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Just as we strengthen a muscle when we use it continually in work, so we can strengthen our imaginative life when we work at it in the way I have described in detail, for example, in my writing “How to Know Higher Worlds.” If we direct this life of imagination through inner, soul work in a certain direction, if we move certain easily comprehensible images into the center of consciousness and always devote ourselves to this kind of imaginative work, to which we would otherwise not devote ourselves. I can only hint at this in principle here, but you will find clear indications in the work just mentioned and also in the second part of my “Occult Science” that the imaginative life of the human being can become something quite different through such meditation and concentration exercises of thinking. I would like to say that a stronger, more vigorous life of imagination can be produced without any kind of abnormal action, but through the mere further development of what is normal in the life of thought, in the life of imagination in man. And by generating this stronger imaginative life, by elevating ourselves through meditation and concentration above that which is actually merely pictorial in our ordinary imaginative life, we come to what I call in the books mentioned, the imaginative presentation that is rich in content.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":281,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p025","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220117p01.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 images are no longer just this light liquid when they are formed through meditation and concentration, but they are permeated and imbued with forces that I would call formative forces, forces that make up an inwardly spiritual-plastic element. And after some time, one discovers that through this development of the life of imagination, one grows together with that which the formative forces of the human body itself are. After some time, one discovers that the life of thought is, so to speak, nothing other than the rarefied life of forces in human growth. That which inwardly shapes us plastically in the physical body from birth to death is – I would say – in a rarefied state our life of imagination in ordinary consciousness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":242,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p026","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220117p01.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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And this is a significant discovery of the inner human life: that one can strengthen one's imagination in such a way that one can make it so intense inwardly that one then feels oneself in that which is the formative forces of the human being, which formative forces are in one's growth, in one's metabolism. However strange it may still sound to today's research. It is the case that it is possible, by strengthening the soul life, to grow into that which then, in a sense, takes us up as that which plastically shapes our outer physical body as its formative forces. One grows through the life of the imagination into reality, one grows into a formative element. And in this way one gets to know – dear ladies and gentlemen – what lies behind the mere thought process. One learns to recognize how a spiritual, with which one has now connected, works on the human organism from birth to death. The life of the imagination acquires its reality, the life of the imagination is no longer the mere life of the image, the life of the imagination becomes a life of strength that is inherent in existence itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":323,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p027","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220117p01.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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And on the other hand, when a person loses their center of gravity in their mental life and gets caught up in a fearful undercurrent of their soul life, they can absorb the results of spiritual science anthroposophy about the mental life and can maintain this mental life through the path of knowledge. Anthroposophy does not offer a solution to this soul riddle by putting forward a theory, but by putting forward a result that the human being can fully grasp with his or her common sense and that then — by lending heaviness — occurs in the life of ideas for his consciousness, for his soul life, so that into the soul mood, into the soul condition, solving riddles can flow that which Anthroposophy seemingly asserts as mere knowledge of the life of ideas. On the one hand, we recognize how the human being is a formed being, how he appears as a whole in a certain form, how his individual organs are formed out of the spirit and how we, in order to be free beings, can act not only through these inner forces but can also surrender to free mirror images, how we can develop our mere pictorial representations into a plastic form.