{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 94/1906-07-05/p004-p009","extent":"range","passage_number":4,"through":9,"paragraph_count":6,"first_locus":"GA 94/1906-07-05/p004","last_locus":"GA 94/1906-07-05/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Lecture VIII","date":"1906-07-05","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads: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/SOL2023/19060705p01.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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Some will want to refute reincarnation with the objection that there are families in which several generations of relatives are musicians, and they will attribute everything to heredity. A witty theosophist once said: It is not true that children resemble their parents, but rather that parents resemble their children. Let us examine what this statement means. 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In the course of incarnations, the ego begins to work into the astral body. This makes it more perfect. The ability to distinguish between truth and error is only an achievement of later incarnations. Everything in life must first be learned through experience. Only through error does correct judgment develop. Even mathematical truths arise from the fact that the opposite is false. Human beings continually work on their astral bodies from their egos. For the clairvoyant, there is a great difference between looking at the astral body of a developed person and that of an undeveloped person. As a result of this working through of the astral body, there is a part in all human souls that is still filled with lower instincts and passions, and a part that has been spiritually reworked by the ego. Francis of Assisi, for example, had completely transformed and reworked his astral body. The occultist refers to that part of the astral body that has been reworked by the ego with the Eastern term “manas.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/94/1906-07-05/p005","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2023/19060705p01.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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The more the human being works into the etheric body, the more he becomes what is called a religious and wise person.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":83,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/94/1906-07-05/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2023/19060705p01.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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(See appendix.)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/94/1906-07-05/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2023/19060705p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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The extent to which the human being gains control over his physical body is the extent to which Atma is present in him. This mystery of working into the physical body and the resulting illumination of Atma cannot be dealt with here.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":67,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/94/1906-07-05/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2023/19060705p01.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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Heredity is strongest where no pronounced individualities incarnate. Where personalities are strongly differentiated and pronounced, there are few similarities. Let us assume a human core being with certain abilities who was incarnated centuries ago and is now striving for a new embodiment. Due to his characteristics, he must feel drawn to parents whose physical characteristics most closely correspond to his capacities. It seeks out the family that, through its physical constitution and nature, can give it the most suitable physical body it needs to live out its abilities. A great musical spirit needs a line of ancestors who can give it a body in which it can best find an organ for its activity. 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Ein geistreicher Theosoph hat einmal den Ausspruch getan: Es ist nicht wahr, daß die Kinder den Eltern ähnlich sind, vielmehr sind die Eltern den Kindern ähnlich. - Beleuchten wir, was dieser Ausspruch sagen will. (Siehe Anhang.)