{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 312/1920-04-07/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now there is a special requirement of the human organism: all that is focused from out of the organism, in the heart's action, must be held apart from the forces that organise and concentrate themselves in the internal metabolism of the lungs. These two sets of activities may only interact through the barrier—if I may so express myself—of an etheric or even an astral diaphragm. They must be kept separate from one another. And so we come to the question: Does this diaphragm—and I only use the term in order to give a picture—really exist? Is there such a diaphragm, which prevents the activities of head, throat and lungs from blending with those of abdomen and breast, except through the external rhythm of the breath? Yes—there is such a diaphragm, and it is nothing less than the rhythm of breathing itself. Here you find the attunement of the upper with the lower sphere in man. What is termed rhythmic activity in man, the rhythmic pulsation, whose external physical manifestation is in the rhythm of the breathing, continues into the etheric and astral activities and holds apart the telluric forces of the upper human being, which centre in the lung, and the cosmic forces of the lower human being. The latter forces, with their expression ultimately in the heart, work upwards from below, just as cosmically they work from the periphery inwards, towards the earth's centre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XVIII","site_heading":"Primary Causes of Disease: Rhythmic Disturbance and Cosmic Influences","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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Diese beiden Tätigkeiten müssen auseinandergehalten werden. Und wir müssen die Frage aufwerfen: Ist dieses Zwerchfell — ich gebrauche das Wort nur, um ein Bild anzudeuten — wirklich vorhanden? Gibt es ein solches Zwerchfell, welches abhält die Kopf-, Hals-, Lungentätigkeit, sich zu vermischen mit der Bauch- und Brusttätigkeit anders als durch den äußeren Atmungsrhythmus? — Dieses Zwerchfell gibt es, und es ist der äußere Atmungsrhythmus selber. Und da kommen Sie auf die Ineinanderstimmung des oberen und des unteren Menschen. Dasjenige, das man rhythmische Tätigkeit im Menschen nennt, dieses rhythmische Erzittern, welches sich äußerlich physisch ausdrückt im Atmungsrhythmus, dieses physische Erzittern setzt sich bis in die Äther- und Astraltätigkeit hinein fort und hält die Erdenkräfte des oberen Menschen, die noch in die Lunge hinein sich konzentrieren, und die Himmelskräfte des unteren Menschen auseinander, die durch die Tätigkeit, die im Herzen dann ihren Ausdruck findet, von unten nach oben wirken, so wie sie im Kosmos von der Peripherie nach dem Zentrum der Erde hin wirken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":232,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-04-07/p009"}],"english":["GA 312/1920-04-07/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":232,"en_words":235,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5116,"original_word_count":5469,"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/RSP1948/19200407a01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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