{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 312/1920-04-07/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Just the same processes as work on the life of plants—in the external sphere of the earth that is to say—are also at work in the same region on the external life of animals and of man. These forces here (see Diagram 27—orange) at work on animal and man, come from the extra-telluric cosmos, and are met and opposed by forces that come from within. The latter, coming from the interior of the earth, are localised in man in certain organs of the upper bodily sphere; whilst the forces that pour on to the earth from outside are localised in man in organs belonging to the lower bodily sphere, again, if I may so express myself, a dividing wall must be set up between the two forms of action. The regulation of this separation is normally achieved through the activity of the spleen, and in this connection we again find rhythm active in the human organism, but a rhythm different from that of respiration. The rhythm of the breath is in short pulsations, and it continues throughout life; it must be in order, if illnesses of the upper sphere—or such diseases as can affect that upper sphere only—are not to develop. Bear in mind that there may be illnesses which affect the upper sphere yet have their original in the lower—for the process of digestion extends both above and below. This we must clearly realise. We cannot picture man divided diagrammatically into compartments, but the various members interpenetrating one another. At the same time, there must be a barrier between that which works from above as though coming from the earth, and that which works upwards from below, as though from celestial space. For we do indeed send the forces of our lower sphere out against those of our upper, and there must be a regulated rhythm for each human individuality between these two sets of forces; a rhythm manifesting *in a proper alternation between waking and sleeping*. Every time we wake, there is in a certain way the one beat of this rhythm, and every time we sleep, there is the other beat. And this rhythm of waking-sleeping waking-sleeping, is intersected with other minor rhythmic oscillations which are due to the fact that in the waking state, we wake in our upper sphere but sleep in our lower. There is a continuous rhythmic systole interplay, between the upper and lower man, which is only captured so to speak in major rhythms through the alternation of waking and sleeping.","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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Wiederum muß, wenn ich so sagen darf, eine Scheidewand zwischen diesen beiden Betätigungen, die hier in Betracht kommen, geschaffen werden. Die normale Regelung dieser Scheidung ist bewirkt durch die Milztätigkeit des Menschen. Wir sehen auch da wiederum den Rhythmus in dem menschlichen Organismus tätig. Nur ist dieser Rhythmus jetzt ein anderer als der Atmungsrhythmus. Der Atmungsrhythmus erfolgt in kleinen Schwingungen und läuft durch das ganze Leben des Menschen, muß in Ordnung sein, damit nicht obere Krankheiten entstehen oder solche Krankheiten, die nur mit dem Oberen des Menschen zu tun haben. Denn es können auch im Oberen des Menschen Krankheiten sein, die von unten verursacht werden, weil ja die Verdauung sich nach oben erstreckt und ebenso auch nach unten. Das muß unterschieden werden. Wir können uns nicht schematisch den Menschen gegliedert denken, sondern die einzelnen Glieder einander durchdringend. Aber es muß eine Scheidewand sein zwischen dem, was von oben aus wirkt, wie wenn es von der Erde her käme, und dem, was von unten heraufwirkt, wie wenn es aus dem himmlischen Raum käme. Wir schicken in der Tat den Kräften, die aus unserem oberen Menschen kommen, die Kräfte unseres unteren Menschen entgegen, und ein geregelter Rhythmus für jede einzelne menschliche Individualität muß bestehen zwischen beiden, der sich ausdrückt in dem richtigen Verhältnis zwischen Wachen und Schlafen. Jedesmal, wenn wir wachen, ist in einer gewissen Weise der eine Ausschlag dieses Rhythmus da, wenn wir schlafen, ist der andere Ausschlag dieses Rhythmus da. In diesen Rhythmus Wachen-Schlafen, Wachen-Schlafen ordnen sich, wie kleinere Wellenberge des Rhythmus bewirkend, andere rhythmische Abläufe ein, welche einfach dadurch herbeigeführt werden, daß wir auch im Wachzustande mit unserem Oberen des Menschen wachen und mit unserem unteren Menschen schlafen. Es findet eine fortwährende rhythmische Tätigkeit zwischen dem oberen und dem unteren Menschen statt, die nur, ich möchte sagen, in größeren Rhythmen eingefangen wird durch die Abwechslung von Wachen und Schlafen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":416,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-04-07/p013"}],"english":["GA 312/1920-04-07/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":416,"en_words":419,"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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