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":332,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p028","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220117p01.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 order for him to be free, his life must be distinguished from that which permeates it plastically as a growth force, as a growth body – one could say – as a body of formative forces. But the human being must pay for this life in freedom with the characterized anxious undercurrent in his soul life. 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One learns to recognize how the inherited traits, which come from parents or ancestors, connect with the whole body, which is formed in the maternal organism, from the spiritual world, and how one finds this again in life when one strengthens one's imaginative life. One arrives – I would say – at one side of the question of immortality. We look at what is immortal, what is eternal in human nature, because it penetrates from a spiritual world through conception and birth into what is humanly physical, and because it continues to have an effect even during earthly life as the inner, plastic formative power with which we connect by strengthening our thought life in the manner indicated.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":253,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p030","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220117p01.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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There is no other way to solve the riddle of the soul than to find this path from the simplest phenomena of everyday life to the great riddles of existence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p031","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220117p01.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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Ich habe darauf hingewiesen, wie man das Vorstellungsleben selber erkraften, verstärken kann. Geradeso, wie wir einen Muskel verstärken, wenn wir ihn fortwährend arbeitend gebrauchen, so können wir das Vorstellungsleben verstärken, wenn wir in dem Sinne, wie ich es zum Beispiel in meiner Schrift «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» in allen Einzelheiten angeführt habe. Wenn wir dieses Vorstellungsleben durch innerliche, seelische Arbeit in eine gewisse Richtung bringen, wenn wir gewisse leicht überschaubare Vorstellungen in den Mittelpunkt des Bewusstseins rücken und immer wiederum auf diese Weise einer vorstellenden Arbeit uns hingeben, der wir uns sonst nicht hingeben. Ich kann dies nur prinzipiell hier andeuten, aber Sie finden in dem eben genannten Werk und auch im zweiten Teil meiner «Geheimwissenschaft» deutliche Aufschlüsse darüber, dass das Vorstellungsleben des Menschen etwas ganz anderes werden kann durch solche Meditations-, durch Konzentrations-Übungen des Denkens. Ich möchte sagen, ohne alle irgendwelche abnorme Vornahme, sondern durch bloße Fortbildung desjenigen, was als Gedankenleben, als Vorstellungsleben im Menschen normal ist, kann ein stärkeres, kräftigeres Vorstellungsleben erzeugt werden. Und indem man dieses kräftigere Vorstellungsleben erzeugt, indem man durch Meditation und Konzentration sich hinaushebt über dasjenige, was in unserem gewöhnlichen Vorstellungsleben eigentlich bloß bildhaft ist, kommt man zu dem, was ich nenne in den genannten Büchern das inhaltsvolle, das imaginative Vorstellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":249,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p025"},{"locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-17/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Dieses imaginative Vorstellen, das lebt mit einer solchen inneren Lebendigkeit in dem bloßen Gedanken, wie sonst der Mensch in seinen äußeren Wahrnehmungen lebt. Dadurch aber — meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden — kommt man allmählich dahin, dass das Vorstellungsleben nicht mehr dieses bloß abstrakte, dieses — ich möchte sagen — bloß bildhafte ist, sondern man macht durch rein innerliche Forschung, die aber durchaus mit demselben Ernst getrieben wird wie nur irgendeine wissenschaftliche Forschung, man macht durch innere Forschung die Entdeckung, dass die Seele, die sonst nur ihr Vorstellungsleben anfüllen konnte mit den Ergebnissen der äußeren Eindrücke, dass die Seele innerlich erfüllt wird von den Kräften, die gewissermaßen in das Seelenleben hereinschießen. Die Vorstellungen sind nicht mehr bloß dieses Leichtflüssige, wenn sie durch Meditation, durch Konzentration ausgebildet werden, sondern sie werden durchkraftet, durchzogen von Kräften, die ich gestaltende Kräfte nennen möchte, von Kräften, die ein innerlich geistig-plastisches Element ausmachen. Und man entdeckt nach einiger Zeit, dass man durch diese Ausbildung des Vorstellungslebens zusammenwächst mit demjenigen, was die Bildekräfte des