{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 128/1911-03-27/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Then again we can also see in the blood-organism the most delicate organic processes working from the other direction. And we shall have to understand, with reference to this blood-organism, that it represents the third stage in the refinement of our nutritive substances. If the blood-organism, because it evokes those delicate processes of salt forming, liquefaction and warmth under the influence of external impressions, is thereby predetermined from without in its physical chemical course by the soul-processes themselves, we may ask how this process as a blood-process is determined from within. We must distinguish the function belonging to the blood by reason of the fact that it is blood; but we must also understand that it needs to be nourished just like any other organ: we must consider it in the same way as any other organ that needs to be nourished. And on the other hand we must also recognise it as the organ standing at the highest stage of organic activity. With regard to this activity we must consider especially what we call the inner support of human life. The blood, which is the opposite extreme, so to speak, from the bony system, must be most of all protected in order that in our thinking it may create, as the instrument of thought in so far as this thought has ego-consciousness—that it may be able to create the process we have called salification. This protection must proceed from the blood itself; therefore the blood must above everything be capable of calling forth, spiritually as it were, a spiritual bony system, must be able itself to cause the process of salt-forming. This is a task to which the blood must so devote itself that it can be independent of the other organs, and need only receive from the other organs the least possible support for its own work. Least of all do the vital activities of the other organs play into this salifying process of the blood, so that in respect to this process of salification, in relation to thought, the blood is what most of all makes the organism an inner one.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. The Conscious Life of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-03-27","location":null,"word_count":354,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-27/p032","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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Zugleich müssen wir es auch als das Organ erkennen, das auf der höchsten Stufe der organischen Tätigkeit steht. Es kommt hier dasjenige in Betracht, was wir als die innerliche Stütze des menschlichen Lebens bezeichnen können. Das Blut muß vor allen Dingen davor geschützt werden, daß die äußere Welt auf dem Wege der Nahrungsstoffe unmittelbar in das Blut hineinwirkt, es wird sonst seine Tätigkeit als Werkzeug unseres Denkens unterbunden, es wird der Vorgang gestört, den wir als einen Prozeß der Salzablagerung früher bezeichnet haben. Dieser Schutz muß vom Blute selbst ausgehen; es muß imstande sein, nach der geistigen Seite hin gerichtet gleichsam ein geistiges Knochensystem aufzubauen durch die sich täglich wiederholenden Salzablagerungsprozesse. Das ist eine Aufgabe des Blutes, die es unterscheidet von anderen Organen. Von den anderen Organen des menschlichen Organismus erhält es dabei am wenigsten Unterstützung. Am wenigsten spielen die anderen Organe in diesen Salzbildungsprozeß des Blutes herein, so daß das Blut in bezug auf die durch das Denken bedingten Prozesse am meisten verinnerlicht ist, wie Ja in der Tat unsere Gedanken das Innerlichste sind, was wir haben. Mit unseren Gefühlen stehen wir an der Grenze von außen und innen, und mit seinen Willensimpulsen strömt der Mensch so stark nach außen, daß er sich unter Umständen gar nicht wiedererkennt. In seinem Denken wird sich der Mensch immer wiedererkennen, aber in seinen Willensimpulsen nicht. Daß es nicht so klar ist, wie die Willensimpulse entspringen, das können Sie schon daraus sehen, daß in bezug auf Freiheit und Unfreiheit des menschlichen Willens so viel in der Welt gestritten wird. In unserem Denken haben wir also das Innerlichste dessen, was das Blut als Werkzeug des Ich zu verrichten hat. Und weil nun der Prozeß der Salzablagerung am meisten verinnerlicht ist und auch am meisten geschützt sein muß, so kann durch Unregelmäßigkeiten oder Abnormitäten des Blutes auch diese Tätigkeit des Blutes am meisten behindert werden. Und wenn wir merken, daß das Blut so behindert ist, daß es nach dieser Richtung hin seine Tätigkeiten nicht mehr zeigt, so müssen wir uns darüber klar sein, daß es angeregt werden muß zu einer regelmäßigen Tätigkeit, wenn sein Eigenleben unter eine gewisse Grenze heruntergesunken ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":466,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/128/1911-03-27/p030"}],"english":["GA 128/1911-03-27/p032","GA 128/1911-03-27/p033"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":466,"en_words":590,"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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