{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1908-12-21/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The ego rhythm was the last to arise, but there too, things have already become displaced. Man can also sleep in the daytime, and stay awake at night. In earlier times this rhythm always coincided with the outer one. In Atlantis something very serious would have happened if man had wished to sleep in the daytime and stay awake at night. He would have brought his whole life into disorder. The rhythm is still there today to a certain extent, but it has become independent of outer circumstances. This is the same thing as setting a reliable clock exactly in time with the sun. You can then tell the exact solar time. But you could also turn the clock to midnight when it is seven o'clock in the evening. Then the rhythm of the clock will still remain correct but it would be displaced compared with that of the sun. This is what it is like with man. Man has kept the old rhythm that he used to share with the whole cosmos, but it has become displaced. If the clock were a living being it would be justified in dissociating its rhythm from the surrounding rhythms. In the far distant future man is to reach the point of projecting his rhythms out into the world again out of the strength of his own inner development. Just as there were once beings who, out of their own rhythms, made the sun, moon and earth move, man will at some future time transfer his rhythms to the world, when he has reached the stage of divinity. This is the meaning behind rhythm becoming independent. We can glimpse from this the deeper foundations of astrology. But we will not go into that just now. Today we only wanted to show that spiritual science is not a collection of abstract ideas for those egoistic people who take an interest in it, but something that can bring light into the most everyday things of life. One must have the will, however, to pass from external phenomena to the causes behind them. Rhythm has been implanted into matter by the spirit, and man, today, has these rhythms within him as a heritage of this spiritual origin. Nevertheless we can only understand what this rhythm signifies for man's being and also for the rest of natural creation if we go back to the original relationships. In the case of animals the various bodies—physical body, etheric body, astral body and group ego—have a quite different relationship to one another. There is a different rhythm for each animal species. It is roughly the same for the physical body, but the different animals have quite different rhythms in their etheric and astral bodies. In the same way as the animal world is classified nowadays according to external form, it can be classified in species according to the rhythms of the astral and etheric bodies.","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":485,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1908-12-21/p017","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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1908-12-21/p017"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1908-12-21/p017","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-12-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1908-12-21/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1908-12-21/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":456,"en_words":485,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 107/1908-12-21/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Für das Ich ist der Rhythmus am spätesten entstanden, aber auch da schieben sich die Dinge schon durcheinander. Der Mensch kann ja auch bei Tage schlafen und in der Nacht wachen. Aber früher stimmte dieser Rhythmus immer mit dem äußeren überein. In der Atlantis hätte sich etwas sehr Schlimmes ergeben, wenn der Mensch hätte tagsüber schlafen und nachts wachen wollen. Da hätte er sein ganzes Leben in Unordnung gebracht. Der Rhythmus ist heute in gewisser Weise geblieben, nur ist er unabhängig von dem Äußeren geworden. Es ist das gerade so, wie wenn Sie eine richtiggehende Uhr genau nach der Stunde der Sonne, nach der Sonnenzeit richten. Sie können dann ganz genau die Stunden der Sonne ablesen. Jetzt könnten Sie aber einmal die Uhr um sieben Uhr nachmittags auf zwölf stellen. Dann wird der Rhythmus der Uhr noch richtig beibehalten, er ist nur verschoben gegen denjenigen der Sonne. So es auch beim Menschen. Der alte Rhythmus, in dem der Mensch früher mit dem ganzen Kosmos gestanden, ist beibehalten geblieben. Er hat sich nur verschoben. Wenn die Uhr ein lebendes Wesen wäre, so hätte sie recht, ihren Rhythmus herauszuschieben aus den umgebenden Rhythmen. Der Mensch soll in einer urfernen Zukunft dazu kommen, aus seiner inneren Entwicklung heraus seinen Rhythmus wieder in die Welt hinauslaufen zu lassen. Wie es einst Wesen gegeben hat, die aus ihren Rhythmen heraus Sonne, Mond und Erde sich haben bewegen lassen, so wird auch der Mensch einmal seinen Rhythmus in die Welt hinausversetzen, wenn er die göttliche Stufe erreicht hat. Das ist der Sinn des Unabhängigwerdens im Rhythmus. Hieraus können wir die tieferen Grundlagen der Astrologie ahnen. Aber das soll uns heute nicht beschäftigen. Wir wollten heute nur zeigen, wie die Geisteswissenschaft nicht eine Summe von abstrakten Ideen ist für den egoistischen Menschen, der sich dafür interessiert, sondern daß sie bis in die alleralltäglichsten Verhältnisse des Lebens hineinleuchten wird. Aber dann muß man den Willen haben, von den äußeren Erscheinungen zu den Urgründen zu gehen, die dahinter stehen. Der Rhythmus ist der Materie eingepflanzt durch den Geist; der Mensch trägt heute den Rhythmus als Erbschaft seiner geistigen Abstammung in sich. Allerdings kann man diesen Rhythmus für das Menschenwesen und auch für die anderen Naturwesen nur einsehen, wenn man auf die ursprünglichen Verhältnisse zurückgeht. Schon bei den Tieren stehen die einzelnen Leiber - physischer Leib, Ätherleib, Astralleib und Gruppen-Ich - in ganz anderen Verhältnissen zueinander. Für jede Tierart gibt es einen anderen Rhythmus. Für den physischen Leib ist es einigermaßen derselbe, aber ganz andere Rhythmen laufen ab für Äther- und Astralleib der verschiedenen Tiere. Man kann die Tierwelt einteilen, wie man sie heute äußerlich nach den äußeren Gestalten einteilt, in Gattungen nach den Rhythmen, je nachdem der Rhythmus der Astralleiber zu dem der Ätherleiber abläuft.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":456,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1908-12-21/p018"}],"english":["GA 107/1908-12-21/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":456,"en_words":485,"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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 107/1908-12-21/p018"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}