{"id":48393,"date":"2023-06-15T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=48393"},"modified":"2024-04-16T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:22:19","slug":"the-spirit-being-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-spirit-being-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit\u2014Being in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"The spirit is an event. Through the spirit, the I takes hold of itself.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n'Spirit' is such a big word that it all too easily remains rather abstract: spiritual world, world spirit, the spirit in all things, the spirit of the times\u2014all this denotes something that is not properly tangible for us. We have a notion but no concrete conception of it. It becomes most concrete when there is talk of certain 'spiritual beings' that 'populate' the spiritual world or inspire and guide the affairs of the sensory world 'from above.' But are such beings not once again thought of too much in analogy to the physical world to give a concept of the spiritual? When we speak of the being of Anthroposophia, or, perhaps, of \u2018the law\u2019 in the sense of an acting entity, it is easy to imagine a human-like<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spirit is an event. Through the spirit, the I takes hold of itself. &#8216;Spirit&#8217; is such a big word that it all too easily remains rather abstract: spiritual world, world spirit, the spirit in all things, the spirit of the times\u2014all this denotes something that is not properly tangible for us. We have a notion but no concrete conception of it. It becomes most concrete when there is talk of certain &#8216;spiritual beings&#8217; that &#8216;populate&#8217; the spiritual world or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15843,"featured_media":48173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11472,8839],"tags":[11342,8798],"class_list":["post-48393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-body-soul-spirit","category-nature-experience","tag-2023-23-en","tag-deepening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}