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We are able to speak of an etheric body belonging to the plant or to the earth. However, the elemental beings observed in this way are not by any means the only ones which reveal themselves to supersensible experience. We characterise the elemental body of a plant by saying that it builds up a form from the materials and forces of the physical world and thereby manifests its life in a physical body. But we may also observe beings that lead an elemental existence without manifesting their life in a physical body. Thus entities that are purely elemental are revealed to supersensible observation. It is not merely that we experience an addition, as it were, to the physical world; we experience another world in which the world of the senses presents itself as something which may be compared to pieces of ice floating about in water. A man who could only see the ice and not the water might quite possibly ascribe reality to the ice only and not to the water. Similarly, if we take into account only that which manifests itself to the senses, we may deny the existence of the supersensible world, of which the world of the senses is in reality a part, just as the floating pieces of ice are part of the water in which they are floating.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":265,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/16/l03/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. 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And yet the supersensible experience has not been expressed through arbitrarily chosen perceptions of the senses. The picture seen is actually before the observer, and is similar to an impression of the senses. This is so because, during supersensible experiences liberation from the physical body is not complete. The physical body is still connected with the elemental body, and brings the supersensible experience in a form drawn from the sense world. Thus the description given of an elemental being is given in the form of a visionary or fanciful combination of sense-impressions. But in spite of this, it is, when given in this manner, a true rendering of what has been experienced. For we have really seen what we are describing. The mistake that may be made is not in describing the vision as such, but in taking the vision for the reality, instead of that to which the vision points namely, the reality underlying it. A man who has never seen colours—a man born blind—will not, when he attains to the corresponding faculty of perception, describe elemental beings in such a way as to speak of flashing colours. He will make use of expressions familiar to him. To people, however, who are able to see physically, it is quite appropriate when they, in their description, make use of some such expression as the flashing forth of a colour form. By its aid they can give an impression of what has been seen by the observer of the elemental world. And this holds good not only for communications made by a clairvoyant—that is to say, one who is able to perceive by the aid of his elemental body—to a non-clairvoyant, but also for the intercommunication between clairvoyants themselves. In the world of the senses man lives in his physical body, and this body clothes the supersensible observations in forms perceptible to the senses. 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So kann man den elementarischen Leib eines Wesens der Sinnenwelt, oder ein rein elementarisches Wesen so beschrieben finden, dass gesagt wird, es offenbare sich als in sich geschlossener, mannigfaltig gefärbter Lichtleib. Es blitze in Farben auf, glimmere oder leuchte und lasse bemerken, dass diese Farben- oder Lichterscheinung seine Lebensäußerung sei. Wovon der Beobachter da eigentlich spricht, ist durchaus unsichtbar, und er ist sich dessen bewußt, dass mit dem, was er wahrnimmt, das Licht- oder Farbenbild nichts anderes zu tun hat, als etwa die Schrift, in welcher eine Tatsache mitgeteilt wird, mit dieser Tatsache selbst. Dennoch hat man nicht etwa bloß ein Übersinnliches in willkürlicher Art durch sinnliche Empfindungsvorstellungen ausgedrückt; sondern man hat während der Beobachtung das Erlebnis wirklich gemacht, das einem Sinneseindruck ähnlich ist. Es kommt dies davon her, dass im übersinnlichen Erleben die Befreiung von dem sinnlichen Leibe keine vollkommene ist. 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