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Imagine if one entered through the door and on these chairs sat nothing but skeletons (not that you necessarily would have nothing but bones—that I do not expect of you—but we will assume that man has the capacity to see only bones; he would be fitted out with some kind of X-ray machine). This is just what geology sees of the earth; it sees only the skeleton. This earth, however, not only consists of skeleton but is a living organism, and this earth sends from its center to every point on the surface, to every territory, special forces. Picture for yourself the surface of the earth (see drawing):","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 1","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-11-18","location":null,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/178/1917-11-18/p042","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Gilbert Church and Alice Wulsin","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReapChrist/19171118p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-18/p042"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/178/1917-11-18/p042","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Der Mensch sieht davon eben nur das Knochengerüste, denn der Geologe und Minetaloge und Paläontologe stellt nur das Mineralische hin, das ist das Knochengerüst. Wenn Sie nur das wissen, so wissen Sie ungefähr nur so viel, wie wenn Sie hier hereinkommen würden und von der gesamten erlauchten Gesellschaft durch eine besondere Einrichtung Ihres Sehvermögens nichts anderes als die Knochen sehen würden, das Knochensystem. Nun stellen Sie sich einmal vor, wenn Sie hier hereinkämen zu der Türe und auf diesen Stühlen säßen lauter Knochengerippe, nicht daß Sie etwa nichts als Knochen hätten, das mute ich Ihnen nicht zu, aber wir nehmen an, der Mensch hätte nur die Fähigkeit, die Knochen zu sehen, er wäre wie mit irgendeinem Röntgenapparat ausgebildet. So viel nur sieht die Geologie von der Erde, die sieht nur das Knochengerüst. Diese Erde hat aber nicht nur das Knochengerüst, sondern sie ist ein lebendiger Organismus, und diese Erde sendet an jedem Punkte, auf jedem Territorium aus ihrem Mittelpunkt besondere Kräfte an die Oberfläche. Stellen Sie sich also so die Oberfläche der Erde vor (siehe Zeichnung S. 192), hier östliches Gebiet, hier westliches Gebiet- nur um das Große ins Auge zu fassen. Die Kräfte nun, welche heraufgesendet werden von der Erde, sind etwas, was zum Lebensorganismus der Erde gehört. Und je nachdem der Mensch an diesem oder jenem Orte der Erde lebt, kommt nicht seine Seele, nicht diese unsterbliche Seele mit diesen Erdenkräften in Verbindung - die nur indirekt; die unsterbliche Seele des Menschen ist verhältnismäßig sehr unabhängig von Erdenverhältnissen, sie wird nur künstlich auf solche Weise, wie es heute gezeigt wurde, von den Erdenverhältnissen abhängig gemacht. Aber auf dem Umwege durch diesen andern, der vor der Geburt vom Menschen Besitz ergreift und vor dem Tode ihn wieder verlassen muß, durch diesen andern wirken besonders stark diese verschiedenen Kräfte, welche durch Rassentypen und geographische Verschiedenheiten in den Menschen hereinwirken. 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