{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-04-16/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we wish to describe this happening more clearly, we can say that our world is at these times penetrated anew by astral streams; they flow in and out. Of course this really happens every year, but we are here concerned with the 18 years, as they correspond to the 18 respirations per minute. In short, our attention is drawn through the cosmic clock to the breathing of the Macrocosm, in which we are embedded. This correspondence with another world, which is manifested through the motion of the Moon, is exceptionally important. Because, you see, the world which at these times projects into our own, is the very world into which we pass during our sleep, when the Ego and the astral body leave our physical and etheric bodies. It must not be thought that the world composing our every-day environment is merely permeated in an abstract way by the astral world; rather should we say, it *breathes in* the astral world, and we can observe the astral in this breathing process through the Moon's motion or nutation. You will realise that we have here come to something of great significance. If you remember what I said recently, we may put it in the following way. We have, on the one hand, our world as it is generally observed; and we have in addition, the materialistic superstition that, for instance, if we gaze upwards, we see the Sun, a ball of gas, as it is described in books. This is nonsense. The Sun is not a ball of gas; but in that place where the Sun is, there is something less than empty space—a sucking, absorbing body, in fact, while all around it is that which exerts pressure. Consequently in that which comes to us from the Sun we have not to do with anything constituting a product of combustion in the Sun; but all that has been transmitted to the Sun from the Universe is rayed back.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture Four","site_heading":"The Breathing Cosmos: Lunar Rhythms and Spiritual Worlds","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 sehen Sie, diese Welt, die da hereinragt, sie ist ja gerade diejenige, in die wir hinüberschlafen, wenn wir mit unserem Ich und unserem astralischen Leibe herausgehen aus unserem physischen und unserem Ätherleib. Es ist nicht so, daß man sagen kann, die Welt, die uns umgibt, die ist nur abstrakt durchdrungen von der astralischen Welt, sondern sie atmet die astralische Welt, und wir können in ihren Atmungsprozeß, das Astralische, hineinschauen durch die Mondbewegung, beziehungsweise dutch die Nutation. Sehen Sie, jetzt haben Sie schon etwas außerordentlich Bedeutsames: Sie haben auf der einen Seite unsere Welt, wie sie gewöhnlich angeschaut wird, dazu den materialistischen Aberglauben, der zum Beispiel dazu sich versteigt, daß man hinaufschaut und meint, die Sonne da oben sei ein Gasball, wie man ihn ja beschrieben findet in den Büchern. Es ist Unsinn. Es ist kein Gasball, sondern es ist weniger als Raum dort (Tafel 7, rechts unten, noch ohne Strahlen), es ist ein Saugekörper dort, weniger als Raum, während gerade ringsherum noch dasjenige ist, was bis zu einem gewissen Grade drückt. So daß wir es mit dem, was von der Sonne kommt, nicht zu tun haben mit irgend etwas, was etwa durch Verbrennen in der Sonne entsteht oder so etwas, sondern es ist alles zurückgestrahlt (die Rückstrahlung wird eingezeichnet), was erst hingestrahlt ist aus dem Weltenall. 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