{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 101/1907-12-29/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If one were to express this process, which was taught, for example, in the Rosicrucian schools, in a dialogue between teacher and student, one could put it like this: - In reality, such a dialogue never took place in this way, but we can present it in this way to show what the student had to go through step by step in long, drawn-out experiences. The teacher said to the student: “Look at the plant and see how it directs its root into the earth, how it grows towards the sun with its stem and blossom, and how it develops its fruit organs. And now imagine the human being in contrast. The human being is poorly compared to the plant when one compares his head with the flower and his reproductive organs with the root of the plant. Even Darwin, the great naturalist, used this comparison correctly by comparing the head of the human being with the root of the plant, so that even for Darwin, the plant is the human being turned upside down. What the plant holds up chastely to the sunbeam, its reproductive organs, man directs to the center of the earth. Thus, in man we have to think of an inversion of the plant, in that he freely directs all the forces that in the plant are directed toward the center of the earth to the sun-filled cosmos, and shamefully directs those organs that the plant holds up chastely to the sunbeam toward the earth. The animal stands in the midst of it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IX. Pictorial Representations as a Necessary Educational Tool for Mental Training","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-29","location":null,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-29/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071229p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Und jetzt stelle dir dagegen den Menschen vor. - Der Mensch wird schlecht verglichen mit der Pflanze, wenn man seinen Kopf mit der Blüte und seine Fortpflanzungsorgane mit der Wurzel der Pflanze vergleicht. Selbst Darwin, der große Naturforscher, hat diesen Vergleich richtig gebraucht, indem er den Kopf des Menschen mit der Wurzel der Pflanze verglich, so daß selbst für Darwin die Pflanze der auf den Kopf gestellte Mensch ist. Was die Pflanze keusch dem Sonnenstrahl entgegenhält, ihre Fortpflanzungsorgane, das richtet der Mensch dem Mittelpunkte der Erde zu, so daß wir also im Menschen eine Umkehrung der Pflanze zu denken haben, indem er alle die Kräfte, die bei der Pflanze nach dem Mittelpunkte der Erde gerichtet sind, frei nach dem sonnenerfüllten Kosmos richtet, und jene Organe, die die Pflanze keusch dem Sonnenstrahl entgegenstreckt, schamvoll nach der Erde richtet. 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