{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 122/1910-08-22/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now let us consider the nature of the earth element. We know well by now that there was no question of such an earth condition during the Saturn, Sun or Moon evolutions. We know that evolution had to wait, we know that it was not until the time of our own planetary existence that the earth element could be added to the warmth of Saturn, to the aeriform element of the Sun, and to the water element of the Moon. We know that each advance in evolution can only take place through the work of spiritual Beings. To include what we today call our physical body, the lowest member of our human being, and to give it its place in this elemental existence, we may say that from the first rudiments which it developed on Saturn it too has struggled through all these conditions. Thus we have in our own outer physical bodies something of which we can say that it has passed through an existence in pure warmth, an existence as a body of air, an existence as a body of water, and has risen to an earth existence. We know too who were the Beings on Saturn who participated in the first stages of the work on the human physical body. You will remember that I said in *Occult Science*—and I have frequently said it elsewhere—that to begin with, certain spiritual Beings worked on Saturn who had passed through their lower stages of evolution in a long distant past, and who were already so far advanced that they were able to sacrifice their own corporeality to supply the foundation, the basic substance for Saturn. In the order of the hierarchies these spiritual Beings are none other than those whom we call the Spirits of Will. Into the substance thus provided, which had been offered as a sacrifice by the Spirits of Will, the other hierarchies then worked. Into this substance the Spirits of Personality worked, and imprinted in it their own “humanity.” It was this will-substance which worked in Saturn as the warmth element, and it was in this that the first rudiments of the human physical body were formed.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Elementary Existence and the Spiritual Beings behind it. 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Von dem, was wir heute den physischen Leib nennen, das niederste Glied unserer menschlichen Wesenheit, dürfen wir sagen, wenn wir diesen physischen Leib ganz hineinstellen in das elementarische Dasein, daß er sich selbst durchgerungen hat von seiner ersten Anlage, die er auf dem alten Saturn entwickelt hat, aus dem Wärmezustand, durch den sonnenartigen Luftzustand, durch den mondartigen Wasserzustand und herangeschritten ist bis zu dem gegenwärtigen Erdenzustand. Wir haben also in unserem eigenen äußeren physischen Leib etwas, von dem wir sagen können, es hat durchschritten ein Dasein im bloßen Wärmeweben, ein Dasein als luftartiger Leib, ein Dasein als wässeriger Leib und ist aufgestiegen bis zum erdenhaften Dasein. — Wir kennen auch die Wesenheiten, welche an der alten Saturnarbeit, an dem ersten Entwickelungszustand des physischen Menschenleibes, beteiligt waren. Erinnern Sie sich an das, was Sie in meiner «Geheimwissenschaft» dargestellt finden, was auch sonst immer gesagt worden ist: Auf dem alten Saturn wirkten zunächst gewisse geistige Wesenheiten, welche ihre untergeordneten Entwickelungsstufen in einer urfernen Vergangenheit durchgemacht haben und die so weit schon waren während des alten Saturndaseins, daß sie gleichsam ihre eigene Leiblichkeit opfern konnten, hinopfern konnten, um das Grundmaterial, die Grundsubstanz abzugeben für den alten Saturn. Diese geistigen Wesenheiten sind ja in der Ordnung der Hierarchien keine anderen als diejenigen, die wir bezeichnen als die Geister des Willens. Was so als Grundsubstanz vorhanden war, was hingeopfert haben diese Geister des Willens, in das arbeiteten dann hinein die anderen geistigen Wesenheiten, die anderen Hierarchien; in das arbeiteten auch sich selber hinein die Geister der Persönlichkeit, die in dieser Willensmaterie, wenn ich so sagen darf, ausprägten ihre eigene Menschlichkeit. Und diese Willenssubstanz war es auch, die als Wärmeelement im alten Saturndasein wirkte und in der die erste Anlage zum physischen Menschenleib gebildet worden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":386,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/122/1910-08-22/p006"}],"english":["GA 122/1910-08-22/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":386,"en_words":362,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 122/1910-08-22/p006"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5876,"original_word_count":6153,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy Lenn and Owen Barfield","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Genesis","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA122/English/RSP1982/19100822p01.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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