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Upon really understanding these ideas of metamorphosed thought, one arrives at this: the desire actually flows over into the physical bodily (blue = blau) in order to, when one meets a child, we must say: what appears to us in the child is the fulfilment of a desire for physical incarnation, which the spirit soul had before it entered the physical existence.—We should not as it were see a duality between the physical body and the soul spirit. We should not merely see in the physical bodily so to speak the spirit soul dragged in, but we should see something in the physical body which is actually being transformed by the soul spiritual.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Bridge Between Morality and Nature","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-11","location":null,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-11/p012","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Bridge between Morality and Nature","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201211p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-11/p012"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-11/p012","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Dieses Sich-Fortentwickeln, das wird allmählich Begierde nach physischer Leiblichkeit (rot). Und wenn man den Metamorphosegedanken richtig erfaßt, dann kommt man darauf, daß die Sache so ist: Diese Begierde fließt tatsächlich über in die physische Leiblichkeit (blau), so daß, wenn wir dem Kinde gegenübertreten, wir sagen müssen: Was uns im Kinde erscheint, das ist die Erfüllung der Begierde nach physischer Leiblichkeit, welche das Seelisch-Geistige hatte, bevor es zum physischen Dasein gekommen ist. — Wir sollen nicht gewissermaßen eine Zweiheit sehen in dem Physisch-Leiblichen und in dem Geistig-Seelischen. 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