{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-26/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This help is still very useful: I only need to describe how a person is always different after certain periods of time. We all know how we have changed after a decade in our overall state of mind and life. But what has made us different is life itself. Life has taken us into its great school, given us different or altered soul experiences, taken away certain habits, given us others, and so on. We are more or less passively surrendered to life when it is a matter of transformation, of metamorphosis of our own soul or bodily constitution. But if you take what is at work in your moral habits and motives into your own hands, for example by saying to yourself: You have a habit, you want to change it and make it completely different, or something similar, and if you practice it enough, especially if you set goals that run over time, then you will achieve more and more of what is the independence of the will from the physical body of the human being. But through this, something is developed into a power of cognition, of which one rightly says that it, as it is in ordinary life, should not become a power of cognition, and I know very well what speaks against the application of this power, as it is in ordinary life, as a power of cognition. But it should not be used in this way in anthroposophy either; it should be transformed. It should undergo a metamorphosis on a supersensible level.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and the Riddles of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-26","location":null,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p033","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/SOL2024/19220126p01.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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Wenn man aber selbst in die Hand nimmt, was da in den sittlichen Gewohnheiten und Motiven wirkt, indem man sich zum Beispiel sagt: Du hast eine Gewohnheit, du willst sie ändern und zu einer ganz anderen machen oder Ähnliches, und wenn man sich darin genügend übt, besonders wenn man sich über die Zeiten hin laufende Ziele steckt, dann erreicht man immer mehr und mehr das, was die Unabhängigkeit des Willens von der physischen Leiblichkeit des Menschen ist. Dadurch aber wird etwas ausgebildet zu einer Erkenntniskraft, von dem man mit Recht sagt, dass es so, wie es im gewöhnlichen Leben ist, eine Erkenntniskraft nicht werden soll, und ich weiß sehr gut, was gegen die Anwendung dieser Kraft, wie sie im gewöhnlichen Leben ist, als Erkenntniskraft spricht. Aber so soll sie auch in der Anthroposophie nicht angewendet werden, sondern verwandelt. 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