{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 104/1908-06-26/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now to understand the following we must look a little more deeply into the mysteries of becoming man. If you could observe man before his body became physical, that is to say, when he was still invisible to physical eyes, when he first descended from the etheric, so to speak, by becoming first an airy, watery structure, then a cartilaginous structure—if you could follow him thus you would see that our earth was also quite different. In the time before the descent of man there was really no mineral kingdom. The earth only possessed the heritage of the Moon. The lowest kingdom was the vegetable kingdom, and the earth was much softer. The distribution of the watery and gaseous substances was quite different. If you had looked at the earth before man had descended from the surrounding atmosphere to the solid ground it would not have appeared to you as the abstract product described in modern geology, etc.; one might say that our earth as a whole was at that time more like an organism. It was permeated with all kinds of ordered currents, and was more like a living being than it is now. And man, who existed in that ancient time more as a spiritual etheric being, was not born as he is to-day, but he was, so to say, brought forth out of mother earth herself. It was mother earth herself that produced man, that still spiritually etheric being. Before man separated front the whole earth, he was a being who was really bound up with the whole earth. imagine a body which is soft, and in it hardened parts appear; this will give you a picture of how men were at that time born from mother earth. They were connected with the earth by all kinds of currents, and remained connected with it. Hence man had an entirely different life; for example, the circulation of the blood, which is now confined within the limits of its skin, extended everywhere into the surrounding earth—it existed in the form of natural forces. If we wished to draw a picture of what it was like at that time we should have to say: there arose within the earth—not perceptible to physical eyes, but to spiritual vision—a part which was raised and could be distinguished from the rest of the environment; but the forces in it were connected by innumerable threads with the rest of the whole earth. That was the beginning of a physical human being. There was a time when the human beings were connected in this way by threads with the rest of the earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IX","site_heading":"Human Evolution and the Spiritualized Earth's Future Form","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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Alle Verteilung der flüssigen, der gasförmigen Stoffe war eine ganz andere. Wenn Sie die Erde also geschaut hätten in jener Zeit, bevor der Mensch aus ihrem atmosphärischen Umkreis zum festen Grund heruntergestiegen war, so würde sie Ihnen nicht vorgekommen sein wie das, was in der heutigen Geologie und so weiter abstrakt beschrieben wird, sondern unsere Erde als Ganzes war dazumal viel näher, man möchte sagen, einem Organismus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104/1908-06-26/p014"},{"locus":"GA 104/1908-06-26/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"![104-05](images/104-05.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104/1908-06-26/p015"},{"locus":"GA 104/1908-06-26/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Es war diese Erde durchzogen von allerlei regelmäßigen Strömungen. Die Erde glich eher einem lebendigen Wesen als dem, was sie heute ist. Und der Mensch, der mehr als geistig-ätherisches Wesen in jener alten Zeit vorhanden war, wurde damals nicht so geboren wie heute, sondern er wurde sozusagen herausgeboren aus der Mutter Erde selber. Die Mutter Erde selber war es, die diesen Menschen, diesen noch geistig-ätherischen Menschen, werden ließ, und der Mensch war, bevor er sich absonderte von der ganzen Erde, ein Wesen, das wirklich mit der ganzen Erde verbunden war. Denken Sie sich einmal, wie in irgendeinem Körper, der weich ist, verhärtete Stellen entstehen, dann würden Sie ein Bild haben, wie dazumal aus der Mutter Erde selber die Menschen herausgeboren wurden. Ja, die Menschen waren durch allerlei Strömungen mit der Erde verbunden, blieben mit ihr verbunden. Es war also ein ganz anderes Leben der Menschen. 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Wollten wir uns ein Bild davon entwerfen, wie es damals war, so müßten wir sagen: Nicht für das physische Auge, aber dem hellseherischen Blick fühlbar, entstand innerhalb der Erde eine Stelle, welche sich abhob und sich unterscheiden ließ von der übrigen Umgebung; aber dasjenige, was da als Kräfte drinnen waltete, hing an zahlreichen Fäden zusammen mit der ganzen übrigen Erde. — Das war der Anfang eines physischen Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104/1908-06-26/p016"}],"english":["GA 104/1908-06-26/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":432,"en_words":438,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5292,"original_word_count":5228,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Mabel Cotterell","identified_edition":"APC1958","book_title":"The Apocalypse of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA104/English/APC1958/19080626p01.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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