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External science does not concern itself with that which comes out at night. It is precisely that which, after man is exposed to the influence of the sun during the day - in general, when he is inside his physical and etheric body - and repeats the influence of the sun in himself, which stands in exactly the same relationship to the moon. Just as day life repeats the relationship of the sun to the earth in a threefold way in man, so man's night life, namely that which emerges from the physical body and etheric body when he falls asleep, repeats the rhythm of the moon, the relationship of the moon to the earth. And this is the case with every human being. But we have to realize how it is. I have described in a somewhat dry way how threefold the human being repeats the influence of the sun in his daily life in order to be able to show you now how, when the human being is asleep, the influence of the moon expresses itself on his actual inner being. The facts are such that no external evidence can be found [...]. If you look at human life, you will indeed find individual indications of this, but only points, because you have no means of using them in the right way other than through spiritual science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":310,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1909-12-12/p039","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/SOL2025/19091212s01.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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If one examines this latter rhythm, it presents itself in such a way that it runs from fortnight to fortnight, that it has an ascending movement and a descending one, that in this inner being of man, which is outside the physical and etheric body at night, that through a certain time one experiences precisely that which stimulates the imagination, which brings forth thoughts, which is productive, and that through the other fourteen days that which stimulates the imagination, which brings forth thoughts, which stimulates man to production, is silent. In particular, the imagination becomes less and less productive, and there are dead spots where nothing at all wants to come out of this inner being. In fact, there is a certain regular rhythm within the human being. There are certain times when a person's inner thoughts bubble up. At other times, these thoughts can be written down, but a person is only actually productive at certain times. This is not related to his external life, but to the influences he experiences at bedtime. There are dead spots where he is not internally productive, and these dead spots - including the highest points, of course - are always about four weeks apart. They correspond to the influence of the moon - for example - that man is most productive at the full moon and the dead spot occurs at the new moon. But this rhythm is repeated within the human being, so that the moon does not still have this influence today, but in such a way that we can say: Once upon a time, in the distant past, man was stimulated to inner productivity during sleep by the forces emanating from what is now called the full moon, which caused his thoughts, his insights, that which brings man together with the spiritual world, to rise, and that when what is now called the new moon came, he came to a dead point where the outer spiritual world closed itself off to him. Today it is no longer the case that this inner life coincides with the phases of the moon. Man has freed himself from this. He has retained the rhythm. The phases of the moon correspond to a rhythm that man's inner life shows, not only in great poets and artists, but in every human being. In every human being there is an ascending and a descending life that corresponds exactly to the rhythm of the moon - but does not coincide with it externally in its highest and lowest points. While the human being is, so to speak, a child of the sun's influence when he is inside the physical body and etheric or life body, the actual core of his being is under the moon's influence with his inner life, but not directly, but in such a way that he repeats the rhythm of the moon in an inner process.