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This sun is outside the man's ego. There the ego has to work on the sleeping organism as the sun does on the plant. But it is not only the sun that plays a part in bringing forth and sustaining vegetation. The moon does also. Without the influences from the moon there would be no plant growth either, but the effect of lunar influences is completely ignored by scientists.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":88,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/140/1913-01-21/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-01-21","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 140/1913-01-21/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/140/1913-01-21/p013"},{"locus":"GA 140/1913-01-21/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/140/1913-01-21/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":206,"en_words":208,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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A plant that grows tall and thin is little influenced by the moon. Even the whole cosmos is involved in the growth of plants. The ego works into the physical and etheric bodies as the sun influences plant growth. Similarly, the astral body is related to the moon. The ego is the sun for the physical body, the astral body is spiritually its moon. Our ego creates a replacement for the influences of the sun, and our astral body for those of the moon. This justifies what the initiate means when he says man has been formed as an extract of the forces of the cosmos. As the sun is the central point of the plant world and rays forth its light in all directions, in the same way light must permeate the physical and etheric bodies. The sunlight is not only physical, it is also of a soul-spiritual nature separated from the cosmos and become the “I” or ego. The human astral body contains an extract of the light of the moon. 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If there were only the solar influence we would never be able to sleep during the day. We would sleep only at night. But our whole cultural life depends upon an emancipation from these conditions. We carry our own sun within us and the ego is an extract of the solar influence. The astral body in man is an extract of the lunar influence. So during sleep we are not dependent in the spiritual world on the cosmic solar influence. Our ego does what the sun would do otherwise. 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In a man who is awake the astral body and ego are within the physical and ether bodies. The return into the body is to a certain extent like the setting of the sun and moon, and it also marks the end of the plant-like existence. The vegetative condition that prevails to revivify our forces during sleep is much less active during waking life. The vegetative growth-forces wane as man awakens. Inasmuch we are plant-like, we die every morning. This throws considerable light on the interplay between soul and body. Some people feel active and stimulated shortly after waking. Those are the ones who are able to live more strongly in the soul sphere. People who tend to live more in the bodily nature often sense a certain fatigue in the morning. The less tired a person is in the morning, the more active he can be. Yet our waking life may be compared to the dying process of the plants in winter. Each day we draw death forces within our organism. 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Die Frage möchte ich jetzt stellen: Kann derjenige, der noch nicht mit hellseherischem Blick sehen kann, derjenige, der noch nicht als Scher beobachten kann, kann der dennoch wissen, wie sich die Dinge verhalten?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":63,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/140/1913-01-21/p013"},{"locus":"GA 140/1913-01-21/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Ein schlafender Mensch lebt ja noch, er ist so etwas wie eine Pflanze. Sie erinnern sich wohl daran, daß ein Repräsentant der Wissenschaft, Raoul France, schreibt, die Pflanze habe Gefühle und könne etwas verzehren; ein Seelisches ist aber in der Pflanze nicht vorhanden.* Von demselben Wert wie die Pflanze ist der schlafende menschliche Organismus. Dringend nötig ist, damit sie lebt, daß Sonnenstrahlen auf die Pflanze fallen. Wir sehen die Erde mit Pflanzen bedeckt, weil die Sonne sie hervorruft; die Erde wäre nicht bewachsen ohne Sonne: während der Winterzeit können die Pflanzen nichts hervorsprossen lassen. Wenn der Mensch schläft, wo ist da seine Sonne? Was im Bett liegt, können wir uns auch nicht denken ohne Sonne: diese Sonne ist in dem, was als das Ich des Menschen heraußen ist; das Ich hat da zu arbeiten am schlafenden Organismus wie die Sonne an der Pflanze.