{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-05-16/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We can now seek spiritual knowledge for ourselves, and we do not need to withdraw from life into a hermitage. We can immerse ourselves in life, our outer physicality does not lead us to asceticism, our outer physicality remains as it is, and can therefore robustly face the external world and fulfill all the demands that today's life places on modern people. In this way we can create an understanding of the spiritual world by remaining in this world, in which modern man must one day remain. But when we create such insights, then man certainly approaches us in a different way than he approaches us when we merely look at him with our sensory eyes. Usually we perceive only the external physicality of this human form. But the person who has struggled to the mobile, living thoughts does not just see this outer, sensual human form; he sees something spiritual and soul-like in this human form, an auric, a spiritual and soul-like aura. The word “aura” is to be understood only in this sense, not in any superstitious sense. One beholds the auric in which the human form is embedded, but one does not only recognize in this aura that which stands externally in front of one, but one looks at that which the person already was in his spiritual-soul before he descended from a spiritual-soul world. One gets to know the person through their auric being, which reveals itself through the kind of contemplation that I have characterized as a spiritual-soul being, and one learns to look back into the spiritual-soul world, into one's preexistence, into the life that one had before one entered one's earthly life. And one does not just learn in such abstractness that the person truly lived in a spiritual-soul world before his birth, one also gets to know the concrete of this spiritual-soul human being, that is, our self, as we get to know the outer world through sensory perception.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and Knowledge of the Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-05-16","location":null,"word_count":327,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p035","alignment_confidence":"medium","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/SOL2024/19220516p01.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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Dann aber, wenn wir solche Erkenntnisse schaffen, dann tritt uns allerdings der Mensch in einer anderen Weise entgegen, als er uns entgegentritt, wenn wir ihn bloß mit den sinnlichen Augen anschauen. Gewöhnlich nehmen wir nur von dieser Menschengestalt die äußerliche Körperlichkeit wahr. Derjenige, der sich zu den beweglichen, lebendigen Gedanken durchgerungen hat, der schaut nun nicht bloß diese äußere sinnliche Menschengestalt, der schaut etwas, was geistig-seelisch an dieser Menschengestalt ist, ein Aurisches, eine geistig-seelische Aura. Nur so ist das Wort «Aura» in diesem Sinne zu verstehen, nicht in irgendeinem abergläubischen Sinn. Man schaut das Aurische, in das die Menschengestalt eingebettet ist, aber man erkennt in dieser Aura nicht nur dasjenige, was äußerlich im Raume vor einem steht, sondern man schaut hin auf dasjenige, was der Mensch schon war in seinem Geistig-Seelischen, bevor er heruntergestiegen ist aus einer geistig-seelischen Welt. Man lernt den Menschen durch sein aurisches Wesen, das sich solcher Anschauung ergibt, wie ich sie charakterisiert habe, als geistig-seelisches Wesen kennen, und man lernt zurückschauen in die geistig-seelische Welt, in seine Präexistenz, in das Leben, das er hatte, bevor er sein irdisches Leben angetreten hatte. 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