{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1908-01-12/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we follow the development of the human being, we will say that the human being has acquired something that is higher than being a plant, and also something that is lower. The plant contains nothing of instinct and sensuality. Man had not retained this pure nature because he took into himself the astral body and with it desire. This led him to day consciousness on the one hand and desire on the other. If the plant is imbued with astral matter, the chlorophyll or leaf green will turn red, the color of blood, and be pulsed with desire. At a higher level of consciousness, however, man will have purified his instincts and desires, shed his nature of desire and returned to the chaste plant substance. Then he will kill off the baseness of his nature, the covetous nature of his blood. Here you have an ideal of man's future. If you think of the cross as a sign of death and the red blood purified and returned to pure nature, then you will understand the wreath of red roses around the cross, the symbol of the Rosicrucian.","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":188,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1908-01-12/p019","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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Der Mensch hatte diese reine Art nicht behalten, weil er den astralischen Leib und damit die Begierde in sich aufnahm. Dadurch kam er einerseits zum Tagesbewusstsein und andererseits zur Begierde. Wird die Pflanze mit astralischem Stoff durchsetzt, da wird sich das Chlorophyll oder Blattgrün in Rot, [in] die Farbe des Blutes färben und mit Begierden durchpulst werden. Auf einer höheren Stufe des Bewusstseins wird aber der Mensch seine Triebe und Begierden gereinigt, seine Begierdennatur abgestoßen haben und zur keuschen Pflanzensubstanz zurückgekehrt sein. Da wird er das Niedere in seiner Natur abtöten, die begierdevolle Natur seines Blutes. Hier ist Ihnen ein Zukunftsideal des Menschen dargestellt. Denken Sie sich das Kreuz als Todeszeichen und das rote Blut gereinigt zurückgekehrt zur reinen Natur, dann verstehen Sie den Kranz roter Rosen um das Kreuz, das Sinnbild des Rosenkreuzers.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":173,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1908-01-12/p019"}],"english":["GA 246/1908-01-12/p019"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":173,"en_words":188,"ratio":1.09,"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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