{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p009-p013","extent":"range","passage_number":9,"through":13,"paragraph_count":5,"first_locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p009","last_locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Lecture III","date":"1920-10-09","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Alice Wuslin and Gerald F. Karnow","identified_edition":"MP1986a","book_title":"Physiology and Therapeutics","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA314/English/MP1986a/19201009a01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4508,"original_word_count":4291,"may_be_abridged":false},"site_heading":"The Threefold Human Organism: Pathology and Therapeutic Principles","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/314/1920-10-09/p009-p013","json_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/314/1920-10-09/p009-p013.json","lecture_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/314/1920-10-09#p009","word_count":730,"quote_safe":true,"passages":[{"passage_number":9,"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p009","text":"On the one hand we have to do with a threefold nature of the soul being: in forming mental images, in feeling, and in will impulses. This threefold nature of the soul being, however, corresponds very precisely with a threefolding of the physical-bodily being: a kind of head system or nerve-sense system, a rhythmic system, and a metabolic-limb system. I must stress particularly that this constitution of the human organism must not be understood merely intellectually but through inner perception. A person would be unable to comprehend how matters actually stood if he remained with an external picture, if he understood the head system as something that simply ends at the neck, the circulatory or rhythmic system as being encompassed by the trunk, while the digestive system encompasses the limb system, the sexual system.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":134,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/314/1920-10-09/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-10-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/314/1920-10-09/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 314/1920-10-09/p005"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":376,"en_words":308,"ratio":0.82,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alice Wuslin and Gerald F. Karnow","identified_edition":"MP1986a","book_title":"Physiology and Therapeutics","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA314/English/MP1986a/19201009a01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 314/1920-10-09/p005"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":10,"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p010","text":"What is important here is that while the nerve-sense system is located primarily in the head, it nevertheless extends over the entire remaining organism as such. We may thus say that when we speak here with an anthroposophical purpose about the nerve-sense system, it is the system of functions in the human organism (for we are concerned here not with spatial limitations but functional limitations) that is located essentially in the head; nevertheless the head activity extends over the entire human being so that in a certain sense the whole human being is head. The same is true for the other systems. It was thus mere foolishness when a superficial professor of medicine, who did not intend really to study these matters but only wished to discredit them to the world, spoke about the “belly-system” in order to ridicule what is actually referred to by the metabolic system. He has merely shown his total lack of understanding for how the threefold constitution of the human being is functional, and not defined by spatial limitations.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/314/1920-10-09/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-10-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/314/1920-10-09/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 314/1920-10-09/p005"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":376,"en_words":308,"ratio":0.82,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alice Wuslin and Gerald F. Karnow","identified_edition":"MP1986a","book_title":"Physiology and Therapeutics","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA314/English/MP1986a/19201009a01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 314/1920-10-09/p005"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":11,"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p011","text":"When an individual really understands this constitution of the human being—about which many lectures could be given to describe it in full detail—he reaches the point of being able to perceive clearly the distinctions between the head system, and therefore the nerve-sense system, on the one hand, the metabolic-limb system on the other hand, and the mediating system, the rhythmic system, whose essential role is to bring about the balance between the two other systems.