{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 94/1906-06-30/p004-p006","extent":"range","passage_number":4,"through":6,"paragraph_count":3,"first_locus":"GA 94/1906-06-30/p004","last_locus":"GA 94/1906-06-30/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Lecture III","date":"1906-06-30","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2023","book_title":"Popular Occultism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA094/English/SOL2023/19060630p01.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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What is this state like? The human being now experiences itself in the world it enters every night in sleep. But this state after death differs greatly from the state of sleep. In theosophical books, it is sometimes described as if it were also a kind of sleep state. But this is not the case. Rather, soon after death, the human being has consciousness in the astral world. Nevertheless, the saying “Sleep is the brother of death” is quite correct. This new state is called life in Kamaloka. As we have seen, during sleep the astral body works on the physical and etheric bodies to replace their energies. This work suppresses human consciousness during sleep and prevents them from perceiving the astral world. After death, they are relieved of this work, they no longer need to eliminate fatigue, and therefore an awareness of the astral world dawns on them. They used to use this power to rebuild the physical body. Now this power is freed and is available as consciousness. The moment the astral body has nothing to repair, it takes in the images of the astral world. This also shows why healthy sleep should be sought. Consider physical life here in this world, how everyone seeks to satisfy their senses. What humans enjoy is enjoyed in the soul, but the organ of enjoyment is physical. If humans enjoy eating, it is the palate that the soul needs for enjoyment. After death, the longing for pleasures lives on, but the organs of enjoyment are now missing. The soul thirsts for delicious food, but the organ for it is missing. The longing can no longer be satisfied. The soul is like a wanderer who, burning with thirst, searches in vain for water and finds no way to quench his thirst. This is not a permanent state; little by little, the longing fades away. Various religions have described this state as a life in purgatory. And ancient painters have sometimes depicted it pictorially through fiery embers. Indeed, the soul suffers from a burning thirst. What happens next is that the person feels their last desires and relives their entire life in reverse, back to their birth, when they had no desires. After that, the person enters Devachan. This is clearly indicated in the Gospels: “You cannot enter the kingdom of God unless you become like little children.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":417,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/94/1906-06-30/p004","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-06-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 94/1906-06-30/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-06-30/p004"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":427,"en_words":417,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Kamaloka is the state in which the person frees themselves from everything that chains them to the sensory world. It is completely influenced by the sensory life that one has led in the physical world. If a person has been completely absorbed in the senses, their kamaloka life will be long and difficult. Usually, however, life in Kamaloka takes up the third part of the duration of earthly life. In images, as beings that torment us, the past life appears before the soul of the human being in Kamaloka. Here everything is reversed: what was satisfaction appears as deprivation. Hot sensuality brings the feeling of horrible and cold beings. Yet the burning thirst always remains. The more a person is detached from physical life before death, the easier his dying has been, the easier it will be for him to wean himself from the sensual world. This weaning is most difficult for the suicide. For he deceives himself: he does not consider that he forcibly carried out the separation from sensual life and that therefore an unspeakable greed for his physical body seizes him, holding him close to the physical world. A similar, albeit milder, fate befalls those who have suddenly lost their lives in an accident. Such a death also leaves behind a craving for the physical body, but later on, compensation takes place in devachan. Once the soul has renounced earthly desires, it enters the devachan state.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/94/1906-06-30/p005","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-06-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 94/1906-06-30/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-06-30/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":252,"en_words":257,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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The spiritual scientist can use the following comparison: the soul is like a bee that flies out into the fields to seek honey and bring it back. Here on earth, the soul collects the honey of life, which it brings to the altar of the deity after death. Without life in the sensual realm, the soul would never be able to do this. When a person has incarnated and begins to see, they initially perceive things simply with their eyes. Gradually, this gives rise to spiritual enjoyment. Physical pleasure is transformed into spiritual enjoyment. The savage, who has only undergone a few incarnations, rejoices only in the colorfulness of colors and the simplest sensory impressions. With each incarnation, the senses become more refined. If humans had never experienced sensual enjoyment of colors, they would never be able to rise to spiritual enjoyment. That is why sensual enjoyment is a necessary detour. We should rejoice in the beauty of the sensual world. Similarly, sensual love gradually leads to the highest, purest, spiritual love. All experience should transform the soul and then carry it up to the altar of spirituality. For nothing, absolutely nothing, is lost. Sensuality is the school without which humans would never attain spirituality. The earth is not a vale of tears; it is a gathering place, and humans are messengers sent out — God's angels, says the Bible — to gather honey.