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":624,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1909-12-12/p040","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/SOL2025/19091212s01.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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It is like experiencing an inner full moon night - for the outer view this can be described as night, although it is inwardly illuminated. If you look at a brightly lit world seen through clairvoyance, you will experience a new moon night a fortnight later, when the images fade. This changes like the course of the moon. Where we are able to state how this inner being of man has a rhythm through fully conscious clairvoyance, there it is best shown that man does indeed have an inner rhythm. Just as man's outer life corresponds to the rhythm of the sun, his inner life corresponds to the rhythm of the moon. 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It has held it in one piece in such a way that it appears like a piece of earth as it revolves. As it revolves around the earth, it revolves once around itself; you always see the same side of it because it is a piece of earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1909-12-12/p042","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/SOL2025/19091212s01.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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It is an extremely important fact that we repeat the solar rhythm in relation to the earth with our outer being and repeat the lunar rhythm with our inner being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1909-12-12/p043","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/SOL2025/19091212s01.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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It really is the case that that which stands between birth and death is placed under the influence of the sun, and that which stands behind it, where the spiritual is active, is under the influence of the moon.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1909-12-12/p044","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/SOL2025/19091212s01.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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The conditions of man, which do not relate to his life between birth and death, but lie directly behind it, all relate to the influence of the moon, except that it is not directly the present moon that is at work, but the rhythm is recorded. Enormous perspectives open up for those who want to explore these suggestions further. What lies behind the outer life points back to the rhythm that is captured by the earlier moon, which will be repeated at a higher level in the Jupiter rhythm. Everything that lies behind outer life points back to the influence of the moon. No wonder that outer science knows nothing of the lunar influence and is mistaken even where it has retained such an influence. The earth itself used to be in such a rhythm, which can be seen today in the twenty-eight-day lunar cycle. It is therefore not [surprising] that it has retained something in its life, this earth, which expresses itself in the same way as the rhythm of the moon.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":292,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1909-12-12/p045","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/SOL2025/19091212s01.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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Den kann natürlich keine äußere Wissenschaft betrachten, den kann nur der hellseherische Blick betrachten; denn die äußere Wissenschaft hat natürlich im Schlafen nur den physischen Leib und Ätherleib vor sich, den Ätherleib leugnet sie, so bleibt nur der physische Leib für sie, und der ist wachend und schlafend derselbe. Mit demjenigen, was herausgeht in der Nacht, beschäftigt sich die äußere Wissenschaft nicht. Gerade das ist dasjenige, was, nachdem der Mensch tagsüber - überhaupt, wenn er in seinem physischen und Ätherleib drinnen ist- dem Sonneneinfluss ausgesetzt ist und den Sonneneinfluss in sich wiederholt, was in genau demselben Verhältnis zum Monde