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Then we arrive at a relation which has its significance for Man too, a relation between what comes under Natural Law and what is Free and Moral. In this way we learn to connect a meaning with the statement: “Mars is a planet far from the Sun, Venus a planet nearer the Sun.” By simply stating their distances in abstract numbers we have said nothing or at least very little, for to define in this way according to the methods of modern Astronomy, is equivalent to saying: I look at the line which passes through man's two arms and hands, and I speak of an organ that is 2.5 decimetres from this line.—Now this organ may be so and so far under the line, and another organ so and so far above it; it is not, however, the *distance* that makes the difference, but the fact that one organ is *above* and the other *below*. Were there no difference between above and below, there would be no difference between the nose or eyes and the stomach! 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Wir müssen uns erst fragen können: Wie weit reicht im Weltenall das Naturgemäße und wo tritt im Weltenall etwas auf, das wir nicht unter den Gesichtspunkt des Naturgemäßen bringen können? Dann kommen wir zu einer Beziehung, die auch für den Menschen eine Bedeutung hat, zwischen dem Naturgemäßen und dem Freien, dem Moralischen. Auf diese Weise werden Sie lernen, wiederum einen Sinn mit den Worten zu verknüpfen: Mars ist ein sonnenferner, Venus ein sonnennaher Planet. - Damit, daß Sie einfach in abstrakten Zahlen die Entfernungen angeben, haben Sie ja gar nichts gesagt, oder wenigstens sehr wenig gesagt. Denn alles dasjenige, was in dieser Weise - und im Grunde wird ja alles, was die heutige Astronomie angeht, in dieser Weise angegeben -, alles, was in dieser Weise nur bestimmt wird, das ist gerade so bestimmt, wie wenn Sie sagen, Sie sehen einmal auf jene Linie, welche durchgeht durch die beiden Arme und Hände des Menschen, und sprechen dann von einem Organ, das zweieinhalb Dezimeter entfernt ist von dieser Linie. Ja, aber das eine Organ, das von dieser Linie (Tafel 2, Mitte unten) entfernt ist, das kann nach unten entfernt sein, das andere Organ kann nach oben entfernt sein. Es ist nicht nur das wichtig, daß diese Organe so und so weit entfernt sind, sondern es macht etwas aus, daß das eine Organ nach oben so weit entfernt ist, und das andere Organ nach unten. Wenn es keinen Unterschied gäbe zwischen dem Oben und Unten, dann wäre kein Unterschied zwischen Ihrer Nase und Ihrem Magen oder zwischen Ihren Augen und Ihrem Magen. 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