{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 11/l09/p005-p007","extent":"range","passage_number":5,"through":7,"paragraph_count":3,"first_locus":"GA 11/l09/p005","last_locus":"GA 11/l09/p007","lang":"en","edition":"RSPI1959","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"ix. Beginning of the Present Earth—Extrusion of the Sun","date":null,"location":null,"alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["RSPI1959","TPS1911"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2154,"original_word_count":2135,"may_be_abridged":false},"site_heading":null,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l09/p005-p007","json_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l09/p005-p007.json","lecture_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l09#p005","word_count":801,"quote_safe":true,"passages":[{"passage_number":5,"locus":"GA 11/l09/p005","text":"The astral human beings combine with this ether. They impress their nature upon this ether, in order that it can become a likeness of the astral human entity. In this initial condition we are dealing with an ether earth which really consists only of these ether men, which is only a conglomerate of them. Actually the astral body or the soul of man is for the most part still *outside* the ether body and organizes it from without. To the scientist of the spirit, the earth appears approximately as follows. It is a sphere which in turn is composed of innumerable small ether spheres—the ether men—and is surrounded by an astral envelope just as the present earth is surrounded by an envelope of air. It is in this astral envelope (atmosphere) that the astral men live and whence they act upon their ether likenesses. The astral human souls create organs in their ether likenesses and produce a human ether life in them. Within the whole earth there exists only one condition of matter, the refined living ether. In theosophical books this first humanity is called the first (the Polarean) root race.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l09/p005","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l08","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 11/l08/p002","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l08/p002"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 11/l08/p002"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":348,"en_words":366,"ratio":1.05,"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."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 11/l08/p002"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","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."}},{"passage_number":6,"locus":"GA 11/l09/p006","text":"The further development of earth takes place in such that from the *one* condition of matter there develop *two*. A denser substantiality is secreted, so to speak, and leaves a thinner one behind. The denser substantiality resembles our present air; the thinner one is that which causes chemical elements to develop from previously undifferentiated substance. Along with these, a remainder of the previous substantiality, the living ether, continues to exist. Only a part of it is transformed into the so-called material conditions. We now are dealing with three substances within the physical earth. While the astral human beings in the envelope of earth previously acted only upon one kind of substantiality, they must now act upon three. They act upon them in the following way: That which has become airlike at first resists their activity. It does not accept everything which is rudimentarily present in the complete astral men. As a consequence, astral humanity must divide itself into two groups. One group works on the air-like substantiality and creates in it a likeness of itself. The other group can do more. It can work on the two other substantialities; it can create a likeness of itself which consists of the living ether *and* of the other kind of ether which brings the elementary chemical substances into being. This ether will here be called the chemical ether. This second group of astral men has acquired its higher capacity, however, only by separating from itself a part of the astral nature—the first group—and condemning it to a lower kind of labor. Had it retained within itself the forces which accomplish this lower labor, it could not have risen higher itself. here we are dealing with a process which consists in the development of the higher at the expense of something else, which is separated from it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":304,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l09/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l08","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 11/l08/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l08/p003"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 11/l08/p003"],"length_check":{"de_words":301,"en_words":304,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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The astral man, who has now ascended higher, produces a physical likeness of himself which consists of the two kinds of matter, of the life ether and of the chemical ether. One thus deals with a man who consists of the astral body and is working himself into an ether body which in turn consists of two kinds of ether: life ether and chemical ether. Through the life ether this physical likeness of man is endowed with the capacity to reproduce itself, to cause beings of its own kind to emerge from it. Through the chemical ether it develops certain forces which are similar to the present forces of chemical attraction and repulsion. Thereby this likeness of man is in a position to attract certain substances from the environment and to combine them with itself, secreting them again later by means of the repelling forces. These substances, of course, can only be taken from the animal realm described above, and from the realm of man. This constitutes a beginning of nutrition. Thus these first likenesses of man were eaters of animals and of men.