{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 134/1911-12-30/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now yesterday we came across a peculiar etheric substance. You will remember what we wrote on the blackboard. We found an etheric body which outweighed the astral substance, which, so to say, overshot the astral substance. And we said that that was due to Luciferic influences which had been brought to bear upon man. But we found something more. We found also physical corporality which had a preponderance over etheric substance, that is to say over the etheric body. As a matter of fact, we found that first, did we not? I want you now to give your attention for a moment to this remarkable connection that we found in the badly combined organisation of man—a connection between the bodies which is really entirely due to Luciferic influence. There, where the physical meets with the etheric body and the etheric body is everywhere diverted by the preponderance of the physical body, we have, not a condition where spirit breaks and scatters merely into etheric substance as such, but where it rushes into a bodily condition that is certainly etheric, but which is outweighed by the physical. And when spirit breaks into such a substance, then nerve substance, nerve material, arises. Spirit streaming into etheric corporality that is overweighed by physical corporality gives rise to nerve matter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Matter as Shattered Spirit: The Origin of Physical Substance","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Erinnern Sie sich wohl, was auf der Tafel gestanden hat: wir haben einen Ätherleib angetroffen, der einen Überschuß, ein Übergewicht hatte über astralische Substanz. Und wir haben gestern gesagt, daß das von den luziferischen Einflüssen kommt, die auf den Menschen bewirkt worden sind. Nun, wir haben nicht nur getroffen Äthersubstanz, die ein Übergewicht hat über das Astralische, sondern haben auch gefunden physische Leiblichkeit, die ein Übergewicht hat über Äthersubstanz, über den Ätherleib. Das war sogar das erste, was wir gefunden haben, nicht wahr? Fassen Sie jetzt dieses Eigentümliche auf, das also eigentlich nur durch den luziferischen Einfluß entstanden ist: dieses eigentümliche Zusammenwirken in dieser schlecht kombinierten menschlichen Organisation! Da, wo der physische Leib mit dem Ätherleib zusammentrifft und der Ätherleib durch das Übergewicht des physischen Leibes überall beirrt ist, da ist es nicht so, wie wenn der Geist einfach in Äthersubstanz hineinsprüht und zerbirst, sondern da sprüht er in eine solche Leiblichkeit hinein, die zwar Ätherleiblichkeit ist, aber über die das Physische das Übergewicht hat. Wenn nun Geist in eine solch vorbereitete Substanz hineinsprüht und zerbirst, dann entsteht Nervensubstanz, Nervenmaterie. So daß wir also haben Geist hineinsprühend in Ätherleiblichkeit, die von physischer Leiblichkeit überwogen wird: dann entsteht Nervenmaterie.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/134/1911-12-30/p024"}],"english":["GA 134/1911-12-30/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":207,"en_words":216,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6124,"original_word_count":6055,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSPC1947","book_title":"The World of the Senses and the World of the Spirit","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA134/English/RSPC1947/19111230p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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