{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-04-09/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The three dimensions have really become so abstract for man that he would find it extremely difficult to train himself to feel that by living in them he is taking part in certain movements of the Earth and the planetary system. A spiritual-scientific method of thought however can be applied to our knowledge of Man. Let us therefore begin by seeking for a right understanding of the three dimensions. It is difficult to attain; but we shall more easily raise ourselves to this spatial knowledge of Man if we consider, not the three lines of space standing at right angles, but three level planes. Consider for a moment the following. We shall readily perceive that our *symmetry* has something to do with our *thinking*. If we observe, we shall discover an elementary natural gesture that we make if we wish to express decisive thinking in dumb show. When we place the finger on the nose and move through this plane here (a drawing is made), we are moving through the vertical symmetry plane which divides us into a left and a right Man. This plane passing through the nose and through the whole body, is the plane of symmetry, and is that of which one can become conscious as having to do with all the discriminating that goes on within us, all the thinking and judging that discriminates and divides. Starting from this elementary gesture, it is actually possible to become aware of how in all one's functions as Man one has to do with this plane.","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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Da bitte ich Sie, nur zunächst einmal folgendes zu betrachten: Sie werden leicht einsehen können, daß Ihre Symmetrie etwas zu tun hat mit Ihrem Denken, wenn Sie darauf achten, daß Sie eine elementar naturgegebene Gebärde machen, wenn Sie das urteilende Denken gebärdenhaft ausdrücken wollen. Sie fahren, indem Sie sich geradezu den Finger auf die Nase legen, durch diese vertikale Symmetrieebene, die Sie in einen linken und in einen rechten Menschen zerschneidet (Tafel 2, rechts). Diese Ebene, die mittendurch geht durch Ihre Nase, durch Ihren Körper, und die Symmetrieebene darstellen soll, ist dasjenige, dessen Sie sich bewußt werden können als etwas, das zu tun hat mit allem Unterscheiden in Ihnen, allem unterscheidenden Denken, unterscheidenden Urteilen. Es ist möglich, ausgehend von dieser elementaren Geste, sich tatsächlich ein Bewußtsein davon zu verschaffen, daß man als Mensch in allen seinen Verrichtungen mit dieser Ebene etwas zu tun hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/201/1920-04-09/p010"}],"english":["GA 201/1920-04-09/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":245,"en_words":257,"ratio":1.05,"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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