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If we were to look back into the fourth or fifth millennium of ancient Egyptian civilisation and observe the men of that epoch, we should see that the interconnections between the physical body, etheric body and astral body were far looser than they are in men today. In those times the astral body and the etheric body were far less firmly linked with the physical body. The characteristic tendency of our present phase of evolution is precisely that the astral body and etheric body try to be connected more and more firmly with the physical body. This is very significant, for as evolution advances and the astral body and the etheric body of man tend to chain themselves more closely to the physical body, man is no longer able to influence his physical body from his soul to the extent that was possible in ancient times when the astral and etheric bodies were freer and the laws of the physical body did not, therefore, work into them as forcefully as they do today. When, in those times, a feeling arose in a man, or some idea came to him, the force of this feeling or idea spread quickly into the astral and etheric bodies, and from there—because the man had mastery over these members—he was able, from his soul, to be master of his physical body. This possibility of mastering the physical body from the soul is constantly becoming less, because the astral body and the etheric body are entrenching themselves more and more firmly in the physical body. But this has still another consequence, namely, that in the course of the ages, man's natural constitution makes him less and less accessible to those forces and powers which work down upon him from the spiritual world. Hence in the man of olden times we find a kind of natural inspiration and imagination, an ancient clairvoyance, due to the greatest freedom of the etheric body and the astral body; and into these bodies with their greater freedom there streamed the forces of the superhuman Hierarchies. 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If we were to go far, far back, for example to the humanity of ancient Egypt, we should find that in accordance with a man's constitution of soul, when, let us say, he was stirred by some passion or impulse, this worked on into the astral and etheric bodies which then imprinted the passions and impulses in the physical body itself. Hence we should find that in very early epochs of Egyptian culture, for example—but actually in all such culture-epochs—the external appearance of a man was a kind of imprint of his soul. What was astir in the soul could be read from his very countenance, his physiognomy. In a certain respect there was complete analogy between the physical exterior and the life of soul. Then came the period of Greco-Latin civilisation, the period of that remarkable people who stand, as it were, at the middle point of the Post-Atlantean epoch. These men of Greece stand at the middle point in such a way that the forces of the spiritual world still stream universally to the soul and express themselves in the bodily nature. Hence that wonderful unison in the Greeks between the beauty of the external bodily structure and the beauty of the soul. Because this soul in its beauty was free from the physical body it was able to open itself to a higher world, to the Hierarchies; and the Hierarchies sent their forces into it. This came to expression in the physical body and thereby the whole physical body of the Greek became the expression of the beauty of the soul. 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The important fact to bear in mind is that man's physical body will make still greater demands in the future, will chain the astral and etheric bodies to itself, and only by consciously approaching the spiritual world, by absorbing the ideas, concepts and feelings of the spiritual world as we are now beginning to do in the spiritual Movements, will man be able himself to develop those strong forces which were formerly poured by the Hierarchies into his physical and etheric bodies. And if, as he advances into the future, man wishes to retain mastery over his physical body, he will be able to do so only by consciously drawing forces from the spiritual world wherewith to overcome the opposing force of the etheric body that is tied to the physical