{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 128/1911-03-27/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now we have also pointed out that what we look upon as a conscious activity of the ego is after all only *one* part of man's being; and that, below the threshold of what enters in this manner within the horizon of our consciousness there are processes which occur in the subconsciousness, and which are held back from our consciousness, by means of the sympathetic nervous system. We have been able to indicate from various points of view that these processes which take place below the level of consciousness have also a certain kind of connection with our ego. We have said, with regard to the most unconscious part of us, our bony system, that it is organised throughout in such a way as to be able to give to the instrument of the conscious ego the basis for an ego. Thus, out of the unconscious, an ego-organisation arises to meet the conscious ego-organisation. Man is thus divided, as it were, into two parts: from one direction the conscious ego-organisation works into the organism, and from the other there flows into man the *unconscious* ego-organisation. We have seen that the blood-system and the bony system really form a certain antithesis; they act like opposite poles. The blood in its inner activity responds to and follows, as an instrument, the activity of the ego; on the contrary, that part which is organised as the other pole of the ego so that the ego is able to express itself in the blood, namely the bony system, withdraws itself from the quickened inner life of the ego to such an extent that the ego has no consciousness of anything that goes on within this bony system, and the processes here take their course below the surface of what goes on in the actually conscious ego-life. These are processes, therefore, which correspond to our ego-activity yet at the same time are as truly *dead* as our blood-processes are *living*; and they are, as a matter of fact, only one portion of those processes which remain unconscious to the ego, and which only gradually rise more and more up into the conscious.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. The Conscious Life of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-03-27","location":null,"word_count":357,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-27/p013","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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Wir haben von dem Unbewußtesten, von unserem Knochensystem, gesagt, daß es von vornherein so organisiert ist, daß es dem Werkzeuge des bewußten Ich geradezu die Grundlage geben kann. So wächst aus dem Unbewufßten heraus eine unbewußte Ich-Organisation der bewußten Ich-Organisation entgegen. Gleichsam teilt sich für uns der Mensch in zwei Teile: Es wirkt von der einen Seite her die bewußte Ich-Organisation und von der anderen Seite her die unbewußte Ich-Organisation in den Menschen hinein (siehe Zeichnung S. 136). Wir haben in dieser Beziehung gesehen, daß Blutsystem und Knochensystem einen gewissen Gegensatz bewusste Ich-Organisation bilden, sich wie entgegengesetzte Pole ausnehmen. Während das Blut in seiner inneren Regsamkeit als ein schmiegsames Werkzeug der Tätigkeit des Ich folgt, entzieht sich der andere Pol, das Knochensystem, der Regsamkeit des Ich so, daß von allem, was im Knochensystem geschieht, das Ich kein Bewußtsein hat, das heißt, daß alle im Knochensystem vorgehenden Prozesse vollständig unter der Oberfläche der eigentlichen bewußten Ich-Geschehnisse ablaufen. Es sind zwar Prozesse, welche unserer Ich-Tätigkeit entsprechen, aber sie sind ebenso tot, wie unsere Blutprozesse lebendig sind; sie sind damit im Grunde genommen ein Teil solcher Prozesse, die dem Ich unbewußt bleiben, die sich nur stufenweise herauferheben aus dem Unbewußten zum Bewußtsein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/128/1911-03-27/p012"}],"english":["GA 128/1911-03-27/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":289,"en_words":357,"ratio":1.24,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"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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