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The one who compares externally will say that the waking up in the morning can be compared to the waking up of nature in spring. But the opposite is true! We have to compare the blossoming in spring with falling asleep. We have to compare the emergence and growth of plants in spring with what happens in the etheric and physical body of a person when they fall asleep. Then, as summer approaches, it becomes more and more alive, as in the human physical and etheric bodies in the middle of the sleep period. And in autumn it becomes as if the human being descends into the physical and etheric body in the morning, in autumn, which causes withering of what has sprouted during spring and summer. 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In winter, they are connected to the earth as earth spirits, in order to rise again in spring and summer to the heights of heaven, to the astral heights and to the other side of the earth. When spring comes again, they go back to sleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":74,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-05-16/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1912-05-16","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 143/1912-05-16/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/143/1912-05-16/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":67,"en_words":74,"ratio":1.1,"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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Something similar is also the case with man in a certain respect. The person who follows the processes clairvoyantly sees that in spring it is the same as when a person falls asleep, where the individual spirit withdraws into the astral world; he sees that in spring what we call the earth spirits withdraw into the astral world, and vice versa. Yes, today's humanity – except for those sitting here, who would probably burst out laughing if one were to speak of the falling asleep and waking up of the earth spirits. One believes this humanity; it does everything to prove that it has no idea of the real processes of the world. But it was not always so, not at all, but it was different in the past! There was an old human clairvoyance, and that saw these facts correctly. It was seen that the earth spirits withdraw in spring to go up, so to speak, into cosmic heights. In autumn these spirits descend again. This was recognized in ancient times. It was natural to point out that in the middle of summer there is something like an absence of the actual earth spirit from the earth. Instead, there is an upsurge of the elemental nature spirits, as in a paroxysm, and a lagging behind of what is earthly-bodily on the earth, which thus emerges through the senses. If one wanted to make this clear, one could not do better than to move the Feast of St. John to this time, in order to point out how the sprouting nature spirits and the actual spirits of the earth, which are the I and the astral body of the earth, work.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":301,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-05-16/p023","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1912-05-16","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 143/1912-05-16/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/143/1912-05-16/p024"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":284,"en_words":301,"ratio":1.06,"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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Derjenige, der äußerlich vergleicht, wird sagen, es läßt sich das Aufwachen am Morgen vergleichen mit dem Aufwachen der Natur im Frühling. Das Umgekehrte ist aber wahr! Wir müssen das Aufblühen im Frühling mit dem Einschlafen vergleichen. Wir müssen vergleichen das Hervorkommen und Hervorwachsen der Pflanzen im Frühling mit dem, was im Äther- und physischen Leib des Menschen beim Einschlafen vor sich geht. Dann wird das immer lebendiger, wenn es dem Sommer entgegengeht, wie im menschlichen physischen und Ätherleibe in der Mitte der Schlafenszeit. Und im Herbst wird es so, wie wenn der Mensch am Morgen hinuntertaucht in den physischen und Ätherleib, im Herbst, der zum Verwelken bringt dasjenige, was während des Frühlings und Sommers aufgesproßt ist. Man muß richtig zusammenstellen, was draußen und drinnen geschieht, man darf nicht äußerliche Allegorien suchen und den Frühling mit dem Aufwachen, den Herbst mit dem Einschlafen vergleichen, sondern umgekehrt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/143/1912-05-16/p022"},{"locus":"GA 143/1912-05-16/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"So daß wir sagen können: Das, was die Geister der Erde sind, das geht im Frühling schlafen und wacht als Erdengeister im Herbst und Winter auf. Im Winter sind sie als Erdengeister mit der Erde verbunden, um wieder hinaufzusteigen im Frühling und Sommer in die Himmelshöhen, in die astralischen Höhen und auf die andere Seite der Erde. Wenn wir wieder Frühling haben, dann gehen sie wieder schlafen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":67,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/143/1912-05-16/p023"},{"locus":"GA 143/1912-05-16/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Dem widerspricht nicht, daß die Erde einmal auf der einen und das andere Mal auf der anderen Hälfte schläft. Ähnliches ist in gewisser Beziehung auch beim Menschen der Fall. Derjenige, der die Vorgänge hellseherisch verfolgt, sieht, wie es im Frühling geradeso ist wie beim menschlichen Einschlafen, wo der einzelne Geist sich zurückzieht in die astralische Welt; er sieht, daß sich im Frühling dasjenige, was wir die Erdengeister nennen, in dieastralische Welt zurückzieht, und umgekehrt. Ja, die heutige Menschheit -— mit Ausnahme derer, die hier sitzen würde wahrscheinlich ein helles Gelächter anstimmen, wenn man. so vom Einschlafen und Aufwachen der Erdengeister reden würde. Das glaubt man dieser Menschheit; sie tut ja alles, um zu beweisen, daß sie keine Ahnung hat von den wirklichen Vorgängen der Welt. Es war aber nicht immer so, durchaus nicht, sondern es war früher auch einmal anders! Es gab nämlich ein altes menschliches Hellsehen, und das hat diese Tatsachen richtig gesehen. Da hat man gesehen, daß dasjenige, was Erdengeister sind, sich zurückzieht im Frühling, um sozusagen hinaufzugehen in kosmische Höhen. Im Herbst steigen diese Geister wieder herunter. Das hat man in alten Zeiten gesehen. Da war es natürlich, darauf hinzuweisen, daß in der Mitte des Sommers etwas vorliegt wie ein Abwesendsein des eigentlichen Erdengeistigen von der Erde. Dafür findet statt ein Aufschießen der Elementarnaturgeister wie in einem Paroxysmus, und ein Zurückbleiben dessen, was irdischleiblich an der Erde ist, was also durch das Sinnliche hervortritt. 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