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At this point we shall merely affirm in advance what will appear later as having a still more profound basis, that, in the case of man, we must designate the blood as an external instrument for the ego, for all that we denote as our innermost soul-centre, the ego; so that in the nerve-system we have an external instrument of the astral body, and in our blood an external instrument of the ego. 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The further you pursue this comparison—and it is given meanwhile only as a comparison—the more clearly you will be shown that a far-reaching similarity exists in the relations of the two archetypes, the ego and the astral body, to their respective images, the blood-system and the nerve-system. Now, of course, one may say at this point that blood is surely everywhere blood. At the same time, it undergoes a change in flowing through the organism; and consequently we can draw a parallel between these changes that take place in the blood and what goes on in the ego. But our ego is a unity. As far back as we can remember in our life between birth and death we can say: “This ego was always present, in our fifth year just as in our sixth year, yesterday just as to-day. It is the same ego.” And yet, if we now look into what this ego contains, we shall discover this fact: This ego that lives in me is filled with a sum-total of conceptions, sensations, feelings, etc., which are to be attributed to the astral body and which comes into contact with the ego. A year ago this ego was filled with a different content, yesterday it contained still another, and to-day its content is again different. Thus the ego, we see, comes into contact with the entire soul-content, streams through this entire soul-content. And, just as the blood streams through the whole organism and comes everywhere into contact with the differentiated nerve-system, so does the ego come together with the differentiated life of the soul, in conceptions, feelings, will-impulses and the like. Already, therefore, this merely comparative method of study shows us that there is a certain justification in looking upon the blood system as an image of the ego, and the nerve system as an image of the astral body, as higher, super-sensible members of the nature of man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":452,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-21/p027","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-03-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 128/1911-03-21/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/128/1911-03-21/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 128/1911-03-21/p018"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":569,"en_words":649,"ratio":1.14,"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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There are also such moments when the ego retires within itself and is given up to its pain and suffering, pleasure and happiness, inner feelings and so forth, when it permits to arise in the memory what it is not receiving at this moment directly through contact with the external world, but what it carries within itself. Thus, in this connection also, we find a parallel between the blood and the ego; for the blood, like a tablet, presents itself at one time to the outside world and at another time to the inner world; and we could accordingly represent this ego by a simple sketch [see earlier drawing] exactly as we have represented the blood. We can bring the external impressions which the ego receives, when we think of them as concepts, as soul-pictures in general, into the same sort of relation to the ego as that which we have brought about between our blood and the real external occurrences coming to us through the senses. 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So long as they affect the optic nerve, having for themselves an active instrument in the nerve-system, we are able to affirm that they have an effect upon the astral body. We may state that, at the moment when a connection takes place between the nerves and the blood, the parallel process which takes place in the soul is, that the manifold conceptions within the life of the soul come into connection with the ego. When, therefore, we consider this relationship between the nerves and the blood, we may represent by another sketch how that which streams in from outside through the nerves when we see an object, forms a certain connection with those courses of the blood which come into the neighbourhood of the optic nerve.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":170,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-21/p029","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSPC1951","book_title":"An Occult Physiology","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA128/English/RSPC1951/19110321p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Let us suppose for a moment, however, that we should artificially interrupt the connection between the nerve and the circulation of the blood, that is, that we should artificially put a man in such a condition that the activity of the nerve should be severed from the circulation of the blood, so that they could no longer act upon each other. We can indicate this by a diagram in which the two parts are shown more widely separated, so that a reciprocal action between the nerves and the blood can no longer take place. In this case the condition may be such that no impression can be made upon the nerve. Something of this sort can be brought about if, for example, the nerve is cut. If, indeed, it should come to pass by some means that no impression is made upon the nerve, then it is also not strange if the man himself is unable to experience anything especial through this nerve. But let us suppose that in spite of the interrupting of the connection between the nerve and the blood a certain impression is made upon the nerve. This can be brought to pass through an external experiment by stimulating the nerve by means of an electric current. Such external influence on the nerve does not, however, concern us here. But there is still another way of affecting the nerve under conditions in which it cannot act upon the course of the blood normally connected with it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":326,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-21/p032","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSPC1951","book_title":"An Occult Physiology","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA128/English/RSPC1951/19110321p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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For when man simply gives himself up to