{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 104/1908-06-26/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As we have said, we are now touching upon an important and deep mystery, the last traces of which may be seen in the fact that when man is born at the present time, the connection with the maternal organism made by the umbilical cord is severed. This connection with the organism of the mother is the last remains of the connection man had with mother earth. And just as to-day man is a son of man, born from man, he was once a son of earth, born from the earth, when the earth was still a living being. He became independent through the umbilical cord—by which he was connected with the whole earth—being severed, so to speak; he thereby became a being born from his like. We must clearly understand that the paths of the blood now existing in man are nothing more than continuations of currents which in the ancient condition of the earth permeated the whole earth, it is the same with the nerves. All the nerves extended into mother earth. These are now sundered, as it were, from that which streamed through the whole earth as nerves. And the other parts of the human being in the same way. Man is born out of mother earth. That which is now enclosed within the skin has been drawn into him from the whole earth. The being of man is taken from the earth, the forces of the whole earth are in him. Before he became a son of man, he was a son of earth. The name Adam really means son of earth. All these ancient names point to important secrets. But when we are aware of this we shall understand that before the visible man appeared on the earth, the latter already contained within it all the forces of this visible man. Before man became a human being the earth was the bearer of all the human forces. Thus the earth is the mother of the human race. Just as little as you can imagine that man could ever grow out of the present stony earth, just as little could he spring forth from the earth, unless it were a living being. What we have just briefly indicated took place in the Lemurian epoch.","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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Und damit wurde der Mensch selbständig, daß die Nabelschnur, an der er zusammenhing mit der ganzen Erde, sozusagen für ihn abgeschnitten wurde. Dadurch wurde er ein Wesen, das von seinesgleichen geboren wurde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104/1908-06-26/p017"},{"locus":"GA 104/1908-06-26/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Klar müssen wir uns sein darüber, daß die Blutsbahnen, die heute im Menschen sind, nichts anderes sind als die Fortsetzungen von Strömungen, die in dem alten Erdenzustand die ganze Erde durchdrangen. Ebenso die Nervenbahnen: alles, was Sie als Nerven haben, erhielt seine Fortsetzung hinaus in die Mutter Erde. Das ist gleichsam jetzt herausgeschnitten von dem, was die ganze Erde als Nerven durchströmte. Und ebenso die anderen Glieder der menschlichen Wesenheit. Herausgeboren aus der Mutter Erde ist der Mensch. Was heute abgeschlossen ist im Menschen durch seine Haut, ist hineingezogen in ihn aus der ganzen Erde. Aus der Erde ist des Menschen Wesenheit genommen und hineingezogen in ihn. Der Mensch war, bevor er Menschensohn wurde, ein Erdensohn. Und «Erdensohn» heißt eigentlich «Adam». Alle diese alten Namen weisen auf bedeutsame Geheimnisse hin. Wenn wir uns aber dessen bewußt sind, so werden wir begreifen, daß die Erde, bevor auf ihr der sichtbare Mensch entstand, schon alle Kräfte dieses sichtbaren Menschen in sich enthielt. Bevor der Mensch ein Mensch wurde, war die Erde die Trägerin aller menschlichen Kräfte. Die Erde ist also die Gebärerin des Menschengeschlechtes. Ebensowenig wie Sie sich denken können, daß aus der heutigen steinernen Erde jemals der Mensch entspringt, ebensosehr konnte der Mensch entspringen aus der Erde, als sie noch ein Lebewesen war. In der lemurischen Zeit ist das vor sich gegangen, was wir mit wenigen Worten andeuten konnten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104/1908-06-26/p018"}],"english":["GA 104/1908-06-26/p014","GA 104/1908-06-26/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":367,"en_words":378,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 104/1908-06-26/p017","GA 104/1908-06-26/p018"],"reader_part":true},"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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