{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-11-17/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A man who is born blind only knows the world around him imperfectly; for him the world of colour and light does not exist. Man is in the same position in respect of the astral world; it exists just as truly, it surrounds and permeates the physical world, but he does not perceive it. When a man's astral senses are opened the astral world becomes visible to him. The significance and importance of this moment in the development of a human being is, however, very much greater than when a man who is born blind recovers his sight through an operation. Every human being knows this astral world, although imperfectly, for his astral body is transposed into it each night.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"The Seven Principles of Human Nature and Development","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Wir ruhen in der Astralwelt, um die Harmonie des Astralleibes wiederherzustellen, denn die Ermüdung ist vom geisteswissenschaftlichen Standpunkt aus betrachtet nur eine Disharmonie im physischen und Astralleibe. Ein Gleichnis könnte das Verhältnis des physischen zum Astralleibe beleuchten. Nehmen wir einen Schwamm, zerschneiden ihn in tausend Stücke und lassen den Inhalt von einem Glas Wasser von diesen kleinen Stücken aufsaugen, so haben wir ein Gleichnis für den wachenden Durchschnittsmenschen. Pressen wir die Schwämmchen aus und sammeln wir das Wasser wieder in seinen Behälter, so schließt es sich zu einer gleichmäßigen Masse zusammen. So treten die menschlichen Astralkörper, die tagsüber wie die aufgesogenen Wassertropfen individualisiert waren, in die gemeinsame Astralsubstanz ein und stärken und kräftigen sich in derselben. Dies erkennt man am Morgen daran, daß die Ermüdung beseitigt ist. 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