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Mercury relates him to the vascular system which, in turn, relates him to a cosmic circulation, to the spirituality of the Cosmos. The intensification of his relationship to silver brings him into direct contact with all the forces and impulses that survive from earlier incarnations.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":79,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/243/1924-08-15/p053","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"A. H. Parker","identified_edition":"RSP1985","book_title":"True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA243/English/RSP1985/19240815p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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He who has a right understanding of silver knows that it is the symbol of the cycles of man's lives on Earth. Hence the mystery of silver is bound up with reproduction and its secrets, because through the process of reproduction the being of man is perpetuated from generation to generation. The spiritual being who existed in former lives on Earth incarnates again through the process of reproduction. This is the same mystery as the mystery of blood. 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Mit dem Merkur hat er sich an die Gefäßorganisation gewandt, die ihn in Zusammenhänge bringt mit einer Zirkulation im ganzen Kosmos, in Zusammenhang bringt mit der Spiritualität des Kosmos. Dadurch, daß er die Silberrelation steigert, bringt sich der Mensch in unmittelbaren Kontakt mit demjenigen, was herüberkraftet, herüberimpulsiert aus früheren Erdenleben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/243/1924-08-15/p053"},{"locus":"GA 243/1924-08-15/p054","passage_number":54,"text":"So daß wir sagen können: Konzentriert sich der Mensch auf die besonderen Eigenschaften des Silbers, was lange dauert, bis es wirksam wird, zieht der Mensch diejenigen Kräfte in sich zusammen, die damit zusammenhängen, daß jetzt nicht nur seine Gefäße Flüssigkeiten zirkulieren lassen, Säfte zirkulieren lassen, sondern daß Wärme durch die Zirkulation des Blutes kreist. Dann stellt sich für den Menschen die Wahrheit ein, daß in dem, was als Wärme in seinem Blute kreist, was ihn erst zum menschlichen Wesen dadurch macht, daß er eine gewisse Wärme und dadurch Blutstofflichkeit, aber auch Blutgeistigkeit, Blutspiritualität in sich empfindet, wirksam ist dasjenige, was aus früheren Inkarnationen herüberwirkt. - Und in der Verwandtschaft mit dem Silber drückt sich unmittelbar dasjenige aus, was auf die Wärmeimpulsivität des Blutes wirken kann. Damit aber drückt sich auch aus, was uns spirituell hinüberleitet zu früheren Erdenleben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/243/1924-08-15/p054"},{"locus":"GA 243/1924-08-15/p055","passage_number":55,"text":"Denken Sie, man erhält in dem Silber diejenige Metallität, die gewissermaßen den Menschen aufmerksam macht auf das, was in ihm jetzt in diesem Erdenleben noch aus früheren Erdenleben ist. Denn unser Blutkreislauf mit seinen wunderbaren Wärmedifferenzierungen, er ist nicht aus dieser physischen Welt heraus. Er ist auch nicht aus der elementarischen Welt heraus, die ich Ihnen geschildert habe. Er ist auch nicht einmal allein aus der Welt der Sterne heraus. Aus der Welt der Sterne heraus sind die Richtungen des Blutkreislaufes. Aber in dem, was im Blute eigentlich als Wärme unser Leben in der richtigen Weise durchpulsiert, wirkt dasjenige, was aus früheren Erdenleben heraus kraftet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":105,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/243/1924-08-15/p055"},{"locus":"GA 243/1924-08-15/p056","passage_number":56,"text":"Unmittelbar an das appelliert man, wenn man an die Silberkräfte in ihrer Beziehung zum Menschen appelliert. So steht das Mysterium des Silbers im Zusammenhange mit den wiederholten Erdenleben. Das Silber ist eines der erschütterndsten Beispiele dafür, daß überall Spiritualität lebt, auch in dem Physischen. Wer das Silber mit rechten Augen anzusehen vermag, der weiß, daß das Silber das äußere Götterzeichen ist für die Kreisläufe des menschlichen Erdenlebens. Daher hängt auch das Mysterium des Silbers mit der Fortpflanzung zusammen, mit all jenen Geheimnissen, die sich auf die Fortpflanzung beziehen, aus dem Grunde, weil der Mensch ja durch die Fortpflanzung sein Wesen hinüberleitet zu den früheren Erdenleben. Das Wesen, das in früheren Erdenleben vorhanden war, dringt durch die Fortpflanzung in das physische Leben herein. Aber das ist dasselbe Geheimnis wie das Geheimnis des Blutes. Und das Geheimnis des Blutes, das Mysterium des Blutes, ist das Mysterium des Silbers. 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