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If we draw a line upwards for man's main energy, downwards for the plant and horizontally for the animal, the cross is formed by these lines.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. Occult Signs and Symbols of the Astral World","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-01-12","location":null,"word_count":169,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1908-01-12/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19080112s01.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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[In der Form eines Zwiegespräches] will ich Ihnen sagen - was vielleicht Wochen und Monate lang sich hinzog - wie der Rosenkreuzer mit dem Schüler verkehrte: «Sieh dir die Pflanze an; sie treibt die Wurzel, den Stängel, bringt Blume und Frucht hervor. Stelle neben diese Pflanze dich selbst. Nun darfst du nicht die Blüte der Pflanze mit dem Kopf des Menschen vergleichen, sondern was für die Pflanze die Wurzel, ist für den Menschen der Kopf. Die Pflanze wendet zur Sonne nach oben die Fruchtorgane; genau das Umgekehrte ist bei dem Menschen der Fall. Beim Tier liegen sie horizontal, weil das Tier erst zur Hälfte seinen Entwicklungsweg zurücklegte. Zichen wir eine Linie für des Menschen Haupteskraft nach oben, für die Pflanze nach unten und für das Tier horizontal, so entsteht durch diese Linien das Kreuz.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":159,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1908-01-12/p017"}],"english":["GA 246/1908-01-12/p017"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":159,"en_words":169,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2356,"original_word_count":2199,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19080112s01.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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