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The ego activity does assert itself, but may at times be unable to approach the tumor. We might then support the etheric body in this direction so that it can become active. It can become active in the right way if it is first permeated by the ego and astral body and then becomes active. That which comes from above and has not taken up etheric activity, but at most ego and astral activity, poisons the organism. When the etheric body approaches this, when we counter the ego and astral activity with etheric activity, we support the healing process already present and striving to be active in the human organization. We only have to know, in such a case, by what means the etheric organization, permeated in the right way by astral and ego organization, can penetrate the body. In other words, in such a case we simply need to help the etheric organization with a remedy. 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They remain pale and thin, or, because of the predominating growth forces, grow radiply tall. The the soul-spiritual cannot properly enter the organism. And because the body refuses to take up the soul-spiritual, our goal must be to weaken the excessively strong etheric body where the activity has become too strong. In such pale, lanky individuals we must strive to contain the hypertrophic, excessively active forces in the etheric body, restraining them to their proper degree. By this means we can bring heaviness into the body; the blood, for example, by receiving the necessary iron content, receives the appropriate heaviness. 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You could say that at night the physical-etheric organization of every normal person refuses to absorb the soul-spiritual. This night organization of a person lying in bed—not of the invisible man, who is outside—is too strong in those people who have a sort of inborn consumption, as I have just described. In such cases, the day organization must be supported. This means that it has to be given a certain heaviness by encouraging the breakdown processes. 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If we then come to know by what outer means one or the other can be enhanced, it will be possible to support the natural healing processes that are always present, but I would say, not always able to arise.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":78,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/221/1923-02-11/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-02-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 221/1923-02-11/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/221/1923-02-11/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":199,"en_words":185,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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When some kind of foreign process is introduced, it is at once transformed into its opposite within the organism. If you eat something, the food contains certain chemical forces. In absorbing them, the organism transforms them at once into their opposite. This is necessary. 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Let us assume, for example, that you stick yourself with a foreign object like a splinter. Your body can react in two ways. Suppose you cannot extract the foreign object so that it remains inside you. Then two things can happen. The constructive force active in the flowing blood surrounds the foreign object. It gathers around the object, but in doing so it moves away from its own customary position. This immediately leads to a preponderance of the nerve activity there. Then an exudate-like formation begins to encapsulate the foreign object. When this happens, the following takes place in that part of the body: whereas usually, when there is not a foreign object in that spot, the etheric body penetrates the physical body in a certain way, in this situation the etheric body is unable to penetrate the foreign object; instead, within this area a bubble will form that is filled out only with the etheric. We have within us a small portion of the body that contains a foreign object and where a small portion of the etheric body is not organized by the physical. In this case it is important to strengthen the astral body in that spot to such an extent that it can be effective in the small portion of the etheric body without the help of the physical body. Through this encapsulation our body has actually made use of the destructive forces, separating out these destructive forces in a small section of the body and then incorporating into it the healing etheric body. 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It could be that the nerve activity surrounding the splinter gets stronger and predominates over the blood activity. Then the nerve activity, in which the ego is active (or possibly the ego strengthened by the astral body), stimulates the blood activity. The nerve-sense activity, which goes through the whole body, stimulates the blood activity and does not permit an exudate to form. Instead it stimulates a secretory process, leading to the formation of pus (white). And because the nerves are pushing out (arrows), the pus is also driven to the periphery by the push that goes through the nerve tracts in their destructive activity. 