{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"One submerges oneself with one's soul-spiritual existence, which one has glimpsed through higher knowledge, into the physical body and only now does one find out how one actually carries the powers of death within oneself continuously; and how these powers of death are now continually overcome by the life forces, how a continuous struggle takes place in the human organism, the struggle that takes place between the powers of death and the life forces. Only now do we begin to feel what it actually means when waking and sleeping alternate in ordinary life. We feel that the whole human being in sleep leaves the physical body just as the human being with higher knowledge, which I have described, leaves this physical body. But one also feels how, in the ordinary life between birth and death, man relies on the use of his physical body to exercise his logical powers and his powers of thought. For when he is not in his physical body during sleep, he at most brings it to a confused, chaotic dream life, which must immediately vanish when man submerges into the physical body. But through higher knowledge one also learns to see what is continuously at work in the human body, which counteracts the dissolving forces that are in us from birth to death. One learns to recognize that this counteraction is most intense precisely from the moment of falling asleep to the moment of waking up. And one learns to recognize how the waking life with its thoughts is connected to that which manifests itself separately with the corpse. One learns to recognize how one actually always carries within oneself the forces that are active in the corpse as the forces of dying. And through higher knowledge one learns that we initially carry those thoughts through which we permeate and order our existence in ordinary life, and that we actually handle it in the right way, that we cannot carry these thoughts up into higher knowledge. Into this higher knowledge, into this higher reality, we carry, my dear audience, only a part of our emotional and volitional life from our ordinary daily life, and in a higher world we acquire new thoughts. The sphere of thought that is bound to the physical body and one sees: is bound to that in the physical body which is always in us, which are the dying forces, this sphere of thought is grasped with higher knowledge. One also realizes that one had to strengthen thinking, feeling and willing in order to carry the thoughts that our physical body carries in our ordinary life, in order to carry the self.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. 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Man fühlt, dass das ganze menschliche Wesen im Schlafen ebenso aus dem physischen Leibe herausgeht, wie der Mensch mit seiner höheren Erkenntnis — die ich geschildert habe — aus diesem seinem physischen Leibe herausgeht. Aber man fühlt auch, wie der Mensch in dem gewöhnlichen Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod darauf angewiesen ist, dass er zum Ausüben der logischen Kräfte, zum Ausüben der Denkkräfte, sich seines physischen Leibes bedient. Denn wenn er nicht in seinem physischen Leibe im Schlafe ist, so bringt er es höchstens zu einem verworrenen, chaotischen Traumleben, das sogleich entschwinden muss, wenn der Mensch in den physischen Leib untertaucht. Aber man lernt durch die höhere Erkenntnis sehen im menschlichen Leibe fortwährend wirksam auch, was entgegenwirkt demjenigen, was von der Geburt bis zum Tode in uns ist an auflösenden Kräften. Man lernt erkennen, dass gerade vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen dieses Gegenwirken am intensivsten ist. Und man lernt erkennen, wie das wache Leben gerade mit seinen Gedanken gebunden ist an dasjenige, was sich abgesondert zeigt mit dem Leichnam. Man lernt erkennen, wie man die Kräfte, die im Leichnam wirksam sind, eigentlich immer in sich trägt als die Kräfte des Sterbens. Und man lernt durch höhere Erkenntnis, dass wir zunächst diejenigen Gedanken, durch die wir im gewöhnlichen Leben unser Dasein durchdringen und es ordnen, es eigentlich in der richtigen Weise handhaben, dass wir diese Gedanken nicht in die höhere Erkenntnis hinauf mittragen können. In diese höhere Erkenntnis, in diese höhere Wirklichkeit - meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden — tragen wir mit von unserem gewöhnlichen Tagesleben eigentlich nur einen Teil des Gefühlslebens und des Willenslebens, und in einer höheren Welt erwerben wir uns neue Gedanken. Die Gedankensphäre, die an den physischen Leib gebunden ist und von der man einsieht: Sie ist an dasjenige im physischen Leibe gebunden, was immer in uns ist, was die Sterbekräfte sind, diese Gedankensphäre fasst man mit der höheren Erkenntnis. Man sieht auch ein, man musste das Denken, das Fühlen, das Wollen verstärken, um dasjenige, was uns im gewöhnlichen Leben der Leib trägt an Gedanken, um das Selbst zu tragen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":420,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p029"}],"english":["GA 80b/1922-02-12/p030"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":420,"en_words":441,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 80b/1922-02-12/p029"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8163,"original_word_count":7949,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Inner Nature and Essence of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080b/English/SOL2024/19220212p01.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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