{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 82/1922-04-12/p058","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When you take your soul life in this moment, it has a temporal cross-section. You cannot say that there is any spatial cross-section within this temporal cross-section. But within this temporal cross-section lies your entire earthly past, and if you want to draw schematically, if that is the flow of your experience from a to b, you have to draw the cross-section A to B. You cannot avoid placing all of your experience in this cross-section, and yet there is a perspective in it. You can say that experiences that lie further back in time are represented with less intensity than those that are closer in time. But all of this is represented in the one cross-section. So that you get different relationships when you really analyze time. We can only form a mental image of time if we do not use the analysis that we are accustomed to in physics, according to space-cognition means, but only by reflecting on our soul life itself. But in your soul life, even if you only have abstract thoughts, you are in the time body. What is important is that we are now able to understand this time body as an organism. You see, when you experience any indisposition, let us say a digestive disorder, in the stomach, you may be able to see that it affects other areas of your spatial organism as well. The spatial organism is such that the individual areas are spatially dependent on each other. In the case of the temporal organism, although we have a later and an earlier, later and earlier are connected in an organic way. I sometimes express this by saying: Let us assume we have a very old person. We find that when such an old person speaks to younger people, for example to children, that his words bounce off the children, that his words are of no use to the children. And we find another person. When he speaks to children, it is something quite different. His words flow by themselves into the child's soul. If you now study — one only does not study these things because one very rarely considers the whole human being, one does not, so to speak, pause with one's attention long enough to observe, for example, the basis of the blessing of an older man or woman, one must sometimes go back to early childhood. Today, observation does not extend that far. Anthroposophy has to do that. Go back and you will find that those who can bless in old age, who have this peculiar spiritual power in them that their words flow into young people like a blessing, have learned to pray in their youth. I express it figuratively: folded hands in youth become blessing hands in old age.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Anthroposophy and Agnosticism","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-04-12","location":null,"word_count":464,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/82/1922-04-12/p058","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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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Sie können sagen, zeitlich weiter zurückliegende Erlebnisse bilden sich in geringerer Intensität ab als zeitlich nähere. Das wirkt aber alles in dem einen Querschnitt drinnen. So daß Sie andere Beziehungen herausbekommen, wenn Sie die Zeit wirklich analysieren. Die Zeit können wir überhaupt nur zu einer Vorstellung erheben, wenn wir nicht die Analyse nehmen, die wir in der Physik gewohnt sind, nach Raum-Erkenntnismitteln, sondern nur, indem wir auf unser Seelenleben selbst reflektieren. In Ihrem Seelenleben stecken Sie aber, wenn Sie auch nur abstrakte Gedanken haben, in dem Zeitleib drinnen. Das ist das Wichtige, daß man nun wirklich diesen Zeitleib als einen Organismus aufzufassen in der Lage ist. Sehen Sie, wenn Sie irgendwelche Indispositionen, sagen wir durch diese oder jene Verdauungsstörung, im Magen verspüren, so können Sie unter Umständen sehen, daß auch ganz andere Gebiete Ihres Raumesorganismus dadurch in Mitleidenschaft gezogen werden. Der Raumesorganismus ist so, daß die einzelnen Gebiete räumlich voneinander abhängig sind. Beim Zeitorganismus ist das so, daß, trotzdem wir ein Später und ein Früher haben, Später und Früher in organischer Weise zusammenhängen. Ich drücke das manchmal so aus, daß ich sage: Nehmen wir an, wir haben einen sehr alten Menschen. Wir finden, wenn solch ein alter Mensch zu jüngeren Leuten, zum Beispiel zu Kindern spricht, daß sein Zusprechen an den Kindern abprallt, daß seine Worte gar nichts für die Kinder sind. Und wir finden einen anderen Menschen. Wenn der zu Kindern spricht, ist es etwas ganz anderes. Seine Worte fließen von selbst in die kindlichen Seelen ein. Wenn Sie nun studieren — man studiert nur diese Dinge nicht, weil man sehr selten den ganzen Menschen ins Auge faßt, man hält sozusagen nicht so lange mit der Aufmerksamkeit still, daß man zum Beispiel das beobachtet -, worauf das Segnende der Kraft eines älteren Mannes oder einer alten Frau beruht, so muß man manchmal zurückgehen in die erste Kindheit. Soweit dehnt man die Beobachtung heute nicht aus. Das muß die Anthroposophie machen. Da gehen Sie zurück und werden finden: Wer im Alter segnen kann, wer im Alter diese eigentümliche geistige Kraft in sich hat, daß seine Worte wie Segen in jugendliche Menschen einfließen, der hat in der Jugend beten gelernt. Ich drücke das bildlich so aus: Gefaltete Hände in der Jugend werden zu segnenden Händen im Alter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":463,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/82/1922-04-12/p058"}],"english":["GA 82/1922-04-12/p058"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":463,"en_words":464,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","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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