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I pointed out that, from out of the etheric, everything, whether it be a large or small drop, is made spherical, and that this tendency to spherical formation, due to the complex of etheric forces, extends to the etheric body of man. We have really to fight continually to overcome this tendency in our etheric body.—Of course, all this takes place in the subconscious. In its present form the human etheric body is closely moulded to the physical body. It has not such sharp boundaries and is mobile in itself; nevertheless we can distinguish a head part, a trunk part and, indistinctly, limb parts where the etheric body becomes diffuse. Thus, when we move an arm the etheric body, which otherwise conforms to the human shape, only protrudes a little beyond the arm, whereas below it is widely extended. But it has from the cosmos the tendency to take on spherical form. The higher being of man—the astral man and the ego—must oppose this tendency and mould the spherical form to the human shape. 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As I indicated yesterday, the astral comes streaming in from the indefinite, so to speak. In the earthly realm outside man it streams in (arrows in green circle) in such a way that it develops the plant form out of the earth; and the plant form clearly shows this response to the astral. The plant has only an etheric body, but it is, indeed, the astral forces which draw the plant out of the earth. Now the human astral body is extraordinarily complicated and one really perceives it in the way I described yesterday, i.e. as an inner musical element, a whirling, weaving life, an inner activity and all one might describe as music inwardly sensed. 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The human being moulds it to the most varied forms in order to make it serviceable and incorporate it. One might say, the human being wins his astral body by subduing the centripetal astral forces.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":49,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/234/1924-02-02/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-02-02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 234/1924-02-02/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/234/1924-02-02/p009"}],"bead_confidence":"high","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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This means that its activity shares, to a remarkably small degree, in our physical, bodily life. Here the etheric finds tremendous scope for acting upwards. The weight acts downwards but is reduced. In the cerebral fluid there is principally developed the sum of etheric forces that lifts us away from the earth. Indeed, if we had to carry our physical body with all its forces of weight, we would have a sack to drag about. 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Und diese Tendenz, aus dem Kräftezusammenhang des Ätherischen heraus ein Kugeliges zu gestalten, erstreckt sich auch auf den Ätherleib des Menschen. Eigentlich haben wir fortwährend mit Bezug auf unseren Ätherleib damit zu kämpfen — natürlich geschieht das alles im Unterbewußten -, die Kugelform zu überwinden. Der menschliche Ätherleib, so wie er nun einmal ist, ist sehr angepaßt in seiner Form, in seiner Gestaltung dem menschlichen physischen Leib. Er hat nicht so feste Grenzen, er ist in sich beweglich; aber wir können in ihm auch unterscheiden eine Kopfpartie, eine Rumpfpartie, undeutlich die Gliedmaßenpartien, da verschwimmt der Ätherleib. So daß es so ist, daß wenn wir einen Arm bewegen, der Ätherleib, der sich sonst der Form des menschlichen Organismus anpaßt, nur etwas herausragt über denselben, während er nach unten auseinandergeht‘ Dieser Ätherleib hat aber durch das Universum, durch den Kosmos eigentlich die Tendenz, Kugelform anzunehmen. Gegen diese Kugelform muß eben dasjenige, was als höheres Wesen im Menschen ist, der astralische Mensch und der Ich-Mensch kämpfen. Das plastiziert heraus aus der Kugelform eben diese Form, die sich der menschlichen Gestalt anpaßt. So daß wir sagen können: Der Mensch stellt sich als Äthermensch in die allgemeine Ätherwelt so hinein, daß er in sich zusammenschließt eine Eigenform aus dem Ätherischen; während ringsherum alles Ätherische darnach trachtet, soweit Gestaltung in Betracht kommt, Kugeliges zu gestalten aus dem Flüssigen. Beim Menschen wird das Flüssige, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf, eben menschenähnlich, aber das geschieht durch innere Kräfte. Da arbeiten die inneren Kräfte den äußeren kosmischen Kräften entgegen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":294,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/234/1924-02-02/p006"},{"locus":"GA 234/1924-02-02/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"![234-05](images/234-05.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/234/1924-02-02/p007"},{"locus":"GA 234/1924-02-02/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Noch stärker ist dieses Entgegenarbeiten beim astralischen Menschen. Das Astralische kommt ja sozusagen wie aus dem Unbestimmten, wie ich Ihnen gestern angedeutet habe, hereingeströmt. Und dieses Astralische wirkt im außermenschlichen irdischen Dasein so herein strömend (siehe Pfeile im grünen Kreis), daß es aus der Erde heraus die Pflanzenform kraftet, die noch deutlich dieses Folgen dem Astralischen zeigt. Denn es sind ja die Astralkräfte, die die Pflanze aus der Erde herausholen. Die Pflanze selbst hat nur einen Ätherleib; aber die astralischen Kräfte sind es, die sie herausholen aus der Erde. Beim Menschen ist der astralische Leib außerordentlich kompliziert, und man nimmt ihn wirklich so wahr, wie ich ihn gestern dargestellt habe, als ein inneres Musikalisches, als ein wirbelndes Leben, als ein weben des Leben, als innere Regsamkeit und alles das, was, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf, gespürte, empfundene Musik ist; während man alles andere Astralische von außen radial einströmend findet. Und dieses radial Einströmende, das wird eben in die menschliche astralische Form verwandelt. Da kommen komplizierte Dinge zum Vorschein. (Es wird gezeichnet.)