{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 229/1923-10-13/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Everything that takes place externally in nature is different as soon as it enters a human being. No process within the human organism takes place in the same way as in outer nature. A flame that burns externally is dead fire; that which corresponds to it within the human being is flame living and ensouled: Just as a stove stands towards a lung, so does the external flame stand towards the living activity that goes on in the human organism when carbon unites with oxygen there—a process which, viewed externally, is indeed combustion in chemical terms. All spiritual progress at the present day depends on our being able to grasp these things in the right way. Suppose you take salt with your food, or eat some albumen or anything else, people assume that it remains just the same substance within you as it was outside. That is not true. Whatever enters the human being becomes different immediately. And the forces which make it different proceed in a quite definite way from those Beings whom I have pictured in the four Imaginations.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. The Working Together of the Four Archangels","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-10-13","location":null,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/229/1923-10-13/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Charles Davy and Dorothy S. 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Es ist kein Prozeß im Menschen so, wie er äußerlich in der Natur verläuft. Und dasjenige, was wir äußerlich in der Flamme haben, wenn sie brennt, das ist totes Feuer; dasjenige, was wir entsprechend im Menschen haben, ist die belebte Flamme, die lebendige, durchseelte Flamme. Und so wie sich der Stein zur Lunge verhält, so verhält sich äußerlich die Flamme zu dem, was unter der Wirkung des Lebens im Menschen vorgeht, wenn sich der Kohlenstoff mit dem Sauerstoff verbindet, was äußerlich angesehen, chemisch, auch eine Verbrennung ist. Aller geistige Fortschritt der Gegenwart hängt davon ab, daß solche Dinge in der richtigen Weise aufgefaßt werden können. Wenn Sie äußerlich Salz haben und das mitessen mit den Speisen, oder wenn Sie irgend etwas anderes essen, Eiweiß, oder was es ist: die Leute stellen sich ja heute vor, als ob es auch im Menschen drinnen noch solches Eiweiß bliebe, wie es äußerlich ist, daß solch ein Stoff bliebe zum Beispiel Salz, wie es äußerlich ist. Das ist nicht wahr. Dasjenige, was den Menschen betritt, wird gleich etwas anderes. Und die Kräfte, die das zu etwas anderem machen, gehen aus von jenen Wesenheiten, die ich in den vier Imaginationen geschildert habe, und zwar in einer ganz bestimmten Weise.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/229/1923-10-13/p007"}],"english":["GA 229/1923-10-13/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":220,"en_words":181,"ratio":0.82,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5041,"original_word_count":5029,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy and Dorothy S. 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