{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 109/1909-06-07/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we now bear in mind the spiritual reality underlying conception, we must say that conception in itself is nothing else than a kind of deadening of the living forces of the etheric body. Death, at conception, is already woven into the human body. It is a happening that hardens, as it were, and deadens the etheric body, which otherwise would multiply *ad infinitum*. The etheric body, which originates from the female principle and would otherwise produce copies only, is densified as a result of the male influence and thereby becomes the producer of the new human individuality. Propagation consists in the production of a copy of the etheric body of the woman; through being hardened, in a certain respect killed, it is at the same time individualized. In the deadened etheric body there lies hidden the formative force that brings forth the new human being. Thus do conception and propagation amalgamate. Thus we see that two conceptions take place: below, the physical, human conception, and above, the conception of the archetype as the result of its own karma. We said that from the eighteenth to the twenty-first day after conception onwards the ego is already working on the embryo; but not until much later, after six months, do other forces also work on the embryo, forces that determine the karma of the human being. This can be expressed by saying that the web woven out of karma there takes hold; gradually these forces come into play. Now exceptions occur here, too, so that later on an exchange of the ego may take place. We will speak of that later. The ego is the first factor to intervene for the purpose of development.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. 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Das menschliche Ich würde heute keinen passenden Körper mehr finden, wenn nicht das allgemeine Menschheitsprinzip abgeändert würde durch das männliche Element, das heißt, wenn nicht der allgemeine Typus zum Individuellen sich gestalten würde. Vom weiblichen Element her wirkt im wesentlichen der Ätherleib. Im Ätherleib, in dem die dauernden Neigungen liegen, ist die treibende Kraft des weiblichen Elements. In ihm ist verankert das, was das Generelle ist, das Gattungsmäßige. Im Ätherleib der Frau ist heute noch das Gegenbild dessen vorhanden, was man da außen findet als die Volksseele, als den Rassengeist. Volksseele und Rassengeist sind einander ähnlich. Fassen wir nun ins Auge, was als Geistiges der Befruchtung zugrunde liegt, so müssen wir sagen: Die Befruchtung an sich ist nichts anderes als eine Art Ertötung der lebendigen Kräfte des Ätherleibes. Schon bei der Befruchtung wird der Tod hineingewoben in den menschlichen Leib. Es ist etwas, was den Ätherleib, der sich sonst ins Unendliche vervielfältigen würde, verhärtet, ihn sozusagen abtötet. Das, was von der weiblichen Natur herrührt, der Ätherleib, der sonst nur Kopien gestalten würde, wird durch den männlichen Einfluß verdichtet und dadurch wird er der Bildner der neuen menschlichen Individualität. Die Fortpflanzung besteht in der Erzeugung einer Kopie des weiblichen Ätherleibes; dadurch, daß er durch die Befruchtung in einer gewissen Beziehung verhärtet wird, abgetötet, wird er zugleich individualisiert. Und in dem abgetöteten Ätherleib liegt die Formkraft verborgen, die den neuen physischen Menschen hervorbringt. So rücken zusammen Befruchtung und Fortpflanzung. Wir sehen also, daß zweierlei Befruchtungen stattfinden: unten die physische, menschliche Befruchtung, und oben die Befruchtung des Urbildes durch das eigene Karma. Schon vom achtzehnten bis einundzwanzigsten Tage an, sagten wir, arbeitet das Ich an dem Embryo; aber erst viel später, nach sechs Monaten, arbeiten an dem Embryo andere Kräfte mit, die wir die Kräfte nennen können, die das Karmische des Menschen bedingen. Wir können es so ausdrücken, daß wir sagen: da greift jenes Gewebe ein, das aus Karma gewoben ist. Nach und nach greifen diese Kräfte ein. - Nun gibt es aber auch hier Ausnahmen, so daß in späterer Zeit eine Auswechslung des Ich eintreten kann. Darüber wollen wir später noch sprechen. 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