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This other difficulty is this: when thinking, when imagining, has thus detached itself from the physical, when the human being now knows: you now live in the spiritual-soul realm in such a way that you are not in your body, that you move purely in the fabric of the soul-spiritual itself, when man has developed to this degree in his inner spiritual laboratory, then he lives in soul-spiritual forces which are the least, the very least related to that which we call our memory powers. And when we consider what depends on our powers of memory, how our whole life could not exist in everyday life if we did not remember what we had experienced in the previous moment, if we did not remember in our whole life what brings coherence to our life brings coherence to our lives, when we consider what memory means, then we will be able to understand how differently those forces act on the soul that must almost stop before the power of memory, that appeal to nothing in the ordinary power of memory in everyday life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":210,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70a/1915-05-06/p031","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul, Fate and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070a/English/SOL2024/19150506p01.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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Spiritual science cannot work on the basis of memory, but goes beyond this ordinary basic power of life, beyond memory, and imprints such habits on the spiritual-soul realm that has been freed from the physical, so that one can repeatedly carry out the inner tasks that need to be done in order to feel at one with one's free spiritual-soul realm in the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":175,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70a/1915-05-06/p032","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul, Fate and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070a/English/SOL2024/19150506p01.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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It makes no difference whether one speaks about something for the first time or for the hundredth time, because one's memory is basically more of a hindrance than a help. Of course, one can always recount from memory what one has spoken about the content of spiritual science, but the one who stands on the ground of genuine spiritual science, honestly and sincerely, feels an inner obligation to present in ever-renewed liveliness that which he himself experiences. 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Diese andere Schwierigkeit ist diese, dass, wenn das Denken, wenn das Vorstellen sich also losgelöst hat von dem Körperlichen, wenn der Mensch nunmehr weiß: Du lebst jetzt in dem Geistig-Seelischen so, dass du nicht in deinem Körper bist, dass du dich rein im Gewebe des Geistig-Seelischen selber bewegst, wenn der Mensch bis zu diesem Grade sich entwickelt hat in seinem inneren geistigen Laboratorium, dann lebt er in seelischen Kräften, welche am wenigsten, am denkbar wenigsten verwandt sind demjenigen, was wir unsere Gedächtniskräfte nennen. Und wenn wir bedenken, was alles an unseren Gedächtniskräften hängt, wie unser ganzes Leben im Alltag nicht bestehen könnte, wenn wir uns im nächsten Moment nicht erinnerten, was wir im vorhergehenden erlebt haben, wenn wir in unserem ganzen Leben uns nicht erinnern würden an dasjenige, was in unser Leben Zusammenhang bringt, wenn wir bedenken, was Gedächtnis, was Erinnern bedeutet, dann werden wir verstehen können, wie anders auf die Seele jene Kräfte wirken, die geradezu vor der Kraft des Gedächtnisses stehen bleiben müssen, die in nichts appellieren an die gewöhnliche Kraft des Gedächtnisses im alltäglichen Leben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70a/1915-05-06/p031"},{"locus":"GA 70a/1915-05-06/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"So ist es, dass zunächst, wenn der Geistesforscher bis zu demjenigen Punkte gelangt, wo er wirklich in seinem geistig-seelischen Leben frei wird vom leiblichen Leben, dass sein Vorstellen dahinhuscht wie ein Traum, an den man sich nicht mehr erinnern kann, und erst wenn man immer wieder in Geduld die Übungen fortsetzt, von denen gesprochen worden ist, die Übungen in Meditation und Konzentration, dann entwickelt sich an der Stelle des gewöhnlichen Gedächtnisses, das dabei nicht mitwirkend sein darf, eine andere Kraft, die wir nennen könnten eine «innere Gewohnheitskraft». Wir werden imstande, immer wieder das zu vollziehen gewohnheitsmäßig, was wir uns also als inneres Erleben angeeignet haben. Wir verrichten gleichsam die innere Geste immer wieder von Neuem. Geisteswissenschaft kann nicht arbeiten aufgrund des Gedächtnisses, sondern sie geht hinaus über diese gewöhnliche Grundkraft des Lebens, über das Gedächtnis, und prägt dem Geistig-Seelischen, das frei geworden ist vom Leiblichen, solche Gewohnheiten ein, dass man immer wieder aufs Neue die inneren Verrichtungen vollziehen kann, die vollzogen werden müssen, damit man sich mit seinem freien Geistig-Seelischen in der geistigen Welt darinstehen fühlt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70a/1915-05-06/p032"},{"locus":"GA 70a/1915-05-06/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Wenn ich, sehr verehrte Anwesende - es ist nur, um etwas deutlicher zu machen -, dabei etwas Persönliches berühren darf, so sei es dieses: Wenn man von Dingen redet, die durch die äußeren Sinne erfahren werden, dann ist es so, dass man, wenn man, ich will sagen zum Beispiel einen Vortrag einmal gehalten hat, sich erinnert, wie man ihn gehalten hat, sodass, wenn man ihn zum zwölften, zum dreißigsten Male hält, man ihn ganz auf andere Weise aus seinem Innern vorbringt als das erste, zweite, dritte Mal, wo man ihn noch nicht ganz seinem Gedächtnis eingeprägt hat. Das ist, wenn man in aller Aufrichtigkeit über Dinge der Geisteswissenschaft spricht, nicht der Fall, sondern da muss jedes Mal wieder aufs Neue durch die der Seele angewöhnten inneren Gesten das heraufgeholt werden, was Inhalt der Geisteswissenschaft ist, da ist es ganz einerlei, ob man über etwas zum ersten Mal oder zum hundertsten Mal spricht, weil einem das Gedächtnis im Grunde genommen eher störend ist, als dass es einem helfen könnte. Man kann selbstverständlich dasjenige, was man gesprochen hat über den Inhalt der Geisteswissenschaft, auch aus dem Gedächtnis immer erzählen, aber der, der auf dem Boden echter Geisteswissenschaft ehrlich und aufrichtig steht, fühlt eine innere Verpflichtung dafür, in immer erneuerter Lebendigkeit darzustellen dasjenige, was er selbst erlebt. Daher muss er es immer wieder aufs Neue erleben, denn er stellt es nicht gedächtnismäßig vor, nicht durch ein Wissen, sondern durch ein Können, das er sich erworben hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":243,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70a/1915-05-06/p033"}],"beads":[{"from":[31],"to":[31],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[32],"to":[32],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[33],"to":[33],"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)."}}