menschlichen Leibes selber sind. Man macht nach einiger Zeit die Entdeckung, dass das Gedankenleben gewissermaßen nichts anderes ist als das verdünnte Kraftleben des menschlichen Wachstums. Dasjenige, was uns innerlich plastisch gestaltet im physischen Leibe von der Geburt bis zum Tode, das ist — ich möchte sagen — in einem verdünnten Zustand unser Vorstellungslebens im gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":223,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p026"},{"locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-17/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Wir blicken hin auf das eben geborene Kind. Wir wissen - meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden —, dass in diesem eben geborenen Kind, vom Gehirn ausgehend, die bildsamen, die plastischen Kräfte arbeiten an der Gestaltung des Leibes. Wir verfolgen das Wachstum des Kindes, wie es ausstrahlt gerade von der plastischen Gehirntätigkeit, wir verfolgen es bis zu einem gewissen Einschnitte in das menschliche Erdenleben, bis zum Zahnwechsel, bis gegen das siebente Lebensjahr hin. Wir werden, indem wir dieses Kraftleben, das da im Menschen pulsiert, das plastisch in ihm tätig ist, indem wir das zunächst als ein Unbestimmtes empfinden. Wir werden auf der anderen Seite, indem wir unser Vorstellungsleben durch Meditation, durch Konzentration kraftvoll ausgestalten, unbewusst zu demselben Element hingeführt, das so plastisch von unserer ersten Kindheit an in uns arbeitete. Und das ist eine bedeutsame Entdeckung des inneren menschlichen Lebens, dass man das Vorstellungsleben so erkraften kann, dass man es so innerlich intensiv machen kann, dass man sich denn darinnen fühlt in demjenigen, was des Menschen Bildekräfte sind, was Bildekräfte sind in seinem Wachstum, in seinem Stoffwechsel. So sonderbar es für die heutige Forschung noch klingt. Es ist so, dass es möglich ist, durch eine Verstärkung des Seelenlebens in dasjenige hineinzuwachsen, was uns gewissermaßen dann aufnimmt als dasjenige, was unsern äußeren physischen Leib als seine Bildekräfte plastisch gestaltet. Man wächst durch das Vorstellungsleben in die Wirklichkeit hinein, man wächst in ein gestaltendes Element hinein. Und man lernt auf diese Art kennen — meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden — dasjenige, was hinter dem bloßen Gedankenprozess liegt. Man lernt erkennen, wie ein Geistiges, mit dem man sich jetzt verbunden hat, am menschlichen Organismus von der Geburt bis zum Tode arbeitet. Das Vorstellungsleben bekommt seine Realität, das Vorstellungsleben ist nicht mehr das bloße Bildleben, das Vorstellungsleben wird ein Kraftleben, das im Dasein selber drinnensteht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":298,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p027"},{"locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-17/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Und nur durch eine solche Erkenntnis kann dasjenige, was - man könnte sagen — die Unterströmung von Ängstlichkeit, von Furcht in der menschlichen Seele erzeugt, kann vom Bewusstsein aus diese Furcht, diese Ängstlichkeit bezwungen werden, sodass es in der Tat nicht eine theoretische Lösung der Seelenrätsel ist, auf die hier Anthroposophie hinweist, sondern eine durchaus innerliche, praktische Lösung, die zu erleben ist. Indem Anthroposophie hinweisen muss darauf, dass aus ihrer Forschung heraus dasjenige in das menschliche Bewusstsein hereinkommen kann, durch das menschliches Bewusstsein begriffen werden kann, was im Menschen lebt, was — ich möchte sagen - nur zum Schein sich so weit verdünnt, dass es als unser gewöhnliches Vorstellungsleben herauskommt, was aber seiner Wahrheit nach die innere Wachstumssphäre unseres Daseins ist. Und indem der Mensch auf der anderen Seite im Vorstellungsleben — ich möchte sagen — das Schwergewicht verliert und in eine ängstliche Unterströmung dieses Seelenlebens hineingerät, kann er aufnehmen die Ergebnisse der geisteswissenschaftlichen Anthroposophie über das Vorstellungsleben und kann dieses Vorstellungsleben auf dem Erkenntniswege befestigt erhalten. Die Lösung dieses Seelenrätsels bietet Anthroposophie nicht, indem sie eine Theorie hinstellt, sondern indem sie dem Menschen ein Ergebnis hinstellt, das er mit seinem gesunden Menschenverstand durchaus begreifen kann und das dann — wie Schwere verleihend — im Vorstellungsleben für sein Bewusstsein, für sein Seelenleben auftritt, sodass in die Seelenstimmung, in die Seelenverfassung hinein Rätsel lösend strömen kann dasjenige, was Anthroposophie scheinbar als bloße Erkenntnis über das Vorstellungsleben geltend zu machen vermag. Man erkennt eben durchaus da auf der einen Seite, wie der Mensch ein gestaltetes Wesen ist, wie er als Ganzes in einer bestimmten Gestalt auftritt, wie seine einzelnen Organe gestaltet sind aus dem Geiste heraus und wie wir, damit wir ein freies Wesen sein können, damit wir nicht gezwungen durch diese innerlichen Kräfte nur handeln können, sondern uns freien Spiegelbildern hingeben können, wie wir bis zu einem plastisch Gestalteten unsere bloß bildhaften Vorstellungen hin entwickeln.