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But through this — my dear audience — one gradually comes to the point where the life of presentation is no longer this merely abstract, this — I would say — merely pictorial, but through purely inner research, which is, however, pursued with the same seriousness as any other kind of scientific research, through inner research one makes the discovery that the soul, which otherwise could only fill its mental life with the results of external impressions, that the soul is inwardly filled by forces that, as it were, shoot into the soul life. 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. 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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"}],"beads":[{"from":[26],"to":[26],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[27],"to":[27],"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)."}}