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In order to have thoughts in ordinary consciousness, one must descend into the physical organism, which carries the forces of dying and of death within itself. And if we did not have these dying and these death forces, we would not have a self-contained world of thoughts in ordinary consciousness between birth and death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":104,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p032","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-02-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p031","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p031"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":92,"en_words":104,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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That, ladies and gentlemen, is a significant insight, for it allows us to see the riddle of death in a new light. We see that we have not only the essence of death before us when it appears to us as the final enigmatic link, as the conclusion of physical life, but we perceive death as it continuously works between birth and death in the human being, and we perceive its intimate connection with the ordinary life of thought. But with that – my dear audience – the essence of this thought life also becomes clear to us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p033","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-02-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p032","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p032"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":221,"en_words":247,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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It is capable of penetrating into what is also outwardly dead nature, and in this respect, more recent knowledge has celebrated its great, justified triumphs. It has spread more and more over the field of dead, inorganic, inanimate nature; it wants to see through this dead, this inanimate nature in such a way that one day — this is its ideal — it will be able to see the emergence of the living within the dead, like a combination of the forces that work within the dead. Today, in a certain respect, it is believed that we are on the way to such an understanding of the organic from the inorganic. But even if such an ideal of scientific knowledge, which is entirely justified in its field, could be fulfilled, we will only recognize that which is dead in the living. 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Within that which I have before my eyes in this living thing, the same forces and laws are at work that I explore in physics and chemistry; there is a physicality, a chemistry within it. This physicality, this chemistry, is present within the living thing in a different way than outside of it, but it is only within this living thing that it is inanimate. And it may be possible to see through the particular way in which this non-living manifests itself in the living, but one still remains only with the non-living. And one remains with the non-living even when one studies it up to the point of understanding the human being. The human being carries within himself the forces, the mode of action of dead matter. But precisely because he carries these forces of dead material within him, this means that he always has death and dying within him. Through higher knowledge, one gains insight into the fact that the human being thinks in the ordinary consciousness by carrying this inanimate, this inorganic, this continually equipping him with dying forces. It is significant to see through the fact that man must see that which he recognizes as his highest in physical life as being bound to that which is constantly detaching itself from life, that is, that man can think, that he is constantly detaching the forces of the dead from life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":254,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p036","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-02-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p035","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p035"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":237,"en_words":254,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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The conscious powers of thought of physical life are bound to death and dying, are inwardly connected, most intimately, with these powers of death and dying.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":137,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p037","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-02-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p036","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p036"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":124,"en_words":137,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Um im gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein Gedanken zu haben, muss man untertauchen in den physischen Organismus, der die Sterbe-, die Todeskräfte in sich trägt. Und hätten wir nicht diese Sterbe-, diese Todeskräfte, wir würden eben im gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein zwischen Geburt und Tod nicht eine in sich selbst geschlossene Gedankenwelt haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p031"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Wir erfahren jetzt, wie der Mensch sich gewissermaßen erhärten muss zu einer physischen Organisation, die sich ihm selber entreißt, die so wirkt, wie die physischen Kräfte im Tode wirken, die nur immer überwunden werden dadurch, dass der Mensch von seinem Geistig-Seelischen durchzogen wird. Man lernt erkennen jetzt diese Sterbens- und Todeskräfte dadurch, dass man eben mit dem höheren Erkennen eine Gedankenwelt hat, die nicht untertaucht in diese Sterbens-, in diese Todeskräfte. Und so stellt sich für dieses höhere Erkennen hin das geistige Leben neben den natürlichen Tod, und so lernt erkennen der Mensch, wie