{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 312/1920-04-07/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now suppose that the barrier set up by this rhythm between the upper and lower man is broken through. What happens in such a case? As a general rule, what happens is that the activities of the upper sphere break through into the lower. This means that an etheric breach takes place. The forces that should only act etherically in the upper organic sphere of man penetrate downward into the lower. It is a breaking through of more subtle forces; but by this fact a special area is created in the abdomen, which should not be localised there, but should permeate the whole body. The result is a species of poisoning, a toxication of the lower abdominal regions. The functions proper to the lower abdominal sphere can no longer be adequately performed under this intrusion of the upper sphere. Moreover, this new sphere creates a favourable condition for lower organisms of the type intermediate between animal and plant. So you may sum up as follows: Through the downward escape of forces from the upper sphere, something is provoked in man that becomes abdominal typhus. The creation of this atmosphere provides, as a by-product, the suitable soil for the typhus bacilli.","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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Als die Folge eines solchen Durchbruches tritt sogar eine Art Vergiftung, Intoxierung des Unterleibes ein. Die Tätigkeit des Unterleibes kann nicht mehr in ordentlicher Weise ausgeführt werden, wenn die Tätigkeit des Oberleibes in dieser Weise eintritt. Aber außerdem ist dasjenige, was hier als eine neue Sphäre geschaffen wird, eine Atmosphäre für niedere Organismen tierpflanzlicher Art zumeist. Und Sie können daher folgendes sagen. Sie können sagen: Durch den Durchbruch von oben wird im Menschen hervorgerufen das, was im Menschen wird zum abdominalen Typhus. Dadurch, daß als Begleiterscheinung eine solche Atmosphäre auftritt, die lokalisiert ist im Unterleibe, wird für den Typhusbazillus das geschaffen, was seine Lebensbedingungen sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-04-07/p014"}],"english":["GA 312/1920-04-07/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":219,"en_words":200,"ratio":0.91,"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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