{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 163/1915-09-05/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If you apply what I have just been saying, you will see that it makes a tremendous, an enormous difference whether an individual dies in extreme old age or as a youngster, perhaps even in childhood. For the etheric body of someone who dies in youth has not yet grown young. If we are speaking of physical human beings we can say that they are growing old, but in speaking of the etheric body we would have to say that it “grows young.” That would be the proper expression for it. The etheric body grows young but it has not yet grown entirely young in those who die at an early age. I once tried to suggest this by saying that when a person dies in childhood or in youth his etheric body has not actually been used up. This etheric body would have lasted him a lifetime; he could have reached sixty years or more with it if he hadn't died young. But the force inherent in such an etheric body remains in existence, just as forces in the physical world do; they are not lost. However, we need to make a closer study of the special, unique attributes of this etheric body.","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":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/163/1915-09-05/p017","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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Ich habe das früher einmal dadurch anzudeuten versucht, daß ich gesagt habe: Wenn der Mensch im jugendlichen, kindlichen Alter stirbt, so ist sein Ätherleib im Grunde genommen unverbraucht. Er hätte ein ganzes Leben damit ausgereicht, mit diesem Ätherleib. Man hätte sechzig, achtzig Jahre alt werden können mit diesem Ätherleib, den man zur Verfügung hat, wenn man nicht jung gestorben wäre. Aber sowenig wie in der äußeren physischen Welt irgendeine Kraft verlorengeht, sowenig geht die Kraft eines solchen Ätherleibes verloren. Die bleibt vorhanden. Nur müssen wir etwas genauer auf das Besondere, Eigentümliche dieser Kraft eingehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":205,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/163/1915-09-05/p016"}],"english":["GA 163/1915-09-05/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":205,"en_words":204,"ratio":1.0,"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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