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The word is “immortality.” But we will see human life in the right way only after we have a word as fitting for life’s beginning as we have for its ending—a word that can become as generally accepted and as commonly used as the word “immortality” (undyingness)—perhaps something like “unbornness.” Only if we have such a word will we be able to grasp the full, eternal nature of the human being. Only then will we experience a holy awe and reverence for what lives in the child through the ever creating and working spirit, streaming from below upward. During the first seven years, from birth to the second dentition, the child’s soul, together with the spiritual counterpart received from the life before birth, shapes and develops the physical body. 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Anyone who acts pedagogically in the manner I have indicated discovers that whatever a child of that age does is based on imitation—even facial expressions. Such imitation continues until a child sheds its milk teeth. Until then, a child’s relationship to the surrounding world is extremely direct and real. Children of this age are not yet capable of perceiving with their senses and then judging their perceptions. All of this still remains an undifferentiated process. The child perceives with its senses and, simultaneously, this perception becomes a judgment; and the judgment simultaneously passes into a feeling and a will impulse. 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Principles and relationships of all kinds are being expounded today in theory. According to one, the soul affects the body; according to another, everything that happens in the soul is only an effect of the body. The most frequently held opinion is so-called “psychophysical parallelism,” meaning that both types of process—soul-spiritual as well as physical-bodily ones—may be observed side by side. We can speculate at length about the relationship of spirit to body and body to spirit but, if we only speculate and do not engage in careful observation, we will not get beyond mere abstractions. We must not limit our observations to present conditions alone. We must say to ourselves, the forces that we witness as the child’s soul spiritual element during the period from the seventh to about the fourteenth year are the same ones that worked before in the lower organism in a hidden or latent way. We must seek in the child’s soul and spirit what is at work in the child from birth to the change of teeth and between the change of teeth and puberty. If we do this, we will gain a realistic idea of the relationship between soul and spirit on one side and the physical-bodily processes on the other.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/304/1921-11-23/p054","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1921-11-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 304/1921-11-23/p059","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/304/1921-11-23/p059"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":377,"en_words":405,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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But, if you wish to observe the soul and spirit in its own right, then observe a child from the change of teeth until the coming of puberty. Do not proceed by saying, “Here is the body and the soul is somewhere within it; now I wish to find its effects.” No, we must now leave the spatial element altogether and enter the dimension of time. If we do so, we shall find a true, realistic relationship between body and soul, a relationship that leads to fruitful ideas for life. We shall learn, from a deeper point of view, how to care for a child’s physical health *before* the change of teeth, so that the child’s psychic and spiritual health can manifest appropriately *afterward*, during the second life period, from the change of teeth to puberty. Similarly, the health of the stomach reveals itself—in the time organism; that is, the etheric or body of formative forces—in the healthy condition of the head. 