steht. Wie das Tagesleben in dreifacher Weise beim Menschen wiederholt das Verhältnis der Sonne zur Erde, so wiederholt das Nachtleben des Menschen, nämlich dasjenige, was beim Einschlafen heraustritt aus dem physischen Leib und Ätherleib, den Mondrhythmus, das Verhältnis des Mondes zur Erde. Und das ist bei jedem Menschen so. Nur müssen wir ins Auge fassen, wie das ist. Ich habe in einer etwas trockenen Weise beschrieben, wie dreifach der Mensch wiederholt in seinem Tagesleben den Sonneneinfluss, um Ihnen jetzt zeigen zu können, wie dann, wenn der Mensch schläft, auf das eigentliche Innere desselben der Mondeinfluss sich äußert. Da sind die Tatsachen so, dass sich keine äußeren Belege dafür finden können [...]. Man wird zwar, wenn man das Menschenleben betrachtet, einzelne Anhaltspunkte dafür finden, aber eben nur Punkte, weil man keine Handhabe hat als durch die Geisteswissenschaft, diese in der richtigen Weise zu benutzen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":264,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1909-12-12/p039"},{"locus":"GA 246/1909-12-12/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"Sehen Sie, Sie werden schon gehört haben von jenen wirklichen echten Dichtern zum Beispiel, welche in gewissen Zeiten schweigen müssen mit ihrem Dichten, welche da nichts produzieren können; die anderen weniger bedeutenden, die können ja jederzeit dichten, nicht wahr. Aber diejenigen, die wirklich ihr seelisches Blut geben, wenn sie dichten, müssen zu gewissen Zeiten verstummen, während es zu anderen Zeiten - und zwar auf jedem Gebiete der Kunst - so ist, dass das Innere wirklich wie ein Quell ist, der die künstlerischen Intuitionen und Intentionen und so weiter hervortreibt. Woher kommt das? Nun ja, es wird das in der äußeren Wissenschaft nicht beobachtet. Woher kommt das? Das kommt daher, weil in der Tat ein regelmäßiger Rhythmus stattfindet in demjenigen, was nachts draußen ist aus dem physischen Leib und Ätherleib, weil ein regelmäßiger Rhythmus stattfindet im astralischen Leib und Ich. Wenn man diesen letzteren Rhythmus prüft, so stellt er sich so dar, dass er von vierzehn Tagen zu vierzehn Tagen läuft, dass er eine aufsteigende Bewegung hat und eine absteigende, dass es in diesem inneren Wesen des Menschen, das in der Nacht draußen ist aus dem physischen und Ätherleib, so kommt, dass man durch eine gewisse Zeit hindurch erlebt gerade das, was die Phantasie anregt, die Gedanken hervorbringt, was produktiv ist, und dass durch die anderen vierzehn Tage dasjenige schweigt, was die Phantasie anregt, die Gedanken hervorbringt, den Menschen zur Produktion anregt. Da wird namentlich die Phantasie weniger und weniger produktiv, und es gibt tote Punkte, wo gar nichts heraus will aus diesem Innern. Tatsächlich ist das so, dass ein gewisser regelmäßiger Rhythmus da eintritt in dem Innern des Menschen. Es gibt gewisse Zeiten, in denen das Innere des Menschen die Gedanken hervorsprudeln lässt. In den anderen Zeiten können diese Gedanken ja niedergeschrieben werden; aber eigentlich produktiv ist der Mensch nur in gewissen Zeiten. Das hängt nicht zusammen mit seinem Außenleben, sondern mit den Einflüssen, die er gerade in der Schlafenszeit erfährt. Da gibt es tote Punkte, wo er innerlich nicht produktiv ist, und diese toten Punkte liegen - natürlich auch die höchsten Punkte - immer ungefähr vier Wochen voneinander entfernt. Sie entsprechen so dem Mondeinfluss - etwa -, dass der Mensch am produktivsten ist mit dem Vollmond und der tote Punkt eintritt bei Neumond. Aber im Innern des Menschen wiederholt sich dieser Rhythmus, sodass nicht etwa der Mond heute noch diesen Einfluss hat, aber so, dass wir sagen können: Es war einstmals, und zwar in urferner Vergangenheit, der Mensch so, dass er während des Schlafes durch die Kräfte, die von demjenigen ausgehen, was man heute Vollmond nennt, angeregt wurde zur inneren Produktivität, was aufsteigen ließ seine Gedanken, seine Einsichten, dasjenige, was den Menschen mit der geistigen Welt zusammenbringt, und dass er, wenn dasjenige kam, was man heute Neumond nennt, zu einem toten Punkte kam, wo sich ihm die äußere geistige Welt verschloss. Heute ist das nicht mehr so, dass dieses innere Leben in seinem Wechsel mit den