{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 232/1923-12-01/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Try to picture this vividly. It is a panorama very different from anything to be seen in our environment today. If a modern man could project himself into that far-off time, set up a little observation-hut and look out on that ancient world, the spectacle before him would be something like this: he would see a gigantic plant-formation somewhat like present-day algae or palms. It would not appear to grow out of the Earth in springtime and die away in the autumn, but it would shoot up—in springtime, it is true, but the spring was then much shorter—and reach an enormous size; then it would vanish again in the fluid albuminous element. A clairvoyant observer would see the verdure appearing and then fading away. He would not speak of plants which cover the Earth but of plants appearing out of the Cosmos like airy clouds, condensing and then dissolving—it was a process of ‘greening’, taking place in the albuminous atmosphere. Of the period which would correspond more or less to our summer, an observer would say that it was the time when the environment of the Earth became ‘green’. But he would look upwards to the greening rather than downwards. In this way we can picture how the silicious element in the Earth’s atmosphere penetrates into the Earth and draws to itself the plant-force from the Cosmos, in other words, how the plant kingdom comes down to the Earth from the Cosmos. In the period of which I am speaking, however, we must say of the plant world: it is something that comes into being and passes away again in the atmosphere.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Mineral, Plant And Animal Creation","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-12-01","location":null,"word_count":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/232/1923-12-01/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Mystery Knowledge & Mystery Centres","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA232/English/RSP1972/19231201p01.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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Es ist im Grunde genommen ein Bild, das von dem Heutigen, was wir in unserer Umgebung haben, sehr verschieden ausschaut. Wenn man als heutiger Mensch sich in die damalige Zeit versetzen könnte, sagen wir solch ein Schilderhäuschen irgendwo hinstellen könnte und sich da beobachtend hineinsetzen könnte, wie es heute unsere Freunde haben, die die Wache hier am Goetheanum leisten, und da hinausschauen könnte in jene alte Welt, da würde man überall sehen: da taucht auf ein Pflanzenbild, ein mächtiges Pflanzenbild, wie gesagt unseren heutigen Algen oder auch Palmen ähnlich, aber es schießt auf — es wächst nicht aus der Erde im Frühling heraus und vergeht im Herbste, sondern es schießt, in der Frühlingszeit erscheinend, heraus — die Frühlingszeit ist viel kürzer und dann erlangt es seine Mächtigkeit, dann verschwindet es wiederum im flüssig-eiweißähnlichen Elemente. Diesen Anblick des immer Ergrünenden und immer wiederum Vergrünenden würde ein solcher Beobachter haben. Und er würde nicht sprechen von den Pflanzen, die die Erde bedecken, sondern er würde sprechen von den Pflanzen, die wie Luftwolken aus dem Kosmos herein erscheinen, dicht werden, sich auflösen — ein Ergrünendes in der Eiweiß-Atmosphäre. Und man würde von dem, was unserem heutigen Sommer etwa entsprechen würde, sagen: Es ist die Zeit, in der die Erdenumgebung ergrünt. Man würde aber zu dem Grün mehr hinaufschauen als hinunterschauen. So daß man auf diese Art die Vorstellung bekommt, wie das Kieselige der Erd-Atmosphäre hereinzieht in das Irdische und die Pflanzenkraft, die eigentlich draußen im Kosmos ist, an sich heranzieht; wie die Pflanzenwelt aus dem Kosmos auf die Erde herunterkommt. 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