{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 82/1922-04-12/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When we then ascend to intuition, we perceive something else. Then we perceive: there is a law in the world that has nothing to do with physical law, but a law that certainly takes hold of people. I can perhaps express myself best about this fact in the following way: When one looks back at a later age on the way in which one's life on earth has passed, then one finds that, if one is honest with oneself, one must admit that one is actually nothing other than what one has become here in one's physical existence on earth as a result of one's experiences. Consider only: solely from this life. Consider how you learned to think, how you learned to feel, how you may have been stimulated to do this or that by meeting a particular person at a particular point in your life, which in turn may have had an effect on your character. Put together all the individual experiences you have gone through and ask yourself whether you would have become something different in relation to what you are for the outside world if different experiences had entered into your existence. If you follow this train of thought properly, you will soon see how something has been living in you from the very beginning, unconsciously drawing you to that which has become so important in your life. It is interesting how sometimes people who have reached a certain age and who have not used their lives to dream, but to grasp the facts of life that have come to them in a deeper sense, how such people, when they look back on their lives, came to say - Goethe's friend Knebel, for example, was such a person - “When I look back on my life, everything is like a dream.” , when they look back on their lives, came to say to themselves: When I look back on my life, everything is so systematically ordered. Not even the smallest event could be missing if I were to be exactly the same in my earthly existence as I am today. If the smallest event were missing, there would be a slight change, but a change nonetheless. Just think what, say, the sixty-year-old Goethe would have been if he had not experienced Italy. With Goethe, it is almost tangible. He did not go to Italy on a whim, but because there was a deep yearning within him. But these deep longings are not just there, if we want to analyze them precisely, so that we can always explain them, the following from the earlier, but they are born with us. We really find something planned in life. Of course, one could be deceived about that at first. I have only mentioned this because, after all, one can approach through the most ordinary observation that which is now given by intuitive knowledge. Intuitive knowledge really does give a full insight not only into what is going on in our organism in terms of the soul, but it also gives an insight into what works in us as the center, the I, the actual self-being. And this self-being reveals itself to intuitive insight at the third stage of supersensible knowledge. It reveals itself in such a way that we really do not stand passively in relation to the facts of the external world, but that we are drawn to them through that which is in us, and not through heredity, but from the deepest central soul being, which has been drawn into us from a spiritual-soul world at birth and has taken on a physical earthly body. Through intuitive insight one comes to realize that this I does not actually enter into earthly life in such a way that it would have to be passively surrendered to the random facts that come its way, but that it is strongly attracted by one fact and strongly repelled by another. It positively seeks its way in the world. 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Bedenken Sie nur: einzig aus diesem Leben heraus. Bedenken Sie, wie Sie denken gelernt, wie Sie fühlen gelernt haben, wie Sie vielleicht zu dem oder jenem angeregt worden sind dadurch, daß Sie mit einem bestimmten Menschen in einem bestimmten Lebenszeitpunkte zusammengetroffen sind, was wiederum zurückgewirkt hat vielleicht bis in Ihre Charakterbeschaffenheit. Fügen Sie zueinander alle diese einzelnen Erlebnisse, die Sie durchgemacht haben, und fragen Sie sich, ob Sie nicht in bezug auf das, was Sie zunächst für die äußere Welt sind, etwas anderes geworden wären, wenn andere Erlebnisse in Ihr Dasein eingetreten wären. Wenn Sie diesen Gedankengang ordentlich durchmachen, dann werden Sie sehr bald sehen, wie von Anfang an in Ihnen etwas gelebt hat, das Sie unbewußt hingezogen hat zu demjenigen, was so wichtig geworden ist in Ihrem Leben. Es ist interessant, wie manchmal Menschen, die ein gewisses Lebensalter erreicht haben, und die ihr Leben nicht dazu verwandt haben, es zu verträumen, sondern um die Tatsachen des Lebens, die an sie herangetreten sind, in einem tieferen Sinne zu erfassen, wie solche Menschen, wenn sie zurückblicken auf ihr Leben, dazu kamen - Goethes Freund Knebel war zum Beispiel ein solcher Mensch -, sich zu sagen: Blicke ich da zurück auf mein Leben, so ist ja alles wie planvoll geordnet. Das kleinste Ereignis könnte eigentlich nicht darin fehlen, wenn ich genau derselbe in meinem Erdendasein sein sollte, der ich eben heute bin. Würde das kleinste Ereignis fehlen, so würde eben eine vielleicht geringe Veränderung da sein, aber eine Veränderung. Man denke nur einmal, was, sagen wir, der sechzigjährige Goethe gewesen wäre, wenn er nicht die italienischen Erlebnisse durchgemacht hätte. Bei Goethe kann man es geradezu mit Händen greifen. Er ist Ja nicht nach Italien gezogen aus Laune, sondern weil eine tiefe Sehnsucht in ihm vorhanden war. Aber diese tiefen Sehnsuchten sind nicht nur so, wenn wir sie genau analysieren wollen, daß wir sie immer erklären können, das Folgende aus dem Früheren, sondern sie werden mit uns geboren. Wir finden wirklich etwas Planvolles im Leben. Darüber könnte man sich natürlich zunächst täuschen. Ich habe das nur angeführt, weil man schließlich sich durch die gewöhnlichste Betrachtung nähern kann demjenigen, was nun die intuitive Erkenntnis gibt. Die intuitive Erkenntnis gibt wirklich eine volle Einsicht nicht nur in dasjenige, was da nun seelisch waltet in unserem Organismus, sondern sie gibt eine Einsicht auch in dasjenige, was als das Zentrum, das Ich, das eigentliche Selbstwesen in uns arbeitet. Und dieses Selbstwesen, das zeigt sich eben dann vor der intuitiven Anschauung auf der dritten Stufe der übersinnlichen Erkenntnis. Es zeigt sich so, daß wir wirklich nicht passiv den Tatsachen der Außenwelt gegenüberstehen, sondern daß wir zu ihnen hingezogen werden durch dasjenige, was in uns veranlagt ist und zwar jetzt nicht durch Vererbung, sondern aus dem tiefsten Zentralseelenwesen heraus, das in uns aus einer geistig-seelischen Welt hereingezogen ist bei der Geburt und einen physischen Erdenleib angenommen hat. Durch intuitive Erkenntnis kommt man darauf, daß dieses Ich tatsächlich nicht so in das Erdenleben tritt, daß es ganz passiv hingegeben sein müßte den zufällig an es herantretenden Tatsachen, sondern daß es von der einen Tatsache stark angezogen, von der anderen stark abgestoßen wird. Es sucht sich geradezu seine Wege in der Welt. Kurz, es wird geboren, indem es die Veranlagung zu seinem Schicksal in sich trägt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":649,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/82/1922-04-12/p012"}],"english":["GA 82/1922-04-12/p012"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":649,"en_words":679,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12477,"original_word_count":12023,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"So That Man may Become Fully Human","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA082/English/SOL2025/19220412p01.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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