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By learning to recognize how we can remain in consciousness as human beings, independent of our physical bodies, and with our will power reaching into the future, we gain an insight into what happens to the soul and spirit of the human being when the corpse is taken up by the external forces and laws of nature. We gain a picture of the soul and spirit that frees itself from the body when the physical body of a person succumbs to death.","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":188,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p036","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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Dadurch aber, dass wir in dieser Weise den Willen auch losreißen von der physischen Leiblichkeit, gelangt in unsere Erkenntnis hinein ein Bild des Todes, wie er wirklich für den gesamten Menschen ist. Dadurch, dass wir erkennen lernen, wie wir als Menschen im Bewusstsein verharren können — unabhängig von der physischen Leiblichkeit — auch mit dem Willen, der nach der Zukunft hingeht, bekommen wir das Bild desjenigen, was mit dem Geistig-Seelischen des Menschen geschieht, wenn der Leichnam von den äußeren Naturkräften und Naturgesetzen aufgenommen wird. 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