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By summarizing the soul life, one comes deeper and deeper into an understanding of one's own human nature. This knowledge is not conveyed so much through concepts as through the experience of how this strenuous, invigorating thinking brings one into a state of mind, into a soul mood, whereby one brings something into the soul experience that, I would say, brings one particularly close to what it is to be human in the world. If one gets to know thinking on its path, then one first enters into the soul life by feeling connected, I would say, from the outside, with what the human body organization is. One learns in this way, by being led through the indicated inner soul work, being led in a new way to the human being, one gets to know something in the human being that one did not know before. One gets to know, in a living way, as wonderful as it may sound, that which is connected with the human being here in earthly life between birth and death, and which always represents the sum of those power formations that we carry within us and which, by always living in the human being, wear away at the human organism and ultimately bring about death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-11-26","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":256,"en_words":255,"ratio":1.0,"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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And now one gets to know – just as one gets to know in a physical experiment the occurrence of some substance, some element, which can only come to light through the experiment – so one now gets to know what is actually the power within one, the activity within one, which unfolds as thinking, and everything that is connected with thinking in physical life here.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-11-26","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":162,"en_words":166,"ratio":1.02,"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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It depends on the fact that within the complex of forces that consumes us as physical human beings, that consumes us as physical human beings, there are such forces that underlie thinking. And one learns to grasp the great truth that thinking depends on those forces that gradually consume the human being and even bring about his death. We become familiar with the close connection between thinking — we start from ordinary, everyday thinking, we only take it to an extreme point, so to speak — and the destructive, consuming forces of the human being. We make the discovery of the relationship between death and the highest thing that we are presently unfolding in the physical world, namely, thinking. That is why this experience is so harrowing. We cannot help but fully acknowledge the point of view of spiritual science in the living inner experience of natural science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":173,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-11-26","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":174,"en_words":173,"ratio":0.99,"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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As long as this physical body can endure being used up, being used up by certain formative forces, so long can you develop your thinking!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":104,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p017","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-11-26","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p017"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":101,"en_words":104,"ratio":1.03,"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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That which underlies the bodily organization, and indeed that which consumes its forces, can only be discovered by pushing the ordinary life of the soul beyond itself. In this way, one discovers a second person within the person, who initially has the peculiarity of consuming the ordinary physical life. But it is precisely in this consuming that it performs the activity that forms in our ordinary life as a thinking activity from within.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p018","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-11-26","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":220,"en_words":221,"ratio":1.0,"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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And when one has taken experience this far, as has now been outlined, one does indeed gain insight into human nature to the extent that one can say: You have discovered within yourself that which, consuming, allows your thinking to shine forth during the life between birth and death, but which has also brought you into this bodily life; that which, before you came into existence as a thinking being, built up your physical organism for thinking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p019","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-11-26","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":151,"en_words":156,"ratio":1.03,"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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Dadurch, dass man also das seelische Leben zusammenfasst, kommt man immer tiefer und tiefer in eine Erkenntnis der eigentlichen menschlichen Natur hinein. Allerdings in eine Erkenntnis, die jetzt gar nicht so sehr durch Begriffe vermittelt wird, sondern die dadurch vermittelt wird, dass man erlebt, wie dieses sich anstrengende, sich erkraftende Denken einen in eine Seelenverfassung, in eine Seelenstimmung bringt, wodurch man in das seelische Erleben herein etwas bringt, was einen, ich möchte so sagen, dem, was als Mensch in der Welt steht, besonders nahebringt. Lernt man nämlich das Denken auf seinem Wege also kennen, dann tritt einem zunächst im Seelenleben ein, indem man - ich möchte sagen - wie von außen herein sich mit dem, was menschliche Leibesorganisation ist, verbunden fühlt, man lernt auf diesem Wege, indem man herangeführt wird durch die angedeutete innere Seelenarbeit, herangeführt wird auf eine neue Art an den Menschen, man lernt in dem Menschen etwas kennen, was man vorher nicht gekannt hat. Man lernt in dem Menschen kennen, in lebendiger Weise kennen, so wunderbar das klingt, dasjenige, was mit dem Menschen hier im Erdenleben verbunden ist zwischen Geburt und Tod, und was immer die Summe jener Kräftegestaltungen darstellt, die wir in uns tragen, und die, indem sie im Menschen immer leben, dasjenige, was menschliche Organisation ist, abnützen und schließlich den Tod herbeiführen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":256,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p014"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Lebendiges