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So in order to really recognize the spiritual, something must happen to the soul that arranges the life of ideas quite differently than it is in ordinary life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p029","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160314p01.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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This is called 'meditation'; the soul's entire activity is concentrated on a thought-content that is placed arbitrarily in the soul, which one can survey, in which therefore no subconscious feeling, unconscious feeling driving forces can play a part, but a content that one can survey, that one places transparently clearly before the soul, is placed at the center of consciousness, moved to the center of thinking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p030","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160314p01.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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So that when you place such a content at the center of your mental life, you gradually become aware: It does not depend on this content; I have only introduced this content so that I can exercise the inner activity of thinking with it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p031","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160314p01.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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The soul becomes aware of certain powers within itself, which it otherwise exercises all the time in ordinary life, but to which it does not direct its consciousness and which remain unconscious. So that all the content of meditation can emerge from the imagination, and only this inner movement in thinking, in imagining, is inwardly grasped, so to speak. And that is what matters. Because when you continue to practise in this direction, you will have very definite experiences as you continue your search for the spiritual world. Certain experiences attach themselves to it when you have come to really separate the content and to be able to experience the mere inner activity, the activity in thinking, in imagining. Then you initially have an inner feeling as if you were now in some very vague experience. It is important - I would even say essential - to focus on these fine details if you want to know something about true spiritual scientific research.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p032","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160314p01.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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First of all, one experiences that with regard to these inner experiences in the activity of thinking, in the activity of imagining, that which is otherwise the power of recollection, that which is otherwise memory, is no longer there. That is no longer there. One notices that one has entered into a completely different inner stream, that one does not experience what one now experiences as thinking activity in the same way as when one remembers something or when one otherwise thinks with reference to external objects or facts; but one notices that one is now developing thinking activity, just as one develops will activity out of habit – not a thinking, but an inner activity out of a certain fine habit, that is what one experiences inwardly now. And this inner experience has only one value, one meaning at that moment – this experience of inner activity has one meaning at the moment when one experiences it. It is also a rough comparison, but I can still use the comparison: what one experiences by separating one's inner thinking activity from one's thoughts now belongs to the momentary experience, just like eating and drinking. It is a rough comparison, but it is a comparison that illustrates everything I want to say. We cannot, when we have eaten yesterday, use yesterday's food or yesterday's drink to nourish the body today, but we have to eat and drink again today. Eating and drinking only have this momentary, present meaning. We cannot say: We eat today; and tomorrow, when we perform this activity, which [...] reminds us of our eating and drinking today, thereby also nourishing us. It is an activity – eating and drinking – that must always be repeated.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":420,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p033","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160314p01.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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Just as dreams flit by, so does this real sensing, spiritual-soul sensing, which is in an unchangeable mobility, as I have indicated.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p034","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160314p01.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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One recognizes that the physical body really does function like a machine, albeit a more delicate one, in contributing to the thoughts we have in our daily lives in such a way that they can evoke memory.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p035","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160314p01.