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The teacher showed the student the structures in the physical body of man through which the higher levels of consciousness can be attained and human substance can in turn become a substance similar to that of plants. Every being must use a physical body if it wants to appear on earth. But the body of man will change more and more in the future. We distinguish between a descending and an ascending development with regard to the human organs. Some human organs are in a state of descending development; in the course of time, which admittedly counts in millennia, the human being will discard them. Other organs are in the process of becoming; in the future they will undergo an upward development, for example the human larynx; it is only at the beginning of its development. The human heart will undergo a further upward development, becoming a completely different organ in the future. While other organs have already passed their zenith, becoming detached from human nature and withering away, we have an organ in the heart that is only at the beginning of its development.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-29/p014","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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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The heart is on the way to becoming a voluntary muscle in the future; its anatomical structure already bears the characteristic features for this. Today, however, it contributes to the effect of emotional experiences on the blood. You can see how, when you feel fear, the blood mass withdraws from the periphery of the body and moves inward, or how, when you feel shame, the blood is driven from the center of the body to the periphery. In the future, in addition to the transformation of the heart, there will also be a transformation of our larynx. Today, the larynx serves to translate my thoughts into words by making the air vibrate. You can pick up and hear my words with your ears; this is caused by the vibrations of the air. The present human larynx is capable of transforming into air vibrations what is going on in the soul. The human body of the future will transform its larynx into a fertilizing organ, and the word, which today only creates in the air, will in the future become creative in our environment. Reproduction will then take place through the larynx, which will create the race of the future.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":320,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-29/p015","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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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This spiritual chalice, the transformed organ of speech, was called the Holy Grail. This is a real ideal. The beginning, middle and end of human development: here you see the idea of human development transformed into a picture.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-29/p016","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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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Der Lehrer zeigte dem Schüler die Anlagen im physischen Leibe des Menschen, durch welche die höheren Stufen des Bewußtseins errungen werden können und die menschliche Substanz wiederum zu einer der Pflanze ähnlichen Substanz werden kann. Ein jegliches Wesen muß einen physischen Leib benutzen, wenn es auf der Erde erscheinen will. Aber der Leib des Menschen wird sich in der Zukunft immer mehr und mehr umgestalten. Wir unterscheiden in bezug auf die menschlichen Organe eine absteigende und eine aufsteigende Entwickelung. Ein Teil der menschlichen Organe ist in absteigender Entwickelung; diese wird der Mensch im Laufe der Zeit, die allerdings nach Jahrtausenden zählt, abwerfen. Andere Organe sind im Werden, sie werden in der Zukunft eine Höherentwickelung haben, zum Beispiel der menschliche Kehlkopf; er ist erst im Anfange seiner Entwickelung. Eine andere Höherentwickelung wird das menschliche Herz nehmen, das in der Zukunft ein ganz anderes Organ werden wird. Während andere Organe ihren Höhepunkt bereits überschritten haben, sich abschnüren von der menschlichen Natur und verdorren, haben wir im Herzen ein Organ, das erst am Anfange seiner Entwickelung ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-12-29/p014"},{"locus":"GA 101/1907-12-29/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Wir können bei den Muskeln des Menschen quergestreifte und längsgestreifte unterscheiden; das sind willkürliche und unwillkürliche Muskeln. Die willkürlichen Muskeln der Hand zum Beispiel sind quergestreift. Die Muskeln der Gedärme dagegen, welche die Speise unwillkürlich vorwärtstreiben, sind längsgestreift. Das Herz macht hierbei eine Ausnahme, und das ist für die heutigen physiologischen und anatomischen Wissenschaftler eine Crux. Das Herz gehört zwar zu den unwillkürlichen Muskeln, aber es hat quergestreifte Muskulatur. Daher können unsere Anatomen auch das Herz nicht begreifen. Sie betrachten ja alle Organe als gleichartig. Wenn man die Organe geistig betrachtet, können sie durchaus chemisch aus denselben Bestandteilen bestehen, aber doch kann das eine in einer absteigenden und das andere in einer aufsteigenden Entwickelung sich befinden. Das Herz ist auf dem Wege, in der Zukunft ein willkürlicher Muskel zu werden, es trägt in seinem anatomischen Bau schon jetzt die charakteristischen Merkmale dafür. Heute ist davon nur sehr wenig zu merken. Heute trägt es dazu bei, daß seelische Erlebnisse auf das Blut wirken. Sie können sehen, wie, wenn Sie ein Angstgefühl bekommen, die Blutmasse von der Peripherie des Leibes nach dem Innern sich zurückzieht, oder wie bei Auftreten von Schamgefühl das Blut vom Innern des Leibes nach der Peripherie hingetrieben wird. In der Zukunft wird außer der Umgestaltung des Herzens auch eine Umgestaltung unseres Kehlkopfes vor sich gehen. Heute dient der Kehlkopf dazu, meine Gedanken in Worte umzusetzen, indem er die Luft in Schwingungen versetzt. Sie können mit Ihren Ohren meine Worte aufnehmen und hören; das wird durch die Schwingungen der Luft verursacht. Der heutige menschliche Kehlkopf ist imstande, in Luftschwingungen umzusetzen, was in der Seele vorgeht. Der zukünftige Menschenleib wird seinen Kehlkopf zum Befruchtungsorgan umgestalten, und das Wort, das heute nur in der Luft schafft, wird zukünftig in unserer Umgebung schaffend werden. Die Reproduktion wird dann durch den Kehlkopf vor sich gehen, der die Rasse der Zukunft schaffen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":309,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-12-29/p015"},{"locus":"GA 101/1907-12-29/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"So wie der Lehrer den Schüler hinwies auf den keuschen Pflanzenkelch, und wie er hinwies auf den Menschen, der im Herabsteigen seine Pflanzensubstanz durchzogen hat mit der niederen Natur der Leidenschaften, Begierden und Instinkte, dafür aber eingetauscht hat sein heutiges helles Tagesbewußtsein, so zeigte der Lehrer, wie der gegenwärtige Mensch aufsteigen wird zu höheren Bewußtseinszuständen, und wie der zukünftige Mensch die von Begierden erfüllte Substanz wiederum umwandeln wird zu reinen und keuschen Organen. Auf Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft wurde der Schüler hingewiesen. Wie der Kelch der Pflanze keusch der Sonne sich entgegenstreckt und ihre Fruchtorgane der Sonne entgegenwachsen, das wird wieder da sein auf einer höheren Stufe, wo der Mensch seinen Kehlkopf als Kelch dem geistigen Sonnenstrahl darbieten wird. Diesen geistigen Kelch, das umgestaltete Sprachorgan, nannte man den Heiligen Gral. Das ist ein reales Ideal. Anfang, Mitte und Ende der Menschheitsentwickelung, hier sehen Sie den Entwickelungsgedanken der Menschheit verwandelt in ein Bild.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-12-29/p016"}],"beads":[{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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