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Yet, on the other hand, the fact that the functioning of this inner cosmic system thrusts itself up into lower levels of consciousness shows us that it has something to do with our astral body; for the astral body is the bearer of consciousness. And the reason why the astral body as the bearer of consciousness does not consciously experience what goes on in this inner cosmic system is that the sympathetic nerve-system holds it back. This we have already mentioned.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. The Conscious Life of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-03-27","location":null,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-27/p018","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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Wenn Sie alle diese Organsysteme betrachten, wird Ihnen auffallen, daß Sie in deren Anordnung nichts entdecken können, was so wesentlich und innig mit der äußeren Form des Menschen zusammenhängt wie das Knochensystem. Es ist die Grundlage der menschlichen Form, und was sich um das Knochensystem herum hineinbaut und auflagert, das kann sich nur so hineinbauen und auflagern, weil das Knochensystem die Grundform abgibt. Auch die Haut als äußere Körperbegrenzung ist gleichsam vorgebildet durch die ganze Gestaltung des Knochensystems. Goethe hat das in einem schönen Ausspruch gesagt, nicht bloß vom ästhetischen, sondern auch vom wissenschaftlichen Standpunkt aus: «Es ist nichts in der Haut, was nicht im Knochen ist.» Das heißt, in der äußeren Hautgestaltung drückt sich dasjenige aus, was schon durch das Knochensystem vorgebildet ist. Dasselbe können wir von unserem inneren Weltsystem nicht sagen. Andererseits zeigt aber gerade das Heraufrücken der Wirkungen des inneren Weltsystems zu niederen Graden des Bewußtseins, daß dieses innere Weltsystem etwas zu tun hat mit unserem Astralleib; denn der Astralleib ist der Träger des Bewußtseins. So müssen wir daher sagen, daß zwar dieses innere Weltsystem uns nicht erscheinen kann als ein Ausdruck des unterbewußten Ich, des in tiefen Untergründen gelegenen formbildenden Ich, daß es uns aber als das erscheinen kann, was uns durch den ganzen Weltenprozeß als Ausdruck der Umwelt so eingegliedert ist, daß es einen ähnlichen Bezug hat zu unserem Astralleib, wie das Knochensystem die Grundlage abgibt zu der das Ich umfassenden menschlichen Form. 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