{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 230/1923-11-04/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus we see how these elemental beings are the intermediaries between the earth and the spirit-cosmos. We see this drama of the phosphorescent uprising of the undines, which pass away in the sea of light and flame of the higher hierarchies as their sustenance; we see the up-flashing of the greenish-reddish lightning, which is in-breathed there where the earth continually passes over into the eternal, the eternal survival of the fire-beings, whose activity never ceases. For whereas, here on earth, it is particularly at a certain time of the year that butterflies die, the fire-beings see to it that what it is their task to look to is poured out into the universe throughout the entire year. Thus the earth is as though cloaked in a mantle of fire. Seen from outside the earth appears fiery. But everything is brought about by beings who see the things of the earth quite differently from how man sees them. As already mentioned, man's experience of the earth is of a hard substance upon which he walks about and stands. For the gnomes it is a transparent globe, a hollow body. For the undines water is something in which they perceive the phosphorizing process, which they can take into themselves and feel as their life-element. Sylphs see in the astrality of the air, which emanates from dying birds, that which makes their lightning flashes more vivid than they would otherwise be, for in itself the lightning of these sylphs is dull and bluish. And then again the disintegration of butterfly existence is something which continually envelops the earth as though with a sheath of fire. When this is beheld it is as though the earth were surrounded by a wonderful fiery painting; and, on the other side, when one looks upwards from the earth, one beholds these lightning flashes, these phosphorescent and evanescent undines. All this makes us say: Here on earth the elemental nature-spirits live and weave; they strive upwards and pass away in the fire-mantle of the earth. In reality, however, they do not pass away, but there they find their eternal existence by passing over into the beings of the higher hierarchies.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IX","site_heading":"Elemental Beings and the Creative World-Word","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Von außen gesehen, erscheint sie als feurig. Aber das Ganze wird ja von Wesen bewirkt, welche ganz anders die Dinge der Erde sehen, als der Mensch sie sieht. Für den Menschen ist, wie gesagt, die Erde als harte Substanz zu verspüren, auf der er gehen und stehen kann. Für die Gnomen ist sie eine durchlässige Kugel, eine Hohlkugel. Für die Undinen ist das Wasser etwas, in dem sie das Phosphoreszieren wahrnehmen und in sich aufnehmen und erleben können. Für die Sylphen ist das Astralische der Luft, das aus der sterbenden Vogelwelt kommt, dasjenige, wovon sie mehr zuckende Blitze werden, als sie schon gewesen sind; sie sind sonst matte, bläuliche Blitze, die Sylphen. Und wiederum das Zugrundegehen des Schmetterlingswesens ist etwas, was sozusagen dauernd die Erde wie mit einer Feuerschale umgibt. Für die Anschauung ist das so, daß gewissermaßen die Erde von einem wunderbaren feurigen Gemälde umgeben ist, und an der einen Seite, wenn man von der Erde hinaufschaut, sind diese zuckenden Blitze, diese phosphoreszierenden und verschwindenden Undinen. All das ist so, als ob man sagen müßte: Hier auf Erden weben und leben diese Elementargeister; sie streben nach aufwärts und verschwinden im Feuermantel der Erde. Aber sie verschwinden eigentlich nicht in Wirklichkeit, sondern sie finden da ihr ewiges Dasein, indem sie in die Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien übergehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":323,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/230/1923-11-04/p020"}],"english":["GA 230/1923-11-04/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":323,"en_words":362,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.15,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5561,"original_word_count":4841,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1970","book_title":"Man as Symphony of the Creative Word","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA230/English/RSP1970/19231104p01.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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