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/234/1924-02-02/p008"},{"locus":"GA 234/1924-02-02/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Sagen wir zum Beispiel, es ströme von einer Seite her ein Astralisches ein; die menschliche Wesenheit biegt dieses Astralische in der verschiedensten Form um, um es sich dienstbar zu machen und einzugliedern, so daß der Mensch sich seinen Astralleib aus den radial einströmenden Astralkräften erzwingt, könnte man sagen, durch seine eigene innere Wesenheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":53,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/234/1924-02-02/p009"},{"locus":"GA 234/1924-02-02/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Nun, sehen Sie, man kann aber doch sagen: Wenn man den seelisch-geistig geschärften Blick hinauswendet in den Kosmos, bekommt man schon die Auffassung des Ätherischen und man bekommt auch den Eindruck: das Ätherische ist dasjenige, was macht, daß wir von der Erde wegstreben; während wir durch die Schwere der Erde mit der Erde zusammengehalten werden, streben wir durch das Ätherische weg. Im Wegstrebenden ist eigentlich das Ätherische tätig. Sie brauchen dabei nur folgendes zu denken: das menschliche Gehirn ist ungefähr 1500 Gramm schwer. Eine Masse, die 1500 Gramm schwer ist, die auf die feinen Blutgefäße drücken würde, die unter dem Gehirn sind, würde diese ganz zerquetschen. Würde unser Gehirn wirklich seine 1500 Gramm Schwere haben im lebenden Menschen, könnten wir natürlich nicht die Blutgefäße, die unter dem Gehirn sind, haben. Aber innerhalb des lebenden Menschen wiegt ja das Gehirn höchstens 20 Gramm. Soviel wird, weil das Gehirn im Gehirnwasser schwimmt und um das Gewicht des verdrängten Wassers leichter wird, das Gehirn leichter, ungeheuer viel leichter; so wirkt das Gehirn eigentlich wegstrebend vom Menschen. Und in diesem Wegstreben wirkt das Ätherische. So daß man sagen kann: gerade am Gehirn veranschaulicht sich das, was da vorliegt, außerordentlich stark.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/234/1924-02-02/p010"},{"locus":"GA 234/1924-02-02/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Sie haben das Gehirn im Gehirnwasser schwimmend. Dadurch vermindert sich sein Gewicht von 1500 Gramm auf etwa bloß 20 Gramm. Also bloß etwa 20 Gramm schwer ist unser Gehirn, nimmt also in seiner Wirksamkeit in außerordentlich geringem Maße an unserer physischen Leiblichkeit teil. Da findet das Ätherische ungeheuer viel Möglichkeit, hinaufzuwirken. Das Gewicht wirkt hinunter, aber das Gewicht wird aufgehoben. Im Gehirnwasser entwickelt sich vorzugsweise die Summe der ätherischen Kräfte, die uns weghebt von dem Irdischen. Wir würden ja, wenn wir unseren physischen Leib zu tragen hätten mit all seinen Schwerekräften, einen Sack haben, an dem wir zu schleppen hätten. Aber jedes Blutkörperchen schwimmt ja, verliert von seinem Gewicht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":109,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/234/1924-02-02/p011"},{"locus":"GA 234/1924-02-02/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Es ist eine alte Erkenntnis, diese von dem Gewichtsverlust im Flüssigen. Sie wissen ja, daß sie dem Archimedes im Altertum zugeschrieben worden ist. Er badete einmal und merkte, als er das Bein aus dem Badewasser herausstreckte, wieviel schwerer es ist, als wenn er das Bein im Badewasser drinnen hielt, und da rief er: Ich hab’s gefunden! Heureka! Ich hab’s gefunden! - Nämlich, daß jeder Körper im Flüssigen so viel leichter wird, als die Flüssigkeitsmasse beträgt, die er verdrängt. Wenn Sie also den Archimedes sich im Badewasser vorstellen, das physische Bein (es wird gezeichnet), und dann jenes Bein aus Wasser geformt, so wird das physische Bein so viel weniger schwer sein im Wasser, als dieses Wasserbein hier wiegt. Um das wird es leichter sein. Und so wird unser Gehirn im Gehirnwasser drinnen um so viel leichter, als die Gehirnflüssigkeit von der Größe des physischen Gehirns beträgt. Man nennt es in der Physik Auftrieb. Also in diesem Wegstreben durch das Flüssige wirkt das Ätherische, während das Astralische zunächst angeregt wird durch die Atmung, durch das Luftförmige, das in den menschlichen Organismus hereinkommt. Und indem das Luftförmige seinen Weg durchmacht durch den Menschen und in ungeheuer feinem, zerstiebtem Zustande im Haupte anlangt, wirkt in dieser Luftverteilung, Luftorganisierung, das Astralische.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":206,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/234/1924-02-02/p012"},{"locus":"GA 234/1924-02-02/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"So kann man wirklich in dem Stofflichen, in dem festen, erdigen Stofflichen das Physische sehen; in dem Flüssigen, namentlich wie seine Wirkung im Menschen ist, das Ätherische; in dem Luftförmigen schon das Astralische.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":33,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/234/1924-02-02/p013"}],"beads":[{"from":[6],"to":[6,7],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[7],"to":[8],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[8],"to":[9],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[9],"to":[10],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[10],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[11],"to":[12],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[12],"to":[13],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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