body. Thus we may say: In ancient, pre-Christian times, the possibility of working upon the physical body was given to men naturally; in the future, this possibility will be given to them only if they themselves do something towards it. But for this reason a difference will become more and more perceptible in humanity of the future between those who oppose spiritual teaching and knowledge and those who approach this knowledge eagerly and willingly, as if by instinct. We know that the latter are still only a tiny handful today but in the future this distinction will inevitably come about between people who out of hatred and aversion oppose spiritual knowledge with increasing hostility, and those who impelled to begin with by a certain instinct, willingly ally themselves with spiritual Movements. Those human beings who oppose spiritual knowledge will show this more and more distinctly in their very countenances; they will show that they have no power over their behaviour, over their physical nature, that their physical nature is in every respect stronger than themselves. 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In the men of antiquity, let us say in the Egyptians living four or five thousand years before the Christian era, we should find that in the phase of its development directly following birth, the child did not look completely human but as if an angel had entered into it, as if it had received from the spiritual world those pliable bodily forms in which the spiritual was expressing itself directly in the physical. And the older the child grew, the more human it became, developing downwards, as it were, to manhood.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":119,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/127/1911-02-11/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-02-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":245,"en_words":270,"ratio":1.1,"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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And the more deeply he acquaints himself with spiritual ideas, the more will his form and figure acquire a certain characteristic: the features that were at first blurred and indistinct, even ugly, in the child, will change in such a way that the facial features themselves will tell us that they are the expression of ideas and concepts from the spiritual world. And this will be the case more and more.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/127/1911-02-11/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-02-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":245,"en_words":270,"ratio":1.1,"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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In actual fact, the material for the humanity that is to advance towards the future is drawn from the European peoples, whereas the material for the humanity which possessed the ancient mastery over the physical body, originated in the south. Thus we find that in art, Greek art, expression is given to the beautiful human being. The Greeks gave the stamp of *human* beauty even to the figures of his gods; and this same trait continued into the time of the Renaissance in Southern Europe. Compare one of Raphael's Madonnas with a northern Madonna and you will see that art anticipates what actually comes to pass. The echoes of Greek artistic genius gave the impression of beauty achieved without effort. In the immediate future, however, man will be dependent upon inner strength of his own, upon the vigour and activity of his own life of soul. We are approaching this age and we must connect this fact with the other, namely, that in the different epochs of the evolution of humanity, these several members of man's being are differently inter-related. In earlier times the connection between them was much looser, but the lower members are now striving all the time to be knit more and more closely together. Many things that in our time may be very obvious to an attentive observer of life are connected with a fact such as this. For example: It is simply impossible for certain people to form any adequate conceptions even of the most patent facts of the world and of life. There are large numbers of men today whose ideas and concepts have been so firmly drilled into them that it is a sheer impossibility