{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 128/1911-03-27/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"For every thought-process there is a corresponding process within our organism; and the same is true in the case of every emotional process, and every process which may be denoted as an “impulse of will.” We might put it in this way: whenever something takes place in our soul-life it produces a wave which repeats itself as far down as the physical organism. Let us take first the process of thinking, what occurs in thought. And here I wish to call attention to the fact that it is best to fix our minds upon a thought process that is either purely mathematical, or one which is equally objective and which leaves our feeling and willing in a certain sense uninfluenced; that is, we shall first consider thought-processes in pure and unalloyed form. What happens in our organism when such thought-processes go on within our soul-life? Every time we fix upon a thought, there takes place in our organism a process which we may compare with another one of a different kind; by this I do not mean that what I am here stating is an analogy, for it is not an analogy, but an actual fact; and, when I say “we may compare” I mean that this comparison is to lead us to the facts of the matter. We may compare it with what takes place when we dissolve any kind of salt in a glass of water heated to a certain temperature, and by allowing this water to cool cause the salt to crystallise, thus bringing about the very opposite of the process of solution. When the salt is entirely dissolved the water is transparent; but when the water has cooled again, and the opposite process takes place in it, the salt separates itself from the water and crystallises again. There comes about a re-formation of the salt, a depositing of salt in the water. And when we observe water which at first was warm and then is brought to a state in which the salt re-crystallises in it, we see that there within the liquid a solid substance takes form. Something solid settles again, a salt-deposit. (As I said before, I have taken it for granted that these statements as to results of occult research will at first startle anyone who accepts quite pedantically, and in a purely conventional way, the facts recorded by external science.)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. The Conscious Life of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-03-27","location":null,"word_count":398,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-27/p008","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"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/RSPC1951/19110327p01.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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Was geht in unserem Organismus vor, wenn sich solche Gedankenprozesse in unserem Seelenleben abspielen? Jedesmal, wenn wir denken, wenn wir Gedanken fassen, findet in unserem Organismus ein Prozeß statt, den wir vergleichen können - ich sage das nicht als Analogie, sondern als eine Tatsache, der Vergleich soll uns auf Tatsachen führen -, den wir vergleichen können mit dem Prozeß einer Kristallisation. Wenn wir in einem Glase Wasser haben, das bis zu einem gewissen Grade erwärmt ist, und darin irgendein Salz, Steinsalz zum Beispiel, aufgelöst haben und bringen nun durch Abkühlung des Wassers dieses aufgelöste Salz zur Kristallisation, dann vollzieht sich der der Auflösung entgegengesetzte Prozeß. Wenn das Salz ganz aufgelöst ist, ist das Wasser durchsichtig. Wenn aber das Wasser wieder abgekühlt wird und der der Auflösung entgegengesetzte Prozeß im Wasser sich vollzieht, dann wird das Salz wieder herauskristallisiert aus dem Wasser; es geschieht eine Salzrückbildung, eine Salzeinlagerung im Wasser. Der Prozeß stellt sich also so dar, daß wir sehen: In dem vorher warmen Wasser entsteht, wenn wir es abkühlen, ein Festes; es lagert sich im Flüssigen ein Festes ein, eine Salzablagerung. Wie gesagt, ich habe vorausgesetzt, daß durch die Angaben okkulter Resultate derjenige, der nur pedantisch im rein philiströsen Sinne die Tatsachen zugeben will, die von der Wissenschaft registriert sind, zunächst schockiert werden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":313,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/128/1911-03-27/p007"}],"english":["GA 128/1911-03-27/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":313,"en_words":398,"ratio":1.27,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 128/1911-03-27/p007"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.25,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8470,"original_word_count":6754,"may_be_abridged":false},"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/RSPC1951/19110327p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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