{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-17/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the same way that we first get to know the spiritual-plastic element of the human soul through the plasticity of thinking, which enters the physical body through birth or conception, we learn to recognize how the will-like element dissolves the human body, but in the dissolution – I would like to say, as I said, figuratively speaking – pure spirituality emerges from the flame. We get to know the soul's departure from the body. In this way we understand death as a result of the dissolution of the will element. We understand what happens to a person in death because we understand what happens in the everyday act of will. Everyday volitional decision brings about a kind of combustion process in the physical body, but from this combustion process emerges that which is our inner soul life. What we feel inwardly as soul could not be there if we were always merely bodies, merely shaped in a plastic way. The plastic must be broken down, flow, and from the flowing of the plastic, from the continually being destroyed of the bodily, the experiencing of the soul arises. And we understand the departure of the human soul with death from the physical body, which only in an instant summarizes what is always unfolding in the will to the spirituality of the soul. Just as I experience my will in the present moment, how it forms a kind of process of combustion, of dissolution in the body, how through this destruction the spiritual comes to life in the human body, so I learn to recognize how, with the other destruction of the body in death, which is nothing other than the last effect of the will hidden in the body, how the spiritual returns again to the spiritual-soul world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and the Riddle of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-17","location":null,"word_count":298,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p038","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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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Der alltägliche Willensentschluss bewirkt im physischen Leibe — wie gesagt, bildlich gesprochen — eine Art Verbrennungsprozess, aber aus diesem Verbrennungsprozess geht hervor dasjenige, was unser inneres Seelenleben ist. Was wir innerlich als Seele empfinden, es könnte nicht da sein, wenn wir immer bloß Leib wären, bloß plastisch gestaltet würden. Das Plastische muss abgebaut werden, verfließen, und aus dem Verfließenden des Plastischen, aus dem immer Fortwährend-zerstörtWerdenden des Leiblichen geht das Erleben des Seelischen hervor. Und wir begreifen den Auszug der Menschenseele mit dem Tode aus dem physischen Leibe, der nur in einen Augenblick zusammengefasst dasjenige darstellt, was immerdar sich in der Entfaltung des Willens zur Geistigkeit der Seele darstellt. 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