{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 199/1920-09-18/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If one knows how the prenatal human being incarnates itself in a physical body, then one follows the developing human being in the child quite differently. We find that there are two stages in the developing human being. The first stage is indicated by the change of teeth around age seven. What does this change of teeth signify? It is a much more powerful change in the whole human organism than one usually believes. Today, however, one only observes these things outwardly. When people eventually accustom themselves to consider these things on the soul level in the way it can be done through spiritual science, what will they realize? They will say: Strange! Until the change of teeth the child does not really form solid, contoured concepts; to be sure, the child remembers a lot but does not retain its memories in concepts; actual intelligence does not yet appear. Just observe a child carefully and notice how, during the time when the teeth change, the faculty of actual intelligence increasingly emerges. Today one has no sense of the difference existing between a seven-year-old and a five-year old regarding the development of intelligence. If one would only observe how the soul gradually emerges after age seven—the Waldorf School teachers must observe it, for their whole teaching and education is based upon it—one would immediately understand in which direction one has to look in order to answer the question: Where was the element of intelligence that emerges after the seventh year? Where was it concealed? It was within the body; it was active in the organism. The same element that emancipates itself at age seven and turns into intelligence was within the body, was forming the body, and the culmination point of its activity of shaping the body is reached when the second teeth appear. The power that thrusts itself into being with the second teeth has been active in the whole organism. It is, however, a power that is active in the body only up to the seventh year. After that it has nothing more to do with the body; it then becomes intelligence. It already was intelligence earlier; as such, however, it was at work in the body. Look at what takes place in the child's body up until the seventh year. Next, look at what the child has as intelligence after age seven. You are looking at the same thing. Through birth, intelligence descended. At first it was not active as intelligence, as soul being; it becomes active in this way gradually after the seventh year. Here you have a concrete view of the working together of the soul with the body. Now you are able to see what was mainly at work in the human body until age seven. You do not have the foolish abstract concepts, fabricated and put into our textbooks and handbooks, concerning the interaction of body and soul. You have the concrete views of what works throughout seven years in blood and nerves, in muscles and bones, and then becomes the child's intelligence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XVII","site_heading":"Prenatal Existence and the Spiritual Foundations of Human Development","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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Das Kind bis zum Zahnwechsel bildet sich nicht ganz gefestigte Begriffe, es erinnert sich zwar an manches, aber es legt die Erinnerung nicht in Begriffe fest; es tritt noch nicht eigentliche Intelligenz auf. Beobachten Sie nur ernstlich einmal ein Kind, wie da im Laufe des Zahnwechsels immer mehr und mehr die Fähigkeit für die eigentliche Intelligenz entsteht. Man hat ja heute gar kein Gefühl dafür, welcher Unterschied besteht zum Beispiel zwischen einem sieben- und fünfjährigen Kinde mit Bezug auf die Ausbildung der Intelligenz. Würde man nur beobachten - die Waldorfschullehrer müssen es beobachten, denn das liegt ihrem ganzen Unterricht und ihrer Erziehung zugrunde -, wie diese Seele nach und nach herauskommt nach dem siebenten Jahr, dann würde man gleich einsehen, wohin man zu blicken hat, wenn man die Frage beantworten will: Ja, wo war denn das alles, was da als Intelligenz herauskommt nach dem siebenten Jahr? Wo steckte denn das? Das steckte im Leibe unten, war tätig im Leibe. Dasselbe, was sich emanzipiert mit dem siebenten Jahr und Intelligenz wird, das war unten im Leibe, gestaltete den Leib und machte seinen Schlußpunkt in bezug auf dessen Gestaltung mit dem Herausdrängen der zweiten Zähne. Die Kraft, die in den zweiten Zähnen sich zum Dasein drängt, sie ist in dem ganzen Organismus tätig gewesen. Aber es ist eine Kraft, welche nur bis zum siebenten Jahr im Leibe tätig ist, dann hat sie im Leibe nichts mehr zu tun, dann wird sie Intelligenz; sie war früher auch schon Intelligenz, aber sie arbeitete im Leibe. Sehen Sie sich an, was im Leibe des Kindes bis zum siebenten Jahr geschieht, und sehen Sie nachher, was das Kind als Intelligenz hat nach dem siebenten Jahr, dann haben Sie dasselbe. Durch die Geburt ist die Intelligenz heruntergestiegen; zunächst war sie noch nicht als Intelligenz, als seelische Wesenheit tätig, das wird sie erst allmählich nach dem siebenten Jahr: da haben \"Sie konkret das Zusammenwirken der Seele mit dem Leibe. Und jetzt können Sie, was da hauptsächlich bis zum siebenten Jahre im Menschenleibe arbeitete, Sie können es ja anschauen. Jetzt haben Sie nicht törichte, abstrakte Begriffe vom Zusammenwirken von Leib und Seele, die aus den Fingern gesogen sind, wie sie in unseren Lehr- und Handbüchern stehen, jetzt haben Sie konkrete Anschauungen von dem, was in Blut und Nerven, in Muskeln und Knochen sieben Jahre hindurch arbeitete und dann Intelligenz des Kindes wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":488,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-09-18/p012"}],"english":["GA 199/1920-09-18/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":488,"en_words":509,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6369,"original_word_count":5930,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1986","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA199/English/AP1986/19200918p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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