{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-05-02/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus we have the direct fact that when we look up to the Cosmos, we have to say: A year—that is for the Cosmos sleeping and waking; and if our Earth is the head of the Cosmos, it expresses in winter the waking of the Cosmos, and in summer its sleeping. If we now consider the Cosmos, which as we see manifests waking and sleeping—for the plant-covering of the Earth is an outcome of cosmic working—we shall find that we have to think of it as a great organism. We must think of what takes place in its members as organically fitted into the whole Cosmos, just as what takes place in one of our own members is fitted into our organism. And here we come to the significance of the difference expressed by astronomy in the shorter periods of Venus' and Mercury's revolutions as compared with the longer periods of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. When we consider the so-called outer planets, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, then the Sun, Mercury, Venus and the Earth, we find this apparently long period of revolution in the case of the outer planets stretching beyond a year, thus beyond the mere waking time. Let us consider Saturn with his 30-year period, the apparent time of his revolution round the Sun; how can we express his 30 years in the language of the Cosmos according to which its daily revolution is a year? If a year is the daily revolution of the Cosmos, then the so-called period of Saturn's revolution is approximately 30 days, a cosmic month, a cosmic four weeks. Thus we may say that if we regard Saturn as the outermost planet (the other two, Uranus and Neptune, regarded today as of equal standing with Saturn, are really fugitives that have wandered in), then we must say that Saturn bounds our Cosmos; and, in his apparent slowness, in his limping behind the Earth, we behold the life of the Cosmos in 4 weeks or a month, as compared to the life it displays in the course of the year, which for the Cosmos is like a falling asleep and awaking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture Eleven","site_heading":"The Head's Cosmic Origins: Saturn, Venus, and Dimensional Thinking","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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Wir müssen dasjenige, was in seinen Gliedern vorgeht, uns so organisch dem ganzen Kosmos eingefügt denken, wie wir uns organisch eingefügt denken müssen das, was in einem unserer Organe vorgeht, unserem Organismus. Da kommen wir auf Bedeutungen jener Unterschiede, die sich sonst für die Astronomie ausdrücken in den kürzeren Umlaufszeiten von Venus und Merkur gegenüber den längeren Umlaufszeiten - länger als eine sogenannte Umlaufszeit der Erde bei Mars, Jupiter und Saturn namentlich. Wenn wir die sogenannten äußeren Planeten nehmen, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, so haben diese scheinbar eine lange Umlaufszeit, die über ein Jahr hinauswächst, die also über das bloße Wachen hinauswachsen. Nehmen wir den Saturn, seine 30 Jahre, die ja die scheinbare Umlaufszeit um die Sonne sind (Tafel 20, links oben); seine 30 Jahre, wie können wir sie denn ausdrücken, wenn wit die ordentliche Sprache des Kosmos sprechen, daß ein Jahr sein Tageskreislauf ist? Wenn ein Jahr der Tageskreislauf des Kosmos ist, dann ist die sogenannte Umlaufszeit des Saturn ungefähr 30 Tage, ein kosmischer Monat, kosmische 4 Wochen. So daß Sie sich sagen können: Wenn man den Saturn - die anderen zwei Planeten, Uranus und Neptun, die man heute als gleichberechtigt ansieht, sind ja zugeflogene -, wenn man den Saturn als den äußersten Planeten ansieht, dann muß man sagen: der Saturn begrenzt unseren Kosmos, und in dem scheinbaren Langsamgehen, in dem Nachhinken des Saturn hinter der Erde zeigt sich das Leben des Kosmos in vier Wochen, in einem Monat, gegenüber jenem Leben, das der Kosmos zeigt im Jahreslauf, und das für ihn ein Einschlafen und Aufwachen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":351,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/201/1920-05-02/p008"}],"english":["GA 201/1920-05-02/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":351,"en_words":357,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4293,"original_word_count":4519,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George 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/RSP1972/19200502p01.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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