{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 103/1908-05-25/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The next thing that occurred was the division of the human being, in respect of his physical body, into airy, warmth and fluid parts. This means, in an occult sense, that he became a water-man. You may say that the human being was previously already a water-man. But that would not be quite correct. Previously the earth was a watery sphere, and within it—although only in a spiritual state—were astral body and ego. They swam about in the water as spiritual beings; they were not yet individualized. Now we have for the first time reached the point where we could have found the physical human body contained within this water, but in a sort of jelly fish formation. If you had swum out into this primeval sea, you would have found in it, condensed out of the water, forms which would have been transparent to you. This is the way these human beings appeared in the beginning. First they had a water body and at the same time their astral body and ego continued to remain deeply embedded in the divine, spiritual beings. At that time, when the human being possessed this watery body the apportioning of his states of consciousness was very different from what it became later on. The separation into unconscious night and conscious day did not exist as it does now, but then, when the human being was still embedded in the beings of the divine-spiritual world, he had a dreamy astral consciousness. When, during the day, he dipped down into his fluidic, physical body, this was night to him and when he was again out of his physical body, he beheld the dazzling, astral light. When he plunged into the physical body in the morning, there all was dull and dreary and a sort of unconscious state began. Gradually, however, the present physical organs were formed in his physical body and with these he gradually learned to see. Day consciousness became brighter and brighter, and he was thereby cut off from the divine matrix. It was only toward the middle of the Atlantean period that this human creature was dense enough to become flesh and bone. After the cartilage had solidified, the bones then gradually appeared. At the same time the earth also became more solid and the human being then descended upon the surface of the earth. Thus that consciousness which he had possessed in the divine-spiritual world gradually disappeared, and he became more and more an observer of the outer world, preparing himself thereby to become a true earth dweller. In the last third of the Atlantean period, the human form became more and more like the present one.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. 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Sie könnten in diesem Urmeer schwimmen und würden darin finden aus dem Wasser heraus verdichtete Gestalten, durch die Sie hindurchschauen könnten. So waren sie zuerst, diese Menschen: sie haben erst einen Wasserleib, und indem sie den Wasserleib haben, ist noch immer ihr astralischer Leib und ihr Ich sehr eingebettet in die göttlich-geistigen Wesenheiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-25/p020"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-25/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Dazumal, als der Mensch diesen Wasserleib hatte, war die Verteilung seiner Bewußtseinszustände eine ganz andere, als sie später geworden ist. So wie heute war die Verteilung von bewußtloser Nacht und bewußtem Tage nicht, sondern dazumal, als der Mensch noch eingebettet war in die göttlich-geistigen Wesenheiten, hatte er in der Nacht ein dämmerhaftes, astralisches Bewußtsein. Wenn er bei Tag untertauchte in seinen flüssigen physischen Leib, da wurde es für ihn Nacht; und wenn er wieder heraus war aus seinem physischen Leibe, da ging ihm das blendende astralische Licht auf. Wenn er untertauchte des Morgens in den physischen Leib, da wurde es dämmerig und trübe, da fing eine Art von Bewußtlosigkeit an. Immer mehr aber bildeten sich in seinem physischen Leibe die heutigen physischen Organe aus. Damit lernte der Mensch nach und nach sehen. Das Tagesbewußtsein wurde immer heller, und dadurch schnürte er sich ab von dem göttlichen Schoße. Und erst gegen die Mitte der atlantischen Zeit ist der Mensch so weit verdichtet, daß er Fleisch und Bein wird, nachdem sich zuerst die Knorpel verdichtet haben, die Knochen nach und nach herauskommen. Und damit wird außen die Erde auch immer fester, und der Mensch steigt herunter auf den Erdboden. Damit verschwindet immer mehr das Bewußtsein, das er gehabt hatte in den göttlich-geistigen Welten; er wird immer mehr ein Beobachter der äußeren Welt und bereitet sich vor, ein eigentlicher Erdenbürger zu werden. Im letzten Drittel der atlantischen Zeit wird dann die Menschengestalt immer ähnlicher der heutigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":243,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-25/p021"}],"english":["GA 103/1908-05-25/p018"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":395,"en_words":446,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 103/1908-05-25/p020","GA 103/1908-05-25/p021"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.09,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5739,"original_word_count":5264,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maud B. 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