{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 178/1917-11-16/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When the human being enters into earthly existence through birth, acquiring his physical body, he does not gain only the possibility of giving his existence to his own soul. I beg you to consider this well. The human being by no means knows everything about this physical body. Many things go on in it about which he knows nothing! He gradually comes to know what goes on in this physical body, yet in a very unsuitable way, through anatomy and physiology. If we had to wait for nourishment until we understood the process of digestion—well, one could not even say that people would have to die of hunger, for it is unthinkable that one must know something about what the organs have to do in order to prepare food for the organism! Thus a human being comes into this world with the organism in which he has clothed himself but without extending down into this organism with his soul. The opportunity therefore exists a short time before we are born (not very long before we are born) for another spiritual being in addition to our soul to take possession of our body, of the subconscious part of our body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Mystery of the Double: Geographic Medicine","site_heading":"Geographic Medicine and the Ahrimanic Double in Human Nature","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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Wenn man warten müßte mit der Ernährung, bis man den Ernährungsvorgang begriffen hätte, man könnte nicht einmal sagen, die Menschen müßten verhungern; denn das ist gar nicht denkbar, daß man etwas weiß von dem, was die Organe zu tun haben, um die Nahrung zuzubereiten für den Organismus. Also der Mensch kommt recht sehr mit seinem Organismus, mit dem er sich bekleidet, in diese Welt herein, ohne daß er mit seiner Seele hinunterlangt in diesen Organismus. Dafür ist aber auch Gelegenheit vorhanden, daß kurze Zeit bevor wir geboren werden - nicht sehr lange bevor wir geboren werden -, außer unserer Seele noch ein anderes geistiges Wesen Besitz ergreift von unserem Leib, von dem unterbewußten Teil unseres Leibes. Das ist schon mal so: kurze Zeit bevor wir geboren werden, durchsetzt uns ein anderes, wir würden nach unserer ’Terminologie heute sagen, ein ahrimanisches Geisteswesen. Das ist ebenso in uns wie unsere eigene Seele. Diese Wesenheiten, welche ihr Leben gerade dadurch zubringen, daß sie die Menschen selber dazu benützen, um da sein zu können in der Sphäre, in der sie da sein wollen, diese Wesenheiten haben eine außerordentlich hohe Intelligenz und einen ganz bedeutsam entwickelten Willen, aber gar kein Gemüt, nicht das, was man menschliches Gemüt nennt. — Und wir schreiten schon so durch unser Leben, daß wir unsere Seele haben und einen solchen Doppelgänger, der viel gescheiter ist, sehr viel gescheiter ist als wir, sehr intelligent ist, aber eine mephistophelische Intelligenz hat, eine ahrimanische Intelligenz hat, und dazu einen ahrimanischen Willen, einen sehr starken Willen, einen Willen, der den Naturkräften viel näher steht als unser menschlicher Wille, der durch das Gemüt reguliert wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":361,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-16/p023"}],"english":["GA 178/1917-11-16/p030","GA 178/1917-11-16/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":361,"en_words":364,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10164,"original_word_count":10093,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alice Wulsin","identified_edition":"MP1986","book_title":"Geographic Medicine","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA178/English/MP1986/19171116p01.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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