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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,"title":"IX. Pictorial Representations as a Necessary Educational Tool for Mental Training","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-29","location":null,"word_count":320,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-29/p015","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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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. 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