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":83,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-07-05/p004"},{"locus":"GA 94/1906-07-05/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Im Anfange seiner Entwickelung hat der Mensch einen Astralleib, an dem sein Ich noch gar nicht gearbeitet hat. Im Laufe der Inkarnationen beginnt das Ich in den Astralleib hineinzuarbeiten. Dadurch wird dieser vollkommener. Die Fähigkeit, Wahrheit und Irrtum zu unterscheiden, ist erst eine Errungenschaft der späteren Inkarnationen. Alles im Leben muß erst durch Erfahrungen erlernt werden. Nur durch Irrtum entwickelt sich das richtige Urteil. Auch die mathematischen Wahrheiten ergeben sich daraus, daß das Gegenteil falsch ist. Fortwährend arbeitet der Mensch von seinem Ich aus an seinem Astralleib. Es ist für den Hellseher ein großer Unterschied, den Astralleib eines entwickelten oder eines unentwickelten Menschen anzuschauen. Infolge dieser Durcharbeitung des Astralleibes findet sich in allen Seelen der Menschen ein Teil, der noch von den niederen Trieben und Leidenschaften erfüllt ist, und ein vom Ich geistig umgearbeiteter Teil. Franz von Assisi hatte zum Beispiel seinen Astralleib ganz verwandelt und umgearbeitet. Das, was vom Astralleib durch das Ich umgearbeitet ist, bezeichnet der Okkultist mit dem orientalischen Ausdruck Manas.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-07-05/p005"},{"locus":"GA 94/1906-07-05/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Viel schwerer als den Astralleib zu bearbeiten, ist es, in den Ätherleib hineinzuarbeiten, weil dieser viel schwieriger zu durchdringen ist. Diese Undurchdringlichkeit ist teils das Werk des Menschen selbst, insofern es von früheren Taten herrührt, teilweise aber auch das Werk anderer, höherer Wesenheiten, die bei der Bildung des Ätherleibes tätig waren. Je mehr der Mensch in den Ätherleib hineinarbeitet, desto mehr wird er, was man nennt ein religiöser und weiser Mensch.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":71,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-07-05/p006"},{"locus":"GA 94/1906-07-05/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Ein Okkultist muß mit der Methode vertraut sein, nicht nur, wie man den Astralleib durcharbeitet, sondern auch wie man in den Ätherleib hineinarbeitet. Bewußt gestaltet der Geheimschüler den Ätherleib um, so daß er die Fähigkeit erlangt, auf die Kräfte des Ätherleibes einen harmonisierenden Einfluß zu haben. Bei den Eingeweihten äußert sich diese Einwirkung auf den Ätherleib in der Weise, daß er in gewissen Phasen seines Lebens über Kräfte verfügen kann, die er sonst nicht haben würde. Budhi nennt man das, was so entsteht durch das Hineinarbeiten des Ich in den Ätherleib, und einen Menschen, der es so weit gebracht hat, nennt man einen Chela. In einem gewissen Zeitpunkt wird sich der Chela seiner früheren Erdenleben bewußt. (Siehe Anhang.)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":118,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-07-05/p007"},{"locus":"GA 94/1906-07-05/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Zu allerletzt, auf einer sehr hohen Stufe der Entwickelung, bekommt der Mensch auch seinen physischen Leib in die Gewalt. Ein solcher Eingeweihter wird ein Meister genannt. So viel der Mensch . von seinem physischen Leib in die Gewalt bekommt, so viel ist in diesem Atma. Dieses Mysterium des Hineinarbeitens in den physischen Leib und das sich daraus ergebende Aufleuchten von Atma kann hier nicht behandelt werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":66,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-07-05/p008"},{"locus":"GA 94/1906-07-05/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Beim gegenwärtigen Menschen hat das Ich auf den physischen Leib geringen Einfluß, auf den Ätherleib etwas mehr, aber noch wenig, und auf den Astralleib den größten Einfluß. Alles, was vom Menschen-Ich im vorigen Leben noch nicht durchgearbeitet worden ist, wirkt auf dem Wege der gewöhnlichen Vererbung weiter und tritt ihm im neuen Leben als Karma entgegen: beim Menschen unserer Zeit also vom Astralleib ein geringerer oder größerer Teil, vom Ätherleib das meiste und vom physischen Leibe gewöhnlich alles. Könnte man nachforschen, so würde man bei einem Eingeweihten, bei einem Meister, folgendes finden: Wenn er geboren wird, dann sieht er der Familie nur äußerlich etwas ähnlich, er gleicht vielmehr in seiner ganzen Erscheinung der vorigen Inkarnation, weil er schon in den physischen Leib hineinarbeiten konnte. Am stärksten herrscht die Vererbung da, wo keine ausgesprochenen Individualitäten sich inkarnieren. Wo die Persönlichkeiten stark differenziert und ausgeprägt sind, da findet man wenig Ähnlichkeiten. Nehmen wir einen menschlichen Wesenskern mit bestimmten Fähigkeiten an, der vor Jahrhunderten inkarniert war und nun einer neuen Verkörperung zustrebt. Vermöge seiner Eigenschaften muß er sich hingezogen fühlen zu Eltern, deren physische Eigenschaften am meisten seinen Kapazitäten entsprechen. Er sucht sich die Familie aus, die ihm durch ihre leibliche Beschaffenheit und Wesensart den geeignetsten physischen Leib geben kann, den er gerade braucht, um seine Fähigkeiten ausleben zu können. Ein großer Musikergeist braucht eine Vorfahrenreihe, die ihm einen Leib geben kann, in dem er am besten ein Organ für seine Betätigung finden kann. Dies ist der Sinn des zunächst paradoxen Ausspruches: Die Eltern sind den Kindern ähnlich.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-07-05/p009"}],"beads":[{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","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)."}}