Mondphasen zusammenfällt. Der Mensch hat sich davon frei gemacht. Den Rhythmus hat er beibehalten. Den Mondphasen entspricht ein Rhythmus, den des Menschen inneres Leben zeigt; zeigt, nicht nur bei großen Dichtern und Künstlern, sondern bei jedem Menschen. Bei jedem Menschen zeigt sich ein aufsteigendes und ein absteigendes Leben, das genau dem Mondrhythmus entspricht - mit diesem aber äußerlich nicht zusammenfällt in seinen höchsten und tiefsten Punkten. Während der Mensch, wenn er mit der Innerlichkeit im physischen Leib und Äther- oder Lebensleib drinnen ist, sozusagen ein Kind des Sonneneinflusses ist, ist der eigentliche Wesenskern mit seinem inneren Leben unter dem Mondeinfluss, aber nicht unmittelbar, sondern so, dass er den Rhythmus des Mondes in innerem Ablauf wiederholt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":602,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1909-12-12/p040"},{"locus":"GA 246/1909-12-12/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"Besonders interessant ist das, wenn wir auf die geisteswissenschaftliche Produktion selber sehen. Wo der Mensch sich so entwickelt, dass er bewusst verfolgen kann, wie sein Inneres sich getrennt hat vom Äußeren, wenn das Innere selbstständig geworden ist, wenn die Hellsichtigkeit gekommen ist bei vollem Bewusstsein, wenn er nicht durch seine äußeren Augen sieht, sondern durch die höheren Wahrnehmungsorgane, da kann er bewusst konstatieren, wie die Sache verläuft, und da zeigt sich, dass man eine Periode wahrnehmen kann von vierzehn Tagen, wo die Eingebungen den geistigen Plan durchziehen, wo alles vor dem hellsichtigen Bewusstsein steht; eine Zeit, die sozusagen eine Glanzperiode im Hellsehen ist, tritt ein, und dann wiederum kommt eine Periode, wo die Bilder verblassen. Und diese Zeiten sind alle im Rhythmus des Mondlaufes gehalten. Es ist, wie wenn man eine innere Vollmondnacht erlebte - für die äußere Anschauung kann man das als Nacht bezeichnen, obwohl sie innerlich erhellt ist. Wenn man eine hell beleuchtete, durch die Hellsichtigkeit angeschaute Welt ansieht, so erlebt man vierzehn Tage danach eine Neumondnacht, wo die Bilder verblassen. Das wechselt wie der Mondenlauf. Da, wo wir imstande sind zu konstatieren, wie dieses innere Wesen des Menschen einen Rhythmus hat durch das vollbewusste Hellsehen, da zeigt es sich am besten, dass der Mensch in der Tat einen inneren Rhythmus hat. Wie das äußere Leben des Menschen dem Sonnenrhythmus entspricht, so entspricht das innere Leben dem Mondenrhythmus. Woher kommt das?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1909-12-12/p041"},{"locus":"GA 246/1909-12-12/p042","passage_number":42,"text":"Nun, meine lieben theosophischen Freunde, Sie wissen ja alle aus demjenigen, was als Akasha-Chronik existiert, dass die Erde früher als Mond verkörpert war, dass der heutige Mond sozusagen herausgeworfen ist aus unserer Erde und fortbehalten hat Verhältnisse, die früher da waren. Uralte Verhältnisse aus Zeiten, wo unser heutiges Ich, das sich herangeschult hat inzwischen, noch keinen Einfluss hatte auf unsere geistigen Verhältnisse, auf unseren Astralleib und so weiter, sind uns da aufbewahrt. Auf der anderen Seite kündigen sich schon zukünftige Verhältnisse an auf der Erde. Wie wir während der alten Mondenzeit eine Zeit hatten, wo wir keinen Einfluss des Ich auf unsere geistigen Verhältnisse hatten, wie wir während der Jupiterzeit den Astralleib ausarbeiten werden zum Geistselbst oder Manas, so hat sich die Erde gleichsam bewahrt in dem Monde die alte Zeit. Der Mond ist nichts anderes als ein Stück Erde. Er hat sie in einem Stück genau so festgehalten, dass er wie ein Stück Erde erscheint bei seinem Umlauf. Während er um die Erde sich herumdreht, dreht er sich einmal um sich selbst herum; man sieht immer von ihm dieselbe Seite, weil es ein Stück Erde ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1909-12-12/p042"},{"locus":"GA 246/1909-12-12/p043","passage_number":43,"text":"Und, nicht wahr, wenn Sie sich denken statt des Mondes die ganze Oberfläche desselben, so würde die immer das Äußere nach außen zeigen (und das Innere nach innen). Und der Mond ist nichts anderes als ein Stück Erde, der das Äußere nach außen und das Innere nach innen zeigt. Es