{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 83/1922-06-02/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The next step must now be to strengthen still further by removing them from our consciousness the energized concepts that we have introduced into ourselves. We do this by continually repeating the exercises, just as we strengthen muscles by repeated exercise. And by continuing with these energized concepts, we also manage to eliminate from our consciousness this whole newly achieved tableau of the life of the soul from birth to the present. This requires more effort than the simple elimination of images, but one does eventually achieve it. We succeed in removing from consciousness what in our earthly existence we call our inner life, so that now our consciousness is empty not only of current impressions, but also of all that we experience within as if in a second and finer body (which yet informs our growth and our memory), a finer being, an ethereal being as it were, a now for the first time super-sensible being. And when we do so, our consciousness, which though fully awake is now empty and yet has attained a greater inward power, will be able to see further in the spiritual world. It will now be able to look at the nature of its own soul before this descended from spiritual worlds to an earthly existence. Now, what we call the eternity of the human soul is taken out of the sphere of mere philosophical speculation and actually beheld. We learn to look at the purely spiritual that we were in a spiritual world, before we descended to clothe ourselves, through conception, foetal life and birth, in a physical earthly body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy and Psychology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-02","location":null,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p030","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Das erfordert allerdings eine größere Anstrengung, als bloß Bildvorstellungen wegzuschaffen; aber man gelangt zuletzt dazu. Und wenn es uns gelingt, dieses eigene Leben, das wir im Erdendasein unser Innenleben nennen, aus dem Bewußtsein so fortzuschaffen, daß jetzt nicht nur unser Bewußtsein gegenüber gegenwärtigen Eindrücken leer wird, sondern daß es leer wird von alledem, was wir innerlich als in einem zweiten Leibe, in einem feineren Leibe, der aber in unsere Wachstums- und Erinnerungsverhältnisse selbst eingreift, erleben, was wir so wie in einem feineren Menschen, gleichsam in einem ätherischen Menschen, einem ersten übersinnlichen Menschen erleben — dann wird unser Bewußtsein, das nun bei vollständigem Wachsein zwar leer ist, aber eine stärkere innere Kraft sich errungen hat, weiter schauen können in der geistigen Welt. Und es kann jetzt auf das schauen, was das eigene Seelenwesen war, bevor es aus geistig-seelischen Welten heruntergestiegen ist zu einem physischen Erdendasein. Jetzt wird das, was wir die Ewigkeit der Menschenseele nennen, Anschauung, wird herausgehoben aus der Sphäre der bloß philosophischen Spekulation. Jetzt lernen wir hinschauen auf ein rein Geistig-Seelisches, das wir waren in einer geistig-seelischen Welt, bevor wir heruntergestiegen sind, um durch Konzeption, Keimleben und Geburt uns mit einem physischen Erdenleib zu umkleiden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p030"}],"english":["GA 83/1922-06-02/p030"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":293,"en_words":268,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 83/1922-06-02/p030"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6877,"original_word_count":7314,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. A. 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