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The spiritual soul must immerse itself, must increasingly take possession of the physical body, and grow into the physical body. The forces that descend from the spiritual world do this, they shape the brain plastically, they “organize” the individual members of the human body so that it has an instrument for acting and perceiving in the outside world. This inner work that the soul performs in the body is infinitely significant and important. As long as this inner work lasts, the child must live a kind of dream life, especially as long as this work is still focused on the physical development of the brain and the finer limbs of the nervous system. Then there comes a point, which we remember later. At this point, the inner work is completed to a certain extent. It is difficult to express such things precisely in the ordinary language of everyday life, because our speech is made for the outer world, not for the spiritual world. Therefore, one must try to coin the words in such a way that they point to what underlies them. When, I would like to say, that which the spiritual soul has to do with the physical body is so far worked out that the physical body is condensed and prepared as the human being needs it for his later life, then the forces that used to work within are released. They no longer sink into the physical body, they will be there for themselves. And what is the result of this? I would like to express what the result is by means of a comparison. The parable is not to be used as an analogy to explain anything, but it should only make it clear what is meant here: if we think we have a glass plate and a mass in front of us and we look through the glass, we see what is behind it. If we now take the mass and shape it so that we can place it on the glass plate as a covering, we gradually turn what was a transparent glass plate into a mirror. 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We can say that they make it so dense that it no longer takes in spiritual and soul activity and works itself into the body. We can compare this to the fact that you can no longer see through a glass that has a mirror coating. The body will now reflect the spiritual-soul activity, will reflect it back; self-awareness begins. From the moment the spiritual-soul activity is complete, the body becomes a mirror, the nervous system becomes a mirror. And just as you see yourself in a finished mirror, so from that moment on, you experience yourself as an independent I, as a child, using the spiritual and soul forces to make your physical body a mirror. So, just as you perceive yourself in your mirror image, self-awareness begins to feel itself as an I. This is the point to which one later remembers going back. This is the awakening of self-awareness, this is the appearance of the ego in the child. And at the same time, we know from this that the forces that were previously used to organize the body, that brought the body to the density whereby it became a mirroring apparatus, that these are now used for everyday life, for feeling, imagining and thinking. What else comes into play here? This will be shown by the development that the spiritual researcher must undergo. When the spiritual researcher truly forms his soul free of the body, when he truly comes to a body-free experience and perception through the means mentioned in the last lecture and described in Occult Science, then he makes use, precisely in his soul, of the means that the child uses to shape the body plastically. He must reintroduce the means that ceased to be used when the relationship with the outside world began to become conscious. What the spiritual researcher needs for his spiritual method had to be stemmed by the bodily views and ideas.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":337,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69e/1914-01-27/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-01-27","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 69e/1914-01-27/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69e/1914-01-27/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":319,"en_words":337,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Das Geistig-Seelische muss untertauchen, muss immer mehr Besitz ergreifen von dem Physisch-Leiblichen, muss hineinwachsen in das Physisch-Leibliche. Die Kräfte, die aus der geistigen Welt herunterkommen, tun das, die gestalten das Gehirn plastisch aus, die «ordinieren» die einzelnen Glieder des menschlichen Leibes, sodass er ein Werkzeug hat