{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 218/1922-10-23/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If I would sketch this, it would be this way: (diagram 1). If one imagined the earth this way, one said to oneself: if the person lives there, then he is too strongly dependent upon this particular spot on earth. One has to heal him by freeing him inwardly from the outer dependence on this earthly spot. One can do this by bringing him into connection with the surrounding cosmos to the outer heavenly cosmos. Heaven is that which had been man's home before he came down to earth. He does not quite fit into the earthly surroundings. One has to heal him in bringing him into the right relationship to the cosmos. One did this in such a way that one said: since this person has too many effects of the earth in himself—because there is too much gravity, and what is connected with gravity, in him, one has to give him relief—one has to bring super-earthly forces into him. One said to oneself: In these or other plant-blossoms, super-earthly forces are working. Therefore one prepared these or other plants by extracting their juice. One said to oneself: this plant is blossoming at a certain season, it is blossoming at this season through the influence of the cosmos. One investigated now, how far this person is influenced by this season in particular. In olden times the dependence of a person upon the cosmic forces was investigated through a kind of horoscope. One gave then as medication something that brought his ether-body into a general vibration. One expressed it to oneself in the following way: If this is a man (diagram 2, red), then this will be his ether body. He became ill of pneumonia because his ether body in the region of the lung is too much inclined towards the earth (blue) and because the forces of the earth have too great an influence on him. Mow one simply imparts to him juices from plant blossoms, which will work in him and help him to overcome these forces (Yellow). In this way one imparted forces to him which brought him into connection with the cosmos. One was striving through this treatment to place the whole ether body into the right vibration to balance the different single incorrect vibrations. So one always was asking: what does one have to do regarding the ether body?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Light and Darkness: Healing the Etheric Body's Cosmic Connection","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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Man muß ihn heifen dadurch, daß man ihn in die richtige Beziehung zum Kosmos bringt. —- Und das tat man dann etwa in der Weise, daß man sagte: Man muß also den Menschen, weil zuviel Erdenwirkungen in ihm sind, weil gewissermaßen zuviel Schwerkraft und das, was mit der Schwerkraft zusammenhängt, in ihm ist, man muß ihn erleichtern; man muß die überirdischen Kräfte in ihn hineinbringen. — Man sagte sich: Überirdische Kräfte wirken in diesen oder jenen Pflanzenblüten. Also man bearbeitete diese oder jene Pflanzenblüten, indem man ihren Saft gewann. Man sagte sich; Diese Pflanze, die blüht zu einer gewissen Jahreszeit; sie blüht durch die Einflüsse des Kosmos zu dieser Jahreszeit. — Man erforschte nun, inwiefern der Mensch gerade durch diese Jahreszeit beeinflußt wird. Zu diesem Zwecke wurden ja in älteren Zeiten die Abhängigkeiten des Menschen von den Himmelserscheinungen in einer horoskopartigen Weise gesucht. Und man gab dann als Arzneien dem Menschen dasjenige, was seinen Ätherleib in eine allgemeine Schwingung brachte. Man sagte sich so: Wenn das der Mensch ist (siehe Zeichnung $. 93, rot), dann ist das sein Ätherleib (hell), und er ist an Pneumonie erkrankt aus dem Grunde, weil sein Ätherleib in der Gegend der Lunge zu stark der Erde zuneigt (blau), und weil die Erdenkräfte auf ihn zu großen Einfluß haben. Jetzt bringt man ihm eben Säfte von Pflanzenblüten bei, welche in ihn hineinwirken und welche diese Kräfte überwinden (gelb). Man führte ihm also Kräfte zu, die ihn in Zusammenhang brachten mit dem Kosmos. Dadurch strebte man an, den ganzen Ätherleib in richtige Schwingungen zu versetzen, damit die unrichtigen einzelnen Schwingungen ausgeglichen werden. Also man fragte sich immer: Was muß man mit dem Ätherleib tun?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":379,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/218/1922-10-23/p011"}],"english":["GA 218/1922-10-23/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":379,"en_words":394,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5637,"original_word_count":5549,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Margaret 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/MSV1975/19221023p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 218/1922-10-23/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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