{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-06-17/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The etheric body is not of the same kind in every living being; on the contrary, it takes on very different forms, even as regards shape and size in relation to the physical body of the living being in question; this varies according to the stage of development of the different beings. The etheric body of plants has quite a different shape from the plants themselves; the etheric body of animals has a greater resemblance to the external shape, and the etheric body of man appears as a shape of light which corresponds almost exactly to the form of the physical body. If we contemplate, for instance, a horse from this standpoint, we see its etheric body protruding rather far from the head as a shape of light, but it more or less resembles the shape of the horse's head. But in the case of an average man of to-day we can see his etheric body protruding only slightly above the head and its sides. In regard to the substance of the etheric body, one generally has quite wrong ideas. Even in theosophy people write and talk a lot of confusing nonsense on the etheric body, but this forms part of the “childhood illnesses” of the Theosophical Society, and they must be overcome. To obtain a correct idea of the substantiality of the etheric body, please try to follow my thoughts in this comparison:—","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. Introductory Explanations Concerning the Nature of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-17","location":null,"word_count":234,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-17/p020","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1942","book_title":"Theosophy and Rosicrucianism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA100/English/ANS1942/19070617p01.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. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Dieser Ätherleib ist nicht bei allen Lebewesen gleich, sondern sogar außerordentlich verschieden, auch in bezug auf die Form und das Größenverhältnis verschieden zu dem physischen Körper des betreffenden Lebewesens, und zwar ganz nach der Entwickelungsstufe, auf der das Lebewesen steht. Bei den Pflanzen ist dieser Ätherleib noch ganz anders geformt als die Pflanze selbst; beim Tier ist er der äußeren Tierform schon ähnlicher, und beim Menschen stellt sich der Ätherleib als eine Lichtgestalt dar, die der Form nach fast genau dem physischen Leibe entspricht. Sieht man sich zum Beispiel ein Pferd von diesem Standpunkte aus an, so sieht man außerhalb des Kopfes, vor der Stirn, diesen Ätherleib ziemlich weit herausragen in Form einer Lichtgestalt, die sich aber der Form des Pferdekopfes ungefähr anpaßt, während Sie beim heutigen Durchschnittsmenschen den Ätherleib nur oberhalb des Kopfes und zu beiden Seiten desselben ganz wenig herausragen sehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/100/1907-06-17/p016"},{"locus":"GA 100/1907-06-17/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Was nun die Substantialität des Ätherleibes anbelangt, so macht man sich gewöhnlich falsche Vorstellungen von der Stofflichkeit dieses Ätherleibes. Auch in der Theosophischen Gesellschaft ist viel Irriges und Verwirrendes geredet und geschrieben worden über diesen Ätherleib, aber das gehört zu den Kinderkrankheiten der Theosophischen Gesellschaft und muß überwunden werden. 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