{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-14/p053","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The real process is very different. The real process is that this miracle of the human organism is actually created out of the spirit, is structured out of the spirit. And when it is structured, then it can unfold as a body. For just as it develops during ordinary external physical life through a higher fluorescence, so the eternal powers of the human soul are really only discovered through spiritual research. One cannot approach the human being philosophically and say: We point to the thoughts that have grown in the human being, and so on, and show that these thoughts are imperishable. Every sleep shows that they can be extinguished. And why should they not be extinguished as in sleep for all when the human being passes through the gate of death? In this way, one can never develop a proof of the eternal powers of the human soul. But if you want to develop a proof, win, then you have to win it on the way of spiritual research, by separating the will from the thoughts, and connecting this will, separated from the thoughts, with the thoughts that jump out like a higher consciousness from the development of the will. There you have that which goes through births and deaths.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"15. How Are the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul Investigated?","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-03-14","location":null,"word_count":211,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-14/p053","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":"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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Man kann nicht philosophisch an den Menschen herangehen und kann sagen: Wir weisen auf das, was da herangewachsen ist im Menschen an Gedanken und so weiter, und zeigen, dass diese Gedanken unvergänglich sind. - Jeder Schlaf zeigt, dass sie ausgelöscht werden können. Und warum sollten sie nicht wie im Schlafe ausgelöscht werden können für alle, wenn der Mensch durch die Pforte des Todes geht? Auf diese Weise kann man niemals einen Beweis für die ewigen Kräfte der Menschenseele entwickeln. Aber wenn man einen Beweis entwickeln will, gewinnen will, dann muss man ihn auf dem Wege der Geistesforschung gewinnen, indem man von den Gedanken den Willen abtrennt, und diesen von den Gedanken abgetrennten Willen verbindet, mit den Gedanken verbindet, die wie ein höheres Bewusstsein aus der Entwicklung des Willens herausspringen. 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