{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 284/1907-05-20/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Paracelsus rightly asks: Where is it, and what does it do during the night? Does it rest, does it have a task? Yes, it has a task. Although those who do not have clairvoyant powers cannot see into the activity of the astral body during the night. But everyone feels the consequences of this activity. They all go to bed tired in the evening. The fatigue is an expression of disharmony in the composition of our physical and etheric bodies. It must arise if the astral body does not have the power to bring harmony into the other two, the physical and etheric bodies. And as man is today, such disharmony must necessarily arise during the waking hours of the day, were our physical and etheric bodies merely under the control of the astral body - how the forces are to be joined together - then there would always be harmony in our etheric and physical bodies. But as it is, not only does the astral body live in the physical body, but at the level of consciousness that humanity has reached on the Earth, the whole environment of physical, sensually perceptible objects has an effect on the human being. Impressions from the eye and ear and the other senses flow into it from the outside. During the waking hours, disharmony will inevitably arise in every person who has not yet reached a certain higher level of spiritual development. If this astral body could never dwell in any other place than in our physical and etheric bodies, it would itself become disordered. Then its power currents would not remain as they should be if a real etheric and physical body is to be formed. During the day, the inner harmony of the astral body is disturbed, and the expression of this disorder is fatigue. The moment you feel tired, the inner disharmony is there. Where is the astral body during the night?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Planetary Evolution and the Evolution of Humanity","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-05-20","location":null,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/284/1907-05-20/p007","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":"Images of Occult Seals and Columns","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA284/English/SOL2024/19070520c01.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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Und wie der Mensch heute ist, muß während des tagwachenden Lebens eine solche Disharmonie notwendig entstehen, Wäre unser physischer und Ätherleib bloß unter der Gewalt des Astralleibes — wie die Kräfte zusammengefügt werden sollen -, dann würde immer Harmonie in unserem Äther- und physischen Leibe sein. So aber lebt nicht nur der Astralleib in dem physischen Leib, sondern auf der Bewußtseinsstufe, die die Menschheit auf dem Erdenplaneten erreicht hat, wirkt die ganze Umwelt der physischen, sinnlich wahrnehmbaren Gegenstände auf den Menschen ein. Es fließen von außen in ihn herein die Eindrücke des Auges und Ohres und der übrigen Sinne. Während des Tagwachens wird bei jedem Menschen, der noch nicht auf einer gewissen höheren Stufe der spirituellen Entwickelung angelangt ist, eine Disharmonjie eintreten müssen. Wenn dieser Astralleib nun niemals an einem anderen Ort verweilen könnte als in unserem physischen und Ätherleib, so würde er selbst in Unordnung kommen. Dann würden seine Kraftströmungen nicht die bleiben, die sie sein müssen, wenn ein richtiger Äther- und physischer Leib geformt werden sollen. Während des Tages kommt die innere Harmonie des Astralleibes in Unordnung, und der Ausdruck für die Unordnung ist die Ermüdung. In dem Augenblick, wo Sie die Ermüdung spüren, ist die innere Disharmonie da. 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