{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 233/1923-12-28/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You know how to-day, when there is carbonic acid in the air, that has come about through the breathing of human beings, we can feel that we ourselves have breathed out the carbonic acid, we have breathed it into space. We have therefore still to-day this slight connection with the Cosmos. Through the airy part of our nature, through the air that gives rise to the breathing and other air-processes that go on in the human organism, we have a living connection with the great Universe, with the Macrocosm. The human being to-day can look upon his out-breathed breath, upon the carbonic acid that was in him and is now outside him. But just as we are able to-day to look upon the carbonic acid we have breathed out—we do not generally do so, but we could—so did the initiates of olden times look upon the whole plant-world. Those who had been initiated in the Oriental Mysteries, or had received the wisdom that streamed forth from the Oriental Mysteries, were able to say: I look back in the evolution of the world to an ancient Sun epoch. In that time I bore still within me the plants. Then afterwards I let them stream forth from me into the far circles of Earth existence. But as long as I bore the plants within me, while I was still that Adam Cadmon who embraced the whole Earth and the plant-world with it, so long was this whole plant-world watery-airy in substance. Then the human being separated off from himself this plant-world. Imagine that you were to become as big as the whole Earth, and then to separate off, to secrete, as it were, inwardly something plant-like in nature, and this plant-like substance were to go through metamorphoses in the watery element—coming to life, fading away, growing up, being changed, taking on different shapes and forms—and you will by this imagination call up again in your soul feelings and experiences that once lived in it. Those who received their education and training in the East at about the time of Gilgamesh were able to say to themselves that these things had once been so.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Mysteries of the East, West, and of Ephesus","site_heading":"Ephesus: Bridge Between Eastern and Western Mysteries","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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Aber so, wie der Mensch heute - er tut es ja nicht, aber er könnte es - hinschaut auf die ausgeatmete Kohlensäure, so schaute der Mensch, der in den orientalischen Mysterien entweder eingeweiht war oder aufgenommen hatte die Weisheit, die aus den orientalischen Mysterien nach außen geströmt ist, die ganze Pflanzenwelt an. Er sagte sich: Ich schaue zurück in der Weltenentwickelung auf eine alte Sonnenzeit. Da habe ich die Pflanzen noch in mir getragen. Und dann habe ich sie herausströmen lassen in die weiten Kreise des Erdenseins. Aber als ich die Pflanzen noch in mir trug, als ich noch jener Adam Kadmon war, der die ganze Erde umfaßte und die Pflanzenwelt mit, da war diese ganze Pflanzenwelt noch etwas Wässerig-Luftiges.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-28/p006"},{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-28/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Der Mensch sonderte von sich ab diese Pflanzenwelt. Wenn Sie sich vorstellen, Sie würden die Größe erlangen der ganzen Erde und dann nach innen absondern Pflanzliches, das nun im wäßrigen Elemente sich metamorphosierend entsteht, vergeht, heranwächst, anders wird, verschiedene Gestalten eben annimmt, dann würden Sie in Ihr Gemüt heraufrufen, wie es einmal war. Und daß es einmal so war, das sagten sich diejenigen, die etwa in der Gilgamesch-Zeit im Oriente drüben ihre Bildung aufgenommen hatten. Und schauten sie dann auf das Pflanzenwachstum auf den Wiesen hin, dann sagten sie sich: Wir haben die Pflanzen abgesondert in einem früheren Stadium unserer Entwickelung, aber die Erde hat die Pflanzen aufgenommen. Das Wurzelhafte ist ihnen erst von der Erde verliechen worden, ebenso alles dasjenige, was das Holzige ist, was die Baumesnatur des Pflanzenhaften ist. - Aber das allgemein Pflanzenhafte, das hat der Mensch von sich abgesondert, und das ist von der Erde aufgenommen worden. 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