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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,"title":"5. 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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. 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