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The '''splitting of the personality''' is a necessary consequence of the '''splitting of the soul forces''' in a correspondingly advanced [[spiritual training]], which leads to the complete separation of the [[soul forces]] of [[thinking]], [[feeling]] and [[willing]], which are normally more or less closely connected with each other:
The '''splitting of the personality''' is a necessary consequence of the '''splitting of the soul forces''' in a correspondingly advanced [[spiritual training]], which leads to the complete separation of the [[soul forces]] of [[thinking]], [[feeling]] and [[willing]], which are normally more or less closely connected with each other:
{{GZ|However, great changes take place in the secret disciple with the above-mentioned finer bodies (etheric body, astral body). Such changes are connected with certain developmental processes of the three basic forces of the soul, with willing, feeling and thinking. Before the secret training of the human being, these three forces are connected in a quite definite way, regulated by higher world laws. Man does not will, feel or think in any arbitrary way. When, for example, a certain idea appears in the consciousness, it is followed by a certain feeling according to natural laws, or it is followed by a decision of the will which is lawfully connected with it. One enters a room, finds it dull and opens the windows. One hears one's name called and follows the call. You are asked and answer. One sees a foul-smelling thing and gets a feeling of unwillingness. These are simple connections between thinking, feeling and willing. But if you look at human life, you will find that everything in this life is based on such connections. Indeed, a person's life can only be described as "normal" if one notices in it such a connection between thinking, feeling and willing that is founded in the laws of human nature. One would find it contradictory to these laws if, for example, a person felt a sense of pleasure at the sight of a malodorous object or if he did not answer questions. The success that one expects from a correct education or appropriate instruction is based on the assumption that one can establish a connection between thinking, feeling and willing in the disciple that corresponds to human nature. When certain ideas are taught to the trainee, it is done on the assumption that they will later enter into lawful connections with his feelings and decisions of will. - All this is due to the fact that in the finer bodies of the human soul the centres of the three forces, thinking, feeling and willing, are connected with each other in a lawful way. And this connection in the finer soul organism also has its image in the grosser physical body. In this, too, the organs of the will are in a certain lawful connection with those of thought and feeling. A certain thought therefore regularly calls forth a feeling or an activity of the will. - In the higher development of the human being, the threads which connect the three basic forces are interrupted. At first this interruption takes place only in the finer organism of the soul; but with still higher ascent the separation extends also to the physical body. (In the higher spiritual development of man, for example, his brain actually breaks up into three separate parts. The separation, however, is such that it is not perceptible to ordinary sensory perception and cannot be detected even by the most acute sensory instruments. But it does occur, and the clairvoyant has means of observing it. The brain of the higher clairvoyant is divided into three independently functioning entities: the brain of thought, feeling and will).
The organs of thinking, feeling and willing then stand completely free for themselves. And their connection is now not established by any laws implanted in them, but must be taken care of by the awakened higher consciousness of the human being himself. - This is the change which the secret disciple notices in himself, that no connection is established between an idea and a feeling, or a feeling and a decision of the will, and so on, unless he himself creates such a connection. No impulse leads him from a thought to an action unless he freely causes this impulse within himself. He can now stand completely numb before a fact which before his training inspired him with ardent love or the most vehement hatred; he can remain inactive with a thought which before inspired him to an action as if of its own accord. And he can perform deeds out of decisions of the will for which a man who has not passed through the secret training would not have the slightest inducement. The great achievement which is granted to the secret pupil is that he attains perfect mastery over the interaction of the three soul forces; but this interaction is also placed entirely under his own responsibility.
Only through this transformation of his being can the human being enter into conscious contact with certain supersensible forces and entities. For his own soul forces have a corresponding relationship to certain basic forces of the world. The power, for example, which lies in the will, can have an effect on certain things and entities of the higher world and also perceive them. But it can only do this when it has become free from its connection with feeling and thinking within the soul. As soon as this connection is loosened, the effect of the will emerges externally. And so it is with the forces of thinking and feeling. When a human being sends me a feeling of hatred, this is visible to the clairvoyant as a fine cloud of light of a certain colouring. And such a clairvoyant can ward off this feeling of hatred in the same way as the sense-man wards off a physical blow that is struck against him. Hatred becomes a tangible phenomenon in the supersensible world. But the clairvoyant can only perceive it by being able to send outwards the power that lies in his feeling, just as the sensual man directs outwards the receptivity of his eye. And so it is with far more significant facts of the sensuous world as with hatred. Man can enter into conscious intercourse with them through the exposure of the fundamental forces of his soul.|10|184ff}}


