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Against this force—for example, from the kidney system (arrows from below to above) another force comes forth, which continuously dissolves. What wants to be formed there? Imagine, how that is. If I wanted to trace this down for you I would have to say: Coming from the eye a very fine picture wants to form; up to a physical shaping of forms this wants to go. There is always a tendency like that taking place, that salty substances which otherwise are dissolved stick together, that is, they want to become salt. So that we continuously have a tendency for form shaping. Now, from below there always arises a tendency to dissolve that again. So we have continuously a tendency in the human organism from without towards the inner that should become a statue, and from the inside continuously it is dissolved again.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Spiritual Rhythms in Human Organism and Perception","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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Und wenn so etwas jetzt ins Haupt hereindringt wie das, was beim Sehen hereinkommt, so wird es eigentlich gleich so empfangen, daß eine Kraft sich bildet, die gestalten will. Was da durch die Augen hineingeht, das will innerlich im Menschen Gestalt annehmen. Vor allen Dingen will es die Nerven, das Nervensystem so gestalten, daß gewissermaßen im Inneren des Menschen eine Art Abbild ist von dem, was als äußerer Eindruck da war. Man kann also sagen: in dieser Richtung (siehe Zeichnung, Pfeile von oben nach unten), von den Sinnen nach innen, geht eine gestaltende Kraft. Diese Kraft will den Menschen gewissermaßen in feiner Weise zur Bildsäule machen. Es ist wirklich so: alles, was wir sehen, will uns eigentlich in einer gewissen feinen Weise zur Bildsäule machen. Dagegen kommt dieser Kraft, also zum Beispiel hier vom Nierensystem in all dem, was ich hier beschrieben habe, eine andere Kraft entgegen (Pfeile von unten nach oben). Die löst fortwährend auf, was da gestaltet werden will. Denken Sie sich, wie das ist. Wenn ich Ihnen das aufzeichnen will, so müßte ich sagen: Vom Auge aus, da will sich hier ein sehr feines Bild, eine Gestalt bilden. Bis zum physischen Gestaltbilden will das gehen. Es findet immer eine Art solcher Einfluß statt, daß sich Salzsubstanzen, die sonst aufgelöst sind, gewissermaßen zusammenbacken, daß sie also festes Salz werden wollen. Es findet also fortwährend eine Tendenz zum Gestalten statt. Nun, von da unten geht immer eine Tendenz aus, das wiederum aufzulösen. So daß wir fortwährend im menschlichen Organismus von außen nach innen eine Tendenz haben, das, was eine Bildsäule werden soll; und von innen wird es immerfort wiederum aufgelöst.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":283,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/218/1922-10-20/p011"}],"english":["GA 218/1922-10-20/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":283,"en_words":284,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4899,"original_word_count":5044,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Margaret W Deussen","identified_edition":"MSV1975","book_title":"Spiritual Relation in the Configuration of the Human Organism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA218/English/MSV1975/19221020p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 218/1922-10-20/p011"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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