{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 163/1915-09-05/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A contemplation of the relationship of the etheric body to the world as a whole brings us closer to this riddle. Everyone knows as a fact of experience that our physical bodies age; we grow older and older physically. And everyone understands what is involved in aging. But where our etheric bodies are concerned the opposite is true: we grow younger, ever younger. When we are very old, our physical bodies are old, but our etheric bodies have grown young. Some of you have already heard of this in my lectures, but I want to discuss it today in a different context. We have to develop our etheric bodies during an incarnation in such a way that when we have come to its close, our astral bodies will be so embedded in these etheric bodies that they feel themselves prepared for their appropriate entrance into the next life. It is really true that when an individual is old and gray and wrinkled, his etheric body burgeons with fresh life, for his astral body must accustom itself at this point to live in an etheric body already teeming with germinal potential. The way the astral body is to permeate and work in the physical body of a child in the following incarnation must already find some degree of expression in its connection with the etheric body grown young.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. The Physical Body Binds Us to the Physical World, the Etheric Body to the Cosmos","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-09-05","location":null,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/163/1915-09-05/p013","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Marjorie Spock","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Chance, Providence and Necessity","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA163/English/AP1988/19150905p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Einige sind ja unter Ihnen, die auch das schon in Vorträgen von mir gehört haben, ich will aber heute über diese Sache noch einmal in einem anderen Zusammenhang sprechen. Wir müssen unseren Ätherleib so ausbilden im Verlaufe unseres Erdenlebens, daß wenn wir am Ende unseres Erdenlebens angekommen sind, unser astralischer Leib in diesen Ätherleib so eingebettet ist, daß er sich so drinnen fühlt, wie er beschaffen sein muß, um das nächste Leben in entsprechender Weise anzutreten. Man kann wirklich sagen: Wenn der Mensch alt, grau, runzlig geworden ist, so blüht sein Ätherleib auf, wird frisch; denn sein astralischer Leib muß sich dann gewöhnen, in einem Ätherleib so zu leben, daß da schon das Keimhafte drinnen liegt. Wie nun dieser astralische Leib in dem nächsten Erdenwerden die physische Leiblichkeit des Kindes durchdringt, wie er da drinnen arbeitet, das muß sich in einer gewissen Weise schon durch das Leben mit dem junggewordenen Ätherleib ausdrücken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":248,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/163/1915-09-05/p012"}],"english":["GA 163/1915-09-05/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":248,"en_words":227,"ratio":0.92,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4791,"original_word_count":4904,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Marjorie Spock","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Chance, Providence and Necessity","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA163/English/AP1988/19150905p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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