{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 128/1911-03-27/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We may now proceed still farther in this direction. When the organs of our inner astral world, our inner cosmic system, spleen, liver, gall-bladder, etc., are excessive in their inner vital activity, as regards the special character of their functions, how can we deal with them? Here we must call to our minds, above all, that these organs are appointed to a work which goes on all the way up to the circulation of the blood; that they have to prepare beforehand, so to speak, the entire organism, have to direct the nutritive substances as far as the blood by taking them over as they are conveyed into the digestive canal and leading them, with their vital activities transformed, to the blood-system. Hence they are the mediators between these two systems. Just as the blood-system manifests the greatest quickening of inner activity, in so far as it constitutes the thought-system, so it takes on an activity that manifests a connection with our life of feeling, in the way we described when we said that in the process of condensation, of inner liquefaction, the blood-system is supported by what radiates from our inner cosmic system. The blood is left almost entirely to itself in so far as it is the instrument of the element of thought in us; it is stimulated by what radiates upward, by that in which the organs of the inner cosmic system participate, through their own action—so that we have here to call attention to an activity which goes even beyond the individual life of the blood and directs us to the individual life of these organs belonging to the inner cosmic system.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. The Conscious Life of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-03-27","location":null,"word_count":276,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-27/p035","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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Wie das Blutsystem sich als Werkzeug erweist der größten inneren Regsamkeit, des bewußten denkerischen Lebens, so wird es auch zu einer Tätigkeit angeregt, die sich als zusammenhängend zeigt mit unserem Gefühlsleben, das wir schon beschrieben haben als Prozeß des inneren Verdichtens, des inneren Quellens. Hier wird das Blut — abgesehen von äußeren Einwirkungen — angeregt von der Tätigkeit der inneren Weltsysteme, die in ihrer charakteristischen Eigenart ihre Wirkungen in das Blut hineinstrahlen können. Wir haben hier auf eine Tätigkeit im Blut hingewiesen, die schon über das Eigenleben des Blutes hinausgehen, deren Ursache aber dem inneren Weltsystem angehört. Wir können nun die Frage aufwerfen: Können nicht auch diese Organe — Leber, Galle, Milz, Nieren, Lunge, Herz — eine zu große Regsamkeit, ein überquellendes Leben und damit eine unregelmäßige Einwirkung auf das Blut entwickeln? Und wenn sie das tun, wie können wir — in ähnlicher Weise wie beim Blut — die zu große Regsamkeit dieser Organe therapeutisch paralysieren? Da müssen wir — da diese Organe in direktem Zusammenhang stehen mit dem kosmischen Astralsystem — solche Stoffe zuführen, die die Regsamkeit des kosmischen Lebens entfalten. 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