gerade die Gedankenkräfte — diejenigen Kräfte, welche zusammenschließen unser Leben innerlich mit der Sinneswelt, die das Äußere vermittelt —, wie diese Gedankenkräfte gebunden sind an die Auflösungs-, an die Sterbekräfte des menschlichen Organismus. Das — meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden - ist eine bedeutsame Erkenntnis, denn dadurch durchschauen wir das Todesrätsel in einer neuen Gestalt. Wir durchschauen es, dass wir den Tod nicht nur wesenhaft vor uns haben, wenn er gewissermaßen als das Endglied, als der Abschluss des physischen Lebens rätselvoll vor uns erscheint, sondern wir gewahren den Tod, wie er fortwährend zwischen Geburt und Tod in dem Menschenwesen wirkt, und wir gewahren seinen innigen Zusammenhang mit dem gewöhnlichen Gedankenleben. Damit aber — meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden - tritt uns auch das Wesenhafte dieses Gedankenlebens deutlich vor Augen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p032"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Gerade dadurch, dass gewissermaßen dasjenige, was wir gefühlsmäßig, willensmäßig in unserer Seele tragen, sich verbinden muss mit den Absterbekräften, damit es durchsetzt werden kann von der Gedankenwelt, die wir zum gewöhnlichen Leben brauchen, dadurch nimmt unser Seelenleben jenen Charakter an, den es gerade im gegenwärtigen Zeitalter zur höchsten Blüte ausgebildet hat, auf den es gerade im gegenwärtigen Zeitalter im eminentesten und auch im richtigen Sinne stolz ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":67,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p033"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Versuchen wir einmal, uns zu versetzen in dasjenige, was diese Gedankenwelt, von der wir also jetzt wissen, dass sie an die Sterbe-, an die Todeskräfte des Menschen gebunden ist, was diese Gedankenwelt vermag. Sie vermag einzudringen in dasjenige, was auch die äußerlich tote Natur ist, und in dieser Beziehung hat die neuere Erkenntnis ihre großen, berechtigten Triumphe gefeiert. Sie hat ausgebreitet sich über das Gebiet der toten, der unorganischen, der unlebendigen Natur immer mehr und mehr; sie will durchschauen diese tote, diese unlebendige Natur in der Weise, dass sie dann auch einmal — das schwebt ihr als Ideal vor - das Hervorgehen des Lebendigen innerhalb des Toten wie eine Kombination der Kräfte, die im Toten wirken, schauen könne. Man glaubt heute in einer gewissen Beziehung, auf dem Wege zu einer solchen Erkenntnis des Organischen aus dem Unorganischen heraus zu sein. Aber man wird, selbst wenn ein solches Ideal naturwissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis, die als solche auf ihrem Gebiete durchaus berechtigt ist, wenn ein solches Ideal sich erfüllen könnte, man wird doch nur dasjenige im Lebendigen erkennen, was im Lebendigen ein Totes ist. Lassen Sie mich das in der folgenden Weise ausdrücken, meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p034"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Wenn ich die Pflanze betrachte: Sie ist ein Lebendiges, in ihr kreisen Stoffe, in ihr wirken Kräfte. Innerhalb desjenigen, was ich in diesem Lebendigen vor Augen habe, wirken dieselben Kräfte und Gesetze, die ich in der Physik, in der Chemie erkunde; da ist ein Physisches, da ein Chemismus darinnen. Dieses Physische, dieser Chemismus, sie sind in anderer Weise da innerhalb des Lebendigen als außerhalb des Lebendigen, aber sie sind doch nur eben innerhalb dieses Lebendigen ein Unlebendiges. Und es mag gelingen, zu durchschauen, in welch besonderer Art sich dieses Unlebendige im Lebendigen darstellt, im Lebendigen offenbart, aber man bleibt doch nur beim Unlebendigen. Und man bleibt beim Unlebendigen, auch wenn man es heraufstudiert bis zum Menschen. Der Mensch trägt in sich die Kräfte, die Wirkungsweise des toten Stoffes. Aber gerade dadurch, dass er diese Wirkungsweise, diese Kräfte des toten Stoffes in sich trägt, das bedeutet ja, dass er den Tod, das Sterben, immer in sich hat. Durch höhere Erkenntnis gewinnt man Einsicht darin, dass der Mensch im gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein dadurch denkt, dass er dieses Unlebendige, dieses Unorganische, dieses fortwährend ihn mit Sterbekräften Ausrüstende, in sich trägt. Es ist ein Bedeutsames, zu durchschauen, dass der Mensch dasjenige, was er zunächst im physischen Leben als sein Höchstes anerkennt, gerade gebunden sehen muss an dasjenige, was sich fortwährend aus dem Leben loslöst, das ist, dass der Mensch denken kann, dass er fortwährend aus dem Leben loslöst die Kräfte des Toten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":237,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p035"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Und daher kommt es auch, dass in demselben Augenblick, in dem die Lebensprozesse sich erhöhen im gewöhnlichen physischen Leben — sagen wir im Fieber oder abnormen, krankhaften Zuständen —, dass dann auch das Bewusstsein des Menschen in das Krankhafte übergeht; dass der Mensch ein gesundes Bewusstsein nur haben kann, wenn die Lebenskräfte, die übersprudelnden, warmen Lebenskräfte, in Schach gehalten werden durch die Todeskräfte. Die Gedanken, wie wir sie im gewöhnlichen Leben haben, sie stellen sich in die Gemüts- und Willenskräfte, die an das Lebendige gebunden sind, sie stellen sich in diese dadurch hinein, dass sich in das menschliche Leben die Todeskräfte hineinstellen. Die bewussten Gedankenkräfte des physischen Lebens sind an Tod und Sterben gebunden, sind innerlich verbunden, innigst, mit diesen Todes-, mit diesen Sterbenskräften.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p036"}],"beads":[{"from":[32],"to":[31],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[33],"to":[32],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[34],"to":[33],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[35],"to":[34],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[36],"to":[35],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[37],"to":[36],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}