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 is not thinking, the activity of thinking, that is conditioned by the body, but the content of the thought is entirely dependent on the body.] The content of the thought is entirely dependent on the body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":93,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p036","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160314p01.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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In the same way, when the external world, the physical, sensory external world, makes an impression on a person, and these thoughts are only retained during our lifetime, when they fluoresce, as it were, out of the physical body, these too should not be regarded as something that is spiritually alone, as something that could have significance for the eternal forces of the human soul. They are phenomena that occur in the physical matter of the human being. Just as electricity occurs in matter. Not in the denial of this justified scientific view, but in the right understanding lies what spiritual science has to do with it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p037","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160314p01.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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By seizing hold of the activity that one has isolated in the manner described from the content of one's thoughts, one knows that one is living with something in a sphere that is now outside of the body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":98,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p039","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160314p01.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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Um also wirklich das Geistige zu erkennen, muss etwas mit der Seele vorgehen, was das Vorstellungsleben ganz anders einrichtet, als es im gewöhnlichen Leben ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":83,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p029"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Nun habe ich öfter hervorgehoben, dass es sich darum handelt bei dem, was der Geistesforscher, um seinen Weg in die geistige Welt hinein zu finden, mit sich vorzunehmen hat, dass es sich darum handelt, gewisse Gedanken - auf deren äußeren Wirklichkeitswert es nicht ankommt zunächst, sie können namentlich bildhafte Gedanken, sinnbildliche Gedanken sein - in seiner Seele gegenwärtig zu machen. Man nennt das «Meditieren»; die ganze Tätigkeit der Seele konzentrieren auf einen willkürlich in die Seele gestellten Gedankeninhalt, den man überschauen kann, bei dem also nicht unterbewusst gefühlsmäßige, unbewusst gefühlsmäßige Triebkräfte mitspielen können, sondern einen Inhalt, den man überschauen kann, den man durchsichtig klar vor die Seele stellt, der wird in den Mittelpunkt des Bewusstseins gestellt, in den Mittelpunkt des Denkens gerückt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p030"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Und das Denken muss dann - es ist das ein langer Übungsweg, der durchgemacht werden muss, der oftmals jahrelang dauern kann -, das Denken muss immer wieder darauf zurückkommen, diesen Inhalt in den Mittelpunkt des Bewusstseins zu stellen. Dadurch wird das ganze Seclenleben zusammengedrängt - gewiss, es darf nur kurze Zeit dauern, Minuten etwa während des Tages -, dadurch wird das ganze Seelenleben zusammengedrängt auf diesen Inhalt. Und dadurch kommt dieses Seelenleben nach und nach - ich beschreibe dasjenige, was wirklich die Geistesforschung durchzumachen hat -, nach und nach dazu, zu trennen zwei Dinge, die im gewöhnlichen Vorstellen immer verknüpft sind: nämlich, die innere Tätigkeit des Denkens, des Vorstellens, abzutrennen von dem Inhalt. Man muss abtrennen dasjenige, sehr verehrte Anwesende, was man da macht, indem man denkt, indem man vorstellt - diese innere Tätigkeit des Denkens, die muss man ganz abtrennen von dem Inhalt. Sodass, wenn man also einen solchen Inhalt in den Mittelpunkt seines Seelenlebens stellt, man allmählich gewahr wird: Es kommt nicht auf diesen Inhalt an; diesen Inhalt habe ich bloß hereingelegt, damit ich die innere Tätigkeit des Denkens daran ausüben kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p031"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Und dann erlebe ich innerlich, jetzt nicht einen bestimmten Gedanken, jetzt nicht einen bestimmten Inhalt, sondern die innere Tätigkeit des Denkens. Das ist weniger dasjenige, was man sonst Denken nennt, sondern das ist dasjenige, was sonst beim Denken immer unbewusst bleibt, das ist eine gewisse, im sonstigen Denken und Vorstellen geübte Willenstätigkeit, eine feine Willenstätigkeit. Das beachtet man gar nicht im gewöhnlichen Leben, im gewöhnlichen Vorstellen, wenn man denkt. Das beachtet man gar nicht, dass man ja eigentlich immer seinen Willen braucht, wenn man denkt, wenn man vorstellt; das beachtet man nicht. Das erlebt man aber jetzt, dass man da eine feine innere Willenstätigkeit ausübt. Die Seele wird gewahr gewisse Kräfte in sich, die sie sonst auch immer übt im gewöhnlichen Leben, auf die sie aber das Bewusstsein