{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 314/1924-04-22/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In such a case, a follow-up cure is needed. The mercury may have been almost completely removed, but the destructive tendency introduced by the mercury remains in the organism. We must bear in mind that mercury has an extraordinarily strong effect on the human organism. One must consider: what is mercury for the human organism? If you follow the embryonic development, you have an ascending embryonic development, that is, from the germ rising to what becomes a human being, and you have a descending development, something that falls away, that is gradually destroyed. The regulator of this destruction is that which, in the human being, is the inner mercurial nature. And if it should turn out that there are too many vital forces, then you could check it by means of mercury, which works constitutionally towards the destruction of the human being. This destructive tendency of mercury must be combated psychically. If you can induce a person to pursue a completely abstract science quite regularly, geometry, for example, dutifully for half an hour every day, then that is the follow-up cure. Sharp, logically connecting and separating thoughts that engage the mind and help to develop inner activity, not passive surrender to the world, but this inner activity, is what must actually be applied for a very long time. Then you will be able to heal someone of the forces of Mercury.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"First Discussion","site_heading":"Etheric Plant Forces and Spiritual Diagnosis in Therapy","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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Man muß bedenken, daß das Quecksilber eine außerordentlich starke Wirkung auf den menschlichen Organismus hat. Man muß bedenken: Was ist Quecksilber für den menschlichen Organismus? Wenn Sie die embryonale Entwickelung verfolgen, so haben Sie eine aufsteigende embryonale Entwickelung, also vom Keim aufsteigend zu dem, was Mensch wird, und Sie haben eine absteigende Entwickelung, etwas was abfällt, was stufenweise zerstört wird. Der Regulator dieses Zerstörens ist dasjenige, was beim Menschen die innere quecksilbrige Natur ist. Und wenn sich etwa ergeben würde, daß da zu viel Vitalkräfte sind, so könnten Sie das durch Quecksilber zurückdämmen, das konstitutionell auf die Zerstörung des Menschen hinwirkt. Diese destruktive Tendenz des Quecksilbers muß psychisch bekämpft werden. Wenn Sie den Menschen dazu veranlassen können, daß er ganz regelmäßig eine ganz abstrakte Wissenschaft treibt, Geometrie zum Beispiel pflichtgemäß jeden Tag eine halbe Stunde, dann ist das die Nachkur. Scharfe, logisch sich verbindende und sich trennende Gedanken, die den Geist anspannen und die zu innerer Regsamkeit helfen, nicht das passive Sichhingeben an die Welt, sondern dieses innerlich Regsame, das ist es, was eigentlich sehr lange angewendet werden muß. 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