for them to take in a single new idea or concept. Why is this? An etheric body that is less firmly knit to the physical body can always absorb new ideas, because it is elastic; an etheric body that is firmly knit to the physical body absorbs a certain number of concepts, and definite forms have thus been imprinted in the physical body which it, in turn, forces upon the etheric body. And so it comes about that many of those in cultured and learned circles today are no longer capable in later life of changing what they have imprinted into their brains, and their thinking is stiff, rigid, inelastic. Their etheric body cannot get free, can no longer emancipate itself from the physical body. In such circumstances it is only the strength and power and forcefulness of spiritual concepts and ideas that can make it possible for a man to overcome this tendency. 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The gist of the matter can be made clear by a comparison.—Look at a plant that is permeated with moisture and is therefore fresh and green. Think of the etheric body of man as being the moisture and his physical body as the other part of the plant. I said that this physical body of man becomes powerful by drawing the etheric body and also the astral body to itself. By this means it acquires excessive strength, and the consequence is that the etheric and astral bodies become impotent, just as when the plant is deprived of moisture it dries up and lignifies, becomes woody. The human physical body gradually begins to lignify because the forces of the etheric and astral bodies are impoverished. A brain that lignifies can absorb only few new ideas and concepts, because it wants to remain static with those it has already acquired. 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Nun könnte es vielen scheinen, als ob wir, wenn wir nun wissen: der Mensch besteht aus diesen Wesensgliedern — dann schon sozusagen auch die Wesenheit des Menschen einigermaßen erfaßt hätten. Und viele glauben in der Tat, das Wesentlichste vom Menschen zu wissen, wenn sie nun diese verschiedenen menschlichen Wesensglieder aufzählen können, allenfalls noch anzugeben wissen, wie sich das eine oder andere verhält beim Durchgang durch verschiedene Verkörperungen hindurch. In Wirklichkeit ist es auf der einen Seite durchaus notwendig, daß man bei der Betrachtung des Menschen von diesen Wesensgliedern ausgeht, aber dann muß man sichklarmachen, daß man damit im Grundegenommen nur etwas sehr Vorläufiges getan hat, wenn man sich damit bekanntgemacht hat. Denn es kommt durchaus nicht bloß darauf an, daß der Mensch nun aus diesen sieben oder neun Gliedern besteht, sondern es kommt auf das Verhältnis dieser verschiedenen Wesensglieder des Menschen an, wie das eine oder andere wiederum zu dem einen oder anderen steht. Nun ist dieses Verhältnis aber durchaus nicht etwa für alle Menschen und alle Zeiten gleich, sondern es ist verschieden, und vor allen Dingen ändert sich im Verlauf der Zeiten der menschlichen Entwickelung dieses Verhältnis der Glieder zueinander, so daß wir sagen können: Wenn wir auf die Menschheit blicken in einem Zeitraum, der vier bis fünftausend Jahre hinter uns liegt, so waren diese Glieder anders miteinander verbunden als heute, und in der Zukunft werden sie ganz anders miteinander verbunden sein. Die Art der Zusammenfügung, das Verhältnis der Wesensglieder, das ändert sich im Laufe der Zeit. Das Immer-wieder-Erscheinen des Menschen im Verlauf seiner Inkarnationen hat dadurch seinen bedeutungsvollen Sinn, daß, während der Mensch sozusagen durchmacht seine eigene individuelle Entwickelung von Verkörperung zu Verkörperung, im Verlauf der Erdenentwickelung dieser Komplex von physischem Leib, Ätherleib, astralischem Leib seine Entwickelung durchmacht in bezug auf das Verhältnis dieser Glieder, so daß der Mensch mit jeder neuen Verkörperung gewissermafßen auf eine neue Zusammensetzung stößt. — Dadurch erlebt der Mensch immer Neues, daß er auf eine solche verschiedene Zusammenfügung stößt. Wir brauchen nur in bezug auf einen Punkt zunächst alte Zeiten mit unserer Zeit zu vergleichen und werden dann einen Einblick gewinnen können in das, was gemeint ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":385,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p002"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p003","passage_number":3,"text":"Wenn