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Allein wir werden das menschliche Leben erst im richtigen Lichte sehen, wenn wir ein ebenso gebräuchliches Wort haben für den Anfang des Lebens wie für das Ende des Lebens, wenn wir ein Wort haben, das uns ebenso geläufig ist wie das Wort Unsterblichkeit, etwa «Ungeborenheit», «Ungeborensein»; dann erst ergreifen wir die volle, ewige Wesenheit des Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":82,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/304/1921-11-23/p051"},{"locus":"GA 304/1921-11-23/p052","passage_number":52,"text":"Dann stehen wir aber erst mit der richtigen heiligen Scheu, mit der richtigen Ehrfurcht vor dem aus dem Inneren des Kindes durch Strömung von unten nach oben gestaltenden, bildenden Geist. Die Seele bildet mit dem Geiste, den sie empfängt aus dem vorgeburtlichen Leben, den Organismus aus in den ersten sieben Lebensjahren, also von der Geburt bis zum Zahnwechsel. Da ist der Mensch in einer ganz elementaren, unmittelbaren Verbindung mit seiner Umgebung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":71,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/304/1921-11-23/p052"},{"locus":"GA 304/1921-11-23/p053","passage_number":53,"text":"Wenn man ein Wort dafür haben will, wie der Mensch, indem sich erst Denken, Fühlen und Wollen in die Organe hineingliedern, in diesem zarten Kindesalter mit seiner Umgebung in Wechselwirkung steht, man kann nur das Wort Nachahmen gebrauchen. Der Mensch ist durch und durch ein nachahmendes Wesen in der ersten Lebensepoche. Da gibt es vor allen Dingen für die Erziehung die große Maxime: Tue in des Kindes Umgebung dasjenige, was es nachahmen kann. Und dieses Nachahmen beruht auf einem in Wirklichkeit bis in die seelisch-geistigen Imponderabilien hineingehenden Bezug zwischen der kindlichen Umgebung und dem Kinde selbst.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/304/1921-11-23/p053"},{"locus":"GA 304/1921-11-23/p054","passage_number":54,"text":"Das Kind kann in den ersten sieben Lebensjahren nicht eigentlich ermahnt werden; es kann nicht auf irgendeine Autorität hin etwas tun, sondern es lernt alles durch Nachahmung. Wir müssen nur das Kind in dieser Richtung verstehen. Da erlebt man manchmal ganz sonderbare Dinge. Ich will ein konkretes Beispiel sagen. Wenn man in diesen Dingen oftmals zu Rate gezogen wird, bieten sich ja viele solche Beispiele. Ein Vater kommt und erklärt: Ach, ich bin so unglücklich, mein Junge, der immer so brav war, der hat gestohlen. - Was soll man darüber denken? Man frägt den besorgten Vater: Wie alt ist denn das Kind? Was hat er gestohlen? - Und so weiter. Ach, er ist fünf Jahre alt. Bis jetzt war er so brav, und gestern hat er nun seiner Mutter Geld genommen aus dem Schrank und hat dafür Naschereien gekauft. Er hat sie gar nicht einmal selber verzehrt, er hat sie sogar anderen Jungen und Mädchen auf der Straße gegeben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":159,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/304/1921-11-23/p054"},{"locus":"GA 304/1921-11-23/p055","passage_number":55,"text":"Nun, was man in einem solchen Fall zu einem solch besorgten Vater zu sagen hat, das ist: Der Junge hat gar nicht gestohlen, sondern es ist wahrscheinlich so, daß er gesehen hat, wie die Mutter jeden Morgen das Geld aus dem Schrank nahm und dafür Sachen kaufte. Das Kind ist auf Nachahmung hin veranlagt, sieht selbstverständlich als das Richtige dasjenige an, was die Mutter tut, und macht es nach. Es kommt überhaupt der Begriff des Stehlens hier gar nicht in Betracht; es kommt aber das in Betracht, daß man im strengsten Sinne des Wortes, und zwar bis auf die Gedankenfärbung hin, nur dasjenige in der Umgebung des Kindes handelnd, sprechend, denkend entwickeln soll, was das Kind nachmachen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":118,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/304/1921-11-23/p055"},{"locus":"GA 304/1921-11-23/p056","passage_number":56,"text":"Derjenige, der in dieser Weise beobachten kann, der weiß eben, wie in der feinsten, in der intimsten Weise das Kind nachahmt. Bis in den Blick hinein sieht derjenige, der in der Weise, wie ich es hier meine, sich pädagogisch verhält, wie alles auf Nachahmung