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For in every plant there is concealed—under a spell, as it were—an elemental spiritual being; and really only he observes a plant in the right way who realizes that this loveliness is a sheath of a spiritual being enchanted in it—a relatively insignificant being, to be sure, in the great scale of cosmic interrelationship, but still a being intimately related to man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":231,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/223/1923-09-28/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-09-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 223/1923-09-28/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/223/1923-09-28/p010"},{"locus":"GA 223/1923-09-28/p011","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/223/1923-09-28/p011"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":255,"en_words":231,"ratio":0.91,"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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It says to itself: Men will pass and look at me; and when a sufficient number of human eyes will have directed their gaze upon me—so speaks the spirit of the lily—I shall be disenchanted of my spell, and I shall be able to start on my way into spiritual worlds.—You will perhaps object that many lilies grow unseen by human eye: yes, but then the conditions are different, and such lilies find their release in a different way. For the decree that the spell of that particular lily shall be broken by human eyes comes about by the first human glance cast upon the lily. It is a relationship entered into between man and the lily when he first lets his gaze rest upon it.—All about us are these elemental spirits begging us, in effect, Do not look at the flowers so abstractly, nor form such abstract mental pictures of them: let rather your heart and your *Gemüt* enter into what lives, as soul and spirit, in the flowers, for it is imploring you to break the spell.—Human existence should really be a perpetual releasing of the elemental spirits lying enchanted in minerals, plants, and animals.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":305,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/223/1923-09-28/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-09-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 223/1923-09-28/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/223/1923-09-28/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":321,"en_words":305,"ratio":0.95,"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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He sips by forming concepts and ideas, whereas he should drink by uniting, through his *Gemüt*, with the elemental spirits of the things and beings that surround him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/223/1923-09-28/p012","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-09-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 223/1923-09-28/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/223/1923-09-28/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":105,"en_words":96,"ratio":0.91,"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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At the moment we will go on to say that in the human being there dwells the force I have described as the force of the Dragon whom Michael encounters, against whom he does battle. I indicated that this Dragon has an animal-like form, yet is really a super-sensible being; that on account of his insubordination as a super-sensible being he was expelled into the sense world, where he now has his being; and I indicated further that he exists only in man, because outer nature cannot harbor him. Outer nature, image of divine spirituality, has in its innocence nothing whatever to do with the Dragon: he is established in the being of men, as I have set forth. But by reason of being such a creature—a super-sensible being in the sense of world—he instantly attracts the super-sensible elemental forces that stream toward man out of nature and unites with them, with the result that man, instead of releasing the plant elementals from their spell through his soul and *Gemüt*, unites them with the Dragon, allows them to perish with the Dragon in his lower nature. For everything in the world moves in an evolutionary stream, taking many different directions to this end; and the elemental beings dwelling in minerals, plants, and animals must rise to a higher existence than is offered by their present abodes. This they can only accomplish by passing through man. The establishment of an external civilization is surely not man's sole purpose on earth: he has a cosmic aim within the entire world evolution; and this cosmic aim is linked with such matters as I have just described—with the further development of those elemental beings that in earthly existence are at a low stage, but destined for a higher one. 