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":143,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/140/1913-01-21/p014"},{"locus":"GA 140/1913-01-21/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Das Mondenlicht wirkt auf die Pflanze. Mondeneinfluß hat Bezug auf die Breite der Pflanze; eine Pflanze, die schlank in die Höhe wächst, hat wenig Mondeneinfluß. Der ganze Kosmos ist beteiligt am Pflanzenwachstum. Und das Ich ist beteiligt am physischen und Ätherleib wie die Sonne am Pflanzenwachstum — der astralische Leib wie der Mond: es ist dieselbe Beziehung. Das Ich ist die Sonne für den physischen Leib, der astralische Leib ist sein Mond, aber ein geistiger. Wir sehen unser Ich den Ersatz bilden für die Sonneneinwirkung, unsern astralischen Leib für die des Mondes. Darin liegt die Rechtfertigung für das, was der Seher meint, wenn er sagt: Der Mensch hat sich als ein Extrakt aus den Kräften des Kosmos herausgebildet. Wie die Sonne im Mittelpunkt des Pflanzensystems ist und ihr Licht so hinbreitet, daß überall Licht ist, so soll das Licht des Ich den physischen und Ätherleib durchleuchten. Das Sonnenlicht ist nicht nur physisch, es ist auch seelisch-geistig; als letzteres löste es sich los vom Kosmischen und wurde Ich. Ein Extrakt des Mondenlichtes ist der menschliche astralische Leib. Es ist alles sehr weise eingerichtet. Wenn das Menschen-Ich noch immer an die Sonne gebunden wäre, könnten die Menschen auch nur so wie die Pflanzen zwischen Schlafen und Wachen wechseln. Dem Einfluß der Sonne nach würden wir niemals schlafen können bei Tag, würden immer schlafen müssen bei Nacht; aber das ganze Kulturleben beruht auf dieser Emanzipation. Wir tragen unsere eigene Sonne in uns: das Ich ist ein Extrakt der Sonnenwirkung; das, was im Menschen als astralischer Leib lebt, ist ein Extrakt der Mondenwirkung. So sind wir im Schlaf in der geistigen Welt nicht angewiesen auf die kosmische Sonnenwirkung; unser Ich verrichtet, was sonst die Sonne tut; wir werden beschienen von unserem eigenen Ich und Astralleib. Nur alte okkulte Anschauungen dringen bisweilen hier durch. Geisteswissenschaft gibt uns dieses Bild von dem schlafenden Menschen: Über ihm leuchtet die Sonne, sein Ich — und ohne das könnte er schlafend nicht wie eine Pflanze sein. Über ihm leuchtet der Mond: sein eigener astralischer Leib.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":336,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/140/1913-01-21/p016"},{"locus":"GA 140/1913-01-21/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Nun stellen wir uns vor, daß mit dem Herbste die Sonne ihre Wirksamkeit verliert, das Pflanzenwachstum dahinstirbt. Beim wachen Menschen sind Astralleib und Ich im physischen und Ätherleib drinnen, gewissermaßen ist beim Hineingehen in den Leib Sonnen- und Mondenuntergang: da hört auch das rechte pflanzliche Leben wieder auf. So tätig wie im Schlafe das pflanzliche Leben zur Wiederherstellung der Kräfte ist, so rege ist es nicht beim Erwachen. Es welkt das Pflanzenwachstumsmäßige, wenn der Mensch aufwacht; als Pflanze sterben wir ab am Morgen. Dadurch erklärt sich sehr vieles, was zwischen Seele und Leib des Menschen sich abspielt. Manche Menschen fühlen sich bald nach dem Erwachen sehr angeregt; das sind solche, die mehr im Seelischen leben können. Die mehr im Leiblichen leben, spüren leicht am Morgen eine gewisse Müdigkeit. Je weniger man sich am Morgen ermattet fühlt, desto leistungsfähiger ist man. Doch unser waches Leben ist wie das Hinsterben der Pflanze zur Winterzeit. Jeden Tag bringen wir Absterbekräfte in unseren Organismus hinein; die summieren sich, und weil das so ist, sterben wir. Der Grund des Todes liegt im Bewußtsein. Wir können daraus entnehmen, wie das bewußte, vom Ich durchzogene Tagesleben der Aufzehrer ist vom physischen und Ätherleib. Wir sterben, weil wir bewußt leben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/140/1913-01-21/p017"},{"locus":"GA 140/1913-01-21/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Den Schlaf zu erklären, bemühen sich die Leute viel. Schlaf wäre ein Ermüdungszustand, Schlaf sei da, um Ermüdung fortzuschaffen. Schlaf ist aber kein Ermüdungszustand, denn ein kleines Kind schläft am meisten. Schlaf ist etwas, was sich eingliedert in das Gesamtleben, in den Rhythmus von Einschlafen und Aufwachen. Wie wir zur Winterzeit die Natur hinsterben sehen, so stirbt etwas ab in uns, während wir leben und wachen. — Wenn wir durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen sind, lassen wir unseren physischen und Ätherleib zurück: da könnten uns Ich und astralischer Leib erscheinen wie Sonne und Mond, die nichts zu bescheinen haben. In der Tat ist jedoch der Zustand möglich, daß Ich und astralischer Leib fortleben, auch wenn sie nichts bescheinen können. Wenn sie in den Leib untertauchen, wird Bewußtsein hervorgebracht; in der geistigen Welt muß der Mensch auch in etwas untertauchen, daß er bewußt werde, sonst wäre er ohne bewußtes Leben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":150,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/140/1913-01-21/p018"}],"beads":[{"from":[15,16],"to":[13,14],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[17,18,19],"to":[16],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[20],"to":[17],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[21,22],"to":[18],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}