{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 224/1923-06-21/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, allow me to use a comparison. You have two opposite states. Imagine a scale with the right and left beams held in the hypomochlion: you have equilibrium when the weight on one side is equal to the weight on the other. Whenever you increase the weight on one side of the scale, you must also increase it on the other side so that the beam remains horizontal. But there is one point that is not affected by this: the point where the beam is suspended. You can move the scale around anywhere as long as you hold it at the point where the beam is supported. You can see everywhere how the left side depends on the right and vice versa, but this suspension point doesn't care about that at all. Everything is in balance, and whatever happens on the two scales is completely independent of what is happening at that one point on the scale. If you are skilled enough, you can make a movement like this, or you can make a movement like this with the suspension point: this has nothing to do with what is happening on the scale, on the right and left sides of the balance beam. It is the same with human beings, only there is no suspension point, but a state of equilibrium between what they are as nervous beings and what they become on earth. These two things are related to each other in a way that can be investigated. In a person who has strong thoughts on the one hand, these are expressed in a strong decision of the will. If a person has strong muscles, they also have different thoughts about their will. But between these two there is a state of equilibrium. This state of equilibrium does not lie in the head as the representative of the nervous human being, nor in the limbs as the representative of the blood human being. It lies between them, it is something like a hypomochlion, which is the state of equilibrium between the two.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Our Thought Life in Sleep and Wakefulness and in the Afterlife","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-06-21","location":null,"word_count":343,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-06-21/p029","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Sie haben zwei entgegengesetzte Zustände. Wenn Sie sich die Waage vorstellen und im Hypomochlion festgehalten rechter und linker Waagebalken: Sie haben Gleichgewicht, wenn das Gewicht auf der einen Seite so groß ist wie das auf der andern Seite. Immer, wenn Sie das Gewicht auf der einen Waageschale vergrößern, müssen Sie es auf der andern Seite auch vergrößern, damit der Waagebalken horizontal bleibt. Aber ein Punkt ist da, den das gar nicht interessiert: das ist der Punkt, wo der Waagebalken aufgehängt ist. Sie können die Waage überall herumschaffen, wenn Sie sie an dem einen Punkt halten, wo der Waagebalken unterstützt ist. Sie können überall sehen, wie links von rechts abhängig ist und umgekehrt, aber gar nicht kümmert sich darum dieser Aufhängepunkt. Da ist alles im Gleichgewicht, und was da auch auf den zwei Waagschalen vorgeht, es ist ganz unabhängig von dem, was gerade just in diesem einen Punkte bei der Waage vorgeht. Sie können einmal eine Bewegung so machen, wenn Sie die genügende Geschicklichkeit anwenden, Sie können auch eine solche Bewegung oder eine solche machen mit dem Aufhängepunkte: das hängt gar nicht zusammen mit dem, was auf der Waage, auf der rechten und linken Seite des Waagebalkens vor sich geht. So ist es beim Menschen auch, nur ist da kein Aufhängepunkt, aber eine Gleichgewichtslage zwischen dem, was er als Nervenmensch ist und dem, was er auf der Erde wird. Diese zwei Dinge stehen miteinander in einem Zusammenhang, den man untersuchen kann. Bei einem Menschen, der auf der einen Seite starke Gedanken hat, kommen diese in einem starken Willensentschluß zum Ausdruck. Wenn ein Mensch starke Muskeln hat, hat er auch andere Gedanken über sein Wollen. Aber dazwischen ist eine Gleichgewichtslage. Die Gleichgewichtslage liegt nicht im Kopf als Repräsentanten des Nervenmenschen - nicht in den Gliedmaßen als Repräsentanten des Blutmenschen. Sie liegt dazwischen, sie ist etwas wie ein Hypomochlion, was die Gleichgewichtslage von beiden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":321,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-06-21/p029"}],"english":["GA 224/1923-06-21/p029"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":321,"en_words":343,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7128,"original_word_count":6805,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230621p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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