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Solch einem revolutionären Prinzip im menschlichen Organismus muß der Heiler dann entgegenkommen, und das Heilen besteht eben darin, daß man dasjenige, was im Organismus als ursprüngliche Heilkraft schon vorhanden ist, durch äußere Mittel unterstützt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":141,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/221/1923-02-11/p018"},{"locus":"GA 221/1923-02-11/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Wenn also, sagen wir, eine geschwulstartige Bildung auftaucht, so ist das ein Symptom dafür, daß nicht in richtiger Weise die Ich-Tätigkeit vom Ätherleibe aus eingreift. Sie macht sich geltend, aber kann manchmal nicht herankommen an die Geschwulst. Man muß nach dieser Richtung hin gewissermaßen den Ätherleib unterstützen, so daß er zur Wirksamkeit kommt. Denn wenn der Ätherleib in der richtigen Weise zur Wirksamkeit kommt, indem er zuerst vom Ich und vom astralischen Leib durchdrungen ist und dann zur Wirksamkeit kommt, wenn er heran kann an das, was von oben kommt und nicht die Ätherwirksamkeit aufgenommen hat, sondern höchstens die Ich- und Astralwirksamkeit, wenn man also der Ich- und Astralwirksamkeit, die vergiftend in den Organismus eingreifen, die ätherische Wirksamkeit entgegensenden kann, dann unterstützt man den Heilungsprozeß, der durch die menschliche Organisation selber da sein will. Man braucht eigentlich nur zu wissen, durch welche Mittel in einem solchen Falle die ätherische Organisation, in der richtigen Weise von astralischer und Ich-Organisation durchzogen, in den Körper eingreifen muß. Man braucht sozusagen der ätherischen Organisation durch die Mittel nur zu Hilfe zukommen. Man muß also wissen, welche Mittel in einem solchen Falle die ätherische Organisation stark machen, so daß sie ihre aufbauende Kraft der zu starken abbauenden Kraft entgegensetzen kann. Was der Therapie als die Pathologie zugrunde liegt, läßt sich eben durchaus nicht begreifen, wenn man nicht zu dem unsichtbaren Menschen seine Zuflucht nimmt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":229,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/221/1923-02-11/p019"},{"locus":"GA 221/1923-02-11/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Es kann aber auch so sein, daß der Mensch, indem er geboren wird, mit seiner Ich- und astralischen, also sagen wir, mit seiner geistig-seelischen Organisation nicht richtig in die physische Organisation eingreift, daß also gewissermaßen die geistig-seelische Organisation nicht genügend hineinstößt in die physische Organisation. Dann wird der ganze Mensch fortwährend ein Überwiegen haben desjenigen, was von unten nach oben als Wachstumskräfte vorhanden ist, was aber nicht in genügender Weise Schwere bekommt durch die Eingliederung der physischen Organisation. Der Mensch kann so geboren werden, daß sein physischer Leib nicht genügend von dem unsichtbaren Menschen ergriffen wird, daß also dieser hier gezeichnete unsichtbare Mensch gewissermaßen sich weigert, in der gehörigen Weise einzugreifen in den Blutprozeß. Dann kann der Geist des Menschen nicht an den Blutprozeß heran, und wir sehen dann die Folgen daran, daß solche Menschen uns schon von Kindheit auf blaß entgegentreten, mager bleiben, oder wohl auch durch die überwiegenden Wachstumskräfte schnell in die Höhe schießen. Dann haben wir das vor uns, daß das Geistig-Seelische nicht richtig hinein kann in den Organismus. Und weil der Körper sich weigert, das Geistig-Seelische aufzunehmen, müssen wir dahin wirken, daß wir im ätherischen Leibe, wo dann eine zu starke Tätigkeit vorhanden ist, diese abschwächen. Wir müssen also bei solchen blaß und hager und aufgeschossen auftretenden Menschenkindern dahin wirken, daß wiederum die im ätherischen Leib hypertrophisch, übermäßig wirkenden Kräfte auf ihr gehöriges Maß zurückgeführt werden, daß der Mensch Schwere in den Leib bekommt, daß das Blut zum Beispiel durch Empfangen des nötigen Eisengehaltes die entsprechende Schwere bekommt, so daß der ätherische Leib weniger nach oben wirkt, in seiner Wirkung nach oben abgeschwächt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/221/1923-02-11/p020"},{"locus":"GA 221/1923-02-11/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Man merkt einen solchen Zustand auch daran, daß bei einem solchen Menschen stärker auftritt etwas, was ich gegenüber den Tagprozessen, den Tagvorgängen, die Nachtvorgänge nennen möchte. Denn man möchte sagen: In der Nacht weigert sich ja bei jedem normalen Menschen die physisch-ätherische Organisation, das Geistig-Seelische aufzunehmen. Diese Nachtorganisation des im Bette liegenden Menschen — nicht des unsichtbaren Menschen, der heraußen ist -, diese Nachtorganisation ist zu stark bei denjenigen, die eine Art angeborener Schwindsucht, wie ich sie eben geschildert habe, in sich tragen. Man muß dann die Tagorganisation unterstützen, das heißt, ihr eine gewisse Schwere geben dadurch, daß man die Abbauprozesse geradezu fördert. Denn wenn man die Abbauprozesse fördert und dann innerlich dieses sich Verhärtende und zuletzt Zerbröckelnde auftritt - es muß natürlich nur in sehr geringem Maße beim Heilen stattfinden -, dann drängt man die überquellende Kraft des Ätherleibes zurück, und man hält das Schwindsuchtsmoment zurück.