{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-05/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But this human body was inhabited by a spiritual being that descended from spiritual worlds before the birth or before the conception and gave the structure to this human body. This structure remains as an essential in every speck of dust, passes into the earth or into the atmosphere when burned, no matter how, and the earth receives with this human body that which has descended from the spiritual worlds. This is not without significance. This is not just an ordinary truth, but it has a very, very great significance. For our Earth is no longer evolving, and it would have been so long ago that no human being, and perhaps no animal either, could inhabit it today if it were not for the continuous supply of spiritual and soul-like refreshing forces through human bodies. The fact that the Earth is still a habitable place for people today is due to the fact that human bodies are continuously being supplied to it. These always refresh the earth's forces. Since the middle of the Atlantean period, the earth has already been withering. It no longer has the rising powers that it had in the old polar, Lemurian and so on periods. But since the middle of the Atlantean period, the earth has only withering forces of its own and is only refreshed for further existence by the fact that the formative forces of human bodies are imparted to it. These continue to work in the earth. These alone make the earth habitable for people.","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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Denn unsere Erde ist nicht mehr in Entwickelung, und es wäre längst so, daß kein Mensch sie heute mehr, vielleicht auch keine Tiere — die Tiere vielleicht -— bewohnen könnten, wenn ihr nicht fortwährend Auffrischungskräfte geistig-seelischer Art durch die Menschenleiber zukämen. Daß die Erde heute noch ein für Menschen bewohnbarer Weltenort ist, das ist dem Umstande verdankt, daß ihr fortwährend Menschenleiber mitgeteilt werden. Diese frischen die Erdenkräfte immer wiederum auf. Seit der Mitte der atlantischen Zeit ist die Erde bereits im Verdorren. Sie hat keine Aufgangskräfte mehr; die hatte sie in der alten polarischen, lemurischen und so weiter Zeit. Aber seit der Mitte der atlantischen Zeit hat die Erde aus sich selbst nur verdorrende Kräfte und wird nur aufgefrischt für weiteres Bestehen dadurch, daß ihr die Formkräfte der Menschenleiber mitgeteilt werden. Die wirken in der Erde weiter. 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