{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-11-17/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We repose in the astral world in order to restore the harmony of the astral body, for from the standpoint of Spiritual Science tiredness is only disharmony in the physical and astral bodies. The relationship between the physical and astral bodies may be illustrated in the following way. If we take a sponge, cut it into a thousand small pieces and place them in a glass of water, so that the water is absorbed into these tiny pieces, this represents the waking condition of the average man. If we squeeze out the little sponges and collect the water again in its container, it flows together into one common mass: In the same way the human astral bodies, which during the day were individualised, like the drops of water which were absorbed into the tiny sponges, enter into the common astral substance and are strengthened by it. This we recognize each morning by the fact that our tiredness has gone. Until a person becomes a seer his astral body during the night mingles with the others; but in a seer the conditions are different.","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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