{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-05/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the past I have often used a comparison to characterize this awareness from a different point of view. I have said: a human finger is a human finger only as long as it is connected to the human body. The moment we cut it off, it withers away. Just as the finger is related to the body, I have often said, so man is related to the whole Earth, indeed to our entire planetary system. If you were to remove man from the Earth and from the entire planetary system, he would wither away, he would die like the finger when it is removed from the human body. The point is that in human life one gradually advances from the perception of the part to the perception of the greater whole. Man, as he can observe himself, is really a partial being, insofar as he is a physical organism and also insofar as he is an etheric body. He is only considered as an organism when he is in connection with the earth and even with the whole planetary system. But if you really absorb this in your consciousness, you know that you belong more to the world than to the mere earth, because the earth draws its forces from the universe, and while we are at first only dependent on the earth, we gradually move on to dependence on the universe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Third Lecture","site_heading":"Cosmic Forces and Social Understanding Through Spiritual Thinking","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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Es handelt sich darum, daß man allmählich im menschlichen Leben dazu aufrückt, von der Wahrnehmung des Teiles zu der Wahrnehmung eines größeren Ganzen zu kommen. Der Mensch, so wie er sich selbst betrachten kann, ist wirklich eine Teilwesenheit, insofern er ein physischer Organismus ist und auch insofern er ein Ätherleib ist. Er wird nur als ein Organismus betrachtet, wenn er im Zusammenhang mit der Erde und sogar mit dem ganzen Planetensystem ist. 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