{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 183/1918-08-26/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Goethe with his theory of metamorphosis began in an elementary way to form concepts by which all this can be understood. Whereas otherwise since ancient times there has been a deadlock in the formation of concepts, with Goethe the faculty of forming concepts once more arose. And these concepts are those of living metamorphoses. Goethe, it is true, always began with the most simple. He said: when we look at a plant we have its green leaf; but the green leaf changes into the flower petal, into the colorsome petal of the flower. Both are the same, only one is the metamorphosis of the other. And as the green leaf of the plant and the red petal of the rose are different metamorphoses, the same thing at a different stage, man's head and his extremities organism too are simply metamorphoses of one another. When we take Goethe's thought on the metamorphosis of the plant we have something primitive, simple; but this thought can blossom into something of the greatest and can serve to describe man's passing from one incarnation to the next. We see the plant with its green leaf and its blossom, and say: this blossom, this red blossom of the rose is the metamorphosis of the green leaf of the plant. We see a man standing before us and say: that head you are carrying is the metamorphosis of arms, hands, legs, feet of your previous incarnation, and what you now have as arms, hands, legs and feet will be changed into your head of the next incarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"The Threefold Sun and Human Metamorphosis Across Incarnations","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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Beides ist ein und dasselbe, es sind nur Metamorphosen voneinander. -— So wie das grüne Pflanzenblatt und das rote Rosenblatt verschiedene Metamorphosen sind, ein und dasselbe auf verschiedenen Stufen, so sind das Haupt des Menschen und der Extremitätenorganismus einfach Metamorphosen voneinander. Wenn wir den Goetheschen Metamorphosengedanken für die Pflanze nehmen, haben wir etwas Primitives, Einfaches; aber es kann dieser Gedanke fruchtbar gemacht werden für ein Höchstes: für das Beschreiben des Überganges des Menschen von einer Inkarnation in die andere. Wir sehen eine Pflanze mit grünem Blatt und mit der Blüte und sagen: Die Blüte, die rote Rosenblüte ist umgewandelt aus dem grünen Pflanzenblatt. 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