{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 105/1908-08-06/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The next question that naturally presents itself is: How is it with the mineral world? How is it with so-called lifeless minerals? Have they anything resembling an ego, or some other higher principle? If we observe a stone clairvoyantly we find that in the physical world it has only a physical body; the etheric body of minerals surrounds and envelops this on all sides. Take, for example, a rock crystal; you must imagine this entire form as hollowed out, that it resembles a hollow space, and that only where the physical substance ends does the etheric begin. Just as the upper part of a plant is woven round by the astral, so the mineral is surrounded by the etheric. This etheric is at home in the astral world. Mark this well—we have an etheric that is at home in the astral world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"The Hierarchical Structure of Earth's Four Kingdoms","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1908-08-06","location":null,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/105/1908-08-06/p015","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:embedding","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"H. 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Wie steht es mit dem sogenannten toten Gestein? Hat auch das etwas wie ein Ich oder wie höhere Glieder? - Wenn wir den Stein betrachten, so finden wir, daß er in dieser Welt nur den physischen Leib hat. Der Ätherleib des Minerals umgibt das Mineral und hüllt es von allen Seiten ein. Wenn Sie zum Beispiel einen Bergkristall nehmen, so müssen Sie sich vorstellen, daß diese ganze Form ausgespart ist, wie ein ätherischer Hohlraum ist, und daß erst da, wo die physische Substanz aufhört, das Ätherische beginnt; wie die Pflanze oben von dem Astralischen umspült wird, so ist das Mineral von allen Seiten vom Ätherischen umgeben. Dieses Ätherische ist zu Hause in der Astralwelt; merken Sie wohl auf: hier haben wir ein Ätherisches, das in der Astralwelt zu Hause ist. Die Dinge sind in Wirklichkeit komplizierter, als man gewöhnlich denkt. Nicht etwa ist es so, daß in der astralischen Welt alles astralisch ist; das ist ebensowenig der Fall, wie in der physischen Welt alles physisch ist. Sie haben zum Beispiel auf dem physischen Plane, in der physischen Welt den Ätherleib, den Astralleib und sogar das Ich des Menschen. So sieht auch der Hellseher den Atherleib des Minerals in der astralischen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":218,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/105/1908-08-06/p010"}],"english":["GA 105/1908-08-06/p014","GA 105/1908-08-06/p015","GA 105/1908-08-06/p016"],"method":"embedding","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":218,"en_words":237,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5028,"original_word_count":5094,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"H. 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