wir zurückblickten in das 4. und 5. Jahrtausend, in die ägyptische Kultur, und uns die Menschen betrachteten, so würden wir sehen, daß bei diesen Menschen ein viel loseres Verhältnis von physischem Leib, Ätherleib, Astralleib vorhanden war, als es heute der Fall ist. Es waren sozusagen der Astralleib und Ätherleib loser nur an den physischen Leib gekettet in diesen alten Zeiten, als das heute der Fall ist, und gerade das ist die Tendenz unserer heutigen Entwickelung, daß der Astral- und Ätherleib sich immer dichter und dichter, fester und fester mit dem physischen Leib des Menschen verbinden wollen. Das ist sehr bedeutsam, denn indem mit fortschreitender menschlicher Entwickelung in die Zukunft hinein der Astralleib und Ätherleib die Tendenz haben, immer mehr sich an den physischen Leib zu ketten, hat der Mensch von seiner Seele aus nicht mehr in derselben Art Einfluß auf seinen physischen Leib, wie er das in alten Zeiten hatte. In alten Zeiten waren der Astralleib und der Ätherleib freier, in sie wirkten nicht so energisch hinein die Gesetze des physischen Leibes wie heute. Wenn der Mensch ein Gefühl faßte in alten Zeiten, irgendeine Idee, so setzte sich die Kraft dieses Gefühls, dieser Idee in den Astralleib und Ätherleib hinein rasch fort, und von da aus war der Mensch in der Lage, weil er Herr war seines Äther- und Astralleibes, auch wiederum von der Seele aus den physischen Leib zu beherrschen. Diese Möglichkeit, von der Seele aus den physischen Leib zu beherrschen, nimmt immer mehr ab, weil sich der Astral- und Atherleib immer mehr hineinsetzen in den physischen Leib. Dies hat aber eine andere Folge noch. Es hat die Folge, daß der Mensch im Laufe der Zeiten vermöge seiner natürlichen Beschaffenheit immer unzugänglicher wird denjenigen Kräften und Mächten, die aus der geistigen Welt auf ihn herunterwirken. Deshalb haben wir in alten Zeiten eine gleichsam natürliche Inspiration und Imagination, ein altes Hellsehen, weil Ätherleib und Astralleib freier waren bei den Menschen der alten Zeiten. In diesen freien Astralleib und freien Ätherleib strömten die Kräfte der übermenschlichen Hierarchien ein, konnten in den Ätherleib und Astralleib hineinwirken. Nun entreißt im Verlauf des Menschheitsprozesses der physische Leib dem eigentlichen Inneren des Menschen den Äther- und Astralleib, nimmt sie für sich in Anspruch, und die Folge ist, daß der direkte Einfluß aus den spirituellen Welten immer geringer wird, immer weniger und weniger hereingelangen kann in den Ätherleib und Astralleib des Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":397,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p003"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Das können wir selbst verfolgen in der äußeren Gestaltung des Menschen. Wenn wir weit, weit zurückgehen würden in der alten, sagen wir ägyptischen Menschheit, würden wir finden: So wie der Mensch beschaffen war in seiner Seele, etwa wenn er diese oder jene Leidenschaften oder Triebe hatte, wirkte das fort in den Astralleib und Ätherleib hinein, und dieser Astralleib und Ätherleib drückten dann die Triebe und Leidenschaften im physischen Leib ab. Daher würden wir finden, daß in sehr alten Zeiten der ägyptischen Kultur, aber überhaupt in den Zeiten der alten Kulturen das Äußere des Menschen eine Art Abdruck seiner Seele war. Man konnte an der Stirne lesen, in der Physiognomie lesen, was in der Seele lebte. Es war eine Art von voller Analogie zwischen dem äußeren Physischen und dem Seelischen. Dann kam die Zeit der griechisch-lateinischen Kultur, kam dieses merkwürdige, wie in der Mitte der nachatlantischen Zeit stehende Griechenvolk. Das steht so in der Mitte, daß noch im allgemeinen die Kräfte der spirituellen Welt zur Seele strömen und sich ausdrücken in der Körperlichkeit. Daher jener merkwürdige Einklang bei den Griechen zwischen der äußeren Körperlichkeit, der Schönheit der äußeren Körperlichkeit und der Schönheit der Seele. Diese schöne Seele war, weil sie frei war vom physischen Leib, dadurch fähig sich zu öffnen nach oben, nach den Hierarchien. Die Hierarchien sandten ihre Kräfte herein. Dies drückte sich aus im physischen Leib, und dadurch wurde der ganze physische Leib des Griechen zum Ausdruck der schönen Seele. So finden wir, daß in hohem Maße ein Übermenschliches sich ausdrückte im menschlichen Körper in der griechischen Zeit, ein Allgemein-Menschliches.