{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 312/1920-04-07/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The whole series of external and apparently independent symptoms, which otherwise are only perceived from without, so to speak, become so clearly evident that they might almost be painted in their inner relationships. And in certain circumstances, the human consciousness may be so strongly impressed that there arises an urge to objectify prophetically this picture before it portrays itself in the organism. In such cases, a person will feel compelled to depict or symbolise the elements of which his upper organic sphere is deprived, by painting blue spots of colour on the wall, and to represent the elements of which the lower sphere is deprived by spots of red. In the case of an individual with a belief that his vocation is art, as distinct from tailoring or shoemaking, but with little knowledge of the craftsmanship of painting, you may find that if at the same time he is robust enough to repress the constantly arising tendency to diseases of the lower abdomen, these diseased conditions are exteriorised and “thrown off” on wall or canvas, instead of developing internally. The paintings of the expressionist school supply examples of this remarkable activity. Examine much of what comes to light in these paintings, in the red and yellow colors; there you can trace the painter's condition in the lower abdominal sphere. And in the blue and blue-violet parts you can find a clue to his condition in the upper bodily sphere, in the lungs, and all that moves rhythmically upwards towards the head. If you study such things carefully, they will lead you to discover a remarkable harmony between the general type of action of a given individual and his internal organisation. You will be in a position to form a certain intuitive impression of the functional conditions of his body from his way of living and behaving. For as a matter of fact it is wholly erroneous to believe that the soul activity of a man in the external world, through actions and behaviour, is only connected with his nervous system. It is connected with the whole man, and is an image of the whole man. We can grasp intuitively in children how man's intellectual part behaves and how it strives towards the later age. We only have to consider, e.g., how somebody may be doomed in later life to cope with all the embarrassments of an arrested growth; and how in childhood he showed plainly that the forces that did not allow him to complete his growth make him clumsy and rough in his behaviour. From the way in which the child behaves, as for instance whether he puts his feet lightly on the ground or strongly, you may form an intuitive picture of the way of its growth. Numerous other manifestations suggest that the whole gesture and behaviour of the individual is nothing else than the interplay of internal organic parts, transferred into movement.","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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Wenn irgendwo ein Individuum herumgeht, das sich berufen fühlt, Künstler zu sein und nicht Schneider oder Schuster, das aber wenig gelernt hat in bezug auf die Technik der Malerei, dann können Sie es erleben, daß, wenn dieses Individuum stark genug, robust genug ist zu gleicher Zeit — wozu man nicht äußerlich robust sein muß —, fortwährend entstehen wollende Unterleibserkrankungen zu unterdrücken, es diese Unterleibserkrankungen an die Wand objektiviert, statt sie in den Leib hineinzunehmen. Sie können in der expressionistischen Malerei die Produkte dieser merkwürdigen Tätigkeit finden. Suchen Sie sich in vielem, was Ihnen in expressionistischen Malereien zutage tritt, in alledem, was in den roten und gelben Farben hervortritt, das Befinden des Betreffenden in bezug auf seinen Unterleib. Und suchen Sie sich aus all dem, was blauviolett dadrinnen ist, einen Vers zu bilden auf sein Befinden in dem Oberleibe, in der Lunge oder in all dem, was mit der Lungentätigkeit nach dem Haupte hinauf rhythmisch sich betätigt. Dann, wenn Sie auf solche Dinge eingehen, dann werden Sie auch einen merkwürdigen Einklang finden zwischen dem, was ein Mensch überhaupt tut, und dem, wie er innerlich organisiert ist. Sie werden sich eine gewisse Intuition schaffen aus der Art, wie ein Mensch sich darlebt, ein Bild zu machen von dem Funktionieren seines Leibes. Denn in der Tat ist es so, daß es ganz falsch ist, zu glauben, daß die seelische Tätigkeit, die der Mensch in der äußeren Welt betätigt, durch sein ganzes Auftreten, durch sein ganzes Tun nur etwa abhinge von seinem Nervensystem. Es hängt vom ganzen Menschen ab. Es ist ein Bild des ganzen Menschen. Man kann es zu einer intuitiven Anschauung bringen, schon beim Kinde beobachten zu können, wie eigentlich dieser intellektuelle Mensch beschaffen ist, wie er dem späteren Alter entgegenstrebt, wenn man sich vergegenwärtigt, wie jemand zum Beispiel, der dazu verurteilt ist, all die Schädigungen zu übernehmen im späteren Alter eines zurückgebliebenen Wachstums, in der Kindheit einfach zeigt, daß dasjenige, was ihn nicht nach oben kommen läßt, ihn veranlaßt dazu, plump, stark aufzutreten. Aus der Art und Weise, ob ein Kind verhältnismäßig leicht auftritt oder ob es stark auftritt, können Sie sich eine intuitive Vorstellung machen von dem, wie es wachsen wird. 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