nicht hinrichtet, die unbewusst bleiben. Sodass aller Inhalt der Meditation herausfallen kann aus dem Vorstellen, und nur dieses Sich-innerlichBewegen im Denken, im Vorstellen, gewissermaßen innerlich ergriffen wird. Und darauf kommt es an. Denn auf fortgesetztes Üben in dieser Richtung knüpfen sich nun ganz bestimmte Erlebnisse an, die man im Fortgang seines Suchens nach der geistigen Welt hat. Gewisse Erlebnisse knüpfen sich daran, wenn man dazu gekommen ist, wirklich abzutrennen den Inhalt, und erleben zu können das bloße innere Tun, die Tätigkeit im Denken, im Vorstellen. Dann hat man zunächst so ein innerliches Gefühl, als ob man jetzt in irgendeinem ganz unbestimmten Erleben drinnen stünde. Es ist wichtig - ich möchte sagen — diese feinen Einzelheiten durchaus ins Auge zu fassen, wenn man von wahrer geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung etwas wissen will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p032"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Dasjenige, was sonst das Ruhen des Denkens in dem Vorstellen ist, das kann unter dem Einfluss solcher Übungen zunächst aufhören, wenn das Ziel erreicht werden soll, und muss eigentlich für gewisse Erfahrungen aufhören, wenn das Ziel erreicht werden soll. Man kommt in ein innerliches Erleben, in ein innerliches Sich-Bewegen hinein. Man fühlt sich nicht äußerlich jetzt - nur der Vergleich knüpft an Äußerliches an -, man fühlt sich wie seelisch im Finstern überall umhertastend; man fühlt sich ganz aufgehend in der inneren Vorstellungs- und Denktätigkeit, die man ergriffen hat. Durch inneres Erleben macht man jetzt eine gewisse Erfahrung; und die besteht darinnen, dass man sich sagt: Also, du hast es jetzt erreicht, dass du nur in der Denktätigkeit, in der Vorstellungstätigkeit lebst. Man macht zunächst die Erfahrung, dass mit Bezug auf diese innerlichen Erlebnisse in der Denktätigkeit, in der Vorstellungstätigkeit dasjenige nicht mehr da ist, was sonst Erinnerungskraft, was sonst Gedächtnis ist. Das ist nicht mehr da. Man merkt, dass man in eine ganze andere innere Strömung hineingekommen ist, dass man dasjenige, was man jetzt erlebt als Denktätigkeit, dass man das nicht so erlebt, als wenn man sich an irgendetwas erinnert oder wenn man sonst mit Anlehnung an äußere Gegenstände oder Tatsachen denkt; sondern man merkt, dass man jetzt Denktätigkeit entwickelt, so wie man entwickelt Willenstätigkeit, ich will sagen, aus der Gewohnheit heraus — nicht ein Denken, sondern ein innerliches Sichbetätigen aus einer gewissen feinen Gewohnheit heraus, das ist dasjenige, was man jetzt innerlich erlebt. Und nur einen Wert, eine Bedeutung hat dieses innerliche Erleben in dem Augenblicke - eine Bedeutung [hat] dieses Erleben der inneren Tätigkeit in dem Augenblicke, wo man es erlebt. Es ist zwar auch ein grober Vergleich, aber ich kann doch den Vergleich gebrauchen: Das, was man so erlebt, indem man jetzt von den Gedanken getrennt hat die innere Denktätigkeit, das gehört so dem augenblicklichen Erleben an, ja, wie das Essen und Trinken. Es ist ein grober Vergleich, aber es ist ein Vergleich, der alles veranschaulicht, was ich sagen will. Nicht wahr, wir können nicht, wenn wir gestern gegessen haben, das gestrige Essen oder gestrige Trinken heute wiederum zur Ernährung des Körpers verwenden, sondern wir müssen heute wiederum essen und trinken. Essen und Trinken haben nur diese augenblickliche, diese gegenwärtige Bedeutung. Wir können nicht sagen: Wir essen heute; und morgen, wenn wir diese Tätigkeit ausüben, wodurch wir uns [...] erinnern an unser heutiges Essen und Trinken, dadurch auch uns ernähren. Das ist eine Tätigkeit - das Essen und Trinken -, das immer wiederholt werden muss.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":419,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p033"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Und so ist diese innere Vorstellungstätigkeit etwas, diese innere Vorstellungsbetätigung jetzt etwas, was nicht einen Wert hat für eine spätere Zeit, sondern immer von Neuem aus dem Erleben hervorgerufen werde muss. Man muss sich die innerliche Fähigkeit erwerben, nicht etwa das, was man einmal geistig auf diese Weise erlebt hat, sich zu merken, damit man sich daran erinnern könne; sondern damit man es immer wieder und wieder aus einer jetzt inneren, feineren Gewohnheit heraus erleben kann. Sodass man merkt, dass das, was man jetzt entwickelt hat, als Vorstellung wirklich so verfließt zunächst wie Träume. Wie die Träume hinhuschen, so huscht dieses wirkliche Ertasten, geistig-seelische Ertasten hin, das ja in einer unabänderlichen Beweglichkeit ist, wie ich angedeutet habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p034"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Was merkt man also eigentlich nun in diesem Moment, sehr verehrte Anwesende? Da merkt man das, was nun auch - wie manches, was ich gelegentlich des geistigen Erkenntnisweges auch schon angeführt habe - erschütternd auf die Seele wirken kann: Man merkt, was es eigentlich für eine Bewandtnis hat mit dem, was wir Gedächtnis nennen, mit dem, was wir Erinnerungskraft nennen. Diese Erinnerungskraft können wir zunächst für das geistige Erkennen gar nicht gebrauchen. Von dieser Erinnerungskraft müssen wir uns gerade trennen, wenn wir geistig erkennen wollen. Und man erkennt nun