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":261,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p004"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"In der Zukunft nun - und das ist das Wichtige, daß wir uns das in die Seele schreiben — wird das ganz anders werden. In der Zukunft wird der physische Leib des Menschen anspruchsvoller, kettet Astralund Ätherleib an sich, und nur dadurch, daß der Mensch bewußt herantritt an die spirituelle Welt, aufnimmt die Ideen, Begriffe, Gefühle der spirituellen Welt, wie wir jetzt beginnen in den spirituellen Bewegungen, kann er selber jene starken Kräfte entwickeln, welche ihm früher von den Hierarchien hereingegossen worden sind in den physischen und Ätherleib. Und der Mensch kann gegen die Zukunft hin, wenn er noch Herr bleiben will seines physischen Leibes, starke Kräfte in bewußter Weise aus der spirituellen Welt heraus beziehen, um die widerstrebenden Kraftmassen des Ätherleibes zu überwinden, der an den physischen Leib gebunden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p005"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Wir können also sagen: In alten vorchristlichen Zeiten wurde den Menschen die Möglichkeit von selbst gegeben, in den physischen Leib hineinzuwirken. In der Zukunft wird den Menschen diese Möglichkeit nur gegeben werden, wenn sie etwas dazu tun. - Dadurch aber wird in der Zukunft der Menschheit immer mehr zutage treten, daß ein Unterschied deutlich zwischen den Menschen auftreten wird, die sich sträuben gegen die spirituellen Lehren und Erkenntnisse, und solchen, die gerne und willig und instinktgemäß herankommen an die spirituellen Erkenntnisse. Wir wissen, daß die letzteren heute noch ein kleines Häuflein bilden. Aber diese Scheidung wird sich vollziehen zwischen solchen Menschen, die immer mehr sich sträuben werden aus Haß und Abneigung gegen das Spirituelle, und solchen, die willig, durch einen gewissen Instinkt zunächst getrieben, an die spirituellen Bewegungen herankommen. Diejenigen Menschen, die sich sträuben, werden das immer mehr in ihrem Antlitz zeigen. Sie werden zeigen, daß sie keine Gewalt haben über ihre Gesten, über ihr Physisches, daß ihr Physisches überall stärker ist als sie selber. Diejenigen, die an die spirituellen Lehren herankommen, werden zeigen, daß sie starke Kräfte bekommen, um das widerstrebende Physische zu überwinden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p006"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Das wird sich so ausdrücken, daß die Menschen in bezug auf ihre äußere Bildung und Entwickelung ganz andere Dinge zeigen werden als in alten Zeiten. Zurückgehend noch einmal in alte Zeiten, können wir sagen: Wenn wir zu den Ägyptern hinaufsehen, wie sie vier- bis fünftausend Jahre vor unserer Zeitrechnung waren, dann können wir die Kindheitsentwickelung nach der Geburt so sehen, daß das Kind gar nicht recht menschlich aussah. Es sah aus, wie wenn ein Engel hineingefahren wäre, wie wenn es aus der spirituellen Welt heraus seine weichen, das Spirituelle im Physischen unmittelbar ausdrückenden Körperformen erhalten hätte. Und je mehr es heranwuchs, desto mehr wurde es menschlich. Es entwickelte sich herunter zum Menschentum. Ein großer Gleichklang zwischen der ersten und späteren Menschheit war bei den Griechen. Da zeigte sich schon im ersten Kindheitsalter der Abdruck des Allgemein-Menschlichen, und der blieb dann; daher man das Griechenvolk mit Recht als eine Art kindlichen Volkes ansieht. In der Zukunft wird immer mehr die Tatsache auftreten, daß der Mensch und gerade der bedeutendste Mensch als kleines Kind nach der Geburt häßlich ist, richtig häßlich ist im Sinne des griechischen Schönheitsideals. Aber je mehr der Mensch sich bekanntmacht mit spirituellen Ideen, desto mehr wird seine Gestalt und Figur etwas Charakteristisches bekommen, wird das, was zuerst verschwommene, unbestimmte, ja häßliche Züge sind, beim Kind sich umwandeln, daß man den Gesichtszügen anmerken wird: sie sind der Ausdruck der Ideen und Begriffe aus der spirituellen Welt. Das wird immer mehr so der Fall sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p007"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Dasjenige, was in der äußeren Menschheit auftritt, zeigt sich manchmal wie zusammengeschoben in der Kunst. In