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We shall see that it has on the one hand turned its entire being, so to speak, toward life in the very lowest and most basic forms that we know round about us, so that it almost becomes a material substance which tends continually to evoke physical chemical processes in order to be able to serve as an instrument for the ego; and on the other hand that it is the most completely shielded of substances, which carries on inner processes that could not be carried on anywhere else, because everything which is pre-requisite to those processes is dependent upon all the other processes that fit themselves into the processes of the blood. In other words the *finest* and *highest* processes which are stimulated out of the depths of our organism unite, within the circuit of our blood, with the other, the physical chemical processes, which obey the laws of the external world. In no other substance does the physical-sensible world come into such direct contact, as does the blood, with something of an entirely different character which, for its very existence, presupposes the activity of super-sensible systems of force. In fact, this blood is something in which the lowliest that man can see in processes around him is blended with the loftiest that can take on organic form within his nature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. The Conscious Life of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-03-27","location":null,"word_count":318,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-27/p030","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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Auf der anderen Seite ist das Blut jene Substanz, die am geschütztesten ist, um innerliche Prozesse auszuführen, die sonst nirgends ausgeführt werden können, weil alle übrigen Organprozesse dazu als Voraussetzung notwendig sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":146,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/128/1911-03-27/p028"},{"locus":"GA 128/1911-03-27/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Die feinsten, die höchsten Prozesse, die angeregt werden aus den Tiefen unseres Organismus, verbinden sich in unserem Blut mit physikalisch-chemischen Prozessen, wie wir sie überall in der Welt vor Augen haben. In keiner anderen Substanz trifft so unmittelbar die physisch-sinnliche materielle Welt mit einer anderen, inneren Welt zusammen, die voraussetzt das Dasein, die Tätigkeit von übersinnlichen Kraftsystemen, wie in unserer Blutsubstanz. Das tritt in keiner anderen Substanz so zutage wie in dem Blut, das unseren Organismus durchfließt. Dieses Blut ist in der Tat etwas, worin sich das Niederste, das der Mensch um sich herum schauen kann, zusammenfügt mit dem Höchsten, das sich in seiner Natur organisch ausbilden kann. Daher wird es uns wohl klar sein, daß wir in bezug auf diese im Blut sich abspielenden komplizierten Vorgänge etwas vor uns haben, das, wenn es etwas unregelmäßig wird oder Störungen eintreten, in einem hohen Maße Unregelmäßigkeiten in unserem Gesamtorganismus hervorrufen muß. Und daß wir da, wo solche Unregelmäßigkeiten sich zeigen, immer überlegen müssen, wie diese entstanden sind. Es wird schwierig sein, auseinanderzuhalten, ob wir diese Unregelmäßigkeiten im einzelnen Falle solchen Prozessen zuzuschreiben haben, die nach dem Muster physischer chemischer Prozesse verlaufen, oder ob sie anderen Prozessen des Blutes entsprechen. 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