{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 109/1909-06-07/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We must now speak briefly of what draws the soul down to the earth and what it is that will incarnate. You know that procreation is connected with certain impulses of feeling, impulses of love, sympathy born of love. The process of procreation is preceded by “sympathy born of love,” which is perceived by a clairvoyant as a play, a surging hither and thither of astral forces, of astral streams, between the man and the woman. Something is alive there that is not present if the human being is alone; the companionship between the souls themselves is expressed in the play of the astral streams. But of course every process of love is individual and issues from a specific individuality. Now, before earthly fertilization, before the physical act of love, there is reflected in this play of astral forces, the individuality, the being who is coming down again to the earth. That is the essential reality in the procreative act. So one can say that before physical fertilization, what is descending from the spiritual world is already beginning to be active. The spiritual world is also instrumental in bringing about the meeting of the man and woman. A wonderfully intimate play of forces from the spiritual world is taking place here. The being who is descending is, generally speaking, connected from the beginning with the product of fertilization. It is emphatically *not* the case that an individuality connects with it only after a certain time. From the moment of conception this individuality is in touch with the outcome of physical procreation. There are exceptions, of course, there, too. During the first days after conception, this spiritual individuality who is descending does not yet actually affect the development of the physical human being, but it is close by, as it were, is already in contact with the developing embryo. The actual attachment takes place from about the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first days after conception; what is descending from a higher world is then already working together with the being who is in process of coming into existence. Thus the delicate, organic texture that is necessary if the human individuality is to use the physical body as an instrument, is prepared from the beginning in accordance with the earlier faculties. That the human being is an integrated unity originates from the fact that the smallest organ is in keeping with the organism as a whole, that is to say, even the smallest unit must be such that the whole structure is able to ensure that from the eighteenth to the twenty-first day after conception, the ego can participate in the development of the physical and etheric bodies.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Physical World as an Expression of Spiritual Forces and Beings.","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-06-07","location":null,"word_count":446,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/109/1909-06-07/p008","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Jedes Lieben geht im Hinundwiderspiel von einer besonderen Individualität aus. Und nun spiegelt sich darinnen, vor aller irdischen Befruchtung, vor dem physischen Akt in dem Liebesbegehren, in diesem astralischen Hinundherspielen die Individualität, die Natur des Wesens, das wieder auf die Erde heruntersteigt. Das ist das Besondere der einzelnen Liebesakte. So daß man sagen kann: Vor der physischen Befruchtung, da beginnt schon das zu wirken, was aus der geistigen Welt heruntersteigt; das Zusammengeführtwerden von Mann und Frau wird von der geistigen Welt mitbestimmt. Hier spielen in einer intimen wunderbaren Weise Kräfte aus der geistigen Welt mit. Und dasjenige, was heruntersteigt, sich heruntersenkt, ist im allgemeinen von Anfang an gebunden an das Ergebnis der Befruchtung. Durchaus ist es nicht so, daß erst nach einer gewissen Zeit irgendeine Individualität sich damit verbindet. Vom Moment der Befruchtung an ist diese heruntersteigende Individualität mit dem Resultat der physischen Fortpflanzung zusammengehörig. Ausnahmen gibt es allerdings auch da. In den ersten Tagen nach der Befruchtung wirkt freilich diese geistige Individualität, die herunterkommt, noch nicht auf die Entwickelung des physischen Menschen ein, aber sie ist sozusagen dabei, sie ist schon mit dem sich entwickelnden Embryo verbunden. Das Eingreifen geschieht etwa vom achtzehnten, neunzehnten, zwanzigsten und einundzwanzigsten Tage an nach der Befruchtung; da arbeitet dann schon mit dem werdenden Menschen das, was heruntergestiegen ist aus einer höheren Welt. So daß von Anfang an vorbereitet wird, nach den früheren Fähigkeiten, jenes feine, intime organische Gewebe, das notwendig ist, wenn die menschliche Individualität den physischen Leib als Instrument gebrauchen soll. Daß der Mensch eine Einheit ist, rührt davon her, daß das kleinste Organ dem ganzen Organismus entspricht, das heißt, auch das Kleinste muß von einer gewissen Art sein, damit das Ganze so sein kann, damit es geschehen kann, daß schon vom achtzehnten bis einundzwanzigsten Tage an das Ich an der Ausgestaltung des physischen und des Ätherleibes mitwirkt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":401,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/109/1909-06-07/p007"}],"english":["GA 109/1909-06-07/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":401,"en_words":446,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.11,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5252,"original_word_count":4749,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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