{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 77b/1921-08-24/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is achieved at the level of the intuitive, the truly intuitive. There, that which can be described in anthroposophical knowledge of man as repeated earthly lives becomes wisdom. In fact, anthroposophical knowledge does not consist of formulating abstract insights based on existing facts, which are images of the facts, but rather consists of gradually and truly living one's way into the human essence. What one experiences of this human being, after one has first poured out one's I, one's egoity, into the stream of life between birth and death in the etheric realm, now stands as the subject opposite the I that has become objective on the path from our previous life to our present life. It is from such a path of knowledge that the one speaks who, from inner vision, not from theory, speaks about the existence of repeated human lives on earth. This view of repeated human lives on earth is not a theory, but something that arises as a realization at the same time as the view of the true self, which in our ordinary life we have before us in the same way as we have our soul life before us between falling asleep and waking up. Just as we are between falling asleep and waking up in a state that we do not see into, that is given to us only negatively as an empty part of our experience, so we must, as it were, leave out in our life stream what we have experienced while sleeping. When we look back and let our life appear before us, how for ordinary consciousness we actually only have those stretches of life that run from waking to falling asleep, how these are always interrupted by empty lengths of stream, stream members, so in ordinary life we look down into our ego, into our organization. We see, by experiencing the surging, weaving soul life, a kind of empty space that we oversleep as we oversleep our state of sleep, and to this empty space we say I, not to something really fulfilled. Anthroposophical knowledge of the human being, ladies and gentlemen, can indicate how it arrives at its content, can describe step by step how it advances inwardly to grasp that which it must present to the world as a teaching. And because true anthroposophical knowledge of man carries the thought everywhere - for you have seen that I had to place the main emphasis on this in the description of this anthroposophical method of knowing man, that in imagination, in inspiration, the thought experience has been carried into it with all its sharpness, that this thought experience also appears in the intuitive experience in the end; you have seen that I had to place the special emphasis on this must attach to this, and because the thought experience is everywhere within, because that which man has in the abstract thought experience, which he uses for ordinary science, is everywhere within in all that the spiritual researcher directs his soul and his spirit, his I, therefore everything that the spiritual researcher presents to the world can be relived and also verified by the mere thought experience. The human being must only have the opportunity to follow the spiritual researcher to the thought experience. He must not lose the thought experience immediately when he leaves the sphere of sensory experience. He must have the strength to develop the inner capacity for growth and reproduction that can still have the self-generating thought when the thought stimulated by the external sensory experience ceases to bear its actual character. This intense inner experience can be appropriated at first; then one will find: the spiritual researcher describes things that he has essentially experienced by carrying the thought into imagination, inspiration and intuition.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. 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Dasjenige, was man von diesem Menschenwesen erfährt, indem man zuerst in der ätherischen Erkenntnis ausgegossen hat sein Ich, seine Egoität, in den Strom des Lebens zwischen Geburt und Tod, das steht jetzt als das Subjekt denjenigen Ichen gegenüber, die objektiv geworden sind auf dem Wege von unserem früheren Erdenleben zu unserem gegenwärtigen Erdenleben. Aus einem solchen Erkenntniswege heraus spricht derjenige, der aus innerer Anschauung, nicht aus einer Theorie heraus, über das Bestehen wiederholter menschlicher Erdenleben spricht. Diese Anschauung von den wiederholten menschlichen Erdenleben ist eben keine Theorie, sondern sie ist etwas, was auftritt als eine Erkenntnis gleichzeitig mit der Anschauung des wahren Ich, das wir im Grunde genommen im gewöhnlichen Leben so vor uns haben, wie wir unser Seelenleben vor uns haben zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen. Wie wir zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen in einem Zustande sind, in den wir nicht hineinschauen, der uns gewissermaßen nur negativ als ein leerer Stromteil unseres Erlebens gegeben ist, wie wir gewissermaßen aussparen müssen in unserem Lebensstrom dasjenige, was wir schlafend erlebt haben, wie wir, wenn wir zurückblicken und unser Leben vor uns auftreten lassen, wie wir für das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein eigentlich nur immer jene Lebensstrecken haben, die verlaufen vom Aufwachen bis zum Einschlafen, wie diese immer unterbrochen sind von leeren Stromlängen, Stromgliedern, so sehen wir im gewöhnlichen Leben in unser Ich, in unsere Organisation hinunter. Wir sehen, indem wir erleben das wogende, webende Seelenleben, gewissermaßen eine leere Stelle, die wir so verschlafen, wie wir unseren Schlafzustand verschlafen, und zu dieser leeren Stelle sagen wir Ich, nicht zu etwas real Erfülltem. Anthroposophische Menschenerkenntnis, meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden, kann angeben, wie sie zu ihrem Inhalte gelangt, kann Stück für Stück schildern, wie sie innerlich vorrückt zum Ergreifen desjenigen, was sie als Lehre muß vor die Welt hinstellen. Und weil wirkliche anthroposophische Menschenerkenntnis überall den Gedanken hineinträgt - denn Sie haben gesehen, daß ich den Hauptwert darauf legen mußte in der Schilderung dieser anthroposophischen Menschenerkenntnismethode, daß in Imagination, in Inspiration das Gedankenerlebnis mit aller Schärfe hineingetragen worden ist, daß dieses Gedankenerlebnis zuletzt auch noch erscheint im intuitiven Erlebnis; Sie haben gesehen, daß ich darauf den besonderen Wert legen mußte —, und weil das Gedankenerlebnis überall drinnen ist, weil dasjenige, was der Mensch im abstrakten Gedankenerlebnis hat, das er verwendet zu der gewöhnlichen Wissenschaft, überall in all dem drinnen ist, wohinein der Geistesforscher seine Seele und seinen Geist, sein Ich lenkt, deshalb ist auch alles dasjenige, was der Geistesforscher vor der Welt vorbringt, durch das bloße Gedankenerlebnis nachzuleben und auch nachzuprüfen. Der Mensch muß nur die Möglichkeit haben, dem Geistesforscher bis zum Gedankenerlebnis zu folgen. Er darf nur nicht das Gedankenerlebnis sogleich verlieren, wenn er die Sphäre des Sinneserlebens verläßt. Er muß die Kraft haben, diejenige innere Wachstumsfähigkeit und Reproduktionsfähigkeit zu entwickeln, die den sich selbst erzeugenden Gedanken auch dann noch hat, wenn der an der äußeren Sinneserscheinung angeregte Gedanke aufhört, seinen eigentlichen Charakter zu tragen. Dieses intensive innere Erleben, das kann zunächst angeeignet werden; dann wird man finden: der Geistesforscher, er schildert Dinge, die er im wesentlichen erlebt hat, indem er den Gedanken hineingetragen hat in Imagination, Inspiration und Intuition.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":584,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77b/1921-08-24/p029"}],"english":["GA 77b/1921-08-24/p029"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":584,"en_words":631,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6644,"original_word_count":6275,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Art and Anthroposophy The Goetheanum Impulse: Summer Art Course 1921","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077b/English/SOL2024/19210824p01.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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