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Imagine coming in here and of all the respected ladies and gentlemen you find here you would see nothing more than bones. Then you would have as much consciousness of the people present here as science has of the earth.","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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Denken Sie sich nur einmal: Sie würden gar niemals fähig sein, durch irgendwelche Sinne die Menschen zu sehen, sondern es würde nur Röntgenaufnahmen von Menschen geben und man würde von jedem, der einem bekannter ist, nur das Knochensystem kennen: dann würden Sie vom Menschen so viel kennen, als die Geologen und überhaupt die Wissenschaft von der Erde kennt. Denken Sie sich, Sie würden hier hereingehen und von all den verehrten Herrschaften, die Sie hier finden, nichts anderes als die Knochen sehen, dann hätten Sie soviel Bewußtsein von all den Gegenwärtigen hier, als die Wissenschaft heute von der Erde hat. Die Erde, die man also nur als Knochensystem kennt, die ist ein lebendiger Organismus, und als lebendiger Organismus wirkt sie auf die Wesen, die auf ihr herumwandeln, nämlich auf die Menschen selber. Und so wie der Mensch differenziert ist in bezug auf die Verteilung seiner Organe über den Leib, so ist die Erde auch differenziert in bezug auf dasjenige, was sie lebendig aus sich herausentwickelt und womit sie die Menschen beeinflußt, die auf ihr herumwandeln. Ich meine, Sie sind sich dessen bewußt: wenn Sie denken, so werden Sie nicht gerade den rechten Zeigefinger oder die linke große Zehe anstrengen, sondern Ihren Kopf; Sie wissen ganz genau, Sie denken nicht mit Ihrer rechten großen Zehe, Sie denken mit dem Kopf. Also die Dinge verteilen sich im lebendigen Organismus, der ist differenziert. So ist auch unsere Erde differenziert. Ein Wesen, das etwa überall das gleiche auf seine Bewohner hinaufstrahlt, ist unsere Erde durchaus nicht, sondern auf den verschiedensten Gebieten der Erde wird ganz Verschiedenes hinaufgestrahlt. 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