{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 271/1918-05-06/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A certain progress in human development depends on this. This is something of which science and everyday consciousness know nothing, but the soul knows it in its depths. What the soul knows and experiences there can, under special circumstances, be brought up into consciousness. It is brought up when the human being is an artist in relation to music. How does this happen? In the ordinary human condition, which one could also call the bourgeois condition, there is a strong connection between the soul and spirit and the physical and bodily. The soul and spirit are strongly tied to the processes just described. If the equilibrium is a labile one, if the soul and spirit are detached, then one is musical or receptive to it through this construction, which is based on inner destiny. The special artistic gift in other fields also depends on this unstable relationship. Those who have this gift are able to bring up what would otherwise only take place down in the soul — in the depths of the soul we are all musical artists. Those who are in a stable equilibrium cannot bring up what takes place there: they are not artists. Those who are in a labile equilibrium — now, as a scientific philistine, one could speak of degeneration — those who are in a labile equilibrium of soul and body, bring up more of what is playing in the inner rhythm, darker or lighter, and shape it through the tone material. If we look at the flow of nerve impulses from bottom to top towards the brain, we first encounter what we characterize as musical. How the optic nerve spreads out in the eye and connects with blood vessels remains in the subconscious. Something is going on that is extinguished when a person is confronted with the external world. When confronted with the external sensory world, the external impression is extinguished. But what takes place between nerve waves and sensory processes has always been a poet; the poet lives in every human being. And it depends on the state of the soul-body balance whether what takes place remains down there or whether it is brought up and poured into poetry.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Sources of Artistic Imagination and Supersensible Knowledge II","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-05-06","location":null,"word_count":367,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/271/1918-05-06/p031","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Understanding Art","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA271/English/SOL2024/19180506p01.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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Wenn das Gleichgewicht ein labiles ist, das Geistig-Seelische losgelöst wird, ist man durch diese Konstruktion, die auf innerem Schicksal beruht, musikalisch oder empfänglich dafür. Auf dem labilen Verhältnis beruht die besondere künstlerische Begabung auch auf anderen Gebieten. Derjenige, der diese Begabung hat, ist imstande, das, was sich sonst nur unten in der Seele abspielt — in den Tiefen der Seele sind wir alle musikalische Künstler — heraufzuholen. Das, was sich da abspielt, kann derjenige, der im stabilen Gleichgewicht ist, nicht heraufholen: Er ist kein Künstler. Wer im labilen Gleichgewicht ist — jetzt könnte man als wissenschaftlicher Philister von Degeneration reden —, wer im labilen Gleichgewicht des Seelischen und Leiblichen steht, holt mehr das herauf, dunkler oder heller, was da im inneren Rhythmus spielt, und gestaltet es aus durch das Tonmaterial. Betrachten wir den Strom der Nervenwellen von unten nach oben gegen das Gehirn zu, da begegnen wir zuerst dem, was wir als Musikalisches charakterisieren. Wie sich der Sehnerv im Auge ausbreitet, mit Blutgefäßen in Verbindung steht, das bleibt noch im Unterbewußten. Da geht etwas vor sich, das ausgelöscht wird, wenn der Mensch der äußeren Natur gegenübersteht. Beim Gegenüberstehen der äußeren Sinneswelt löscht der äußere Eindruck aus. Was sich aber zwischen Nervenwellen und Sinnesvorgängen abspielt, das war immer ein Dichter; da lebt in jedem Menschen der Dichter. Und davon, wie das Gleichgewicht zwischen Seele und Leib ist, hängt wieder ab, ob unten bleibt, was sich da abspielt, oder ob man es heraufholt und in Dichtung umgießt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":332,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/271/1918-05-06/p031"}],"english":["GA 271/1918-05-06/p031"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":332,"en_words":367,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6883,"original_word_count":6492,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Understanding Art","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA271/English/SOL2024/19180506p01.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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