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At that time man was already connected with the Earth which was surrounded by this watery-albuminous atmosphere; but he was then still wholly spiritual. It is correct to say, and it must also be realised, that these plant formations to be seen in the atmosphere at that time were something thrown off, ‘excreted’ by man. Man cast them out of his being which was still one with the whole Earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Mineral, Plant And Animal Creation","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-12-01","location":null,"word_count":208,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/232/1923-12-01/p016","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. 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Man war dazumal schon als Mensch mit der Erde, die in dieser wäßrigen Eiweiß-Atmosphäre lebte, verbunden, aber so, daß man als Mensch noch ganz geistig war. Aber man drückt ein Richtiges aus, wenn man sagt— es ist so, daß man zugleich die Vorstellung gewinnen muß -: Diese Pflanzen, die man da in der Atmosphäre sieht, die sind für die damalige Zeit Abscheidungen, Absonderungen des Menschlichen. Der Mensch setzt das aus seiner Wesenheit, die noch mit der ganzen Erde eines ist, heraus. Und er muß diese Vorstellung noch für etwas ganz anderes haben, was er da heraussetzt. Es geschieht nämlich auch folgendes. Alles, was ich bisher beschrieben habe, das ist dadurch bewirkt, daß schon früher das Kieselsäureartige in der Atmosphäre abgesetzt ist in der Wachsform, von der ich gesprochen habe. Aber sonst ist ja überall diese Eiweiß-Atmosphäre da. Auf die wirkt der Kosmos; auf die wirken die unendlich mannigfaltigen Kräfte, die vom Kosmos überall auf die Erde niederstrahlen, jene Kräfte, von denen unsere heutige Erkenntnis gar nichts wissen will. Daher ist unsere heutige Erkenntnis eben gar keine wirkliche Erkenntnis, weil das Mannigfaltigste, was auf der Erde vorgeht, eben nicht vorgehen würde, wenn es nicht überall von kosmischen Impulsen und kosmischen Kräften bewirkt wäre. Indem nun der heutige Gelehrte gar nicht von diesen kosmischen Kräften spricht, spricht er überhaupt nicht von der Wirklichkeit. Er nimmt ja nirgends Rücksicht auf dasjenige, was eigentlich lebt. Selbst in dem kleinsten Präparat, das man durch irgendein Mikroskop ansieht, leben nicht nur irdische, leben kosmische Kräfte. 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