived with, or with those who are on earth—for from the spirit world we perceive the souls who are still incarnated on earth—this state of spiritual spiritual perception, living in it, alternates between death and a new birth with the state of loneliness. The two states alternate with the same regularity as day and night alternate in our physical life. In this way, one acquires the ability to feel, as it were, lonely, but with an inner world, to feel poured out over the spiritual world and its beings and processes. But one also learns to know other forces that can be compared to right and left, front and back. But by becoming attuned to these forces, by allowing the soul to develop these forces, which we are unaware of in ordinary life but which arise in the subconscious when the soul gives itself its first physiognomy for the world, by developing all these forces, one of which is the power of uprightness, we acquire the ability to to live further into the spiritual world, into the world of spiritual beings that surround us, then we come completely out of ourselves. We look at our body outside ourselves and we can enter into the other spiritual beings, we can take on their physiognomy. For while we develop our first physiognomy, our upright gait, here, we must take on the inner constitution of spiritual beings in the spiritual world. In this way, the soul connects, as it were, with the world in which its spiritual being is truly rooted.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":388,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p032","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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Und der Moment, der unmittelbar in der Mitte zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt eintritt — ich habe mir erlaubt, ihn in dem Mysteriendrama «Der Seelen Erwachen» «die geistige Mitternachtsstunde des Daseins» zu nennen, weil da die Seele in der Tat mitten zwischen den Seligkeiten des geistigen Lebens vor der nächsten Geburt einen Augenblick durchmacht, wo sie ganz nur bei sich ist, nur sich erlebt, aber recht bange werden kann in dem Bewusstsein: Um dich ist eine Welt, aber sie ist außerhalb deines Bewusstseins, du weißt nichts von ihr; eine Welt, ja Welten steigen auf aus der eigenen Innern. Mit diesen Welten bist du in Einsamkeit beisammen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":141,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p031"},{"locus":"GA 69d/1914-05-08/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Der Geistesforscher lernt sie kennen, diese Stimmung. Und er lernt kennen eine andere, die man mit einem «Hinunter» bezeichnen kann, die Stimmung, wo die Seele fühlt, wie wenn sie sozusagen ihr eigenes Seelen licht ausstrahlte. Wie wir im physischen Leben dadurch dass die Sonne die Dinge bescheint, die Dinge sehen und wahrnehmen, so müssen wir in der geistigen Welt das Geisteslicht selbst über die Dinge strömen lassen. Und die Momente der Einsamkeit strömen dann in uns ein wenn wir erlahmen, die innere Sonne leuchten zu lassen. Wenn das Licht der inneren Sonne leuchtet, dann breiten wir uns gleichsam über die Welt der anderen Wesen aus. Das, was man «geistige Geselligkeit», «geistiges Zusammensein» nennen könnte mit den Seelen, die vor oder nach uns dahingestorben sind, mit denen wir zusammen gelebt haben, oder denen, die auf der Erde sind - denn vom Geisterland aus nehmen wir wahr die Seelen, die noch auf der Erde verkörpert sind -, dieser Zustand, geistig-seelisch wahrzunehmen, darin zu leben, der wechselt zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt ab mit dem Zustand der Einsamkeit. Mit derselben Regelmäßigkeit wechseln die beiden Zustände ab, wie Tag und Nacht für unser physisches Leben abwechseln. So erwirbt man sich die Fähigkeit, sich gleichsam vereinsamt, aber mit einer inneren Welt zu fühlen, sich ausgegossen zu fühlen über die geistige Welt und ihre Wesenheiten und Vorgänge. Aber noch andere Kräfte, die mit rechts und links, vorne und hinten sich vergleichen lassen, lernt man kennen. Dadurch aber, dass man sich in diese Kräfte einlebt, dass die Seele diese Kräfte, von denen man im gewöhnlichen Leben nichts weiß, sondern die im Unterbewussten zustande kommen, wenn die Seele sich die erste Physiognomie für die Welt gibt, wenn man alle diese Kräfte, von denen die Aufrichtekraft die eine ist, entwickelt, dann erlangt man die Fähigkeit, weiter sich hineinzuleben in die geistige Welt, in die Welt der geistigen Wesenheiten, die um uns sind, dann kommen wir ganz aus uns heraus. Wir schauen unseren Leib außer uns und wir können eingehen in die anderen geistigen Wesenheiten, wir können ihre Physiognomie annehmen. Denn während wir hier die erste Physiognomie, unseren aufrechten Gang, ausbilden, müssen wir in der geistigen Welt die innere Konstitution der geistigen Wesen annehmen. So verbindet sich gleichsam die Seele mit der Welt, in der ihre geistige Wesenheit wirklich wurzelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":382,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p032"}],"beads":[{"from":[31],"to":[31],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[32],"to":[32],"confidence":"high"}],"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)."}}