{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-04-09/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now with what does the mentality which finds expression in this mathematical-mechanical construction of the Universe reckon? It reckons with something that is founded to some extent in the nature of Man, but only in a very small part of him. It reckons first with the abstract *three dimensions of space*. Astronomy reckons with the abstract three dimensions of space; it distinguishes one dimension, a *second* (drawing on blackboard) and a *third*, at right angles. It fixes attention on a star in movement, or on the position of a star, by looking at these three dimensions of space. Now man would be unable to speak of three dimensional space if he had not experienced it in his own being. Man *experiences* three-dimensional space. In the course of his life he experiences first the vertical dimension. As a child he crawls, and then he raises himself upright and experiences thereby the vertical dimension. It would not be possible for man to speak of the vertical dimension if he did not experience it. To think that he could find anything in the Universe other than he finds in himself would be an illusion. Man finds this vertical dimension only by experiencing it himself. By stretching out our hands and arms at right angles to the vertical we obtain the second dimension. In what we experience when breathing or speaking, in the inhaling and exhaling of the air, or in what we experience when we eat, when the food in the body moves from front to back, we experience the third dimension. Only because man experiences these three dimensions within him does he project them into external space. Man can find absolutely nothing in the Universe unless he finds it first in himself. The strange thing is that in this age of abstractions which began in the middle of the fifteenth century, Man has made these three dimensions homogeneous. That is, he has simply left out of his thought the concrete distinction between them. He has left out what makes the three dimensions different to him. If he were to give his real human *experience*, he would say: My perpendicular line, my operative line, my extensive or extending line. He would have to assume a difference in quality between the three spatial dimensions. Were he to do this, he would no longer be able to conceive of an astronomical cosmogony in the present abstract way. He would obtain a less purely intellectual cosmic picture. For this however he would have to experience in a more concrete way his own relationship to the three dimensions. Today he has no such experience. He does not experience for instance the assuming of the upright position, the being in the vertical; and so he is not aware that he is in a vertical position for the simple reason that he *moves together with the Earth* in a certain direction which adheres to the vertical. Neither does he know that he makes his breathing movements, his digestive and eating movements as well as other movements, in a direction through which the Earth also moves in a certain line. All this adherence to certain directions of movement implies an adaptation, a fitting into, the movements of the Universe. Today man takes no account whatever of this concrete understanding of the dimensions; hence he cannot define his position in the great cosmic process. He does not know how he stands in it, nor that he is as it were a part and member of it. Steps will have now to be taken whereby man can obtain a knowledge of Man, a self-knowledge, and so a knowledge of how he is placed in the Universe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture One","site_heading":"Human Nature and Cosmos: Recovering Living Knowledge","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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Der Mensch würde nicht sprechen können über diese drei Raumdimensionen, wenn er sie nicht in seinem eigenen Wesen erlebte. Der Mensch erlebt diese drei Raumdimensionen. Zunächst erlebt er in seinem Lebensgang die vertikale Dimension. Er kriecht als Kind und richtet sich auf. Da erlebt er die vertikale Dimension. Es gäbe nicht die Möglichkeit, von der vertikalen Dimension zu sprechen, wenn der Mensch sie nicht erlebte. Wenn die Leute glauben, der Mensch könne etwas anderes im Weltenall finden, als er in sich selber findet, so geben sie sich starken Illusionen hin. Die Vertikaldimension findet der Mensch nur im Weltenall, weil er sie in sich selbst erlebt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/201/1920-04-09/p008"},{"locus":"GA 201/1920-04-09/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Auch diese Dimension (die horizontale) findet der Mensch nur dadurch, daß er sie in sich selbst erlebt. Strecken Sie im Verhältnis zu der Vertikaldimension Ihre Hände aus, Ihre Arme aus, so erleben Sie die zweite Dimension. Und nehmen Sie dazu dasjenige, was Sie erleben, indem Sie atmen, indem Sie sprechen, also indem Sie die Luft einziehen oder ausatmen, oder indem Sie essen, wo die Speisen in Ihrem Körper von vorne nach rückwärts sich bewegen, so erleben Sie dazu die dritte Dimension. Nur dadurch, daß der Mensch in sich diese drei Dimensionen erlebt, projiziert er sie auch hinein in den äußeren Raum. Es gibt schlechterdings nichts, was der Mensch in der Außenwelt finden kann, ohne daß er es zuerst in sich selber findet. Aber das Eigentümliche ist, daß der Mensch in der abstrahierenden Zeit seit der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts diese drei Dimensionen zu einem Gleichartigen gemacht hat. Das heißt, er hat die konkreten Unterschiede einfach weggelassen. Er hat weggelassen dasjenige, was die drei Raumdimensionen für ihn zu etwas Verschiedenem macht. Er müßte eigentlich, wenn er sein eigenes Menschenerlebnis gäbe, sagen: meine Aufrechte, meine Wirkende, meine Umfassende oder meine Ausstreckende. Er müßte einen Unterschied zwischen diesen drei Raumdimensionen annehmen. Würde der Mensch aber einen Unterschied zwischen diesen drei Raumdimensionen annehmen, dann würde er auch nicht mehr das astronomische Weltbild in einer solchen Weise abstrakt fassen können, wie er es faßt. Denn dann würde er auf ein nicht so rein intellektualistisches Weltbild kommen. Er würde aber in konkreter Weise erleben müssen, wie er sich in bezug auf diese drei Dimensionen zur Welt verhält. Das erlebt er heute nicht. Er erlebt heute nicht das Sich- Aufrichten, das In-derVertikale-Sein. Daher weiß er auch nicht, daß er in dieser Vertikale aus dem Grunde ist, weil er sich mit der Erde in einer bestimmten Richtung bewegt, welche diese Vertikale einhält (Tafel 2, Mitte oben. Erde mit vertikalem Strich). Und der Mensch weiß auch nicht, daß er auch seine Atembewegung, seine Verdauungs-, Eßbewegung und noch andere Bewegungen, welche in derselben Richtung verlaufen, in einer gewissen Richtung macht, durch die sich die Erde wiederum in einer gewissen Linie bewegt (die vorige Zeichnung wird durch die schwingende Linie ergänzt). All dieses Einhalten von gewissen Richtungen ist ein Sich-Hineinfügen in Bewegungen des Weltenalls. Von diesem konkreten Verstehen der Dimensionen sieht der Mensch heute ganz ab. Daher kann er sich auch nicht einordnen in den Weltenprozeß; daher weiß er auch nicht, wie er in diesem Weltenprozeß drinnensteht, wie er gewissermaßen ein Glied in diesem Weltenptrozesse ist. Es wird immer mehr und mehr dazu kommen müssen, daß Schritte gemacht werden, durch die der Mensch eine gewisse Menschenerkenntnis, eine gewisse Selbsterkenntnis bekommt von seiner Einordnung in das Weltenall.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":445,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/201/1920-04-09/p009"}],"english":["GA 201/1920-04-09/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":647,"en_words":614,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4607,"original_word_count":4861,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams and Mary Adams","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA201/English/RSP1972/19200409a01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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