hat der Mond dasjenige, was die Erde war, in einem Stück festgehalten. Was der Mensch war einmal, ist daher festgehalten in seinem inneren Leben während des Schlafes, während diejenigen Verhältnisse, die bloß durch die Erde da sein können, sich uns im Wachen zeigen. Sodass wir sagen können: Unser inneres Wesen steht in einem solchen Verhältnis zu sich selber, zum ganzen Menschenwesen, wie der Mond zur Erde. Unser inneres Wesen wiederholt den Mondrhythmus. Es ist dies eine außerordentlich wichtige Tatsache, dass wir mit unserem äußeren Wesen den Sonnenrhythmus in Bezug auf die Erde wiederholen und mit unserem inneren Wesen den Mondrhythmus wiederholen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1909-12-12/p043"},{"locus":"GA 246/1909-12-12/p044","passage_number":44,"text":"Dieses unser inneres Wesen ist aber zu gleicher Zeit etwas, was ja von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation geht, von Verkörperung zu Verkörperung. Daher ist nur die einzelne Verkörperung unmittelbar unter den Sonneneinfluss gestellt, während das innere Leben, das von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation geht, unter den Mondeinfluss gestellt ist. Würde bloß die Sonne wirken, so würde das menschliche Leben so schnell ablaufen, dass in einer Inkarnation erlebt würde, was sonst nur viele Inkarnationen bringen. Wir würden aber auch nicht mehr erleben als [das,] was wir in einer Inkarnation erleben können. Der Mondeinfluss bewirkt, dass wir in jeder Inkarnation neu erscheinen können. Wirklich, es ist so, dass dasjenige, was zwischen Geburt und Tod steht, in den Sonneneinfluss gestellt ist, und dasjenige, was dahinter steht, wo das Geistige tätig ist, unter dem Mondeneinfluss steht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1909-12-12/p044"},{"locus":"GA 246/1909-12-12/p045","passage_number":45,"text":"Hier ist wirklich einer der Punkte, wo die heutige Wissenschaft ihrer selbst spottet und nicht weiß wie. Wo man heute noch von den Verhältnissen die Rede findet, die sich auf die Zeit vor der Geburt bezieht, wird sogar nach Mondmonaten gerechnet. Man rechnet zehn Mondmonate. Zehnmal wiederholt sich der Mondenlauf während der menschlichen Keimesentwicklung von der Empfängnis bis zur Geburt. Da muss man - weil tatsächlich jedem Monat ein ganz bestimmter Entwicklungslauf des Keimes entspricht und der Keim sich [Lücke in der Mitschrift] - da muss man nach Mondmonaten rechnen. Zehn Mondmonate lebt der Menschenkeim, bevor er geboren wird. Da rechnet sogar die äußere Wissenschaft mit diesen Verhältnissen und spottet dabei ihrer selbst und weiß nicht wie. Die Verhältnisse des Menschen, die sich nicht beziehen auf sein Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod, sondern unmittelbar dahinter liegen, beziehen sich alle auf den Mondeneinfluss, nur dass es nicht unmittelbar der heutige Mond ist, der da wirkt, aber der Rhythmus wird festgehalten. Ungeheure Perspektiven eröffnen sich für diejenigen, die auf diesen Anregungen weiter forschen wollen. Was hinter dem äußeren Leben liegt, weist auf den Rhythmus zurück, der vom früheren Monde festgehalten ist, der sich wiederholen wird auf höherer Stufe in dem Jupiterrhythmus. Alles dasjenige, was hinter dem äußeren Leben steht, weist auf den Mondeneinfluss zurück. Kein Wunder, dass die äußere Wissenschaft vom Mondeneinfluss nichts weiß und selbst da irrt, wo sie sich noch einen solchen Einfluss bewahrt hat. Die Erde war früher selbst in einem solchen Rhythmus, der sich zeigt heute im achtundzwanzigtägigen Mondenumschwung. Daher ist es nicht [verwunderlich], dass sie sich in ihrem Leben etwas bewahrt hat, diese Erde, was sich eben so äußert wie der Mondenrhythmus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1909-12-12/p045"}],"beads":[{"from":[39],"to":[39],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[40],"to":[40],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[41],"to":[41],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[42],"to":[42],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[43],"to":[43],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[44],"to":[44],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[45],"to":[45],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}