Erfahren [davon] ist es, zu dem man da kommt, dass der Mensch, wie er hier auf der Erde leben muss, in sich immer eine Summe von Kräften, eine Kräfteorganisation, eine Kräftegestaltung in sich trägt, die sich während des Lebens modifiziert, die aber immer darauf hinausläuft eigentlich, den äußeren physischen Organismus zu verbrauchen. Und im Grunde ist es ein erschütterndes, ein von innerlicher Tragik erfülltes Erlebnis, zu dem man da kommt. Man lernt etwas wie einen zweiten Menschen in sich kennen, einen geistigen Menschen im physischen Menschen. Aber dieser geistige Mensch ist derjenige, der den physischen Menschen fortwährend verbraucht. Und jetzt lernt man kennen - so wie man in einem physikalischen Experiment kennenlernt das Auftreten irgendeines Stoffes, irgendeines Elementes, die nur zum Vorschein kommen können durch das Experiment -, so lernt man jetzt kennen, was eigentlich die Kraft in einem ist, die Tätigkeit in einem ist, die sich als Denken, und alles, was mit dem Denken im physischen Leben hier zusammenhängt, entfaltet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p015"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Wenn man dieses Denken in der geschilderten Weise bis zu seinem äußersten Punkte getrieben hat, dann lernt man erkennen, wovon dieses Denken als Denken abhängt; es hängt davon ab, dass innerhalb des Kräftekomplexes, der uns aufbraucht als physischen Menschen, uns verzehrt als physischen Menschen, solche Kräfte liegen, welche dem Denken zugrunde liegen. Und man lernt das große Wort begreifen: Das Denken hängt ab von denjenigen Kräften, welche allmählich den Menschen aufzehren und sogar über ihn den Tod bringen. Eine enge Verbindung zwischen dem Denken — wir gehen ja aus von dem gewöhnlichen, alltäglichen Denken, wir treiben es nur sozusagen bis zu einem äußersten Punkte -, eine innige Verbindung zwischen diesem Denken und den zerstörenden, den aufzehrenden Kräften des Menschen lernen wir kennen. Wir machen die Entdeckung von der Verwandtschaft des Todes mit dem Höchsten, was wir zunächst in der physischen Welt hier entfalten, mit dem Denken. Deshalb ist dieses Erlebnis so erschütternd. Wir können gar nicht anders, als gerade vom Gesichtspunkte der Geisteswissenschaft aus im lebendigen inneren Erleben der Naturwissenschaft ganz recht zu geben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p016"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"In dem lebendigen inneren Erleben erfahren wir, dass wir eigentlich deshalb denken können, weil wir [die] Sterbekräfte zu einem besonderen Punkt der Entwicklung, über die übrige Lebewelt hinaus, gebracht haben. Das aber erzeugt in dem Geistesforscher eine besondere innere Stimmung. Das erzeugt in ihm alles dasjenige, was hervorgeht aus der inneren Erfahrung: Mit deinem Denken, so wie du cs hier in der physisch-sinnlichen Welt entfalten kannst, mit diesem Denken bist du gebunden an den physischen Leib. So lange dieser physische Leib es erträgt, dass er aufgebraucht werden kann, von gewissen Gestaltungskräften aufgebraucht werden kann, so lange kannst du dein Denken entfalten!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":101,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p017"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Dann aber, wenn man dieses Erlebnis gehabt hat, dann zeigt sich zugleich, dass allerdings in dem Menschen ein zweiter Mensch ist, ein Mensch, der hier im physischen Dasein die äußere Menschennatur aufbraucht, aber der ein vollständiges Wesen ist; einen zweiten Menschen eben im Menschen, der so, wie er in unserem physischen Dasein lebt, dadurch lebt, dass er sich eben dem Aufzehren, dem Aufbrauchen der physischen Organisation widmet. Man erzeugt nicht durch das Denken dasjenige, was man hier erlebt, man lernt es beobachten. Man kommt sozusagen auf etwas, wovon man in dem Moment, wo man darauf kommt, eben bemerkt, dass es immer da ist im Menschen. Man kommt auf so etwas; man entdeckt diesen inneren Menschen im Menschen. Man entdeckt aber auch, dass dieser Mensch nichts zu tun hat mit der besonderen äußeren Leibesorganisation, sondern dass er sich innerhalb dieser betätigt. Dasjenige, was der Leibesorganisation zugrunde liegt, ja auch, was aufzehrende Kräfte in ihr sind — das, sehr verehrte Anwesende, das kann man nur entdecken dadurch, dass man das gewöhnliche Seelenleben über sich selbst hinaustreibt. So entdeckt man einen zweiten Menschen im Menschen, der allerdings zunächst die Eigentümlichkeit hat, dass er das gewöhnliche physische Leben aufzehrt. Aber er verrichtet gerade in diesem Aufzehren diejenige Tätigkeit, die uns in diesem gewöhnlichen Leben als die denkerische Tätigkeit aus dem Innern heraus sich bildet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p018"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Man merkt aber auch, und das kann nur Ergebnis der Beobachtung sein, der Beobachtung, die man auf diese Weise erlangt, wie es beschrieben worden ist, man merkt aber auch, dass dasjenige, was also nach und nach im physischen Leben verzehrt die physische Menschenorganisation, dass das sie auch aufgebaut hat. An dasjenige im menschlichen Seelenleben, welches durch die Geburt oder die Empfängnis gegangen ist, um sich mit der physischen Leibesorganisation zu umkleiden, kommt man nur durch die Erfahrung. Und man erlangt, wenn man die Erfahrung so weit getrieben hat, als es jetzt skizzenhaft angedeutet worden ist, in der Tat einen Einblick in die Menschennatur, insoweit, als man sich sagen kann: Du hast entdeckt in dir dasjenige, was verzehrend dein Denken hervorleuchten lässt während des Lebens zwischen Geburt und Tod, was dich aber auch hereingetragen hat in dieses Leibesleben; was dir, bevor du zum Denken gekommen bist, deinen denkerischen physischen Organismus aufgebaut hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p019"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-26/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Man verbraucht während des physischen Lebens immer Denkkraft, und man entdeckt, dass diese Kraft vorhanden war, bevor das Denken seine ersten Gedanken erhellen ließ; dass sich diese Kraft verwandelt hat in diejenige Kraft, die das Denken hervorbringt. Bevor sie aber sich verwandelt hat, war sie da, denn nichts in unserer Welt entsteht einfach, sondern es verwandelt sich. Dasjenige, was dem Denken zugrunde liegt, bevor das Denken sich entzündet hat, es hat aufgebaut erst den Organismus, der eben im Denken sich äußert, den es im Denken wiederum abträgt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-26/p020"}],"beads":[{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[17],"to":[17],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[18],"to":[18],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[19],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[20],"to":[20],"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)."}}