zu seinem Handeln und Wahrnehmen in der Außenwelt. Unendlich bedeutsam und wichtig ist diese innere Arbeit, die das Seelische im Leibe verrichtet. Solange diese Innenarbeit dauert, muss das Kind eine Art Traumleben leben, besonders solange diese Arbeit noch auf die physische Ausgestaltung des Gehirns und der feineren Glieder des Nervensystems gerichtet sein muss. Dann kommt ein Punkt, bis zu dem wir uns später zurückerinnern. In diesem Zeitpunkt ist die innere Arbeit bis zu einem Grade abgeschlossen. Es ist schwierig, in solchen Dingen genau zu sprechen im gewöhnlichen Stil des Lebens, weil unsere Sprache für die Außenwelt, nicht für die Geisteswelt gemacht ist. Daher muss man versuchen, die Worte so zu prägen, dass sie hinweisen auf das, was zugrunde liegt. Wenn, so möchte ich sagen, dasjenige, was das Geistig-Seelische am Physisch-Leiblichen zu tun hat, so weit zugearbeitet ist, dass das Physisch-Leibliche verdichtet und hergerichtet ist, wie der Mensch es braucht für sein späteres Leben, dann werden die Kräfte, die früher im Innern gearbeitet haben, frei. Sie versenken sich nicht mehr hinein ins Physisch-Leibliche, sie werden für sich da sein. Und was ist die Folge davon? Dasjenige, was die Folge ist, möchte ich durch einen Vergleich ausdrücken. Das Gleichnis soll nicht gebraucht werden als Analogie, um irgendetwas zu erklären, sondern es soll nur verständlich machen, was hier gemeint ist: Denken wir, wir haben vor uns eine Glastafel und eine Masse und wir schauen durch das Glas, so sehen wir, was dahinter ist. Nehmen wir jetzt die Masse und formen sie so, dass wir sie als Belag auf die Glastafel auflegen können, so machen wir allmählich dasjenige, was eine durchsichtige Glastafel war, zum Spiegel. Schauen wir nun in das Glas, so scheinen wir uns selbst entgegen. Was hier als Gleichnis dargestellt ist, entsprechend ausgedacht, macht uns klar, was geschieht in den ersten Jahren des Kindes im Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":403,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69e/1914-01-27/p021"},{"locus":"GA 69e/1914-01-27/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Das Kind arbeitet zuerst im Geistig-Seelischen so, dass es sein Leibliches formt, es plastisch gestaltet, wir können sagen, es so dicht macht, dass es dann nicht mehr als geistig-seelische Tätigkeit hineingeht, sich [nicht mehr] hineinarbeitet in den Leib. Vergleichen können wir das damit, dass man nun nicht mehr durch das Glas schauen kann, das einen Spiegelbelag hat. Der Leib wird jetzt zurückwerfen die geistig-seelische Tätigkeit, wird sie zurückstrahlen; das Selbstbewusstsein beginnt. Von dem Augenblick an, wo das Geistig-Seelische fertig ist, wird der Leib zum Spiegel, wird das Nervensystem zum Spiegel. Und wie in einem fertigen Spiegel man sich selbst sieht, so erlebt man sich als selbstständiges Ich von dem Moment an, wo man als Kind mit den geistigseelischen Kräften sein Physisch-Leibliches zum Spiegel gemacht hat. Sodass nun, wie man sich im Spiegelbilde wahrnimmt, das Selbstbewusstsein beginnt, sich als Ich zu fühlen. Das ist der Punkt, bis zu dem man sich später zurückerinnert. Das ist das Erwachen des Selbstbewusstseins, das ist das Auftreten des Ich im Kinde. Und zugleich weiß man aus diesem, dass diejenigen Kräfte, die vorher verwendet worden sind zur Organisation des Leibes, die den Leib bis zu der Dichte gebracht haben, wodurch er ein Spiegelungsapparat geworden ist, dass diese nun für das alltägliche Leben, das Fühlen, Vorstellen und Denken verwendet werden. Was tritt da noch ein? Das wird uns zeigen die Entwicklung, die der Geistesforscher durchmachen muss; wenn der Geistesforscher wirklich seine Seele leibfrei gestaltet, wenn er wirklich durch die im letzten Vortrag erwähnten und in der Geheimwissenschaft geschilderten Mittel zum leibfreien Erleben und Wahrnehmen kommt, dann bedient er sich gerade in seiner Seele derjenigen Mittel, welche das Kind verwendet, um den Leib plastisch auszugestalten. Er muss die Mittel wiederum flottmachen, die da aufgehört haben, sich zu betätigen, als das Verhältnis zur Außenwelt ein bewusstes zu werden begann. Dasjenige, was der Geistesforscher für seine geistige Methode braucht, musste gerade zurückgedämmt werden durch die leiblichen Anschauungen und Vorstellungen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":319,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69e/1914-01-27/p022"}],"beads":[{"from":[21],"to":[21],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[22],"to":[22],"confidence":"medium"}],"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)."}}