{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-23/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, I should here like to mention that a certain idea, taken from scientific and occult research, is of immense importance for human life. For this shows us that when we consider the individual human being, we have really before us something like an image of the great Earth-being itself. What do we see when we turn towards plants which are beginning to sprout and bud? We see exactly the same as takes place in man when his inner life is active, we see how the one exactly corresponds to the other. How single plants are related to the human body, what their significance is for the human body, can only be recognised when such connections are understood. For it is in fact true that, on close examination, one sees how, when man falls asleep, everything begins to sprout and bud in his physical and etheric bodies: how a whole vegetation springs up in him: how man is in reality a tree or a garden in which plants are growing.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Life's Meaning Through Spiritual Science and Reincarnation","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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Nun möchte ich gleich hier bemerken, daß ein gewisser Gedanke, der aus der Natur- und okkulten Forschung genommen ist, von ungeheurer Bedeutung ist für das menschliche Leben. Durch diese Forschung zeigt sich ja, daß wir im Grunde genommen wirklich, wenn wir den einzelnen Menschen betrachten, etwas vor uns haben wie ein Abbild des großen Erdenwesens selber. Und was sehen wir, wenn wir den Blick hinrichten auf die Pflanzen, die anfangen zu sprossen und sprießen? Da sehen wir genau dasselbe, was der Mensch tut, wenn er in sich lebt im Schlafen. Wir haben genau gesehen, daß das eine vollständig dem andern entspricht. Wie die einzelnen Pflanzen zu dem Menschenleibe stehen, was sie für das Menschenleben bedeuten, das kann man nur erkennen, wenn man einen solchen Zusammenhang überschaut. 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