{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1908-12-21/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now those spirits that regulated our whole cosmos—for everything of a physical nature is an expression of those beings—had to create the outer physical movement in accordance with their own inner relationships. That the sun is encircled by the earth in a year arises out of the rhythm that was implanted into the physical body long ages before the physical constellation existed. Thus the spatial relationships between these heavenly bodies were regulated from out of the spirit. The moon had to go round the earth because its rotation had to correspond to the rotation of the human etheric body in four times seven days because this rhythm was to find its expression in the movement of the moon. The changing illumination of the moon by the sun—the moon's four quarters—correspond to the different rhythms of the astral body, and the revolution of the earth in the course of a day corresponds to the ego rhythm. In connection with this ego rhythm in particular we can point out something that occultism has always taught, but which will appear to people nowadays as mere fantasy, although it is nevertheless true. In very ancient times the earth did not revolve around its axis; this axial rotation arose in the course of time. Whilst earth man was still in a different condition, this movement did not as yet exist. The first stimulus to movement did not occur in the earth but in man. The human ego was given this stimulus to turn by the spirits to whom it is subject, and the human ego actually took the earth with it and made it revolve round it. The revolution of the earth is the result of the ego rhythm. And this is true, however astonishing it sounds. The spiritual members of man that were developing their ego-hood had to receive the stimulus to turn first, and then they took the earth with them. Later on this was different. Man became free on the earth; conditions changed so that man was freed from the surrounding cosmic powers. But this is really what it was like originally. Thus you can see how everything that is physical around us is actually an outcome of the spiritual. Spirit is always there first. And it is the spirit that sets everything going.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. 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Der verschiedenen Beleuchtung des Mondes durch die Sonne, den vier Mondesvierteln, entsprechen die verschiedenen Rhythmen des astralischen Leibes, und dem Tageslauf der Umdrehung der Erde entspricht der Rhythmus des Ichs. Gerade an dem Rhythmus des Ichs kann man etwas klarmachen, was zwar in aller Geheimwissenschaft immer gelehrt worden ist, was aber heute den Menschen als phantastische Träumerei erscheinen wird, was aber doch wahr ist. Die Erde hat sich in uralten Zeiten nicht um ihre Achse gedreht; diese Achsendrehung ist erst im Laufe der Zeiten entstanden. Als der Mensch auf Erden noch in einem anderen Zustande war, bestand diese Bewegung noch nicht. Das, was zuerst zur Umdrehung angeregt worden ist, das war nicht die Erde, sondern das war der Mensch. Das menschliche Ich war von den Geistern, denen es untertan ist, angeregt worden, sich zu drehen, und das menschliche Ich nahm dann tatsächlich diese Erde mit und drehte sie um sich herum. Die Erdenumdrehung ist die Folge des Ich-Rhythmus. So erstaunlich das klingt, wahr ist es doch. Erst mußten die geistigen Glieder des Menschen, die sich zum Ich heranbildeten, den Antrieb bekommen, sich zu drehen, und dann nahmen sie die Erde mit. Das wurde ja später anders. Der Mensch wurde frei auf der Erde; die Verhältnisse änderten sich, so daß der Mensch von den umliegenden kosmischen Mächten frei wurde. Aber so war es ursprünglich. So sehen Sie, wie alles Physische um uns herum eigentlich ein Ausfluß des Geistigen ist. Das Geistige ist überall das erste. Aus ihm fließen auch alle Lageverhältnisse in der Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":359,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1908-12-21/p013"}],"english":["GA 107/1908-12-21/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":359,"en_words":382,"ratio":1.06,"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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