{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 312/1920-03-22/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now let us suppose that a manifestation which would be undoubtedly hysterical, if it were manifested functionally, does not come to expression at all as a disturbance of function. It does not appear in the functional sphere, the etheric body imprints it immediately into the physical body. It is there, but it is not evident in any definite disease of the lower organs. We may say indeed that the organs bear the signature of hysteria. It has been driven into the physical organism, and therefore does not manifest by hysterical symptoms on the psychological plane; and it is not yet sufficiently pronounced to become an appreciable physical affliction. But it is strong enough to work within the whole organism. Thus we have this peculiar condition: something on the borderland, so to speak, between sickness and health influences the upper organic sphere from the lower. It reacts on the upper sphere and in some sense infects it, appearing in its own negative. *This phenomenon, in which so to speak, the first physical effects of hysteria affect those regions which are subject to neurasthenia in their own typical irregularities, gives a tendency to Tuberculosis*. This is an interesting connection. The tuberculous tendency is a repercussion of the abnormal action of the lower body sphere on the upper, as has just been outlined. The whole of this remarkable interaction is set in motion by an uncompleted process which reacts on the upper sphere, and produces a tendency to tuberculosis. And it is necessary to recognise this primary tendency of the human organism before any rational antidote to tuberculosis can be discovered. For the invasion of the human body by pathogenic bacteria is only a result of primary tendencies such as I have described.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"The Heart as Mediating Organ: Upper and Lower Polarities","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Dadurch, daß es sich in das Physische hinein abgedrückt hat, kommt es nicht psychisch als hysterische Erscheinung zum Vorschein, aber es ist auch noch nicht stark genug, um eine belästigende Krankheit, physische Krankheit zu sein. Aber es ist dann stark genug, um doch im ganzen Organismus zu wirken. Dann haben wir die eigentümliche Erscheinung, daß so etwas, was, ich möchte sagen, schwebt zwischen Krankheit und Gesundheit, daß das vom Unteren aufs Obere hinaufwirkt, aufs Obere zurückwirkt, das Obere gewissermaßen ansteckt und in seinem Negativ erscheint. Diese Erscheinung, wo gewissermaßen der erste physische Folgezustand des Hysterischen in seiner Wirkung auf die Gebiete erscheint, die sonst, wenn sie einseitig, unregelmäßig werden, der Neurasthenie unterliegen, diese Erscheinung, die gibt die Anlage zur Tuberkulose.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-03-22/p012"},{"locus":"GA 312/1920-03-22/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Das ist ein interessanter Zusammenhang. Die Anlage zu Tuberkulose ist eine Rückwirkung der Ihnen eben geschilderten Tätigkeit im Unteren auf das Obere. Diese ganz merkwürdige Wechselwirkung, die da entsteht dadurch, daß ein nicht ganz auslaufender Prozeß, wie ich ihn geschildert habe, zurückwirkt auf das Obere, gibt die Anlage zu Tuberkulose. Man wird nicht finden irgend etwas, was rationell der Tuberkulose beikommt, wenn man nicht auf diese, ich möchte sagen, Ur-Anlage des menschlichen Organismus zurückgeht. Denn daß die Parasiten Platz greifen im menschlichen Organismus, das ist nur eine Folgeerscheinung jener Ut-Anlagen, von denen ich Ihnen jetzt eben gesprochen habe. Das widerspricht nicht der Tatsache, daß, wenn die nötigen Voraussetzungen dazu da sind, so etwas wie die Tuberkulose ansteckend ist. Natürlich müssen die nötigen Voraussetzungen dazu dasein. Aber es ist schon so, daß bei einem furchtbar großen Teile der heutigen Menschheit dieses Prädominierende der unteren organischen Tätigkeit leider vorliegt, so daß die Disposition zur Tuberkulose in einer erschrekkenden Weise heute eigentlich ausgebreitet ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-03-22/p013"}],"english":["GA 312/1920-03-22/p017","GA 312/1920-03-22/p018"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":361,"en_words":338,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 312/1920-03-22/p012","GA 312/1920-03-22/p013"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.88,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5070,"original_word_count":5775,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1948","book_title":"Spiritual Science and Medicine","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA312/English/RSP1948/19200322p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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