{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 272/1916-09-04/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus, because Faust has died, that which is subject to the special forces of the earth is handed over to the earth, to that earth to which all dead people are also handed over, insofar as they are made of bones, tendons and ligaments. A deep spiritual insight into nature is expressed in this formulation that Goethe gave to this scene, an infinitely deep knowledge of nature! For one should not believe that one has exhausted what remains of us when one says: Well, the physical body falls away from us, and our soul — as we have always described it — continues into the spiritual worlds. — No, there are secret spiritual forces in the whole physical body that remain on the earth. The earth can only retain that which it has produced itself, but it retains only the forces from bones, tendons and ligaments. Bury the human being and let him decay, burn him - in the earthly body itself, despite decay or burning, what remains for all future is always present in the forces in bones, tendons and ligaments! We hand over our skeleton, so to speak, to the earth, and it remains there until the earth itself has reached the goal of its evolution. Our skeleton is taken up by the skeletons of all those who have died before us, and enters into the community of those who have died before us. It would be a superficial view to say: “Everything is transitory here.” Only the form is transitory. The forces that prevail in them are contained in the earth's activity. And if you take the physical forces at work on earth today, if you look straight into the earth, the forces in it that have come about because people have been buried in the earth, or because they have somehow been destroyed, their bodies have somehow been destroyed. The forces that formed the human being are now in the earth, working in the interior of the earth, they are there, they are preserved.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. The “Entombment” the Essence of the Lemurs, the Fat and Scrawny Devil","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-09-04","location":null,"word_count":338,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/272/1916-09-04/p026","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":"Faust, the Striving Human Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA272/English/SOL2024/19160904p01.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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Nur kann die Erde nicht das halten, was sie nicht selbst erzeugt hat, sondern nur die Kräfte aus Knochen, Sehnen und Bändern behält sie. Begraben Sie den Menschen und lassen ihn verwesen, verbrennen Sie ihn- in dem Erdenkörper selbst bleibt, trotz Verwesung oder Verbrennung, immer für alle Zukunft das vorhanden, was als Kräfte in Knochen, Sehnen und Bändern wirkt! Unseren Knochenmann gewissermaßen, den übergeben wir der Erde, der bleibt da, bis die Erde selbst am Ziel ihrer Evolution angelangt sein wird. Unser Knochenmann wird aufgenommen von den Knochenmännern aller voranverstorbenen Menschen, tritt ein in die Gemeinschaft der vorangestorbenen Menschen. Es wäre eine oberflächliche Anschauung, zu sagen: Da ist alles vergänglich. - Nur die Form ist vergänglich. Die Kräfte, die darinnen. walten, sind in dem Erdenwirken enthalten. Und wenn Sie heute die physischen Erdenwirkekräfte nehmen, so sind, wenn Sie hineinsehen gerade in die Erde, die Kräfte darinnen, die hineingekommen sind dadurch, daß Menschen in der Erde begraben worden sind, oder daß sie sonst irgendwie zur Zerstörung gebracht worden sind, die Körper irgendwie zerstört worden sind. 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