der Tat ist das Material zu derjenigen Menschheit, die der Zukunft entgegengehen soll, sozusagen aus den europäischen Völkermassen heraus genommen, während das Material zu der Menschheit, welche die alte Herrschaft über den physischen Leib gehabt hat, dem Süden entsprang. So haben wir auch in der Kunst, in der griechischen Kunst den Ausdruck des allgemeinen schönen Menschen. Selbst seinen Göttergestalten prägt der Grieche den Ausdruck des schönen Menschen auf, und das setzt sich bis in die Renaissance des europäischen Südens hinein fort. Vergleichen Sie eine Madonna von Raffael dagegen mit einer des Nordens, so werden Sie sehen, daß die Kunst vorausnimmt, was wirklich eintritt. Da haben Sie die mehr charakteristische Gestalt, das Charakteristische überwiegt. Die Nachklänge des griechischen Künstlertums wirkten so, wie wenn es das Schöne ohne sein Zutun hätte. Ein starkes Inneres, ein kraftvolles seelisches Inneres ist das, worauf die Menschheit in der nächsten Zukunft angewiesen sein wird. Solch einem Zeitalter gehen wir entgegen, und gerade diese Tatsache müssen wir in Zusammenhang bringen mit der anderen, daß diese verschiedenen Wesensglieder des Menschen zu den verschiedenen Zeiten der Menschheitsentwickelung einen verschiedenen Zusammenhang haben. Sie waren früher lockerer, und es streben immer mehr die unteren Glieder, dicht aneinander zu kommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":214,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p008"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Nun hängt mit einer solchen Tatsache manches zusammen, was in unserer Zeit dem aufmerksamen Lebensbeobachter sehr greifbar entgegentreten kann, zum Beispiel die Unmöglichkeit gewisser Menschen, irgendwie nur noch den Tatsachen der Welt angemessene Begriffe zu fassen. Es gibt heute schon zahlreiche Menschen, welche die Begriffe, die ihnen eingedrillt worden sind, so fest haben, daß es ihnen rein unmöglich ist, später noch einen neuen Begriff aufzunehmen. Woher kommt das? Ein Ätherleib, welcher wenig stark verknüpft ist mit dem physischen Leib, kann immer mehr neue Begriffe aufnehmen, weil er elastisch ist. Ein Ätherleib, der fest mit dem physischen Leib verbunden ist, lernt eine gewisse Summe von Begriffen, dann hat der physische Leib eine bestimmte Form erhalten, die zwingt er dem Ätherleib auf. Und so kommt es, daß viele Persönlichkeiten in unseren gebildeten und gelehrten Kreisen heute das, was sie eingeprägt haben dem Gehirn, in späteren Lebensaltern nicht mehr ändern können und steif und unelastisch sind in bezug auf ihre Begriffe. Ihr Ätherleib kann nicht mehr heraus, wird nicht mehr losgelassen vom physischen Leib. Es ist dann nur die Stärke und Gewalt und Eindringlichkeit der spirituellen Begriffe und Ideen, die es möglich machen, daß der Mensch diese Tendenz überwindet. Denn der Mensch muß durch sich hier eine kosmische Tendenz überwinden. Das ist gerade die Mission des Menschen, daß er durch sich eine kosmische Tendenz überwinder. Man kann im wesentlichen durch einen Vergleich die Sache klarmachen. Stellen Sie sich einfach eine Pflanze vor, die durchzogen ist von Flüssigkeit und dadurch frisch und grün ist. Stellen Sie sich unter der Feuchtigkeit den Ätherleib vor und unter dem anderen den physischen Leib des Menschen. Dieser physische Leib des Menschen wird mächtig, sagte ich, dadurch daß er den Ätherleib an sich zieht und auch den Astralleib an sich zieht; er bekommt Übermacht. Dadurch werden Äther- und Astralleb ohnmächtig, wie wenn der Pflanze Feuchtigkeit entzogen wird und sie trocken wird, verholzt. Der physische Leib des Menschen beginnt nach und nach zu verholzen, weil die Kräfte des Ätherleibes und Astralleibes verarmen. Ein Gehirn, welches also verholzt, kann nur wenig Begriffe aufnehmen, weil es bei seinen Begriffen bleiben will. Wir müssen uns unseren Astralleib und Ätherleib beleben durch Aufnahme von spirituellen Ideen und Begriffen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":364,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p009"}],"beads":[{"from":[2,3],"to":[2,3],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[5],"to":[5,6],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[6,7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[8,9],"to":[8,9],"confidence":"high"}],"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)."}}