{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 136/1912-04-04/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These beings are such that when man can become acquainted with them by means of his occult vision, he perceives them as beings connected with his own soul—with his own astral body. They exert such an influence upon the astral body of man—(as also upon the astral bodies of animals), that we cannot speak of a mere life-giving activity; their activity resembles the action of feeling and thought upon our own souls. The nature-spirits of water and air can be observed; we may say they are in the environment; but we cannot say of these spiritual beings of which we are now speaking, that they are in our environment; we are in fact always actually united with them, as if poured into them, when we perceive them. We are merged into them, and they speak to us in spirit. It is as though we perceived thoughts and feelings from the environment; impulses of will, sympathy and antipathy come to expression in what these beings cause to flow into us as thoughts, feelings, and impulses of will. Thus in this category of spirits we see beings already resembling the human soul. If we turn back again to what has been stated, we may say that all sorts of regulations in time, of divisions in the relations of time and space, are also connected with these beings. An old expression has therefore been preserved in occultism for these beings, which in their totality we recognize as the astral body of the earth, and this in English would be, “Spirits of the Rotation of Time.” Thus, not only the seasons of the year, and the growing and the fading of the plants, but also the regular alternation which, in relation to the earth-planet, expresses itself in day and night, is brought about by these spirits, which are to be classed as belonging to the astral body of the earth. In other words, everything connected with rhythmic return, with rhythmic alternation, with the repetitions of happenings in time, is organized by spiritual beings which collectively belong to the astral body of the earth and to which the name “Spirits of the Rotation of Time,” of our planet, is applicable. What the astronomer ascertains through calculation about the rotation of the earth on its axis, is perceptible to occult vision, because the occultist knows that these spirits are distributed over the whole earth, and are actually the bearers of the forces which rotate the earth on its axis. It is extremely important that one should be aware that in the astral body of the earth is to be found everything connected with the ordinary alternations between the blossoming and withering of plants and also all that is connected with the alternations between day and night,—between the various seasons of the year, and the various times of the day, etc. Everything that happens in this way calls up in the observer who has progressed so far that he can, with his astral body, go out of his physical and etheric bodies and still remain conscious—an impression of the spiritual beings belonging to the Spirits of the Rotation of Time.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Nature-Spirits of the Elements and Earth's Astral Body","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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Diese geistigen Wesenheiten sind so, daß der Mensch, wenn er mit seinem okkulten Blick sich mit ihnen bekannt machen kann, sie schon empfindet als Wesenheiten, welche mit seiner eigenen Seele, mit seinem eigenen Astralleib etwas zu tun haben, Wesenheiten, welche so wirken auf den astralischen Leib des Menschen und auch auf den astralischen Leib der Tiere, daß wir nicht bloß von einer belebenden Wirkung sprechen können, sondern von einer Wirkung, wie die Wirkung von Gefühlen, von Gedanken auf unsere eigene Seele ist. Die Naturgeister des Wassers, der Luft, die beobachtet man und man kann sagen, sie seien in der Umgebung; diese geistigen Wesenheiten, von denen wir jetzt sprechen, von denen kann man nicht sagen, sie seien in unserer Umgebung, sondern man ist eigentlich immer mit ihnen vereint, wie in sie ergossen, wenn man sie wahrnimmt. Man geht in ihnen auf, und sie sprechen zu einem im Geiste. Es ist so, wie wenn man aus der Umgebung Gedanken und Gefühle wahrnehmen würde, und auch Willensimpulse, Sympathien und Antipathien kommen zum Ausdruck in demjenigen, was da diese Wesenheiten uns an Gedanken, an Gefühlen, an Willensimpulsen zufließen lassen. So daß wir, man möchte sagen, schon den menschlichen Seelen ähnliche Wesen in dieser Art, in dieser Kategorie von Geistern zu sehen haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":284,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/136/1912-04-04/p009"},{"locus":"GA 136/1912-04-04/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Wenn wir noch einmal zurückblicken auf das, was wir angeführt haben, so können wir sagen, daß auch alle Arten von Anordnungen in der Zeit, von Verteilung in den Zeit- und Raumverhältnissen mit diesen Wesenheiten zusammenhängen. Daher ist uns im Okkultismus ein altes Wort erhalten zur Bezeichnung von diesen Wesenheiten, die wir in der Gesamtheit erkennen als den astralischen Leib der Erde, und dieses Wort würde, im Deutschen ausgedrückt, heißen: Geister der Umlaufszeiten. So daß also nicht nur der regelmäßige Jahresumlauf im Wachsen und Verwelken der Pflanzen, sondern auch der regelmäßige Umlauf, der sich in bezug auf den Erdplaneten in Tag und Nacht ausdrückt, von solchen Geistern bewirkt wird, welche zum astralischen Leib der Erde zu rechnen sind. Mit anderen Worten, alles, was mit rhythmischer Wiederkehr, rhythmischer Abwechslung, was mit dem Wechsel der Zeitverhältnisse und der Wiederholung der Zeitgeschehnisse zusammenhängt, das wird angeordnet von geistigen Wesenheiten, die alle zusammen zum astralischen Leib der Erde gehören und auf welche anwendbar ist der Name «Geister der Umlaufszeiten unseres Planeten». Und dasjenige, was der Astronom durch seine Berechnungen herausfindet von dem Umdrehen der Erde um ihre Achse, das ist dem okkulten Blick dadurch wahrnehmbar, daß er um die ganze Erde herum verteilt weiß diese Geister der Umlaufszeiten, welche wirklich die Träger der Kräfte sind, die die Erde um ihre Achse herum drehen. Es ist außerordentlich wichtig, daß man in dem astralischen Leib der Erde alles dasjenige sieht, was mit dem gewöhnlichen Wechsel zusammenhängt, mit dem Aufblühen und Verblühen der Pflanzen, aber auch alles das, was mit dem Wechsel, bis zu Tag und Nacht hin, in den Jahreszeiten, in den Tageszeiten und so weiter zusammenhängt. Alles das, was so geschieht, ruft in dem Beobachter, der so weit gekommen ist, daß er mit seinem astralischen Leib aus seinem physischen und Ätherleib herausgehen und doch bewußt bleiben kann, den Eindruck von geistigen Wesenheiten hervor, die eben zu den Geistern der Umlaufszeiten gehören.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":315,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/136/1912-04-04/p010"}],"english":["GA 136/1912-04-04/p010","GA 136/1912-04-04/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":599,"en_words":593,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 136/1912-04-04/p009","GA 136/1912-04-04/p010"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5525,"original_word_count":5439,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"SBC1981","book_title":"Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of Nature","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA136/English/SBC1981/19120404p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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