{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 188/1919-01-03/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There are only quite a few men in these days into whom something of former atavistic conceptions of world reality have penetrated through the general illusive conceptions. When the animal is observed in its whole connection with the development of nature, when its organisation is looked at in relation to the ordering of nature, what exactly is the animal? You see when the old Moon evolution was in existence, in regard to outer organisation there was still no differentiation between the higher animals and man of today. The differentiation is a product of earth evolution only. Man has gone through the normal evolution of the earth, but the animal has not; the animal dried up, as it were, during the Moon evolution. Its organisation does not fit in with earth evolution, whoever has seen into this—in modern times a few people, Hegel among them, have instinctively seen into this—whoever has done so can answer the question: what exactly is the animal in the form of its organisation? Nature becomes sick and the sickness of nature is the animal, especially the higher animal. In the animal organisation there holds sway the sickness of nature, the sickness of the whole earth. This development of disease in the earth, this unhealthy falling back into the old Moon evolution, is the higher animal nature, not so much the lower animals but those that are higher. But this also is something that, in the decisive moment of passing the Guardian of the Threshold, man meets unconsciously unless he wills to do so consciously.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Das Tier ist gleichsam in der Mondenentwickelung vertrocknet. Es stimmt nicht zusammen seine Organisation mit der Erdenentwickelung. Wer das durchschaut — es haben es in der neueren Zeit eben wenige instinktiv durchschaut, /ege/ unter anderem -, der beantwortet sich die Frage: Was ist denn eigentlich das Tier in bezug auf seine Organisationsform? — damit, daß er sagt: Die Natur wird krank, und die Krankheit der Natur ist das Tier, namentlich das höhere Tier. In der tierischen Organisation waltet die Krankheit der Natur, die Krankheit der ganzen Erde. Das Krankwerden der Erde, das kranke Zurücksinken in die alte Mondenentwickelung ist die höhere Tierheit; nicht so sehr die niederen Tiere, aber die höhere Tierheit. Das aber ist auch etwas, was dem Menschen in dem entscheidenden Augenblicke unbewußt entgegentritt, wenn er an dem Hüter der Schwelle vorbeikommt, falls er es nicht bewußt will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":240,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/188/1919-01-03/p034"}],"english":["GA 188/1919-01-03/p033"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":240,"en_words":258,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8259,"original_word_count":7890,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Violet E. 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