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l09/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"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. 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Dieser hat in sich die Kräfte enthalten, welche zu der heutigen Erde führten. Diese Kräfte sind durch die früheren Zustände erworben worden. Diesen Erdenkeim hat man sich aber *nicht* als einen dichtstofflichen wie denjenigen einer Pflanze vorzustellen. Er war vielmehr seelischer Natur. Er bestand aus jenem feinen, bildsamen, beweglichen Stoff, den man in der okkultistischen Literatur den «astralen» nennt. — In diesem Astralkeim der Erde sind zunächst *nur* menschliche Anlagen. Es sind die Anlagen zu den späteren Menschenseelen. Alles, was sonst schon in früheren Zuständen in mineralischer, pflanzlicher, tierischer Natur vorhanden war, ist in diese menschlichen Anlagen aufgesogen, mit ihnen verschmolzen worden. Bevor also der Mensch die physische Erde betritt, ist er *Seele,* astralische Wesenheit. Als solche findet er sich auf der physischen Erde ein. Diese ist in einer äußerst feinen Stofflichkeit vorhanden, die man in der okkultistischen Literatur den *feinsten Äther* nennt. — Woher diese Äthererde stammt, kommt in den nächsten Aufsätzen zur Darstellung. Mit diesem Äther verbinden sich die astralischen Menschenwesen. Sie prägen ihre Wesenheit diesem Äther gleichsam ein, so daß er ein Abbild der astralischen Menschenwesenheit wird. Man hat es also in diesem Anfangszustande mit einer Äthererde zu tun, die eigentlich nur aus diesen Äthermenschen besteht, die nur ein Konglomerat aus ihnen ist. Der Astralleib oder die Seele des Menschen ist eigentlich noch zum größten Teile *au)'er* dem Ätherleib und organisiert ihn von außen. Für den Geheimforscher nimmt sich diese Erde etwa folgendermaßen aus. Sie ist eine Kugel, die sich wieder aus unzähligen kleinen Ätherkugeln — den Äthermenschen — zusammensetzt, und ist von einer *astralen* Hülle umgeben, wie die gegenwärtige Erde von einer Lufthülle umgeben ist. In dieser astralen Hülle (Atmosphäre) leben die Astralmenschen und wirken von da aus auf ihre ätherischen Abbilder. Die astralen Menschenseelen schaffen in den Ätherabbildern Organe und bewirken in diesen ein menschliches Ätherleben. Es ist innerhalb der ganzen Erde nur *ein* Stoffzustand, eben der feine lebendige Äther, vorhanden. In theosophischen Büchern wird diese erste Menschheit die erste (polarische) Wurzelrasse genannt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":348,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l08/p002"},{"locus":"GA 11/l08/p003","passage_number":3,"text":"Die Weiterentwickelung der Erde geschieht nun so, daß sich aus dem *einen* Stoffzustand *zwei* bilden. Es scheidet sich gleichsam eine dichtere aus und läßt eine dünnere Stofflichkeit zurück. Die dichtere Stofflichkeit ist ähnlich unserer heutigen Luft; die dünnere ist gleich derjenigen, welche bewirkt, daß sich chemische Elemente aus der früheren ungeteilten Stofflichkeit herausbilden. Daneben bleibt ein Rest der früheren Stofflichkeit, des belebten Äthers, bestehen. Nur ein Teil desselben gliedert sich in die beiden genannten Stoffzustände. Man hat es also jetzt mit drei Stoffen innerhalb der physischen Erde zu tun. Während vorher die astralischen Menschenwesen in der Erdenhülle nur auf eine Stofflichkeit wirkten, haben sie jetzt auf drei zu wirken. Und sie wirken darauf in folgender Weise. Was luftartig geworden ist, leistet der Arbeit der Astralmenschen zunächst Widerstand. Es nimmt nicht alles an, was an Anlagen in den vollkommenen Astralmenschen enthalten ist. Die Folge davon ist, daß sich die astralische Menschheit in zwei Gruppen teilen muß. Die eine Gruppe ist eine solche, welche die luftförmige Stofflichkeit bearbeitet und darinnen ein Abbild von sich selbst schafft. Die andere Gruppe vermag mehr. Sie kann die beiden anderen Stofflichkeiten bearbeiten, sie kann von sich ein solches Abbild schaffen, daß dieses aus dem lebendigen Äther *und* der anderen die chemischen Elementarstoffe bewirkenden Ätherart besteht. Es soll diese Ätherart hier der chemische Äther genannt werden. Diese zweite Gruppe der Astralmenschen hat diese ihre höhere Fähigkeit aber nur dadurch erworben, daß sie einen Teil — die erste Gruppe — der astralischen Wesenheit von sich ausgeschieden und zu niedriger Arbeit verurteilt hat. Hätte sie die Kräfte in sich behalten, welche diese niedere Arbeit bewirkten, so hätte sie selbst nicht höher steigen können. Man hat es hier also mit einem Vorgang zu tun, der darin besteht, daß sich etwas Höheres auf Kosten eines andern entwickelt, das es aus sich ausscheidet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":301,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l08/p003"}],"beads":[{"from":[3,4,5],"to":[2],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[6],"to":[3],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers).","uncovered":[7]}}