{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-23/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You see, dear attendees, the eternal part of the human soul does not come to light through anthroposophical research, but is pieced together from the prenatal and, if I may say so, the post-mortal existence, from unbornness and immortality. And by getting to know what is eternal, what is immortal in the human soul, one also learns to recognize the worlds that surround this human soul when it is in its pure spiritual-soul nature, by looking at what the soul was before birth or before conception. Of course, there is still another objection possible, the objection: Yes, how do you know that what you are looking at in your consciousness really lies in the time before birth or before conception? Now, just as with ordinary memory, when you remember an experience you had ten years ago, the memory itself contains the time, as you cannot believe that you have something in your consciousness that is only there in the present , just as the content of consciousness itself points to the time in which the experience took place, so that which we experience as spiritual and mental carries within it the time before birth or before conception. But we also become aware of the worlds that are not the sensual ones, because we only perceive them through the human senses between birth and death. But the worlds that we perceive through the soul senses, if I may use the expression, before birth and after death, they are now unlocked. We get to know them as concrete, essential worlds. And by getting to know these worlds, we also get to know the spiritual-supernatural world that always surrounds us, which we cannot penetrate through mere philosophical speculation. We can penetrate it only by developing more and more imaginative, inspired, intuitive knowledge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-23","location":null,"word_count":299,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p029","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/SOL2024/19220123p01.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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Es ist natürlich noch eine Einwendung möglich, die Einwendung: Ja, wie weiß man denn, dass dasjenige, was man da im Bewusstsein anschaut, wirklich der Zeit nach vor der Geburt oder vor der Konzeption liegt? Nun, wie schon bei der gewöhnlichen Erinnerung, wenn Sie sich erinnern an ein Erlebnis, das Sie vor zehn Jahren hatten, die Erinnerung selbst die Zeit enthält, wie Sie nicht glauben können, Sie haben etwas im Bewusstsein, was nur in der Gegenwart da ist, wie schon der Bewusstseinsinhalt durch sich selbst auf die Zeit hinweist, in der das Erlebnis verlaufen ist, so trägt dasjenige, was wir als Geistig-Seelisches erleben, in sich die Zeit vor der Geburt beziehungsweise vor der Konzeption. Aber auch werden wir gewahr die Welten, die dann nicht die sinnlichen sind, denn sie nehmen wir nur zwischen Geburt und Tod wahr durch die Menschensinne. Aber diejenigen Welten, die wir wahrnehmen durch die Seelensinne, wenn ich den Ausdruck gebrauchen darf, vor der Geburt und nach dem Tode, sie sind jetzt aufgeschlossen. Wir lernen sie als konkrete, wesenhafte Welten kennen. Und indem wir diese Welten kennenlernen, lernen wir auch die geistig-übersinnliche Welt kennen, die uns immer umgibt, in die wir nicht eindringen können durch bloße philosophische Spekulation. 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