{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 208/1921-11-13/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The eye, for example, is not only the organization which provides for vision but at the same time it is also an image of the spiritual powers of the cosmos. Between death and rebirth the individual lives in the cosmos of soul and spirit. Like all organs in the head, the eye has a double function. The first is to enable communication with the outside world through vision, which happens during waking life. In the life of sleep, the eye and its surrounding parts, above all the surrounding nerves and blood, influence the physical organism in its metabolic and limb aspects. The powers of the eye closed in sleep influence the kidney system, for example, imbuing it with the cosmic image. Other organs in the head imprint other aspects of the cosmos on the human system of metabolism and limbs. For the physical body, therefore, the time we spend in sleep serves mainly to let the powers of the head structure the human being of metabolism and limbs (Fig. 42, reddish arrows). It is particularly during sleep that structuring powers radiate continually from the head to the lower human being, so that in sleep the soul and spirit aspect of the head is indeed the structurer of the human being of metabolism and limbs.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XI","site_heading":"Sleep, Sacrifice, and Cosmic Structuring of Human Being","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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Gerade während des Schlafes geschieht es, Tan daß, wenn ich schematisch zeichnen will, vom Haupte fortwährend gestaltende Kräfte nach dem unteren Menschen hin strahlen, so daß tatsächlich das Haupt sich während des Schlafes zum Stoffwechsel-Gliedmaßenmenschen als der geistig-seelische Gestalter verhält.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/208/1921-11-13/p013"}],"english":["GA 208/1921-11-13/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":224,"en_words":214,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5958,"original_word_count":5965,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna R. 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