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":75,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/314/1920-10-09/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-10-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/314/1920-10-09/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 314/1920-10-09/p006"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":385,"en_words":422,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alice Wuslin and Gerald F. Karnow","identified_edition":"MP1986a","book_title":"Physiology and Therapeutics","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA314/English/MP1986a/19201009a01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 314/1920-10-09/p006"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":12,"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p012","text":"If we thus wish to encompass the entire nature of the human being, we must consider the following. The actual conceptual and perceptual activity of the human being has as its basis—one cannot even say as its tool, but as its physical basis—everything that takes place physically in the nerve-sense system. It is not the case, as is suggested by modern psychology and physiology, that those processes connected primarily with the feeling and willing systems also take place in the nerve-sense system. Such an opinion does not hold up before a more precise study of the issue. You will find such a precise study, at least suggested in its outlines, in my book, *Riddles of the Soul*.[^3]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/314/1920-10-09/p012","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-10-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/314/1920-10-09/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 314/1920-10-09/p006"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":385,"en_words":422,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alice Wuslin and Gerald F. Karnow","identified_edition":"MP1986a","book_title":"Physiology and Therapeutics","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA314/English/MP1986a/19201009a01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 314/1920-10-09/p006"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":13,"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p013","text":"Much detailed work must still be done in this regard, however. Then what spiritual science has to say with certainty from its side will be elaborated from the other side, from the physical-empirical side. It will become clear that man's feeling is not connected in a primary way with the nerve-sense system but with the rhythmic system, that just as the nerve-sense system corresponds to mentally active perception, so the rhythmic system corresponds to feeling. Only through the interaction of the rhythmic system with the nerve-sense system, by the roundabout route of the rhythm in the cerebral fluid, pulsating against the nerve-sense system, is the nerve-sense system engaged as the carrier of the conceptual life. Then, if we raise our feelings to mental images, the dull, dreamlike life of feelings is perceived and pictured by us in an inner way. Just as the life of feeling is directly connected with the rhythmic system and is indirectly mediated by it, so the life of will is connected directly with the metabolic system. This connection in turn acts in a secondary way, since metabolism takes place also in the brain, of course, so that the metabolic system in its functions presses against the nerve-sense system. In this way we are able to bring forth the mental images of our will impulses, which otherwise would unfold in a dull sleep-life within our organism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/314/1920-10-09/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-10-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/314/1920-10-09/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 314/1920-10-09/p006"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":385,"en_words":422,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alice Wuslin and Gerald F. Karnow","identified_edition":"MP1986a","book_title":"Physiology and Therapeutics","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA314/English/MP1986a/19201009a01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 314/1920-10-09/p006"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}],"witnesses":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"first_passage":1,"last_passage":17,"passage_count":17,"word_count":4291},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"first_passage":1,"last_passage":42,"passage_count":42,"word_count":4508,"completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null}}],"aligned_witness":{"status":"aligned","lang":"de","edition":"original","confidence":"high","passages":[{"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Aber diese Anschauung muß sich in dem Augenblicke, wo man von einer gesunden Physiologie zu einer gesunden Pathologie und Therapie vorschreitet, modifizieren, das heißt, ich möchte sagen, in einer noch genaueren Weise ausbilden. Sie muß sich nämlich zusammengliedern mit jener Anschauung vom Wesen des Menschen, die hier schon wiederholt vorgebracht worden ist, aber in ganz anderem Zusammenhange, als wir sie heute nötig haben. Es ist die Anschauung von der Dreigliederung des menschlichen Organismus. Wir haben es ja im Menschen auf der einen Seite zu tun mit einer Dreigliederung des seelischen Wesens im Vorstellenden, im