==Literature==
==Literature==


* Paul Eugen Schiller: ''Der anthroposophische Schulungsweg.'' Ein Überblick, TB Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag, Dornach 1979, S. 61 ff.
* Paul Eugen Schiller: ''Der anthroposophische Schulungsweg.'' Ein Überblick, TB Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag, Dornach 1979, p. 61 ff.
* Manfred Krüger: ''Meditation - Erkenntnis als Kunst'', Ogham Vlg., Stuttgart 1983, S. 14 ff.
* Manfred Krüger: ''Meditation - Erkenntnis als Kunst'', Ogham Vlg., Stuttgart 1983, S. 14 ff.
* [[a:Gerhard Wehr|Gerhard Wehr]]: ''Der innere Weg''. Anthroposophische Erkenntnis, geistige Orientierung und meditative Praxis, Rowohlt Vlg., Reinbek b. Hamburg 1983, S. 101 ff.
* [[a:Gerhard Wehr|Gerhard Wehr]]: ''Der innere Weg''. Anthroposophische Erkenntnis, geistige Orientierung und meditative Praxis, Rowohlt Vlg., Reinbek b. Hamburg 1983, p. 101 ff.
* Therese Schulte: ''Transzendentale Meditation und wohin sie führt''. Abschiedsdisput einer TM-Lehrerin, Vlg. Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 1981
* Therese Schulte: ''Transzendentale Meditation und wohin sie führt''. Abschiedsdisput einer TM-Lehrerin, Vlg. Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 1981
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?'', [[GA 10]] (1993), ISBN 3-7274-0100-1; '''Tb 600''', ISBN 978-3-7274-6001-2 {{Lectures|010}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?'', [[GA 10]] (1993), ISBN 3-7274-0100-1 {{Lectures|010}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß'', [[GA 13]] (1989), ISBN 978-3-7274-0130-5 {{Lectures|13}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß'', [[GA 13]] (1989), ISBN 978-3-7274-0130-5 {{Lectures|13}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Wie erwirbt man sich Verständnis für die geistige Welt?'', [[GA 154]] (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1540-1 {{Lectures|154}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Wie erwirbt man sich Verständnis für die geistige Welt?'', [[GA 154]] (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1540-1 {{Lectures|154}}

Revision as of 15:06, 17 May 2022

The splitting of the personality is a necessary consequence of the splitting of the soul forces in a correspondingly advanced spiritual training, which leads to the complete separation of the soul forces of thinking, feeling and willing, which are normally more or less closely connected with each other:

„However, great changes take place in the secret disciple with the above-mentioned finer bodies (etheric body, astral body). Such changes are connected with certain developmental processes of the three basic forces of the soul, with willing, feeling and thinking. Before the secret training of the human being, these three forces are connected in a quite definite way, regulated by higher world laws. Man does not will, feel or think in any arbitrary way. When, for example, a certain idea appears in the consciousness, it is followed by a certain feeling according to natural laws, or it is followed by a decision of the will which is lawfully connected with it. One enters a room, finds it dull and opens the windows. One hears one's name called and follows the call. You are asked and answer. One sees a foul-smelling thing and gets a feeling of unwillingness. These are simple connections between thinking, feeling and willing. But if you look at human life, you will find that everything in this life is based on such connections. Indeed, a person's life can only be described as "normal" if one notices in it such a connection between thinking, feeling and willing that is founded in the laws of human nature. One would find it contradictory to these laws if, for example, a person felt a sense of pleasure at the sight of a malodorous object or if he did not answer questions. The success that one expects from a correct education or appropriate instruction is based on the assumption that one can establish a connection between thinking, feeling and willing in the disciple that corresponds to human nature. When certain ideas are taught to the trainee, it is done on the assumption that they will later enter into lawful connections with his feelings and decisions of will. - All this is due to the fact that in the finer bodies of the human soul the centres of the three forces, thinking, feeling and willing, are connected with each other in a lawful way. And this connection in the finer soul organism also has its image in the grosser physical body. In this, too, the organs of the will are in a certain lawful connection with those of thought and feeling. A certain thought therefore regularly calls forth a feeling or an activity of the will. - In the higher development of the human being, the threads which connect the three basic forces are interrupted. At first this interruption takes place only in the finer organism of the soul; but with still higher ascent the separation extends also to the physical body. (In the higher spiritual development of man, for example, his brain actually breaks up into three separate parts. The separation, however, is such that it is not perceptible to ordinary sensory perception and cannot be detected even by the most acute sensory instruments. But it does occur, and the clairvoyant has means of observing it. The brain of the higher clairvoyant is divided into three independently functioning entities: the brain of thought, feeling and will).

The organs of thinking, feeling and willing then stand completely free for themselves. And their connection is now not established by any laws implanted in them, but must be taken care of by the awakened higher consciousness of the human being himself. - This is the change which the secret disciple notices in himself, that no connection is established between an idea and a feeling, or a feeling and a decision of the will, and so on, unless he himself creates such a connection. No impulse leads him from a thought to an action unless he freely causes this impulse within himself. He can now stand completely numb before a fact which before his training inspired him with ardent love or the most vehement hatred; he can remain inactive with a thought which before inspired him to an action as if of its own accord. And he can perform deeds out of decisions of the will for which a man who has not passed through the secret training would not have the slightest inducement. The great achievement which is granted to the secret pupil is that he attains perfect mastery over the interaction of the three soul forces; but this interaction is also placed entirely under his own responsibility.

Only through this transformation of his being can the human being enter into conscious contact with certain supersensible forces and entities. For his own soul forces have a corresponding relationship to certain basic forces of the world. The power, for example, which lies in the will, can have an effect on certain things and entities of the higher world and also perceive them. But it can only do this when it has become free from its connection with feeling and thinking within the soul. As soon as this connection is loosened, the effect of the will emerges externally. And so it is with the forces of thinking and feeling. When a human being sends me a feeling of hatred, this is visible to the clairvoyant as a fine cloud of light of a certain colouring. And such a clairvoyant can ward off this feeling of hatred in the same way as the sense-man wards off a physical blow that is struck against him. Hatred becomes a tangible phenomenon in the supersensible world. But the clairvoyant can only perceive it by being able to send outwards the power that lies in his feeling, just as the sensual man directs outwards the receptivity of his eye. And so it is with far more significant facts of the sensuous world as with hatred. Man can enter into conscious intercourse with them through the exposure of the fundamental forces of his soul.“ (Lit.:GA 10, p. 184ff)

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
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