{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 84/1923-04-21/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In man's earthly life, however, there are two states of consciousness: there is the waking state from the time of awaking until falling asleep, and the sleeping state from the time of falling asleep until waking. During his waking hours man lives entirely in the world where spirit and matter are complete opposites, where spirit cannot touch matter and permeate it, and matter is powerless to raise its processes to the spiritual. But when man has penetrated into that world of which I said that it sounds out of the soul's deep silence, then he perceives that activity which he pursues during sleep, the activity of his astral body. And then he knows that every time he falls asleep he leaves behind the life which belongs to the earth and returns to it on waking, that during the time when sleep interrupts his waking life he lives in that world in which he can begin to prepare for the union of spirit and matter. But in all that is woven during sleep between birth and death in a fine etheric-astral element, so that on waking it enters again into the duality between spirit and matter as that which man experiences and weaves during all the periods of his life passed during sleep between birth and death—in all this there lives what man carries with his being through the gate of death into yonder world where the possibility of matter being powerless to lift its processes to spirituality, or of the spirit being precluded from reaching matter does not arise. With all that he has woven during his sleep, man now enters that world in which the functions of everything akin to matter rise to a spiritual level, while the spirit continually manifests in matter. And man perceives that the duality between spirit and matter exists only in that world in which he lives episodically between birth and death. Furthermore he knows that here he enters an entirely different world which, between falling asleep and waking, appears to him only as a reflection in a mirror, as Fata Morgana, where he prepares himself for the reality of that world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-21","location":null,"word_count":358,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/84/1923-04-21/p014","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LZ0290","book_title":"The Spiritual Development of Man","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA084/English/LZ0290/19230421p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Dann aber, wenn der Mensch eingedrungen ist in jene Welt, von der ich gesagt habe, daß sie herauftöne aus dem tiefen Schweigen der Seele, dann erblickt der Mensch jene Tätigkeit, der er sich hingibt zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen, der Tätigkeit seines astralischen Leibes. Und dann weiß er, daß er das Erdenleben mit jedem Einschlafen verläßt und mit jedem Aufwachen wieder zurückkommt. Dann weiß er, daß er in diesen schlafenden Unterbrechungen des Erdenlebens in jener Welt lebt, in der er zunächst vorbereiten kann die Verbindung des Geistes mit der Materie. Aber in alledem, was da in den Schlafzuständen zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode in einem dünnen ätherisch-astralischen Elemente gewoben wird, so daß es wiederum eintritt beim Aufwachen in die Dualität zwischen Geist und Materie als das, was der Mensch lebt und webt in allen den Lebensperioden, die er schlafend zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode durchmacht: In alledem lebt dasjenige, was dann, wenn der Mensch sein Wesen durch die Pforte des Todes trägt, eintritt in jene Welt, in der es das nicht gibt, daß die Materie ohnmächtig ist, sich mit ihren Prozessen zur Geistigkeit zu erheben, daß der Geist nicht an die Materie herankommen kann. Sondern der Mensch tritt da mit alledem, was er sich im Schlaf gewoben hat, in diejenige Welt ein, in der alles der Materie Ähnliche sich zu geistigen Vorgängen erhebt, in der der Geist fortwährend in die Materie eingreift. Und er sieht, daß die Dualität zwischen Geist und Materie nur in der Welt vorhanden ist, die er episodisch durchmacht zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode. Er weiß ferner, daß er da in eine ganz andere Welt eintritt, die ihm nur wie im Spiegelbild, wie in einer Fata Morgana erscheint zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen, wo er sich vorbereitet für die Realität dieser Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":370,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/84/1923-04-21/p013"}],"english":["GA 84/1923-04-21/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":370,"en_words":358,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 84/1923-04-21/p013"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5374,"original_word_count":5277,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LZ0290","book_title":"The Spiritual Development of Man","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA084/English/LZ0290/19230421p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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