normal, external impressions, the natural connection between the nerve and the circulation is present; but if, in strict concentration upon his ego, he holds fast to what he obtains in a normal way, apart from all external impressions and apart from what the outside world brings about in the ego, he then has something in his soul which can have originated only in the consciousness and is the content of consciousness, and which makes a special demand upon the nerve and separates its activity then and there from its connection with the activity of the blood. The consequence of this is that, by means of such inner concentration, which actually breaks the connection between the nerve and the blood, that is, when it is so strong that the nerve is in a certain sense freed from its connection with the blood-system, the nerve is at the same time freed from that for which the blood is the external instrument, namely, from the ordinary experiences of the ego. And it is, indeed, a fact—this finds its complete experimental support through the inner experiences of that spiritual training designed to lead upward into the higher worlds—that as a result of such concentration the entire nerve-system is removed from the blood-system and from its ordinary tasks in connection with the ego. It then happens, as the particular consequence of this, that whereas the nerve-system had previously written its action upon the tablet of the blood, it now permits what it contains within itself as working power to return into itself, and does not permit it to reach the blood. It is, therefore, possible purely through processes of inner concentration, to separate the blood-system from the nerve-system, and thereby to cause that which, pictorially expressed, would otherwise have flowed into the ego, to course back again into the nerve-system.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":440,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-21/p033","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSPC1951","book_title":"An Occult Physiology","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA128/English/RSPC1951/19110321p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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He cannot then say “I” with respect to that which he calls his “Self,” in the same sense in which he had previously said “I” in his ordinary normal consciousness. It then seems to the man as if he had quite consciously lifted a portion of his real being out of himself, as if something which he does not ordinarily see, which is super-sensible and works in upon his nerves, does not now impress itself upon his blood-tablet or make any impression upon his ordinary ego. He feels himself lifted away from the entire blood-system, raised up, as it were, out of his organism; and he meets something different as a substitute for what he has experienced in the blood-system. Whereas the nerve-activity was previously imaged in the blood-system, it is now reflected back into itself. He is now living in something different; he feels himself in another ego, another Self, which before this could at best be merely divined. 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Beim Menschen müssen wir das Blut als äußeres Werkzeug für das Ich ansehen, für alles, was wir als unser innerstes Seelenzentrum, das Ich, bezeichnen. So haben wir im Nervensystem ein äußeres Werkzeug des Astralleibes und in unserem Blut ein äußeres Werkzeug des Ich. Geradeso wie das Nervensystem im Organismus in gewisse Beziehungen tritt zum Blut, so treten diejenigen inneren Seelengebilde, die wir als unsere Vorstellungen, Wahrnehmungen, Empfindungen und so weiter erleben, in eine Beziehung zu unserem Ich. Das Nervensystem ist in der mannigfaltigsten Weise im menschlichen Organismus differenziert. Es zeigt sich uns als die inneren Nervenstränge, da, wo es sich aufschließt zum Beispiel zu Gehörnerven, Gesichtsnerven und so weiter. Das Nervensystem ist also etwas, was sich durch den Organismus so hinerstreckt, daß es in der mannigfaltigsten Weise differenziert ist, innere Mannigfaltigkeiten enthält. Wenn wir das Blut, durch den Organismus durchströmend, betrachten, so zeigt es sich uns — wenn wir absehen wollen von der Veränderung von rotem in blaues Blut im ganzen Organismus doch als einheitliches Blut. Als ein solches Einheitliches tritt es dem differenzierten Nervensystem entgegen, wie das Ich dem Seelenleben entgegentritt, das sich gliedert in Vorstellungen, Empfindungen, Willensimpulse, Gefühle und dergleichen. Je weiter Sie diesen Vergleich verfolgen werden - und das soll ja zunächst auch nur vergleichsweise gesagt sein —, desto mehr wird sich Ihnen zeigen, daß eine weitgehende Ähnlichkeit besteht in der Beziehung der beiden Urbilder Ich und Astralleib zu ihren Abbildern, ihren Werkzeugen: Blutsystem und Nervensystem. Nun können wir allerdings sagen: Blut ist überall Blut, aber indem es durch den Organismus strömt, verändert es sich. Wir können diese Veränderungen des Blutes in Parallele bringen mit den Veränderungen, die das Ich durch die verschiedenen Seelenerlebnisse erfährt. Auch unser Ich ist ein Einheitliches. So weit wir zurückdenken können im Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod, können wir von uns sagen: Ich war da! In unserem fünften Jahr wie in unserem sechsten Jahr, gestern wie heute ist es dasselbe Ich. -— Aber wenn wir jetzt auf den Inhalt eingehen, auf das, was dieses Ich enthält, so werden wir finden, daß dieses Ich, wie es in mir lebt, angefüllt ist mit einer größeren oder kleineren Summe von Vorstellungen, Empfindungen, Gefühlen und so weiter, die dem Astralleibe zuzuschreiben sind und mit dem Ich in Berührung kommen. Vor einem Jahre war unser Ich mit einem anderen Inhalt erfüllt, gestern hatte es einen anderen Inhalt und heute wieder einen anderen. Das Ich kommt also mit dem gesamten Seeleninhalt in Berührung, durchströmt diesen gesamten Seeleninhalt. Geradeso wie das Blut den ganzen Organismus durchströmt und überall mit dem differenzierten Nervensystem in Berührung kommt, so kommt das Ich zusammen mit dem differenzierten Leben der Seele, mit Vorstellungen, Gefühlen, Willensimpulsen und dergleichen. So also zeigt uns schon diese nur vergleichsweise Betrachtung, daß eine gewisse Berechtigung existiert, in dem Blutsystem ein Abbild des Ich zu sehen und in dem Nervensystem ein Abbild des Astralleibes, dieser beiden höheren, übersinnlichen Glieder der menschlichen Natur, während der Ätherleib sich mehr an den physischen Leib anschließt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":569,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/128/1911-03-21/p018"}],"beads":[{"from":[26,27],"to":[18],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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