{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-05-02/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"To what exactly does this correspond? In the movement of Saturn you have something comparatively slow, in that of Mercury something that is very much quicker, an inner activity of the cosmic organism, something that stirs the Cosmos inwardly. It is as if you had, let us say, a kind of living, mucilaginous organism, itself revolving, but having besides within it an organ which is revolving more quickly. Mercury separates itself from the movement of the whole by its quicker revolution. It is, as it were, an enclosed member; so too is the movement of Venus. Here we have something analogous to the relation of the head in man to the rest of his organism. The head separates itself off from the movements of the rest of the organism. Venus and Mercury emancipate themselves from the movement set by Saturn. They go their own way; they vibrate in the whole system. What does this signify? They have something extra as compared with the whole system; their more rapid movement shows this. What is the corresponding thing to this extra in our head? Our head has something extra, namely its co-ordination to the super-sensible world; only, our head is at rest in our organism, just as we are at rest in a coach or a railway carriage, while it is moving. Venus and Mercury act differently; they do the exact opposite as regards their emancipation. Whereas our head is quiescent, like we are when we sit still in a railway carriage, Venus and Mercury emancipate themselves from the whole planetary system in the opposite way. It is as though we, sitting in the railway carriage, were impelled by something to move all the time much faster than the railway train itself. This is due to the fact that Venus and Mercury, which show a much quicker apparent movement, are related on their past not to space alone, but to that to which our head is also related; only these relations take opposite courses—our head being brought to rest, Venus and Mercury on the other hand becoming more active. They are the two planets through which our planetary system has a relation to the super-sensible world. They incorporate our planetary system into the Cosmos in a different way than do Jupiter and Saturn. Our planetary system is spiritualised through Venus and Mercury, more intimately adapted to the spiritual Powers than happens through Jupiter and Saturn.","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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Es ist wie ein eingeschlossenes Glied, ebenso ist das Bewegen der Venus wie ein eingeschlossenes Glied. Da haben Sie etwas, was im Menschen dem Verhalten des Hauptes zum übrigen Organismus entspricht. Das Haupt schließt sich aus von den Bewegungen des übrigen Organismus. Venus und Merkur emanzipieren sich von der Bewegung, die der Saturn angibt. Sie gehen ihren eigenen Weg. Sie erzittern in dem ganzen System drinnen. Was bedeutet denn das? Sie haben etwas extra da in dem ganzen System. Ihre schnellere Regsamkeit deutet darauf, daß sie etwas extra da drinnen haben. Was ist denn das Entsprechende dieses Extra? Nun, in unserem Haupte ist das, was das Haupt extra hat, die Zuordnung zu der übersinnlichen Welt; nur — unser Haupt wird ruhig an unserem Organismus, so wie wir in einer Kutsche oder im Eisenbahnzug drinnen ruhig sind, trotzdem der Eisenbahnzug weitergeht. Venus und Merkur machen es anders; sie machen das Entgegengesetzte in bezug auf ihr Emanzipieren. Während unser Haupt ruhig ist, wie wenn wir uns ganz ruhig in die Kutsche oder in die Eisenbahn setzen und darinnen ruhig sind, emanzipieren sich in der entgegengesetzten Art von dem ganzen Planetensystem Venus und Merkur. Es ist so, wie wenn wit, indem wir uns in den Eisenbahnwagen setzen, durch etwas angeregt, noch extra da drinnen immerfort schneller uns bewegen würden als der Eisenbahnzug selber.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":323,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/201/1920-05-02/p010"},{"locus":"GA 201/1920-05-02/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Sehen Sie, das rührt davon her, daß eben Venus und Merkur, die die schnellere scheinbare Bewegung zeigen, nicht bloß zum Raume draußen, zum Räumlichen eine Beziehung haben, sondern ihrerseits auch Beziehungen haben zu dem, wozu unser Haupt Beziehungen hat. Nur gehen sie diese Beziehungen in der entgegengesetzten Art ein, unser Haupt durch Beruhigtwerden, Venus und Merkur durch Regsamwerden. Aber Venus und Merkur sind diejenigen Planeten, durch die unser Planetensystem zu der übersinnlichen Welt eine Beziehung hat. Venus und Merkur gliedern unser Planetensystem in anderer Art in den Kosmos ein als Saturn und Jupiter. Vergeistigt wird unser Planetensystem durch Venus und Merkur, vergeistigt, zugeordnet den geistigen Mächten in einer intimeren Weise, als das etwa durch Jupiter und Saturn geschieht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":118,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/201/1920-05-02/p011"}],"english":["GA 201/1920-05-02/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":441,"en_words":403,"ratio":0.91,"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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