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Allein er ahnt nicht, welches seine tiefere Beziehung ist — sagen wir zunächst, um das eine herauszugreifen — zu der Welt der Pflanzen. Es genügt wahrhaftig für eine geistige Anschauung nicht, daß wir von Geist und Geist und wieder Geist reden, sondern es ist da nötig, daß wir uns der wahrhaftig geistigen Beziehungen bewußt werden, die wir zu den Dingen um uns herum haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/223/1923-09-28/p010"},{"locus":"GA 223/1923-09-28/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Wenn wir eine Pflanze betrachten, wie man es gewohnt ist, sie heute zu betrachten, so ahnt man gar nicht, daß in dieser Pflanze eine elementarische Wesenheit steckt, ein Geistiges steckt, daß in jeder solchen Pflanze etwas drinnen ist, dem es nicht genügt, daß wir sie anschauen und uns die abstrakte Bildvorstellung machen, die wir uns heute gemeiniglich auch von Pflanzen machen. Denn in jeder solchen Pflanze steckt elementarisches geistiges Wesen, aber es steckt so darinnen, daß es gewissermaßen in der Pflanze verzaubert ist. Und im Grunde genommen schaut nur derjenige eine Pflanze richtig an, der sich sagt: Dies ist in aller Schönheit die Umhüllung eines geistigen Wesens, das drinnen verzaubert ist. - Gewiß, im großen kosmischen Zusammenhange ein relativ unbedeutendes Wesen, aber ein Wesen, das eine tiefe Beziehung zum Menschen hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/223/1923-09-28/p011"},{"locus":"GA 223/1923-09-28/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Der Mensch ist eigentlich so innig verknüpft mit der Welt, daß er keinen Gang in die Natur machen kann, ohne daß die intimen Beziehungen, in denen er zur Welt steht, eine intensive Bedeutung für ihn haben. Wenn die Lilie auf dem Felde erwächst aus dem Keim, bis zur Blüte kommt, dann müssen wir uns schon - ohne Personifikation — ganz intensiv vorstellen, daß diese Lilie auf etwas wartet. Ich muß es mit Menschenworten wiederum aussprechen, wie ich das gestrige Bild auch mit Menschenworten aussprechen mußte. Die Menschenworte treffen natürlich die Dinge nicht ganz, aber sie drükken doch das aus, was als Realität in den Dingen drinnen ist. Diese Lilie, indem sie ihre Blätter, aber namentlich ihre Blüte entfaltet, wartet eigentlich auf etwas. Sie sagt sich: Es werden Menschen an mir vorübergehen, Menschen, die mich anschauen, und wenn genügend Menschenaugen ihren Blick auf mich geheftet haben werden, dann werde ich - so sagt der Geist der Lilie - aus der Verzauberung entzaubert sein und werde meinen Weg in geistige Welten antreten können! -— Gewiß, Sie werden sagen: Es wachsen viele Lilien, auf die nicht menschliche Augen blicken. - Bei denen ist das eben anders. Lilien, auf die nicht menschliche Augen blicken, finden ihre Entzauberung auf einem andern Wege. Denn das erste menschliche Auge, das auf eine Lilie blickt, ruft die Bestimmung hervor, daß diese Lilie durch Menschenaugen entzaubert werde. Es ist ein Verhältnis, das die Lilie zum Menschen eingeht, indem der Mensch zuerst seinen Blick auf die Lilie wirft. Überall in unserer Umgebung sind diese elementarischen Geister, und sie rufen uns eigentlich zu: Schauet doch nicht so abstrakt die Blumen an und macht euch nicht bloß die abstrakten Bilder davon, sondern habt ein Herz, ein Gemüt für das, was geistig-seelisch in den Blumen wohnt. Das will durch euch aus seiner Verzauberung erlöst werden. — Und das menschliche Dasein sollte eigentlich eine fortdauernde Erlösung sein verzauberter Elementargeister in den Mineralien, Pflanzen und Tieren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":321,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/223/1923-09-28/p012"},{"locus":"GA 223/1923-09-28/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Eine solche Idee kann in ihrer vollen Schönheit empfunden werden. Aber gerade indem sie im richtigen geistigen Sinne erfaßt wird, kann sie auch im Lichte der vollen Verantwortlichkeit empfunden werden, in die sich der Mensch dadurch zum ganzen Kosmos hineinstellt. Und die Art und Weise, wie sich der Mensch in der Gegenwart, in