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":147,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/221/1923-02-11/p021"},{"locus":"GA 221/1923-02-11/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"So wird aus der Erkenntnis des ganzen Menschen eben dieses eigentümliche Zusammenwirken von Gesundheit und Krankheit durchsichtig, das immer da ist, und das im wesentlichen ausgeglichen wird durch dasjenige, was sich zwischen Puls und Atem abspielt. Und lernt man dann erkennen, durch welche äußeren Mittel man das eine oder das andere fördern kann, dann kommt man eben in die Lage, die ja immer vorhandenen, aber nicht immer aufkommenden NaturheilungsProzesse zu unterstützen. Denn einen ganz fremdartigen Prozeß kann man in den menschlichen Organismus nicht hineinbringen. Was im menschlichen Organismus vor sich geht, ist immer so: Wenn man irgendeinen fremdartigen Prozeß in ihn hineinbringt, so wird er innerlich sogleich in den entgegengesetzten verwandelt. Essen Sie irgend etwas, so hat das Nahrungsmittel gewisse chemische Kräfte in sich. Indem der Organismus sie aufnimmt, verwandelt er sie sogleich innerlich in die entgegengesetzten. Und das muß möglich sein. Denn behält zum Beispiel ein Nahrungsmittel, nachdem es aufgenommen wird, zu lange seine äußere Beschaffenheit, dann geht es eben an den Abbauprozeß heran, und das bewirkt äußere, im Menschen zerstörende, todbringende Abbauprozesse. Es muß gewissermaßen dasjenige, was mit den Nahrungsmitteln in den Menschen hineinkommt, sogleich durch innere Prozesse in Empfang genommen und in sein Gegenteil verwandelt werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/221/1923-02-11/p022"},{"locus":"GA 221/1923-02-11/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Sie können diese Prozesse, die ich Ihnen jetzt hier aus dem Ganzen des Menschen heraus entwickelt habe, an Einzelheiten verfolgen. Nehmen Sie einmal an, Sie stechen sich irgendwo einen Fremdkörper ein (siehe farbige Zeichnung 3, gelb). Das Verhalten Ihres Leibes zu diesem Fremdkörper kann in zweierlei Art vor sich gehen. Nehmen wir an, Sie können den Fremdkörper nicht herausziehen, er bleibt drinnen. Dann kann zweierlei geschehen. Rings um den Fremdkörper ist tätig die aufbauende Kraft in dem fließenden Blute (rot). Die sammelt sich rings um den Fremdkörper an, ist aber von ihrer Stelle gerückt. Das führt dazu, daß die Nerventätigkeit sogleich anfängt zu überwiegen. Es sondert sich um den Fremdkörper eine exsudatartige Bildung ab (blau). Der Fremdkörper wird eingekapselt. Dadurch, daß das geschicht, bildet sich an der Stelle des Körpers das Folgende: Während sonst, wenn wir keinen Fremdkörper an der Stelle haben, dort in einer gewissen Weise der ätherische Leib in den physischen Leib eingreift, wird der ätherische Leib jetzt in den Fremdkörper nicht eingreifen können, sondern dadrinnen wird gewissermaßen eine Blase entstehen, die nur vom Ätherischen ausgefüllt ist (rote Striche). Wir haben in uns ein Stückchen Leib, das einen Fremdkörper enthält, und wo ein Stückchen ätherischer Leib nicht vom Physischen durchorganisiert ist. Da kommt es dann darauf an, dadrinnen den astralischen Leib so stark zu machen, daß er ohne die Hilfe des physischen Leibes bei dem Stückchen Ätherleib wirken kann. Und durch diese Einkapselung hat sich eigentlich unser Leib an die abbauenden Kräfte gewandt, um diese abbauenden Kräfte in einem Stück Leib herauszusondern und da nun den heilenden Ätherleib einzugliedern, der in der entsprechenden Weise aber dann durch eine richtige Behandlung unterstützt werden muß von dem Astralischen und dem Ich.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":281,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/221/1923-02-11/p023"},{"locus":"GA 221/1923-02-11/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Wir müssen also gewissermaßen sagen, daß in einem solchen Falle dasjenige, was über dem Physischen im Menschen liegt, so stark werden muß, daß es ohne das Physische für diesen kleinen Teil der menschlichen Organisation wirken kann. Das geschieht immer, wenn im Sinne einer sogenannten Heilung irgendein Fremdkörper im Menschen, ein Splitter, der eingestochen wird zum Beispiel, sich einkapselt. Da also wird der Mensch für diesen Teil seines Leibes gewissermaßen mit seiner ganzen Organisation ein Stück nach oben gerückt. Nun bildet sich ja natürlich auch Fremdkörperliches rein aus der Organisation heraus. Das muß dann in der gleichen Weise angesehen werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":99,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/221/1923-02-11/p024"},{"locus":"GA 221/1923-02-11/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Aber nun kann ein ganz anderer Prozeß sich abspielen, wenn wir uns einen Splitter eingestoßen haben. Es kann so sein, daß nun, wenn wir uns den Splitter eingestochen haben (siehe farbige Zeichnung 4, gelb), ringsherum die Nerventätigkeit anfängt stärker zu werden und über die Bluttätigkeit überwiegt. Dann erregt die Nerventätigkeit, wo das Ich oder wohl auch das durch den astralischen Leib verstärkte Ich drinnen wirkt, dann erregt diese Nerven-Sinnestätigkeit, die durch den ganzen Leib geht, die Bluttätigkeit, läßt es nicht zum Gerinnen eines Exsudates kommen, sondern regt dasjenige, was sich aussondert, auf, und es führt das dann zur Eiterbildung (weiß). Und weil die Nerven nach außen stoßen (Pfeile), so wird der Eiter durch den Stoß, der in der abbauenden Tätigkeit durch die Nervenbahnen geht, durch den Stoß auch nach der Peripherie, nach außen des Körpers getrieben, und der Splitter eitert aus, kommt heraus, und das Ganze vernarbt dann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/221/1923-02-11/p025"}],"beads":[{"from":[18],"to":[18],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[19],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[20],"to":[20],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[21],"to":[21],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[22,23],"to":[22],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[24],"to":[23],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[25],"to":[24],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[26],"to":[25],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}