{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 121/1910-06-12_02/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If you now pass further over to Asia, you find there in a similar manner something we might describe as Venus forces, as an abnormal development of the Spirits of Form. These Venus forces operate by attacking principally that which we call the reflection of the astral body, the nervous system. They operate however in a peculiar way, and indeed not directly as Venus-spirits upon the nervous system. For the nervous system can be affected in two indirect ways; one way is through the respiration. When the breathing is specially worked upon, these activities establish themselves in man's respiratory and nervous system, and give it a definite form. This indirect way is selected by the abnormal Spirits of Form whom we may call Venus Beings, in the Malay race, in the yellow tinted races of Southern Asia, and towards the Malay Archipelago. Just as the glandular type of man is spread over the land of Ethiopia, so over these parts of Malaya there is spread the type of man in whom the abnormal Spirits of Form work upon the nervous system indirectly through the respiratory system. There the nervous system is worked upon indirectly through the respiratory system. In the nervous system is brewed that which, with special modifications, produces the more or less yellow-colored part of humanity. The transformation there brought about, certainly expresses itself more in that part of the nervous system which we sum up in the expression ‘Solar Plexus’, therefore not really in the higher nervous system but in that mysterious part of the nervous system which runs in two strands parallel with the spinal marrow and spreads out in various directions. This part of the nervous system, therefore, is worked upon indirectly through the respiratory system, this part which in our sense does not yet belong to the higher mental activity. These Venus-forces which work in this race, seethe deep down in the unconscious organism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"Planetary Spirits and the Formation of Human Races","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Diesen Umweg wählen sich die abnormen Geister der Form, die wir Venuswesen nennen können, eben in der malayischen Rasse, in den gelbschattierten Rassen von Südasien und nach den Inseln des malayischen Gebietes hin. Da ist ausgebreitet, so wie über das äthiopische Gebiet die Drüsenmenschheit, über diese Fläche die Menschheit, bei der die abnormen Geister der Form auf dem Umwege durch das Atmungssystem auf das Nervensystem wirken. Im Nervensystem wird auf dem Umwege über das Atmungssystem gewirkt. Im Nervensystem wird ausgekocht das, was mit besonderen Modifikationen die mehr oder weniger gelbgefärbte Menschheit gibt. Die Umwandlung, welche da bewirkt wird, drückt sich allerdings mehr in jenem Nervensystem aus, das wir mit dem Ausdruck Sonnengeflecht zusammenfassen, also nicht eigentlich in dem höheren Nervensystem, sondern in jenem geheimnisvollen Teile des Nervensystems, der in zwei Strängen parallel dem Rückenmark läuft und sich in der verschiedensten Weise ausbreitet. Es wird also in diesem Teile des Nervensystems auf dem Umwege durch das Atmungssystem gewirkt, der in unserem Sinne noch nicht zu der höheren geistigen Tätigkeit gehört. 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