klar, ganz klar, dass dasjenige Denken, das erinnert werden kann - und das ist alles alltägliche Denken und muss alles alltägliche Denken sein; wenn es nicht mehr das alltägliche Denken ist, so ist man nicht mehr geistig gesund -, man erkennt, dass dasjenige Denken, das in die Erinnerung übergehen kann, unmittelbar an die Körperlichkeit gebunden ist, [man erkennt], dass der physische Leib wirklich wie eine Maschine, wenn auch wie eine feinere Maschine, [beiträgt] dasjenige, was zunächst im alltäglichen Leben so gedacht wird, dass es Erinnerung hervorrufen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p035"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Sehen Sie, verehrte Anwesende, der Geistesforscher kommt durch ein Erlebnis gerade zu einer Bekräftigung der trivialen Wahrheit, die der Materialismus als die seine in Anspruch nimmt, dass dasjenige Denken, welches im Alltag entwickelt wird, durchaus bedingt ist durch die Leiblichkeit. Nicht bedingt durch die Leiblichkeit ist nur das, was wir jetzt abgeschält haben, die innere Tätigkeit. [Nicht das Denken, die Denktätigkeit ist bedingt von der Leiblichkeit, sondern der Inhalt des Gedankens ist ganz abhängig von der Leiblichkeit.] Der Inhalt des Gedankens ist ganz abhängig von der Leiblichkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p036"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p037","passage_number":37,"text":"Und wenn da kommen irgendwelche geisteswissenschaftliche Dilettanten, auch philosophisch nuancierte — sagen wir — Fachkenner und sagen: Ja, aber der Gedanke hat doch eine innere Eigenschaft, aus der man erkennt, dass er nicht in der Leiblichkeit aufgehen kann, das er etwas anderes ist als die Leiblichkeit, da wird man mit der vielleicht nicht heute schon bestehenden Wissenschaft - aber mit dem Ideal der Wissenschaft, das sich schon einmal erfüllen wird, der Geisteswissenschaft - sagen: Es gibt gewisse Materien, wenn man sie dem Lichte aussetzt, so nehmen sie gewissermaßen das Licht auf und strahlen es dann noch eine Zeit lang von sich aus. Wird man nun diese Ausstrahlungen als irgendetwas betrachten, was nicht in der Materie begründet ist? Ebenso wenig sollte man, wenn die Außenwelt, die physisch-sinnliche Außenwelt auf den Menschen einen Eindruck macht, [wenn die Außenwelt] innerlich Gedanken erzeugt und diese Gedanken nur festgehalten werden während der Zeit unseres Lebens, wenn sie gleichsam fluoreszieren heraus aus der Leiblichkeit, ebenso wenig sollte man diese als irgenderwas Geistig-allein-Bedingtes betrachten, als irgendetwas, was eine Bedeutung haben könne für ewige Kräfte der menschlichen Seele. Es sind Erscheinungen, die auftreten an der leiblichen Materie des Menschen. Ebenso wie die Elektrizität auftritt an der Materie. Nicht in dem Leugnen dieser berechtigten naturwissenschaftlichen Anschauung, sondern in dem richtigen Verstehen liegt dasjenige, was die Geisteswissenschaft dabei zu tun hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p037"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p038","passage_number":38,"text":"Sodass alle philosophische Rederei, welche auf Grundlage einer Betrachtung der Gedanken, wie sie einmal sind, niemals irgendetwas wird aussagen können über die ewigen Kräfte der Menschenseele. Denn geradeso wie ein Fluoreszieren der Materie, wenn man sie als Materie wegnimmt, selbstverständlich das bedingt, dass auch das Fluoreszieren aufhört, so kann derjenige, der auf naturwissenschaftlichem Boden steht, nicht anders, als der Wahrheit gemäß zu behaupten: Wenn der Körper zerfällt, zerfällt auch seine Grundlage, die er gibt für das Erscheinen der Gedanken aus der Leiblichkeit heraus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":83,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p038"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"Nur das unmittelbare Beweisen, das dadurch entsteht, dass die sonst unbewusst bleibende Denktätigkeit, Vorstellungstätigkeit, sich von den Gedanken selber abgesondert hat, sich innerlich erfasst hat, das gibt zunächst das höhere Bewusstsein, dass man nunmehr lebt in etwas, was wirklich außerhalb der Leiblichkeit ist. Mit den Gedanken des Alltags lebt man nicht außerhalb der Leiblichkeit. Mit dem Ergreifen derjenigen Tätigkeit, die man auf die geschilderte Weise abgesondert hat von dem Inhalte der Gedanken, weiß man, dass man - indem man sie erlebt, weiß man es -, dass man mit etwas in einer Sphäre lebt, die jetzt außerhalb der Leiblichkeit ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":99,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p039"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"So kann man niemals, sehr verehrte Anwesende, aus dem, was der Mensch schon zunächst bewusst übt in Bezug auf die physische Umwelt und in Bezug auf sein äußeres Leben, die ewigen Kräfte der Menschenseele erforschen; sondern notwendig ist dazu, dass von dem, was der Mensch in sich erlebt im gewöhnlichen physischen Leben, erst abgesondert wird dasjenige, was auf die geschilderte Art innerlich ergriffen werden kann. Aber es genügt nicht, dass der Mensch den soeben geschilderten Weg durchmacht; denn er würde dadurch niemals zu etwas anderem kommen als dazu, in einem gewissermaßen ewigen Weggehen sich zu erfühlen wie in einem Seelendunkel. 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