{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 273/1919-01-19/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"My dear friends, reincarnation can also be regarded from the moral point of view. What would man have become had he just been born, over and over again on the physical plane, and being thus born physically on the physical plane, he had not been met by all that is constantly being taken up into the spiritual world and again sent down; were man not thus ensouled after birth then he would live always at war on earth. They would only with to live in conflict and would develop the most terrible fighting instincts. These fighting instincts rest on the foundation of the human soul; they are rooted in the human organism. But they are paralysed, if I may so express it, by what comes from above out of the supersensible, from those human beings who are constantly taken up into the spiritual world. This is expressed also in the outward form, my dear friends. It is altogether grotesque for those with inner sight when the human head is represented as having gradually evolved from the animal head. It is indeed complete nonsense. The truth is that, were the animal head to develop further, a fearsome monster would emerge in what, in the present incarnation, you evolve out of the lower part of your body. Were that alone to form the head, were it to form the head out of itself, the result would be a real abortion of a head—a horrible animal-monster. For that is where the possibility of such a monstrosity lies. Only because the spiritual comes from above and, as it were, washes up against it, is the human head able to arise. It springs from the relationship of two forces, the one pressing upward from the body, the other coming to meet it from the cosmos. This human head is constructed in a state of equilibrium; and it is because of its equilibrium that we are not able to deal freely with what we bring with us from the spiritual world. We slip into our physical head and cannot there clearly express what we actually are, when we hurry into existence through birth. If we could think as we did before birth, we should not think a Homunculus, we should think a man, a Homo.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. 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Diese Kampfesinstinkte ruhen auf dem Grunde der menschlichen Seele, sie ruhen im menschlichen Organismus. Und sie werden abgelähmt durch dasjenige, was, wenn ich mich jetzt so ausdrücken darf, von oben kommt, was aus der geistigen Welt heraus kommt von derjenigen Menschenwesenheit, die immer wiederum in die geistige Welt aufgenommen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/273/1919-01-19/p024"},{"locus":"GA 273/1919-01-19/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Das drückt sich auch aus in der äußeren Form. Es ist geradezu grotesk für den Einsichtigen, wenn das Menschenhaupt so dargestellt wird, als ob es sich aus dem Tierkopf entwickelt hätte nach und nach. Es ist nämlich ein völliger Unsinn. In Wahrheit würde, wenn sich der Tierkopf weiterentwickelte, ein schreckliches Ungetüm herauskommen in dem, was Sie in der gegenwärtigen Inkarnation entwickeln aus Ihrem Unterleibe. Wenn das allein den Kopf bilden würde, wenn es aus sich heraus den Kopf bilden würde, nun, das wäre eine richtige Mißgeburt als Kopf, das wäre ein schreckliches Tierungeheuer. Denn da sitzt die Möglichkeit zum Tierungeheuer. Nur dadurch, daß das Geistige von oben kommt und sich entgegenstülpt, entsteht dasjenige, was Menschenhaupt ist, das aus dem Zusammengehören von zwei Kräften entsteht, von dem, was aus dem Leibe hinaufstrebt, und dem, was aus dem Kosmos entgegenstrebt. Als eine Gleichgewichtslage wird dieses Menschenhaupt herausgebildet. Und in dieser Gleichgewichtslage des Menschenhauptes ruht es, daß wir mit dem, was wir mitbringen aus der geistigen Welt, nicht frei hantieren können. Wir schlüpfen in unseren physischen Kopf hinein, und da können wir nicht das ganz zum Ausdruck bringen, was wir eigentlich sind, wenn wir durch die Geburt ins Dasein eilen. Könnten wir so denken, wie wir gedacht haben vor unserer Geburt, beziehungsweise vor unserer Konzeption, da würden wir nicht einen Homunkulus, da würden wir einen Menschen denken, einen Homo.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":226,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/273/1919-01-19/p025"}],"english":["GA 273/1919-01-19/p022"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":381,"en_words":379,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6706,"original_word_count":6662,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams","identified_edition":"UNK1930","book_title":"The Problem of Faust","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA273/English/UNK1930/19190119p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 273/1919-01-19/p024","GA 273/1919-01-19/p025"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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