{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 128/1911-03-27/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we proceed further, we can understand that all processes which occur within the human organism must take place between these two polar-extremes of salt-formation. It is with the process of salt-formation in the spiritual sense that we have here to do, but this must be conceived as I have to-day explained it. It will not do simply to say: “Thinking is a process of salt-formation”; for people will then imagine what is now popularly conceived by the untrained person as the process of salt-formation; and then it will be easy to say that Spiritual Science maintains absurdities and nonsense. Between these processes, which must be conceived only in the sense we have indicated, there lie all the other processes to which we have called attention. For, if we have salt-formation occurring in a vitally active thought-process, and the opposite pole of this in the salt-formation of our bony system which has to a certain extent come to rest, we can likewise affirm that we have all through our organs the opposite pole of what we may designate as the liquefying process, as inner coagulation, as a flocculent process, albumen-like insertions or something similar. In this case, again, it is not to be found only under the influence of our own feeling life, which takes its course more in the depths of the soul, but from the bone-building process also. In this connection we must say that all processes which are more inward in character (which belong more to the soul and to the central processes of our organism than does the bone-forming process) are involved in the unconscious liquefying processes and thickening of substances which are formed and deposited as we have described. Now the first thing we come upon here is something in which the bone-building process is actually involved, namely, those liquefying processes to be found in what is mingled with the bone-salts as the so-called bone-glue. In these processes the other pole of our bony system participates and thereby meets that which forms the physical correlative of our feeling process. The process connected with the will impulse expresses itself in a warmth process, an inner warming process, so to speak. Processes of combustion, the formation of combinations which we call inner processes of oxidation, occur throughout our entire organisation; and, in so far as these go on below the threshold of consciousness and have nothing to do with the conscious life, will-impulses and the like, they belong to that other part of our organisation which is shut off by the corresponding organs and is susceptible to influence from the subconscious life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. 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Wie wir regsame Salzbildungsprozesse haben durch das Denken, die ihren Gegenpol haben im Salzbildungsprozeß in den Knochen, der bis zu einem gewissen Grade zur Ruhe gekommen ist, so haben wir auch einen Gegenpol zu demjenigen, was wir bezeichnet haben als den innerlichen Quellungsprozeß, als Koagulation, als Flockenbildungsprozeß, als etwas Ähnliches wie eiweißartige Einschlüsse, welche unter dem Einflusse unseres Gefühlslebens entstehen, als äußeren Ausdruck unseres Gefühlslebens. Dieser Gegenpol zeigt sich in dem, was mehr innere Prozesse unseres Organismus sind, und nimmt teil an einem solchen unbewußten Quellen, an einem Dichterwerden von Substanzen, welche sich bilden und einlagern als Wirkung des makrokosmischen Astralsystems. Es ist der Knochenleim, der teilnimmt an dem Knochenbildungsprozeß und der den anderen Knochensubstanzen eingefügt wird. Das ist der andere Pol des Quellungsprozesses gegenüber dem, was als physisches Korrelat durch unser Gefühl entsteht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":169,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/128/1911-03-27/p021"},{"locus":"GA 128/1911-03-27/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Unsere Willensimpulse drücken sich ja organisch in einem Wärmeprozeß, in einem inneren Erwärmungsprozeß aus. Verbindungen, die sich bilden und die wir bezeichnen können als Produkte innerer Verbrennungsprozesse, als innere Oxidationsprozesse, finden sich durch unseren ganzen Organismus hindurch. Und insofern sie unter der Schwelle des Bewußtseins verlaufen und nichts zu tun haben mit dem bewußten Leben, gehören sie der anderen Seite an, dem Gegenpol, der abgeschlossen ist von dem, wovon das bewußte Leben Einflüsse erhalten kann. Dadurch ist der Mensch durch einen Teil seines Organismus innerlich geschützt vor Störungen, damit sich innerhalb desselben Prozesse vollziehen können, die von größter Zartheit sind, die von dem Seelenleben veranlaßt sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":106,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/128/1911-03-27/p022"},{"locus":"GA 128/1911-03-27/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Wie wir erfahren haben, finden also in unserem Organismus solche physiologische Vorgänge wie Salzbildung, Quellbildung und Wärmebildung statt, die unserem bewußten Leben folgen, und solche Prozesse, die außerhalb unseres bewußten Lebens sich so abspielen, daß sie erst die Grundlage abgeben für das, was sich vorbereitet im menschlichen Organismus, damit das bewußte Leben sich überhaupt entfalten kann. So also ist unser gesamter Organismus ein Durcheinanderweben von Prozessen, die wir als unserem bewußten Leben zugehörig, und solchen, die wir als unserem unbewußten Leben zugehörig zu bezeichnen haben. 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