{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 112/1909-06-26/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The astral body and the ego appear, to be sure, as the highest and most intimate principles of man's nature, but by no means do they prove to be the most perfect. Even to superficial observation the physical body is more perfect than the astral body. Two years ago I pointed out here[^1] that the more closely we examine man's physical body, the more admirable it appears in its entire structure. Not only does the marvel of the human heart or the human brain when examined anatomically satisfy the mind's acute, intellectual thirst for knowledge, but whoever approaches these with his soul feels an aesthetic and moral uplift when he realizes how sublime and wise are the provisions made in this physical body. The astral body is as yet less advanced. It is the bearer of joy and sorrow, of impulses, desires, indulgence, and so forth; and we must admit that in order to satisfy his desires man turns to all sorts of things hardly calculated to further the wise and ingenious workings of the heart or the brain. His craving for enjoyment leads him to seek satisfaction in things like coffee, that are poison for the heart, thereby proving the astral body's craving for pleasures that harm the wisely contrived human heart; yet for decades the heart withstands such poisons consumed by man as a result of his astral body's craving for enjoyment.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. The Metamorphoses of the Earth","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-06-26","location":null,"word_count":234,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-06-26/p008","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Samuel and Loni Lockwood","identified_edition":"AP1948","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA112/English/AP1948/19090626p02.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. 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An dem Wunderbau des menschlichen Herzens und des menschlichen Gehirnes kann nicht nur der Verstand sein raffiniertes intellektuelles Erkenntnisbedürfnis befriedigen, wenn er sie anatomisch untersucht, sondern derjenige, der mit seiner Seele an sie herangeht, empfindet sein ästhetisches und moralisches Gefühl gehoben, wenn er sich sagen kann, welche erhabenen, weisheitsvollen Einrichtungen in diesem physischen Leibe sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-26/p012"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-26/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"So weit ist der astralische Leib heute noch nicht. Er ist der Träger von Lust und Leid, Trieben, Begierden und Genüssen und so weiter, und wir müssen uns sagen, daß der Mensch in bezug auf seine Begierden zu allerlei Dingen in der Welt greift, die durchaus nicht dazu dienen, die weisheitsvollen und kunstvollen Einrichtungen des Herzens oder des Gehirnes zu fördern. Durch seine Genußsucht sucht sich der Mensch Befriedigung zu verschaffen durch Dinge, die, wie der Kaffee, Herzgifte oder ähnliches sind. Darin liefert er den Beweis, daß der astralische Leib Sehnsucht hat nach Genüssen, die zum Beispiel den weisheitsvollen Einrichtungen im menschlichen Herzen schädlich sind: Jahrzehnte hindurch hält das Herz stand gegen solche Herzgifte, die der Mensch aus der Genußsucht seines astralischen Leibes heraus zu sich nimmt. Daraus können Sie sehen, daß der physische Leib vollkommener ist als der astralische. Wenn auch in der Zukunft der astralische Leib einmal ungleich vollkommener sein wird, heute ist der physische Leib in seiner Entwickelung am vollkommensten. Das rührt davon her, daß der physische Leib in der Tat das älteste ist unter den Gliedern der menschlichen Natur. 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