der Zivilisationsepoche der Entwickelung der Freiheit zu den Blumen verhält, ist eigentlich ein Nippen an demjenigen, an dem er eigentlich trinken sollte. Er nippt, indem er sich Begriffe und Ideen bildet, und er sollte trinken, indem er mit seinem Gemüt sich mit den Blementargeistern der Dinge und Wesenheiten um ihn herum verbindet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":105,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/223/1923-09-28/p013"},{"locus":"GA 223/1923-09-28/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Ich sagte: Wir brauchen nicht zu denken an diejenigen Lilien, auf die niemals ein menschlicher Blick fällt, aber wir müssen an diejenigen denken, auf die der menschliche Blick fällt, denn die bedürfen des Gemütsverhältnisses, das der Mensch zu ihnen eingehen kann. Nun aber, von der Lilie geht die Wirkung aus. Und mannigfaltig, großartig und gewaltig sind die geistigen Wirkungen, die fortwährend von den Dingen der Natur an den Menschen herantreten, indem der Mensch seinen Weg durch die Natur nimmt. Derjenige, der in diese Dinge hineinschauen kann, sieht eigentlich fortdauernd, wie unendlich mannigfaltig und großartig alles das ist, was an den Menschen von allen Seiten durch die Elementargeistigkeit der Natur heranströmt. Und es strömt in ihn ein. Es ist dasjenige, was - ich habe es gestern im Sinne der äußeren Vorstellung auseinandergesetzt — aus dem Spiegel der äußeren Natur, die ein Spiegel des Göttlich-Geistigen ist, fortwährend dem Menschen als ein Geistiges entgegenströmt, das da ist als ein Übersinnliches, das über die Natur ergossen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/223/1923-09-28/p014"},{"locus":"GA 223/1923-09-28/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Aber nun ist — wir werden über diese Dinge im Sinne wirklicher anthroposophischer Vorstellung in den nächsten Tagen noch genauer zu sprechen haben — zunächst in dem Menschen diejenige Kraft enthalten, die ich gestern als die Kraft des Drachen beschrieben habe, die Michael bekämpft, des Drachen, mit dem Michael im Streit ist. Ich habe angedeutet, wie dieser Drache zwar eine tierähnliche Gestalt hat, aber eigentlich ein übersinnliches Wesen ist, wie er durch seine Widersetzlichkeit als übersinnliches Wesen in die Sinneswelt verstoßen ist und nun in ihr haust. Ich habe angedeutet, wie er nur im Menschen ist, weil die äußere Natur ihn nicht haben kann. Die äußere Natur in ihrer Unschuld, als ein Spiegel der göttlichen Geistigkeit, hat mit dem Drachen nichts zu tun. Ich habe gestern dargestellt, wie er in den Menschenwesenheiten sitzt. Dadurch aber, daß er ein solches Wesen ist, daß er ein Übersinnliches in der Sinneswelt ist, zieht er in demselben Augenblicke dasjenige an, was aus den Weiten der Natur an den Menschen als übersinnliches Elementarisches heranströmt, verbindet sich mit dem, und statt daß der Mensch durch seine Seelenhaftigkeit, durch sein Gemüt die Elementarwesen, sagen wir der Pflanzen, aus ihrer Verzauberung erlöst, verbindet er sie mit dem Drachen, läßt er sie in seiner niederen Natur mit dem Drachen untergehen. Denn alles in der Welt ist in der Strömung einer Entwickelung, nimmt die verschiedensten Wege der Entwickelung. Und jene Elementarwesen, die in den Mineralien, Pflanzen und Tieren leben, müssen zu höherem Dasein aufsteigen, als sie es haben können in den gegenwärtigen Mineralien, Pflanzen und Tieren. Das können sie nur, wenn sie durch den Menschen durchgehen. Der Mensch ist wahrhaftig auf der Erde nicht nur dazu da, daß er die äußere Kultur begründet. Der Mensch hat innerhalb der ganzen Weltenentwickelung ein kosmisches Ziel, und dieses kosmische Ziel hängt mit solchen Dingen zusammen, wie ich sie eben beschrieben habe: mit der Höherentwickelung jener Elementarwesen, die im irdischen Dasein auf einer niederen Stufe stehen, aber zu einer höheren Stufe bestimmt sind, und die, wenn der Mensch in ein bestimmtes Verhältnis zu ihnen kommt, und wenn das alles mit rechten Dingen zugeht, zu einer höheren Entwickelungsstufe kommen können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":355,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/223/1923-09-28/p015"}],"beads":[{"from":[10],"to":[10,11],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[11],"to":[12],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[12],"to":[13],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[13],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[14],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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