{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 225/1923-05-06/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The matter that fills your head you have, of course, only taken up in this life. But the form, the supersensible forces that today round the eyes and turn up the nose, are the same forces that in the previous life formed arms and legs and the rest of the organism. That you can be seen by other people with physical senses is due to the fact that completely formless matter fills your form. It is not matter that gives you form. If you eat salt, the salt wants to be cubic, it does not want to be nose-shaped, nor eye-shaped, it wants to be cubic and so on. You do not owe the form in which you appear as a human being to the matter that is the basis of your physical visibility; but the form of your present head has really gone through metamorphoses, through the form of your organism, except for the head of the previous earth life. But that is why your head was really in an extraordinarily favorable situation. Because it has been so well treated in the universe, it is also the first to appear as a properly formed head in embryonic life. Just think, the head is very beautifully formed at first, while the other organs in the first embryonic life are really only attached to it as secondary organs. It must first be formed from the outside, and actually looks terrible in relation to the human form when you look at it, while the head is actually very beautifully formed from the very beginning. Of course, for someone who only recognizes the fully grown human being, the embryo's head will also have something unappealing about it, but actually it is already beautifully formed. This is because it brings its formative forces with it from the previous life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Mystery of the Head and That of the Lower Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-06","location":null,"word_count":305,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/225/1923-05-06/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Cultural Phenomena — Three Perspectives of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA225/English/SOL2024/19230506p01.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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Daß Sie die Gestalt haben, als die Sie als Mensch erscheinen, das haben Sie ja nicht von der Materie, die der Grund Ihrer physischen Sichtbarkeit ist; aber die Gestalt Ihres gegenwärtigen Kopfes, die ist wirklich durch Metamorphosen hindurchgegangen, durch die Gestalt Ihres Organismus außer dem Kopfe des vorigen Erdenlebens. Dadurch aber war ja Ihr Kopf wirklich in einer außerordentlich günstigen Situation. Weil er so gut behandelt worden ist im Weltenall, deshalb ist er auch zuerst, als ein richtig gestalteter Kopf, im Embryonalleben aufgetreten. Denken Sie sich nur, der Kopf ist ja zuerst sehr schön ausgebildet, das andere hängt im ersten Embryonalleben wirklich nur wie Nebenorgane daran. Das muß erst von außen gestaltet werden, sieht eigentlich furchtbar aus im Verhältnis zur Menschengestalt, wenn man es betrachtet, während der Kopf von Anfang an eigentlich sehr schön schon ausgebildet ist. Wer allerdings nur den ausgewachsenen Menschen gelten läßt, für den wird ja auch der Kopf des Embryos etwas Unsympathisches haben, aber eigentlich ist er schon schön ausgebildet. 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