Fühlenden und in den Willensimpulsen. Aber diese Dreigliederung des seelischen Wesens entspricht ganz genau einer Dreigliederung des physisch-körperlichen Wesens in eine Art Kopfsystem oder Nerven-Sinnessystem, in ein rhythmisches System und in ein Stoffwechsel-Gliedmaßensystem. Ich bemerke ausdrücklich, daß diese Gliederung des menschlichen Organismus nicht eine verstandesmäßige sein darf, sondern eine anschauliche. Denn derjenige, der da etwa unter dem Kopfsystem verstehen würde dasjenige, was bis zum Halse reicht, und dann unter dem Zirkulations- oder rhythmischen System dasjenige, was den Rumpf umfaßt, und dasjenige, was das Verdauungssystem mit Gliedmaßensystem, Sexualsystem umfaßt, der würde, wenn er eine solche äußerliche Gliederung vornähme, eben durchaus nicht dasjenige treffen, was sachgemäß ist. Sondern es handelt sich darum, daß das Nerven-Sinnessystem hauptsächlich im Kopfe lokalisiert ist, daß es sich aber über den ganzen übrigen Organismus als solches ausdehnt. So daß wir in einem gewissen Sinne, wenn wir hier in anthroposophischer Absicht von dem Nerven-Sinnessystem zu sprechen haben, sagen müssen, es ist dasjenige System von Funktionen im menschlichen Organismus — denn wir haben es nicht mit Raumesabgrenzungen, sondern mit Funktionsabgrenzungen zu tun —, welches ja im wesentlichen im Haupte lokalisiert ist, aber die Hauptestätigkeit über den ganzen Menschen ausdehnt, so daß in gewisser Beziehung der ganze Mensch wiederum Haupt ist. Ebenso ist es für die anderen Systeme. Und es war daher ein bloßer Unfug, wenn ein leichtfertiger Medizinprofessor, welcher nicht die Absicht hatte, in diese Dinge einzugehen, wohl aber die Absicht hatte, diese Dinge vor der Welt zu verleumden, von dem «Bauchsystem» gesprochen hat, um zu diskreditieren dasjenige, was mit dem Stoffwechselsystem eigentlich gemeint ist. Er hat eben gezeigt, daß er durchaus kein Verständnis dafür hat, wie es bei dieser Gliederung ankommt auf das Funktionelle und nicht auf das räumlich Abzugrenzende.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":376,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/314/1920-10-09/p005"},{"locus":"GA 314/1920-10-09/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Wenn man dann diese Gliederung des Menschen versteht, über die man viele Vorträge halten könnte, um sie in allen Details zu schildern, kommt man dazu, deutlich die Unterschiede anzuschauen, welche bestehen zwischen dem Kopfsystem, also dem Nerven-Sinnessystem auf der einen Seite, dem Stoffwechsel-Gliedmaßensystem auf der anderen Seite und dem mittleren System, dem rhythmischen System, das im wesentlichen dazu berufen ist, den Ausgleich zwischen den beiden anderen Systemen zu bewirken. Wir haben dann, wenn wir die ganze Wesenheit des Menschen umfassen wollen, das Folgende vor uns: Die eigentliche vorstellende und wahrnehmende Tätigkeit des Menschen, sie hat zu ihrer Grundlage, man kann nicht einmal sagen zum Werkzeug, aber zu ihrer physischen Grundlage alles dasjenige, was sich abspielt physisch im Nerven-Sinnessystem. Es ist nun nicht so, wie eine neuere Psychologie und Physiologie meint, daß sich im Nerven-Sinnessystem auch diejenigen Prozesse abspielen, die in primärer Weise zusammenhängen mit dem Gefühls- und Willenssystem. Nein, das hält vor einem genaueren Studium der Sache nicht stand. Dieses genauere Studium finden Sie, wenigstens in seinen Leitlinien, angedeutet in meinem Buche «Von Seelenrätseln»; aber nach dieser Richtung wird eben sehr viel Detailarbeit noch zu leisten sein. Dann wird sich schon dasjenige, was Geisteswissenschaft heute mit Gewißheit von ihrer Seite zu sagen hat, auch von der anderen Seite, von der physisch-empirischen Seite her herausstellen, dann wird sich herausstellen, daß das Fühlen des Menschen nicht zusammenhängt in primärer Weise mit dem Nerven:Sinnessystem, sondern mit dem rhythmischen System, daß geradeso, wie das Nerven-Sinnessystem entspricht dem vorstellenden Wahrnehmen, das rhythmische System entspricht dem Fühlen, und daß erst durch die Wechselwirkung des rhythmischen Systems mit dem Nerven-Sinnessystem, auf dem Umwege durch den Rhythmus des Gehirnwassers, der heranschlägt an das Nerven-Sinnessystem, eingeschaltet wird das Nerven-Sinnessystem als Träger des Vorstellungslebens dann, wenn wir unsere Gefühle zu Vorstellungen erheben, wodurch das dumpf-traumhafte Gefühlsleben von uns selber wahrgenommen und vorgestellt wird auf innerliche Weise. Und ebenso, wie das Gefühlsleben direkt zusammenhängt mit dem rhythmischen System und indirekt durch dieses vermittelt wird, so hängt direkt zusammen das Willensleben mit dem Stoffwechselsystem. Und dieser Zusammenhang ist dann wiederum so, daß in sekundärer Weise, weil der Stoffwechsel natürlich auch im Gehirn vor sich geht, das Stoffwechselsystem in seinen Funktionen an das Nerven-Sinnessystem heranschlägt und auf diese Weise wir innerlich zustandebringen die Vorstellungen von unseren Willensimpulsen, die sonst in einem dumpfen Schlafesleben innerhalb unseres Organismus spielen würden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":385,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/314/1920-10-09/p006"}],"beads":[{"from":[9,10],"to":[5],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[11,12,13],"to":[6],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}