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Hence when you receive into yourself some essentially mineral substance,—for example, when you take some salt on your tongue—it is the ego-organisation in you that immediately pounces upon this mineral substance. And as the substance is carried further into the body, all the while,—even when the salt substance is in the stomach—the ego-organisation remains with it. The salt goes still further, it undergoes various changes, it passes through the intestines,—never once does the ego-organisation leave hold of her salt! 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The ego-organisation is very little concerned when you have a piece of poached egg on your tongue. Afterwards, as it slips down into the stomach, the astral body concerns itself with it, but again only to a very small extent. Then it goes further. And now, first the etheric and then the physical body begin to act intensively upon it. They break down within you the albumen that you receive into your organism with the egg. The egg itself is now made entirely of mineral within you. It is broken down and destroyed. All life is driven out of it. It is destroyed within you. At the walls of the intestines the albumen substance that you have taken into you from outside ceases to be albumen in any sense, becomes entirely mineral in character. 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And all mineral substances are changed through its action; in the human organism they become different from what they were outside it. No mineral substance can remain the same within the human organism as it is outside. The ego-organisation has to look after this in a very thorough manner. Nor is it only such substances as cooking salt and the like that are seized upon by the ego-organisation and inwardly changed to something quite different. The human being is surrounded by a certain condition of warmth, but that external condition of warmth must never be allowed to penetrate the human being. You can never have your finger full of that which is all around you as external warmth. This warmth can but act as a stimulus, you yourself must create and produce the warmth that you have within you. The moment you are merely, so to say, an object and do not yourself create your own warmth or cold, but let the warmth from outside extend its influence into you exactly as it does into any external object,—in that moment you become ill. The external warmth,—not even a substance, but the warmth itself makes you ill. Suppose you have here a towel or a sponge, and over there is a fire. The warmth of the fire, which can spread out all around quite easily, will permeate the towel or the sponge. The towel or sponge only carries a little further the radiating warmth of the fire. When, however, the warmth of the fire reaches the skin of the human being and acts upon the senses, stimulating them, then it must no longer simply spread in this way; then the reaction must come, the inner warmth must be created from within. If a person catches cold, his condition results from the fact that he has not merely let himself be stimulated to create his own inner warmth, but has let the external cold enter to some extent beneath the skin. Thus he does not take his place in the world as a fully active human being who fills himself with his own activity and his own impulses, but plays rather the part of an object that lets the activities and influences of the outer world pass through him. That is the essential nature of the ego-organisation that it takes up into itself what is mineral and completely changes it from within, converting it into something altogether different.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":416,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1923-12-30/p035","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-12-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-30/p033","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-30/p033"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":360,"en_words":416,"ratio":1.16,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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So long as we are alive on the Earth, and have the mineral enclosed in our skin, so long does the ego-organisation continue to change it perpetually. Similarly, whatever we take up into ourselves that is of a plant nature is perpetually changed by the working of the astral body. It is in everything of a mineral nature that the ego-organisation brings about a thorough metamorphosis; not merely in the solid mineral, but also in the liquid and gaseous mineral, and the mineral that is in the state of warmth or heat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":109,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1923-12-30/p036","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-12-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-30/p034","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-30/p034"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":158,"en_words":206,"ratio":1.3,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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The truth is, however, that the moment my organism receives the water, then by reason of the action of my ego-organisation, the water inside me is no longer the same as the water outside. It only becomes the same again when I give it off in the form of perspiration, or in some other way convert it into water. Inside my skin water is not water, it is living fluid.