{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 102/1908-02-15/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But now the human beings would not have been able to evolve further, they could not support the tempo as long as the sun remained with the earth. Then something came about which we can well understand when we are clear that the beings we have called the Fire-Spirits took their scene of action away from the earth. The sun pressed out and we have now sun, with earth and moon together. During this time Mars—in a way which would take too much time to relate now in detail—had again formed a theatre for particular beings, and in its further advance Mars actually passed through the earth and moon and left behind what to-day we know as iron. Hence Mars was the cause of the iron particles deposited in living beings, that is, in the blood. Now someone could say: That is not so very remarkable, iron is everywhere. For just as other bodies were in the primordial mist, so too was Mars with the iron which it left behind. Iron is in all the other planets as well!—Science today, however, wonderfully confirms what is given here from the teaching of spiritual science. You will remember that I once showed you how one passes symbolically from the green sap of the plant, chlorophyll, to the blood of man. Plants arose at the period before this passage of Mars had taken place and have preserved their characteristic. Then the iron was deposited in the beings more highly organized than the plants, permeating the red blood. Thus what has recently been found in a Zurich laboratory is in complete accordance with these spiritual-scientific facts, namely, that blood can-not be compared with chlorophyll, simply because it was deposited later. We must not imagine that blood depends in any way on the substantiality of the chemical element “iron.” I say that especially, because someone might say that one can speak of no connection at all of chlorophyll with the blood. Today science makes the discovery that the blood is to be traced back to the element “iron”—whereas chlorophyll contains no iron. It is nevertheless in the fullest harmony with what Spiritual Science has to say, it is only a matter of looking at things in the right light.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Spiritual Beings and Planetary Formation in Cosmic Evolution","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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Während dieser Zeit ist auf irgendeine Art, die jetzt nicht genauer beschrieben werden soll, weil das zu weit führen würde, wiederum als ein Schauplatz für besondere Wesenheiten der «Mars» übriggeblieben, der dann tatsächlich in dem weiteren Fortgang durch Erde und Mond durchgeht, und, während er durchgeht, in der Erde mit dem Mond das zurückläßt, was wir heute als Eisen kennen. Daher ist er auch der Veranlasser alles dessen, was als Eisenteile in den lebendigen Wesen abgelagert ist, also im Blut. Nun könnte jemand sagen: Eisen ist überall, auch in der Sonne und so, weiter. — Das ist ja nicht weiter verwunderlich, denn geradeso wie andere Körper in dem Urnebel waren, so war auch der Mars überall darin mit seinem Eisen, das er zurückgelassen hat; das ist auch in allen anderen Planeten! Auch hier liegt wieder die Tatsache vor, daß die Wissenschafter heute schon wunderbare Belege dafür bringen, daß die Sache sich so verhält, wie es hier von der geisteswissenschaftlichen Lehre dargestellt wird. Sie erinnern sich wohl, daß ich Ihnen einmal dargestellt habe, wie man symbolisch übergeht von dem grünen Pflanzensaft, dem Chlorophyll, zum Blut des Menschen. Die Pflanzen sind als solche entstanden, bevor dieser Marsdurchgang stattgefunden hat, und haben ihre Eigenschaft bewahrt. Dann hat sich in die Wesen, die heute höher organisiert sind als die Pflanzen, das Eisen eingelagert, das das rote Blut erfüllt. Es ist durchaus übereinstimmend mit diesen geisteswissenschaftlichen Tatsachen, wenn kürzlich in einem Berner Laboratorium gefunden worden ist, daß das Blut nicht verglichen werden kann mit dem Chlorophyll. Das ist eben, weil es später eingelagert ist. Wir dürfen uns nicht vorstellen, daß das Blut etwa von der Substantialität des chemischen Elementes «Eisen» abhängt. Ich sage das ganz besonders deshalb, weil jemand sagen könnte, daß man gar nicht von einem Zusammenhange des Chlorophyll mit dem Blute reden könne. Heute macht die Wissenschaft die Entdeckung, daß das Blut auf das Element «Eisen» zurückzuführen ist, während das Chlorophyli gar kein Eisen enthält. Es ist aber doch im vollsten Einklange mit dem, was die Geisteswissenschaft zu sagen hat; es handelt sich nur darum, daß man die Dinge in dem richtigen Lichte betrachten muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":428,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/102/1908-02-15/p019"}],"english":["GA 102/1908-02-15/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":428,"en_words":374,"ratio":0.87,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5879,"original_word_count":6223,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1961","book_title":"The Influence of Spiritual Beings on Man","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA102/English/AP1961/19080215p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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