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Anthroposophical knowledge must absolutely place what the human being experiences in relation to the actual essence of his will in parallel with what he calls sleep. It is a sleep that we continually carry around in us as we let our will impulses work from the unconscious, just as the refreshing forces that approach our life work from what we gain in our sleep. 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It is only this natural shell that science approaches; it does not approach the actual essence of instinct and will at all. But by taking the path from external natural science to a spiritual science, anthroposophy is able to see through not only the shell, the cover of instinct and will, but the true essence of instinct and will. And in so doing, it not only brings up into abstract thinking that which works as instinct and will, but the essence of instinct and will comes alive in the life of imagination. Anthroposophy begins as the most modern science as knowledge; in the further pursuit of its path, it leads to life, it leads the human being to submerge into those depths where instinct and will are rooted spiritually in the spirit. She may say, because she is a living being, with Fichte: What view one forms depends on what kind of person one is – because she is able, through her liveliness, to be allowed to work in the sense of this saying and yet be able to bear fruit for the moral, for the social life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":312,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/77b/1921-08-26/p032","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/SOL2024/19210826a01.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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Anthroposophie zeigt uns, wie der Mensch, indem sein Wille, indem seine Instinkte wirken, fortwährend aus einem Unterbewußten heraus schöpft, geradeso wie er die Kräfte aus dem Schlaf, der auch ein unterbewußter Zustand ist, herausschöpft. Anthroposophische Erkenntnis muß dasjenige, was der Mensch in bezug auf die eigentliche Wesenheit seines Willens erlebt, durchaus in Parallele setzen mit demjenigen, was er den Schlaf nennt. Es ist ein Schlaf, den wir fortwährend in uns herumtragen, indem wir unsere Willensimpulse aus dem Unbewußten heraus wirken lassen, geradeso wie die Erfrischungskräfte, die an unser Leben herantreten, herauswirken aus dem, was wir im Schlafe gewinnen. Aber in bezug auf das soziale Leben war dieses Unbewußte nur in einem gewissen Zeitraum möglich, es ist nicht mehr möglich seit der Mitte des 15. 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Sie enthüllen sich im Menschen in einer naturhaften Schale. Einzig und allein an diese naturhafte Schale dringt die Naturwissenschaft heran, an das eigentliche Wesen von Instinkt und Wille dringt sie gar nicht heran. Aber indem Anthroposophie den Weg nimmt von der äußeren Naturwissenschaft zu einer Geisteswissenschaft, wird es ihr möglich, nicht bloß zu durchschauen die Schale, die Hülle von Instinkt und Wille, sondern die wahre Wesenheit von Instinkt und Wille. Und damit bringt sie nicht nur herauf in ein abstraktes Denken dasjenige, was als Instinkt und Wille wirkt, dadurch tritt lebendig in das Vorstellungsleben ein das Wesen von Instinkt und Wille. Anthroposophie beginnt wie die modernste Wissenschaftlichkeit als Wissen; in der weiteren Fortführung ihres Weges führt sie zum Leben, führt sie den Menschen dazu, daß er untertaucht in diejenigen Tiefen, wo geistig im Geiste wurzeln Instinkt und Wille. Sie darf, weil sie etwas Lebendiges ist, mit Fichte sagen: Welche Anschauung man sich bildet, das hängt davon ab, was man für ein Mensch ist —, denn sie bringt es dahin, durch ihre Lebendigkeit im Sinne dieses Ausspruches wirken zu dürfen und dennoch fruchtbar werden zu können für das moralische, für das soziale Leben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":301,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77b/1921-08-26/p032"},{"locus":"GA 77b/1921-08-26/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Was man für einen Kopf hat, meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden, das hängt zu einem gewissen Teil ab davon, wie der übrige Organismus des Menschen beschaffen ist. Aber wenn man sich nur einseitig an dasjenige hält, was im Kopfe lebt, so kommt man nicht dazu, den übrigen Organismus zu erfassen; dann wirkt der übrige Organismus wie ein Unbekanntes. So wirkt dasjenige, was unterhalb des Vorstellungslebens im Willen wirkt, für den modernen Wissenschaftsgeist noch als ein Unbekanntes. Wenn also diese moderne Wissenschaft so wirkt, wie der Mensch geartet ist, so durchschaut sie nicht, daher durchlebt sie auch nicht, was in der Willensnatur des Menschen ist, denn sie dringt nicht in diese Willensnatur des Menschen ein. Indem Anthroposophie vom Wissen zum vollen Leben aufsteigt, fließt sie mit dem ganzen menschlichen Bewußtsein in den Strom von Instinkt und Willen ein, macht diese selbst bewußt, und man erlangt dadurch die Möglichkeit, nicht nur an seinem Denken, sondern an seinem ganzen Menschen zu arbeiten. Dann aber, wenn wir eine Wissenschaft haben, die an dem ganzen Menschen arbeitet, dann entsteht, während wir denken, an dem anderen Menschen dasjenige, was nun wiederum dieses Denken beeinflussen darf. Dann wirkt Wissen und Leben wie ein Organisches, wo das eine das andere gleichzeitig bedingt, nicht nacheinander. Dann darf in diesem organischen Zusammenwirken Philosophie, auch Sitten-Philosophie, auch MoralPhilosophie dasjenige sein, was der Mensch aus ihnen machen kann vermöge seiner Artung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77b/1921-08-26/p033"}],"beads":[{"from":[31],"to":[31],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[32],"to":[32],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[33],"to":[33],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"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)."}}