{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 302a/1920-09-21/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now is is essential that we really understand these processes right down to the point where we understand what is actually going on in the body. You will know that nowadays external science sees a difference between man's so-called sensory nerves, that apparently run from the senses to the brain or the central organ, conveying perception and mental imagery, and his motor nerves, that apparently run from the central organ to the organs of movement and set them in motion. You will realise that from the standpoint of initiation science we have to challenge this classification. There is absolutely no such difference between the so-called sensory nerves and the motor nerves. Both are one and the same, and the motor nerves do not really perform any function other than perceiving the moving limb and the actual process of movement the moment it happens; they have nothing to do with actually giving the impulse of will. So we can say that we have nerves that run from our periphery more towards the centre, and we also have nerves that run from the centre to the ends of the organs of movement. But they are basically the same nerve strands, .and the essential thing is only that there is an interruption between these uniform nerves; that is, the soul streaming through the sensory nerves to the centre for instance, undergoes a break, as it were, at the centre, and has to jump across, without however becoming any different, to the so-called motor nerve, which also does not alter in any respect, but is exactly the same as the sensory nerve—just like, say, an electric spark or an electric current that jumps across a switch-board when transmission is interrupted. It is just that the motor nerve has the capacity to perceive the process of movement and the moving limb. But there is something that gives us the possibility of looking very closely into this whole organic process where soul currents and bodily processes interwork.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. 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Sie wissen, die äußere Wissenschaft unterscheidet heute am Menschen sogenannte Sinnesnerven, die von den Sinnen zum Gehirn beziehungsweise zu dem Zentralorgan gehen sollen und dort vermitteln sollen alles, was Wahrnehmen und Vorstellen ist, und sie unterscheidet von diesen Sinnesnerven die sogenannten motorischen Nerven, die von dem Zentralorgan aus zu den Bewegungsorganen hingehen sollen und die Bewegungsorgane in Bewegung setzen sollen. Sie wissen, daß wir vom Gesichtspunkte der Initiationswissenschaft aus diese Gliederung anfechten müssen. Es besteht absolut kein solcher Unterschied zwischen den sogenannten Sinnesnerven und den motorischen Nerven. Beide sind ein und desselben Wesens, und die motorischen Nerven dienen im wesentlichen zu nichts anderem als dazu, in dem Augenblick, wo wir uns bewegen sollen, das bewegende Organ und den Bewegungsvorgang selbst wahrzunehmen; sie haben nichts zu tun mit der Impulsierung des Willens als solchem. Daher werden wir also sagen können: Wir haben Nerven, welche von unserer Peripherie mehr gegen das Zentrum hingehen, und dann haben wir Nerven, die vom Zentrum aus zu den Enden der Bewegungsorgane verlaufen. Aber das sind im Grunde genommen einheitliche Nervenstränge, und das Wesentliche ist nur, daß diese einheitlichen Nervenstränge unterbrochen sind, daß also gewissermaßen der innervierende seelische Strom, der zum Beispiel von einem Sinnesnerven nach dem Zentrum geht, im Zentrum unterbrochen wird und nun überspringen muß, wodurch aber der innervierende Seelenstrom nichts anderes wird — wie etwa ein elektrischer Funke oder der elektrische Strom durch eine Umschaltungsstelle überspringt, wo die Übertragung unterbrochen ist -, auf den sogenannten motorischen Nerv, der aber in jeder Beziehung dadurch zu nichts anderem wird, der vielmehr genau dasselbe ist wie der Sinnesnerv. Er ist nur dazu veranlagt, den Bewegungsvorgang und das bewegende Organ selbst wahrzunehmen. 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