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":242,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/94/1906-06-30/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-06-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 94/1906-06-30/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-06-30/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":229,"en_words":242,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Er wird in theosophischen Büchern zuweilen so be‚schrieben, als ob auch er eine Art von Schlafzustand wäre. Dies ist aber nicht der Fall. Vielmehr hat der Mensch bald nach dem Tode ein Bewußtsein in der astralischen Welt. Trotzdem besteht der Ausspruch «Der Schlaf ist der Bruder des Todes» ganz zu Recht. Dieser neue Zustand heißt das Leben im Kamaloka. Im Schlaf arbeitet, wie wir gesehen haben, der Astralleib am physischen und Ätherleib, um deren Kräfte zu ersetzen. Diese Arbeit unterdrückt das Bewußtsein des Menschen während des Schlafes und hindert ihn, wahrzunehmen in der Astralwelt. Nach dem Tode ist er dieser Arbeit enthoben, er braucht keine Ermüdung mehr zu beseitigen, und deshalb dämmert ihm ein Bewußtsein der astralischen Welt auf. Diese Kraft verwendete er sonst zum Wiederaufbau des physischen Leibes. Nun wird diese Kraft frei und ist als Bewußtsein vorhanden. In dem Moment, wo der Astralleib nichts auszubessern hat, nimmt er die Bilder der Astralwelt auf. Auch daran können Sie sehen, warum gesunder Schlaf angestrebt werden soll. Betrachten Sie das physische Leben hier auf dieser Welt, wie jeder sucht, seine Sinne zu befriedigen. Was der Mensch genießt, das wird im Seelischen genossen, das Organ des Genießens aber ist physisch. Hat der Mensch Freude am Essen, so ist es der Gaumen, den die Seele zum Genießen braucht. Nach dem Tode lebt die Sehnsucht nach den Genüssen weiter, die Organe des Genießens aber fehlen nun. Die Seele dürstet nach leckerer Speise, aber das Organ dazu fehlt. Die Sehnsucht kann nicht mehr befriedigt werden. Die Seele ist wie ein Wanderer, der unter brennendem Durst vergeblich nach Wasser sucht und keine Möglichkeit findet, den Durst zu stillen. Dies ist kein Dauerzustand, nach und nach schwindet das Sehnen. Verschiedene Religionen haben diesen Zustand als ein Leben im Fegefeuer bezeichnet. Und alte Maler haben ihn zuweilen bildlich dargestellt durch Feuergluten. In der Tat: die Seele leidet brennenden Durst. Der weitere Verlauf ist der, daß der Mensch seine letzten Begierden empfindet und sein ganzes Leben rückläufig durchlebt bis zu seiner Geburt, als er noch keine Begierden hatte. Danach betritt der Mensch das Devachan. Ganz deutlich weist darauf hin jene Stelle in den Evangelien: Ihr könnt nicht in das Reich Gottes kommen, wenn ihr nicht werdet wie die Kindlein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":427,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-06-30/p004"},{"locus":"GA 94/1906-06-30/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Stückweise muß sich der Mensch von allem frei machen, was ihn mit der sinnlichen Welt verbunden hat. Kamaloka ist der Zustand, in dem sich der Mensch frei macht von allem, was ihn an die Sinnenwelt kettet. Es wird ganz beeinflußt von dem Sinnenleben, das man in der physischen Welt geführt hat. Ist einer vollständig in den Sinnen aufgegangen, so wird sein Kamalokaleben lang und schwer sein. Gewöhnlich aber nimmt das Kamalokaleben den dritten Teil der Dauer des Erdenlebens in Anspruch. In Bildern, als Wesenheiten, die uns quälen, tritt dem Menschen im Kamaloka das vergangene Leben vor die Seele. Hier kehrt sich alles um: Was Befriedigung gewesen ist, tritt als Entbehrung auf. Heiße Sinnlichkeit bringt das Gefühl grauenhafter und kältender Wesen. Doch immer bleibt der brennende Durst bestehen. Je mehr der Mensch vor dem Tode vom physischen Leben losgelöst, je leichter also sein Sterben gewesen ist, um so leichter wird er sich von der sinnlichen Welt entwöhnen. Am schwersten wird dieses Entwöhnen dem Selbstmörder. Denn dieser täuscht sich: Er bedenkt nicht, daß er die Trennung vom sinnlichen Leben gewaltsam vollzog und daß ihn deshalb eine unsägliche Gier nach seinem physischen Leibe erfaßt, die ihn in der Nähe der physischen Welt festhält. Ähnlich, wenn auch in abgeschwächter Form, ergeht es dem, der durch einen Unglücksfall plötzlich sein Leben verloren hat. Auch ein solcher Todesfall hinterläßt die Gier nach dem physischen Leib, aber später findet dann ein Ausgleich im Devachan statt. Wenn die Seele die irdischen Wünsche abgelegt hat, tritt sie ein in den Devachan-Zustand.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-06-30/p005"},{"locus":"GA 94/1906-06-30/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Geisteswissenschaft lehrt nicht die Abkehr vom Leben. Der Geisteswissenschafter kann folgenden Vergleich gebrauchen: Die Seele ist einer Biene gleich, die hinausfliegt auf die Fluren, um Honig zu suchen und zurückzubringen. Hier auf Erden sammelt die Seele den Honig des Lebens, den sie nach dem Tod zum Altar der Gottheit bringt. Ohne Leben im Sinnlichen würde die Seele dazu niemals fähig sein. Wenn der Mensch sich verkörpert hat und anfängt zu sehen, nimmt er zunächst einfach mit den Augen wahr. Allmählich erwächst ihm daraus der geistige Genuß. Physisches Wohlgefallen setzt sich in geistigen Genuß um. Der Wilde, der erst wenige Verkörperungen durchlaufen hat, freut sich nur an der Buntheit der Farben und den einfachsten Sinneseindrücken. Mit jeder Verkörperung verfeinern sich die Sinne. Würde der Mensch an den Farben nie sinnlichen Genuß gehabt haben, würde er sich nie zum geistigen Genuß aufschwingen können. Darum ist der Sinnesgenuß ein notwendiger Umweg. An der Schönheit der sinnlichen Welt sollen wir uns freuen. Ähnlich führt auch die sinnliche Liebe allmählich zur höchsten, reinsten, geistigen Liebe. Alles Erleben soll die Seele umsetzen und dann zum Altar der Geistigkeit hinauftragen. Denn nichts, gar nichts geht verloren. Die Sinnlichkeit ist die Schule, ohne die der Mensch nie zur Geistigkeit kommen würde. Die Erde ist kein Jammertal, sie ist ein Sammelplatz, und die Menschen sind ausgesandte Boten — Gottes Engel, sagt die Bibel -, um Honig zu sammeln.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":229,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-06-30/p006"}],"beads":[{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}