{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We recognize the ideas, the concepts of ordinary knowledge as bound to death; we recognize that which anthroposophical knowledge strives for as that which resurrects the ordinary, dead, inanimate concepts and ideas to life. We recognize not only a formal process of knowledge, we recognize a vitalization of our soul life; we recognize a direct presentation of that which has nothing to do with birth and death, which really goes beyond birth and death because it does not partake of the forces of death and dying. We recognize the immortal part of the human being and learn to distinguish it from that which is continually bound to death. In this way, as in higher knowledge, I would say that spiritual life arises from natural death, not just a spiritual, formal knowledge. That is why, my dear audience, this anthroposophical knowledge initially seems strange to people. It is usually taken as a mere continuation of ordinary knowledge. It is that in the full sense of the word, but it is a continuation in such a way that the character, the whole nature of this ordinary knowledge is also changed, that we experience something like a birth of a living being within the thoughts and ideas that are otherwise only useful for the inanimate, within those thoughts that I have called world thoughts. In today's meditation, we are confronted with that into which the human being is first absorbed when he separates as a spiritual soul from his life between birth and death. When his physical self separates through natural death, his body is absorbed into the general natural forces and his form is destroyed. When the spiritual soul is absorbed into the world that the higher knowledge already reaches in a cognitively alive way, then the human being is consolidated. Then the human being is not dissolved into the rest of the world; then he enters the spiritual world with his full individuality – yes, [this higher individuality is strengthened, intensified] – he enters the spiritual world with this world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Natural Death and Spiritual Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-02-12","location":null,"word_count":339,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p039","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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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Wir erkennen das unsterbliche Teil des Menschen, wir lernen es unterscheiden von demjenigen, was fortwährend an den Tod gebunden ist, wie in höherer Erkenntnis, ich möchte sagen ersteht aus dem natürlichen Tode das geistige Leben, nicht nur eine geistige formale Erkenntnis. Daher ist es — meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden —, dass diese anthroposophische Erkenntnis zunächst befremdend an den Menschen herantritt. Sie wird gewöhnlich genommen wie eine bloße Fortsetzung der gewöhnlichen Erkenntnis. Sie ist das in vollem Sinne des Wortes, aber sie ist eine solche Fortsetzung, dass auch der Charakter, die ganze Art dieser gewöhnlichen Erkenntnis geändert wird, dass wir etwas erleben wie ein Geborenwerden eines Lebendigen innerhalb der sonst nur für das Unlebendige brauchbaren Gedanken und Ideen in denjenigen Gedanken, die ich Weltgedanken genannt habe. In der heutigen Betrachtung tritt uns eben dasjenige entgegen, in das der Mensch zunächst aufgenommen wird, wenn er als Geistig-Seelisches sich von seinem Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod trennt. Trennt sich sein Physisches durch den natürlichen Tod, dann wird sein Leibliches in die allgemeinen natürlichen Kräfte aufgenommen, seine Form zerstört. Wird das Geistig-Seelische in diejenige Welt aufgenommen, welche die höhere Erkenntnis eben erkenntnismäßig lebendig schon erreicht, dann konsolidiert sich der Mensch. Dann wird der Mensch nicht aufgelöst in die übrige Welt, dann tritt er mit seiner vollen Individualität — ja, [diese höhere Individualität wird erkraftet, intensiviert] —, er tritt mit dieser Welt in die geistige Welt ein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":315,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p038"}],"english":["GA 80b/1922-02-12/p039"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":315,"en_words":339,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 80b/1922-02-12/p038"]},"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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