beruht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":45,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/304/1921-11-23/p056"},{"locus":"GA 304/1921-11-23/p057","passage_number":57,"text":"Nun, das ist so bis zum Zahnwechsel hin, weil da das Kind in einer außerordentlich wirklichen Beziehung zu der Umgebung steht, mit seinem ganzen Menschen in Beziehung zu der Umgebung steht. Das Kind ist da noch nicht so, daß es durch die Sinne etwas wahrnehmen kann, beurteilen kann, darüber fühlt. Nein, das ist alles eins; das Kind nimmt wahr, die Wahrnehmung ist zugleich Urteil, das Urteil ist Gefühl, Willensimpuls. Alles das ist eins. Das Kind ist ganz in den Strom des Lebens eingeschaltet. Es hat sich noch nicht herausgerissen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/304/1921-11-23/p057"},{"locus":"GA 304/1921-11-23/p058","passage_number":58,"text":"Das erste Herausreißen aus dem Leben findet eben mit dem Zahnwechsel statt, wenn diejenigen Kräfte, die erst unten im Organismus gewirkt haben und die nach dem Erscheinen der zweiten Zähne nicht mehr zu gebrauchen sind, nun als geistig-seelische Kräfte im Kinde auftreten, wenn wir es mit diesen Kräften zu tun haben. Da tritt das Kind in seine zweite Lebensepoche, die mit dem Zahnwechsel beginnt und mit der Geschlechtsreife endet. In dieser Lebensepoche wird sozusagen das geistig-seelische Leben frei, wie unter Umständen Wärme, die vorher latent war, frei werden kann. Wir haben vorher das Geistig-Seelische in dem Inneren des Organismus, in dem organischen Gestalten des Organismus zu suchen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":107,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/304/1921-11-23/p058"},{"locus":"GA 304/1921-11-23/p059","passage_number":59,"text":"So muß man das Verhältnis von Körper und Geist zu Seele und Leib suchen. Wir haben heute in der Theorie alle möglichen Prinzipien und Verhältnisse. Da ist das eine: die Seele, die wirkt auf den Leib; das andere sagt: alles, was in der Seele ist, wird durch den Leib bewirkt. Heute ist am meisten verbreitet die Anschauung vom psychophysischen Parallelismus, das heißt, es werden beide Prozeßreihen, das Geistig-Seelische und das Physisch-Körperliche betrachtet. Aber man kann lange spekulieren über das Verhältnis von Geist und Seele, Körper und Leib; wenn man bloß spekuliert und nicht zur Beobachtung vorrückt, kommt man nicht über die Abstraktion hinaus. Beobachten kann man aber nicht nur die Gegenwart, sondern man muß das ganze Leben beobachten - dann muß man sich sagen: Dasjenige, was du vom siebenten bis zum vierzehnten Jahre als seelisch-geistiges Leben im Kinde vor dir hast, das waren vorher Kräfte, welche im Organismus unten gewissermaßen latent waren, verborgen waren, verborgen wirkten. Du mußt dasjenige, was im Organismus von der Geburt bis zum Zahnwechsel wirkt, später, vom Zahnwechsel bis zur Geschlechtsreife, im Seelisch-Geistigen suchen, dann hast du etwas von dem Verhältnis zwischen Seele und Geist auf der einen Seite und dem Körperlich-Leiblichen auf der anderen Seite. Beobachtest du die körperlichen Vorgänge bis zum Zahnwechsel, dann hast du die Wirkung eines Seelisch-Geistigen; willst du dieses Seelisch-Geistige an sich beobachten, dann beobachte es vom Zahnwechsel bis zur Geschlechtsreife. Also suche nicht so, daß du sagst: Hier ist der Körper, und da drinnen ist die Seele, nun will ich die Wirkung suchen. Nein, gehe aus dem Räumlichen heraus, gehe in das Zeitliche über, dann wirst du ein reales, ein konkretes Verhältnis zwischen dem Geist-Seelischen und dem Physisch-Leiblichen finden können; dann wirst du aber auch fruchtbarere Ideen für das Leben finden können. Dann wirst du viel lernen - ich kann das jetzt nur prinzipiell andeuten zunächst -, dann wirst du lernen, wie du in einer gewissen Beziehung für die kindliche, physische Gesundheit vor dem Zahnwechsel zu sorgen hast, damit die seelisch-geistige Gesundheit im zweiten Lebensalter, vom Zahnwechsel bis zur Geschlechtsreife, in entsprechender Weise sich offenbaren kann, so wie die Gesundheit des Magens in der Gesundheit des Kopfes sich offenbart im zeitlichen Organismus, das heißt im ätherischen Leib, im Bildekräfteleib des Menschen. 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