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":97,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1923-12-30/p037","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-12-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-30/p034","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-30/p034"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":158,"en_words":206,"ratio":1.3,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Think them over. Think how the albumen has to be broken down and disorganised in order that it may be exposed to the influences of the whole macrocosm. Think how the water I drink becomes in me living fluid and is no longer the inorganic water it was before, but is water permeated by the ego-organisation. Think how, when you eat cabbage—outside you it was cabbage, inside you the astral body receives the cabbage into itself and transforms it into something new. And here we come to the consideration of very important processes in the human body. We learn to perceive how we have in our metabolic system processes that are only one evolutionary stage removed from the metabolisms that we have, for example, in our brain—the metabolisms that go to make up the nervous system, and so forth. I will speak further on this tomorrow and make clear, in connection with these processes, the radical difference between men of the 12th and of the 20th century. We shall thus come to see the necessity for new impulses to enter in, if there is to be progress in the understanding of health and disease, and if the knowledge of man is not to die out altogether and nothing more ever be known of the healthy or of the diseased human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1923-12-30/p038","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-12-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-30/p035","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-30/p035"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":225,"en_words":247,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Hat man zunächst, sagen wir, durch imaginative Erkenntnis aus der Initiationswissenschaft eine Anschauung von der menschlichen Ich-Organisation, dann kann man sich fragen: Zu was im heutigen menschlichen Organismus steht denn diese Ich-Organisation in besonderer Beziehung? - Diese Ich-Organisation steht in besonderer Beziehung zu demjenigen, was im Menschen minetalisch ist. Wenn Sie daher ein Mineralisches, ein wesentlich Mineralisches aufnehmen, zum Beispiel Salz auf die Zunge bringen, sogleich ist es die Ich-Organisation, die sich über dieses Mineralische hermacht. Dann wird das Mineralische weiterbefördert, kommt in den Magen. Die Ich-Organisation bleibt dabei, auch wenn die Salzsubstanz im Magen ist; die Ich-Organisation bleibt dabei. Das Salz geht weiter, macht ja allerdings Veränderungen durch, geht durch den Darm, geht weiter: aber niemals wird Ihr Salz von der Ich-Organisation verlassen. Die benehmen sich wie recht zusammengehörige Dinge, die Ich-Organisation und das Salz, das in den Menschen hineinkommt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":150,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-30/p031"},{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-30/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Sehen Sie, so ist es nicht, wenn Sie zum Beispiel ein Spiegelei essen, das hat noch etwas von Zusammenhalt mit der Eiweißsubstanz. Da kümmert sich nur ein wenig die Ich-Organisation, wenn Sie die Spiegeleisubstanz auf der Zunge haben. Dann kümmert sich schon sehr wenig der astralische Leib noch darum, während es hinunterschlüpft in den Magen. Dann geht es weiter; dann wirkt intensiv der Ätherleib, dann der physische Leib. Diese zerklüften in Ihnen selber die Eiweißsubstanz, die Sie mit dem Spiegelei in Ihren Organismus hineinbekommen. Und jetzt wird das Spiegelei in Ihnen selber ganz mineralisch gemacht. Es wird zerklüftet. Alles Lebendige wird aus ihm ausgetrieben. Es wird in Ihnen zerklüftet. An den Darmwänden hört diese äußerlich aufgenommene Eiweißsubstanz auf, irgendwie noch Eiweiß zu sein, wird ganz mineralisch. Da geht es nun über jetzt wieder in die Ich-Organisation, und von da aus wird das mineralisierte Eiweiß von der Ich-Organisation aufgenommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-30/p032"},{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-30/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Und so können wir immer sagen: Die Ich-Organisation gibt sich nur mit Mineralischem ab. Aber jedes Mineralische wird durch die Ich-Organisation im menschlichen Organismus etwas anderes, als es außerhalb ist. Es darf nichts im menschlichen Organismus so bleiben, wie es außerhalb dieses menschlichen Organismus ist. Dafür muß die Ich-Organisation in radikaler Weise sorgen. Nicht nur, daß solche Substanzen wie, sagen wir, Kochsalz und dergleichen, von der Ich-Organisation