{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 154/1914-05-05/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"However, the important point we want to make today is that germs can become dangerous only if they are allowed to flourish. Germs should not be allowed to flourish. Even materialists will agree with this statement, but they will no longer agree with us if we proceed further and, from the standpoint of proper spiritual science, speak about the most favorable conditions for germs. Germs flourish most intensively when we take nothing but materialistic thoughts into sleep with us. There is no better way to encourage them to flourish than to enter sleep with only materialistic ideas, and then to work from the spiritual world with the ego and the astral body on those organs that are not part of the blood and the nervous system. The only other method that is just as good is to live in the center of an epidemic or endemic illness and to think of nothing but the sickness all around, filled only with a fear of getting sick. That would be equally effective. If fear of the illness is the only thing created in such a place and one goes to sleep at night with that thought, it produces afterimages, Imaginations impregnated with fear. That is a good method of cultivating and nurturing germs. If this fear can be reduced even a little by, for example, active love and, while tending the sick, forgetting for a time that one might also be infected, the conditions are less favorable for the germs.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. 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Es gibt kein besseres Mittel für diese Pflege, als mit nur materialistischen Vorstellungen in den Schlaf hineinzugehen und von da, von der geistigen Welt, von seinem Ich und Astralleib aus zurückzuwirken auf die Organe des physischen Leibes, die nicht Blut und Nervensystem sind. Es gibt kein besseres Mittel, Bazillen zu hegen, als mit nur materialistischer Gesinnung zu schlafen. Das heißt, es gibt noch wenigstens ein Mittel, das ebensogut ist wie dieses. Das ist, in einem Herd von epidemischen oder endemischen Krankheiten zu leben und nichts anderes aufzunehmen als die Krankheitsbilder um sich herum, indem man einzig und allein angefüllt ist mit der Empfindung der Furcht vor dieser Krankheit. Das ist allerdings ebensogut. Wenn man nichts anderes vorbringen kann vor sich selber als Furcht vor den Krankheiten, die sich rundherum abspielen in einem epidemischen Krankheitsherd und mit dem Gedanken der Furcht hineinschläft in die Nacht, so erzeugen sich in der Seele die unbewußten Nachbilder, Imaginationen, die durchsetzt sind von Furcht. Und das ist ein gutes Mittel, um Bazillen zu hegen und zu pflegen. 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