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Then, when these metallic ores emerged from the universal albuminous substance and formed the solid crust of the Earth, there was really nothing much else for the metals to do, unless man made some use of them, than to reflect about the past. And indeed we find that they do conjure up for the inner vision, everything that has happened in the Earth’s history. A man in whom these things are cosmic, or at least terrestrial experience, will say to himself: Through having cast away from yourself the primeval plant-form—which has since developed into the later plant-formations—through having cast away from yourself the complicated processes of animal evolution, you have also rid yourself of everything that previously stood in the way of your having a will in your own being as man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. 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Also all das bildet sich in einer älteren Form, in einer weichen, noch dicht wachsartigen Form in der damaligen Zeit aus. Dadurch wird der Erdkörper von solchen Dingen durchdrungen. Und dann, wenn eben diese Erze, dieses Metallinische, aus der allgemeinen eiweißähnlichen Substanz herauskommt und die feste Erdkruste bildet, dann haben die Metalle ja darinnen tatsächlich nicht viel anderes zu tun, wenn nicht der Mensch mit ihnen etwas macht, als nachzudenken über das, was geschehen ist. Und das trifft man auch bei ihnen. Man findet sie in einem Zustande, wo sie einem für das innerliche Schauen alles vergegenwärti‚gen, was mit der Erde geschehen ist. Jetzt aber sagt man sich, indem man das wie das eigene kosmische oder wenigstens tellurische Erlebnis hat: Indem du das alles abgelöst hast von dir, indem du abgelöst hast dasjenige, was als die älteste Pflanzenform da war — was ja die späteren Pflanzenformgebilde geworden sind -, indem du abgelöst hast, was in der komplizierteren Weise als Tierwerdung dasteht - wie ich es beschrieben habe -, hast du abgelöst von dir dasjenige, was dich vorher verhindert hat, in deinem eigenen Menschenwesen ein Wollen zu haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/232/1923-12-01/p025"}],"english":["GA 232/1923-12-01/p025"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":279,"en_words":247,"ratio":0.89,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.89,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4960,"original_word_count":5577,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E. 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