{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 75/1920-07-08/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But lest I be misunderstood, I wish to state explicitly: Of course – in all other respects one retains one's ordinary memory; only for spiritual research does one experience the transformation of memory that is to be described. One experiences something like this that one otherwise only experiences in space. In space, let us say, one walks along an avenue. One turns around: you see not only the images of the trees you have passed, no, you see – albeit from a different perspective than before – the trees themselves. In the same way, it rises in consciousness. You look back on your life, but now not just by having the images, the phantasms of the past, but you recognize - just as when you look around in an avenue in space - from the different perspective that you survey life in the immediate present, as if time had become space. What is otherwise memory becomes a completely new mental power, a looking into time. And only now, in a certain sense, do we gain real insight into that mysterious element in our own being, which is just as little known to us as the content of sleep, of dreamless sleep, is known to ordinary consciousness. We gain such insight into the nature of the human will, and we actually gain the opportunity to see this nature of the human will at work in the physical body. And by getting to know the will in this way as transformed memory, one gains an immediate insight into the other end of life, into the post-existence, into that in us which carries us out through the gate of death and into a spiritual world. Again, it is through the development of a very special soul element into an immediate experience that anthroposophically oriented spiritual science wants to penetrate to a comprehensive world view.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Man sieht auf sein Leben zurück, aber jetzt nicht bloß, indem man die Bilder, die Phantasmen des Vergangenen hat, sondern man erkennt - geradeso wie wenn man sich in einer Allee im Raume umsieht - an der anderen Perspektive, daß man das Leben in unmittelbarer Gegenwart, wie wenn die Zeit zum Raume geworden wäre, überschaut. Es wird dasjenige, was sonst Gedächtnis ist, zu einer ganz neuen Geisteskraft, zu einem Hineinschauen in die Zeit. Und jetzt erst erlangt man in einem gewissen Sinne eine wirkliche Erkenntnis über jenes geheimnisvolle Element in unserem eigenen Wesen, das uns ja sonst ebensowenig bekannt ist, wie für das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein der Inhalt des Schlafes, des traumlosen Schlafes bekannt ist. Man erlangt so einen Einblick in das Wesen des menschlichen Willens, und man erlangt in der Tat die Möglichkeit, dieses Wesen des menschlichen Willens walten zu sehen im Leiblich-Physischen. Und damit, daß man den Willen in dieser Weise als umgestaltetes Gedächtnis kennenlernt, erlangt man eine unmittelbare Anschauung über das andere Ende des Lebens, über die Postexistenz, über dasjenige in uns, was uns hinausträgt durch die Pforte des Todes und hineinträgt in eine geistige Welt. Wiederum ist es durch Ausbildung eines ganz besonderen Seelenelementes zu einem unmittelbaren Erleben, wodurch anthroposophisch orientierte Geisteswissenschaft vordringen will zu einer umfassenden Weltanschauung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":304,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/75/1920-07-08/p019"}],"english":["GA 75/1920-07-08/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":304,"en_words":311,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9485,"original_word_count":9172,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Relationship between Anthroposophy and the Natural Sciences","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA075/English/SOL2024/19200708p01.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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