erfaßt und innerlich zu etwas ganz anderem gemacht werden, als sie äußerlich sind, sondern es darf nicht einmal, wenn der Mensch von einem gewissen Wärmezustande umgeben ist, der äußere Wärmezustand den Menschen irgendwie durchdringen. Sie dürfen nicht Ihre Finger ausgefüllt haben von dem, was sich als äußere Wärme ausbreitet. Die Wärme darf auf Sie nur als Reiz wirken, und Sie müssen die Wärme, die Sie in sich haben, selber erzeugen. In dem Augenblick, wo Sie bloß Gegenstand sind, sich nicht Ihre Wärme oder Kälte selber erzeugen, sondern wo irgendwo in Ihnen die Wärme so weiterwirkt, wie zum Beispiel bei irgendeinem äußeren Gegenstande, da werden Sie krank - von der äußeren Wärme selbst, nicht einmal bloß von der Substanz, sondern von der äußeren Wärme. Denken Sie sich einmal, da wäre irgendein Tuch oder ein Schwamm, und da wäre ein Ofen. Die Ofenwärme, die darf ganz ruhig sich ausbreiten, durch das Tuch oder den Schwamm durchgehen. Das Tuch oder der Schwamm setzt nur fort, was da als Ofenwärme sich ausbreitet. Das darf die Ofenwärme nicht tun, wenn sie bis zur Haut kommt. Wenn die Ofenwärme den Sinnenreiz ausübt, dann muß die Reaktion kommen: die Innenwärme muß von innen aus erzeugt werden. Erkältungszustände beruhen gerade darauf, daß man nicht sich bloß reizen läßt, um seine innere Eigenwärme zu erzeugen, sondern daß man die äußere Kälte etwas unter die Haut kommen läßt, so daß man sich selber nicht in die Welt stellt als der voll tätige Mensch, der sich mit seinem Wirken, seinen Impulsen selbst ausfüllt, sondern der sich wie einen Gegenstand hinstellt und durch sich die Wirkungen der Außenwelt durchziehen läßt. - Das ist das Wesen der Ich-Organisation, daß es in sich aufnimmt das Mineralische, aber es innerlich ganz und gar ändert, in etwas anderes verwandelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":360,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-30/p033"},{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-30/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Erst wenn wir gestorben sind, ist das Mineralische wiederum Mineralisches der äußeren Natur. Während wir auf der Erde leben, das Mineralische innerhalb unserer Haut haben, verändert die Ich-Organisation das Mineralische fortwährend. Das Pflanzliche, das wir aufnehmen, wird durch die astralische Organisation, durch den astralischen Leib fortwährend verändert. So daß wir sagen können: Die Ich-Organisation des Menschen metamorphosiert gründlich um alles Mineralische, nicht nur das fest Mineralische, auch das Wäßrige, auch das Luftförmige, auch das Wärmeartige. - Man kann ja natürlich, wenn man grob spricht, sagen: Hier irgendwo ist Wasser. Ich trinke. Ich habe das Wasser jetzt in mir. - Aber in dem Augenblicke, wo mein Organismus das Wasser aufnimmt, ist das, was ich in mir habe, durch meine Ich-Organisation nicht mehr dasselbe, was das äußere Wasser ist. Das ist es erst wiederum, wenn ich es ausschwitze oder auf eine andere Art zu Wasser mache. Innerhalb meiner Haut ist Wasser nicht Wasser, sondern ist etwas, was lebendige Flüssigkeit ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-30/p034"},{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-30/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"In dieser Weise muß immer unendlich vieles umgedacht werden. Ich konnte Ihnen heute nur kleine Andeutungen geben. Aber wenn Sie das durchdenken, wenn Sie wissen, wie das Eiweiß zerklüftet werden muß, um in die Wirkung des ganzen Makrokosmos zu kommen, wie das Wasser, das ich trinke, innerlich lebendige Flüssigkeit ist, nicht mehr das unorganische Wasser, sondern von Ich-Organisation durchdrungenes Wasser ist, wenn Sie bedenken, indem Sie Kohl essen: Draußen ist es Kohl, innerlich nimmt der astralische Leib sogleich den Kohl in sich auf - wenigstens den wirklichen, den physischen Kohl - und verändert ihn in etwas ganz anderes, so kommen wir hier an die Betrachtung außerordentlich bedeutsamer Vorgänge, dringen vor bis zu der Anschauung, daß wir in unserem Stoffwechsel Vorgänge haben, die nur um eine gewisse Stufe der Entwickelung verschieden sind von den Stoffwechselprozessen, die wir zum Beispiel im Gehirn haben, die das Nervensystem da ausmachen und so weiter. Darüber werde ich dann morgen weiterreden, um an diesen Vorgängen nun den ganz radikalen Unterschied der Menschheit noch des 12. nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts und des 20. Jahrhunderts hervorzuheben, um davon her dann die Notwendigkeit zur Einsicht zu bringen, wie im weiteren Fortschritt für den gesunden und kranken Menschen neue Impulse kommen müssen, damit nicht alle Menschenkenntnis überhaupt verlorengehe und man nichts mehr wisse über den gesunden sowohl wie über den kranken Menschen. Davon also morgen dann weiter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-30/p035"}],"beads":[{"from":[33],"to":[31],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[34],"to":[32],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[35],"to":[33],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[36,37],"to":[34],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[38],"to":[35],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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