{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 128/1911-03-27/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus we have, here again, two opposite poles. Man is a thinking being, and it is the thought-process that makes him inwardly a stable being (for, in a certain sense, our thought-system is our inner bony system; we have definite, sharply-outlined thoughts; and though our feelings are more or less indefinite, wavering, and different in each one of us, the thought-systems are inserted in stable form in the feeling system). Now whereas these stable insertions of thought in the conscious life manifest themselves through a sort of animated, mobile process of salt-depositing, that which prepares the way for these in the bony system, giving them the right support, expresses itself in the fact that the macrocosm out of its own formative processes so builds up our bony system that a part of its nature consists of deposited salts. These deposited salts of the bony system are the quiescent element in us: they are the opposite pole to those inner vital activities which are at play in the process of salt-depositing corresponding to the principle of thought. Thus we are made capable of thought through influences acting from two sides upon our organisation: from one side *unconsciously* through the fact that our bony system is built up within us; from the other side *consciously* in that we ourselves bring about, after the model of our bone-building process, conscious processes which manifest themselves as of like nature in our organism, and of which we may say that they are inwardly active processes. For the salt that is here formed must again at once be dissolved by sleep, must be got rid of, for otherwise it would induce destructive processes, causing dissolution. Thus we have processes that begin with salt-depositings and then are followed by destructive processes, constituting a sort of reactionary process. In the re-dissolving of the deposits, beneficent sleep acts upon us in the way we need, to the end that we may ever anew develop conscious thought in our fully awake life of day.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. The Conscious Life of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-03-27","location":null,"word_count":334,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-27/p022","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. 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Indem der Mensch denkerisch tätig ist, sind die Gedankenprozesse dasjenige, was uns innerlich zu einem festen Wesen macht. Unsere Gedanken sind in einer gewissen Weise unser inneres Knochengerüst. Der Mensch hat bestimmte scharfumrissene Gedanken; unsere Gefühle dagegen sind unbestimmt, lavierend, bei jedem Menschen mehr oder weniger anders. Die Gedanken bilden feste Einschlüsse im Gefühlssystem. Während diese festen Einschlüsse im bewußten Leben sich ausdrücken im Blut durch eine Art von regsamem, beweglichem Salzablagerungsprozeß, drückt sich das, was das Ich vorbereitet, im Knochensystem so aus, daß der Makrokosmos unser Knochensystem so bildet, daß es zum größten Teil aus abgelagerten Salzen aufgebaut ist. Diese sind nun das ruhende Element in uns, der andere, der entgegengesetzte Pol zu den Vorgängen der inneren Regsamkeit, welche in den Salzablagerungsprozessen im Blut sich abspielen. So werden wir als Menschen von zwei Seiten her in unserer Organisation zum Denker gemacht, von der einen Seite her unbewußt, indem unser Knochensystem aufgebaut wird, von der anderen Seite aus bewußt, indem wir — nach dem Muster unseres Knochenaufbauprozesses — dieselben Prozesse bewußt vollziehen, die sich im Organismus als solche Salzablagerungsprozesse zeigen, von denen wir sagen können, daß sie innerlich regsame sind. Die beim Denken gebildeten Salze müssen sogleich durch den Schlaf wieder aufgelöst, fortgeräumt werden, sonst würden sie etwas wie Zersetzungsprozesse, Auflösungsprozesse im Organismus herbeiführen. Wir haben also im Denken einen wirklichen Zerstörungsprozeß zu sehen. Und durch den wohltätigen Schlaf wird ein Rückbildungsprozeß ausgeübt, der bewirkt, daß das Blut wieder frei wird von Salzablagerungen, so daß wir von neuem bewußte Gedanken im wachen Tagesleben entwickeln können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":264,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/128/1911-03-27/p019"}],"english":["GA 128/1911-03-27/p022"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":264,"en_words":334,"ratio":1.27,"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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