{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 105/1908-08-06/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What does that which plays round the plant desire? It desires to absorb the soul of the sunbeam, and with the soul its purest part—its ego; and it is this purest part which passes through the plant to the centre of the earth. The activity of the plant's ego is expressed in the activity of the spiritual content of the sunbeam which passes through it to the centre of the earth. Thus earth, plant, and sun work together. The spiritual powers of the sun are in fact continually being led to the earth. And how? By means of the astral body playing round them; the blossoms, which long to absorb the soul of the sunlight, allow to sink through their bodies into the earth. That which is brought about outwardly in the physical world through the beams of the sun is but one side of its activity; the other works psychically in the plant, which longs for the soul of the light that streams to earth in the rays of the sun.","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/105/1908-08-06/p027","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:embedding","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"H. 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Denken Sie sich einen Menschen der fernen Zukunft, der das, was eben gesagt worden ist von den sehnsüchtigen Wünschen der Pflanzen, die Sonnenseele einzusaugen, einer jeden Pflanze gegenüber empfindet. Dieser Mensch wird auf einer höheren, spirituellen Stufe etwas haben, was das Tier auf einer niedrigen Stufe hat, wenn es über eine Weide geht und die Pflanzen, die ihm gerade taugen, abpflückt und die anderen stehen läßt. Ein unbewußter Instinkt, das heißt in Wirklichkeit höhere Geister, lenken das Tier. In bewußter Weise wird der Mensch der Zukunft sich den Pflanzen nähern, die ihm taugen; nicht wie heute, wo er nachdenkt, was die beste Substanz für seinen Leib gibt, sondern einen lebendigen Bezug wird er haben zu jeder einzelnen Pflanze, denn er wird wissen, daß, was die Pflanzen eingesogen haben, auch als solches in ihn übergeht. Das Essen wird nicht eine niedrige Beschäftigung für ihn sein, sondern etwas, was mit Seele und Geist vollbracht wird, weil er wissen wird, daß alles, was er verzehrt, die äußere Gestalt für ein Seelisches ist. Für unsere Zeit, für unser Zwischenzeitalter, wo die Menschen nicht so viel wissen können von den lebendigen seelischen Beziehungen zwischen sich und der Welt, mußten allerlei Surrogate geschaffen werden. Warum haben zu allen Zeiten die Eingeweihten den Menschen dazu angehalten, zu beten vor dem Essen? Das Gebet sollte nichts anderes sein als eine Dokumentierung dafür, daß beim Essen ein Geistiges in den Menschen einfließt. So sehen wir die Empfindungs- und Gefühlswelt eine andere werden, wenn der Mensch wirkliche Weisheit in sich aufnimmt. Mit einer Sicherheit, wie auf niederer Stufe der Instinkt des Tieres, wird der Mensch in strahlender, heller Klarheit wissen, was er tut; er wird es wissen, weil er die Seele dessen erkennen wird, was er mit sich vereint. Selbst bis in dies Gebiet hinunter können wir verfolgen, welch einen praktischen Wert die Geisteswissenschaft für die Zukunft hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":319,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/105/1908-08-06/p016"}],"english":["GA 105/1908-08-06/p027","GA 105/1908-08-06/p028","GA 105/1908-08-06/p029"],"method":"embedding","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":319,"en_words":481,"ratio":1.51,"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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