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Patient work of this kind brings us ultimately to the point where things that would have seemed absurd appear possible and probable, and we can see that life bears them out. The observation we want to start from is that it is an ordinary fact and no superstition that in the case of certain illnesses like, for instance, pneumonia, there is a crisis on the seventh day when the patient can easily die, and the doctor has to do everything in his power to bring the patient through this crisis which occurs without fail on the seventh day. This is recognised today by every sensible doctor, though doctors cannot investigate the causes because they have no idea of the spiritual foundation of things. First of all I will simply present you with the fact that pneumonia shows something quite remarkable that is connected with the mysterious number seven.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. Rhythm in the Bodies of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-12-21","location":null,"word_count":265,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1908-12-21/p004","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"RSP1981","book_title":"The Being of Man and His Future Evolution","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA107/English/RSP1981/19081221p01.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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Es wurde dort eine Bemerkung gemacht, die in einem öffentlichen Vortrag nicht weiter ausgeführt werden kann, weil man für ein tieferes Eingehen Vorkenntnisse voraussetzen muß, die sich weniger auf den Verstand, auf intellektuelles Erkenntnisvermögen beziehen als auf ein Erkenntnisvermögen, das in unserer ganzen Seelenkonstitution liegt und das wir nur durch jahrelanges Mitarbeiten mit dem Zweigleben erwerben können. Nur durch eine solche geduldige Arbeit können wir dahin gelangen, daß uns manches, was wir früher für absurd gehalten hätten, möglich und wahrscheinlich vorkommt, so daß wir es mit ins Leben nehmen und sehen, wie weit es sich bewahrheitet. Die Bemerkung, von der wir ausgehen wollen, war, daß es eine gewöhnliche Tatsache und nicht Aberglaube ist, wenn bei gewissen Krankheiten, wie die Lungenentzündung zum Beispiel eine ist, der siebente Tag eine Krisis darstellt, daß da bei dieser Krisis, die unweigerlich am siebenten Tag eintritt, wo der Kranke leicht sterben kann, der Arzt darauf bedacht sein muß, den Kranken darüber hinwegzubringen. Das ist heute von jedem vernünftigen Arzt anerkannt, aber nach den Ursachen können die Ärzte nicht forschen, weil sie keine Ahnung haben von den im Geistigen zu findenden Urgründen der Dinge. Zuerst wollen wir einmal die Tatsache hinstellen, daß sich hier etwas ganz Merkwürdiges, mit der geheimnisvollen Sieben-Zahl Zusammenhängendes in der Lungenentzündung zeigt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1908-12-21/p004"}],"english":["GA 107/1908-12-21/p004"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":255,"en_words":265,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4295,"original_word_count":4111,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"RSP1981","book_title":"The Being of Man and His Future Evolution","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA107/English/RSP1981/19081221p01.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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