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":314,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p028"},{"locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-17/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Das, was da vorliegt, habe ich - meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden — im Beginne der neunziger Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts in meiner «Philosophie der Freiheit» ausgeführt, indem ich gezeigt habe, dass der Mensch ein freies Wesen dadurch ist, dass er eben gerade in den reinen Gedanken, die nicht mit irgendeiner äußeren Realität für sein Bewusstsein zusammenhängen, leben kann, dass er in diesen reinen Gedanken seine moralischen Impulse formen kann. Spiegelbildern gegenüber wird man so dastehen, dass man selber irgendetwas ausführen muss, wenn das Spiegelbild sich ändern soll; Spiegelbilder bestimmen einen nicht kausal. Der Mensch würde niemals frei, wenn er von einer Realität in seinem gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein bestimmt wäre. In seinem gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein leben die Vorstellungen als Bilder. Dadurch wird er von ihnen nicht bestimmt, wie man durch Spiegelbilder auch nicht bestimmt wird. Er ist frei. Damit er frei sein kann, muss sich sein Leben herausheben aus demjenigen, was es plastisch als Wachstumskraft, als Wachstumsleib — könnte man sagen —, als Bildekräfteleib durchzieht. Aber dieses Leben in der Freiheit muss der Mensch eben mit der charakterisierten ängstlichen Unterströmung in seinem Seelenleben erkaufen. Und daher muss der Mensch in seinem gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein dazu kommen, seine Freiheitsempfindung voll zu erleben, aber auch als polarischen Gegensatz entgegenstellen können diesem Freiheitserlebnis dasjenige, was Anthroposophie geben kann als Befestigung des Vorstellungslebens in der angedeuteten Weise.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p029"},{"locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-17/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Dringt man aber auf diesem Wege weiter — meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden —, so dringt man ja von dem — ich möchte sagen — ganz verdünnten, bloß bildhaften Vorstellungsleben vor zu demjenigen, was wirkliche Realität ist, was in dem Menschen gestaltend lebt. Es ist nicht der physische Leib, es sind nicht die physischen Organe, es ist ein übersinnlich Kraftendes, aber es ist da. Man erfasst etwas, was außerhalb des physischen Leibes liegt. Und man dringt dadurch ein, indem man einfach nach der einen Seite hin die Seelenrätsel verfolgt; man dringt dadurch ein in dasjenige, was unabhängig von dem menschlichen physischen Leibe eine übersinnliche Realität im Menschen hat. Man dringt vor bis zu dem, was durch die Geburt oder durch die Konzeption — sagen wir — als menschlicher physischer Leib, der da zubereitet wird durch die bloßen Vererbungsverhältnisse, durch bloße, äußere Naturtatsachen, was als menschlicher Leib vorgebildet wird. Man lernt erkennen, wie sich mit den vererbten Merkmalen, die von Eltern oder Voreltern herrühren, mit dem ganzen Leib, der sich im mütterlichen Organismus bildet, aus der geistigen Welt heraus dasjenige verbindet, was man im Leben wiederfindet, wenn man das Vorstellungsleben erkraftet. Man gelangt — ich möchte sagen — zu der einen Seite der Unsterblichkeitsfrage. Man schaut hin auf dasjenige, was unsterblich, was ewig ist in der Menschennatur, weil es aus einer geistigen Welt durch Konzeption und Geburt in dasjenige eindringt, was menschlich-leiblich ist, und weil es fortwirkt auch während des Erdenlebens als die innere, plastische Gestaltungskraft, mit der wir uns verbinden, indem wir in der angedeuteten Weise unser Gedankenleben verstärken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p030"},{"locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-17/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"So — meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden — bietet Anthroposophie die Perspektive, die etwa ein Franz Brentano suchte. Brentano begann auch bei einer Untersuchung der Gedanken, er ließ aber die Gedanken so, wie sie im gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein sind. Er beschränkte sich darauf, bloß dasjenige zu registrieren, was im gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein vorhanden ist. Erst die Verstärkung des Gedankenlebens durch Meditation und Konzentration führt dieses Gedankenleben zu der inneren, plastischen Gestaltungskraft. Und sie führt wirklich auf den Weg, der beim Erfassen des einfachen, alltäglichen Gedankens beginnt und der endet bei demjenigen geistig-seelischen Element des Menschen, das da gelebt hat vor der Geburt, vor der Konzeption, in der geistig-seelischen Welt selber und das sich mit den Vererbungskräften, mit den physischen Kräften des Menschenleibes verbunden hat. 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