{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Everything in the world has, as it were, two sides, one pertaining more to man as a spiritual being, the other to what has developed as the kingdoms of nature around him. The earth is the arena of man's existence. To the eye of spirit this earth is revealed as a combination of different layers or strata. The outermost stratum is called the “Mineral Earth” or “Mineral Stratum” because it contains only such substances as are to be found in the ground under our feet. This is the shallowest stratum, relatively speaking. Then begins the “Fluidic Earth”, the material constitution of which is entirely different from that of the “mineral” stratum above it. This second stratum is, as it were, endowed with inner life; and only because the solid, mineral stratum is spread over it are the inner forces of this second stratum held together. If they were released they would instantaneously disperse into cosmic space. This stratum, therefore, lies under tremendous pressure. A third stratum is the “Vapor Earth”. It is not a material vapor such as arises on the earth's surface but in this third stratum the substance itself is imbued with inner forces, comparable only with the passions, the inner urges and impulses of man. Whereas on the earth it is only beings like animals and men who can unfold passions, this third stratum—just as the substances of the earth are permeated by forces of magnetism and warmth—is permeated in a material sense with forces similar to those we know as human and animal passions and impulses. The fourth or “Form Stratum” is so designated because it contains the material and the forces of what are encountered in the mineral part of the earth as entities cast into form. And the characteristic of the fifth stratum, or “Fertility Earth” is that even as material it teems with infinite fertility. If you were to get hold of part of this stratum it would perpetually be sending forth new impulses, new sproutings; rampant fertility is the intrinsic quality of this stratum. Then we come to the sixth stratum, the “Fire Earth”, containing as “substances” within it, forces that can bring about terrible havoc and destruction. It is actually into these forces that the primordial Fire has been banished.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-01-01","location":null,"word_count":379,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p033","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Diese zweite Schicht ist sozusagen mit einem inneren Leben begabt; und nur dadurch, daß die feste mineralische Schicht darübergebreitet ist, werden die inneren Kräfte dieser zweiten Schicht zusammengehalten. Denn in dem Augenblicke, wo man sie freilegen würde, würde sie sich zerstreuen in den ganzen Himmelsraum. Sie ist also eine Schicht, die unter einem ungeheuren Drucke liegt. Eine dritte Schicht ist die Dampfschicht. Aber sie ist nicht ein Dampf materieller Art, wie wir ihn auf der Oberfläche unserer Erde haben, sondern in dieser dritten Schicht ist die Substanz selbst mit inneren Kräften begabt, die wir nur vergleichen können mit den menschlichen Leidenschaften, mit den inneren Trieben des Menschen. Während auf der Erde nur Wesen, die so geformte Wesen sind wie Tiere und Menschen, Leidenschaften entwickeln können, ist diese dritte Schicht - aber doch ganz so, wie die Substanzen der Erde von magnetischen und Wärmekräften durchzogen sind — materiell durchzogen von Kräften, die dem gleich sind, was wir als menschliche und tierische Triebe und Leidenschaften kennen. Dann haben wir als vierte Schicht die Formenschicht, die so bezeichnet wird, weil sie das Material und die Kräfte enthält von dem, was uns in dem mineralischen Erdenteil als geformte Wesenheiten entgegentritt. Und die fünfte Schicht, die Fruchterde, hat die Eigentümlichkeit, daß sie als Material selbst von einer unendlichen Fruchtbarkeit ist. Wenn Sie einen Teil dieser Erdenschicht haben würden, so würde sie fortwährend aus sich heraus neue Triebe und Sprossen hervorsprießen lassen; strotzende Fruchtbarkeit ist das Element dieser Schicht. 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