{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 84/1923-04-22/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But now we find the true ‘I’ as it passes from earthly life to earthly life. Our first impression is that of an entirely different being. We say to ourselves: Here I live through this earthly existence between birth and death. Looking back I see that strip of etheric world which takes me back as far as my birth on earth. Then my vision opens into world-wide realms existing only in time, where to speak of space would be quite misleading; but in a wide perspective the world appears to me in all its fullness, as it lives and weaves between death and a new birth. Looking through and beyond the ether, the world of the third Hierarchy, and through the astral, where I was between death and a new birth as in a super-sensible world whose life is revelation of the Logos manifesting as the Cosmic Word—as my vision penetrates all this, I finally behold a being at first far remote, a being representing the essence of my previous life on earth. First, then, I see myself here in this earthly life with my present ghost-like ‘I,’ and then, looking far back through all that has just been described, I see what constitutes the essence of my previous life on earth. But at the same time I perceive how the content of the latter, as the gradually evolving ‘I,’ has been passing through the worlds I have been observing in retrospective perspective as far as my present life on earth. To begin with I do, in fact, perceive my true ‘I’ as some strange, remote being. And in this being, strange as it appears to me at first, I recognise *myself*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Man's Faculty of Cognition in the Etheric World","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-22","location":null,"word_count":282,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/84/1923-04-22/p013","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","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/LZ0290/19230422p01.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. 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Indem ich durch den Äther hindurchschaue, durch die Welt der dritten Hierarchie, indem ich durch das Astralische hindurchschaue, in dem ich war zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt wie in einer in der Offenbarung des Logos lebenden, wie sich selbst durch die Weltensprache offenbarenden übersinnlichen Welt, indem ich durch das alles hindurchschaue, schaue ich endlich hin zu einem zunächst weit von mir entfernten Wesen, zu demjenigen, was mein Lebensinhalt im vorigen Erdenleben war. Da erscheint mir zunächst die Sache so, daß ich mir sage: Ich stehe eben hier im irdischen Leben mit meinem jetzigen gespensterartigen Ich, und dann sehe ich weit zurück durch alles das hindurch, was ich eben bezeichnet habe, auf den Inhalt meines vorigen Erdenlebens. Aber ich schaue zugleich, wie der als sich loswindendes Ich durchgegangen war durch die Welten, durch die ich wie perspektivisch hindurchgeschaut habe, bis in mein gegenwärtiges Erdenleben herein. 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