{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 318/1924-09-11/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The etheric body has a great deal to do in these first seven years of life. It works quietly and steadily to develop the faculties that it will possess in the second seven-year period: independent faculties of memory leading toward the intellect. Whoever has an eye for it can see the greatest transformation in the child's soul-life when the first life period goes over into the second. The etheric body is now relieved of the work it had to accomplish—in the full sense of the word—to build the second body. It is relieved, freed. How it is freed, one can only realize if one perceives that at fourteen years not only the teeth remain but still more that had to be renewed, like the teeth, in the first life period. This now remains in the physical-material substance. What remains frees the etheric body—itself becomes free in the etheric body. Quantitatively it is a small thing, but qualitatively it is something of tremendous importance. It is what now becomes tremendously active as soul attributes, soul characteristics. What the human being saves by not having to create a third set of teeth (and much else that is taken care of by evolution in the same way as the teeth) enables something of the etheric body to be “left over.” What flowed during the first seven years into the physical development and is now “left over” from the physical development works now purely in the realm of soul, its nature depending upon the individual. With the faculties upon which you call as a teacher in school, the faculties you train, the child accomplished the great change from milk teeth to second teeth, and much else. With the forces that are saved by not having to form a third set of teeth, the child begins to develop soul faculties. This takes place in the depths of human nature. During the first seven years these soul forces had been entirely embedded in the physical development. We have to comprehend physical development as a soul-spiritual activity just as much as a physical activity. We see a spiritual entity active in the body in the first seven years of the human being, in the fullest sense of the word.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Cosmic Forces and Human Development: Seven-Year Rhythms","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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Er wird entlastet; und wie er entlastet wird, man sieht es genau erst ein, wenn man eben weiß, daß der Mensch nicht mit vierzehn Jahren wieder Zähne bekommt, sondern daß die bleiben, die er hat, daß aber auch noch anderes bleibt in der physisch-materiellen Natur. Das, was da bleibt, was aber in den ersten Lebensjahren auch ersetzt werden muß, das entlastet den Ätherleib, wird frei im Ätherleib. Es ist quantitativ ein Kleines, qualitativ aber etwas ungeheuer Wichtiges. Das ist das, was dann als seelische Eigenschaften ungeheuer wirksam wird. Was der Mensch erspart dadurch, daß er sich keine dritten Zähne anzuschaffen hat, dadurch, daß er manches andere, was in derselben Weise von der Evolution behandelt wird wie die Zähne, nicht neu zu bilden hat, dadurch bleibt etwas übrig vom Ätherleib. Was da übrig bleibt - in den ersten sieben Lebensjahren hineingeflossen ist in die physische Entwickelung -, bleibt jetzt übrig von der physischen Entwickelung, wirkt rein seelisch, wie es ist seiner Wesenheit nach. Mit den Fähigkeiten, an die Sie in der Schule als Lehrer appellieren, die Sie ausbilden, hat das Kind die große Wandlung der Milchzähne in die zweiten Zähne vollzogen und manches andere. Mit den Kräften, die das Kind erspart, weil es keine dritten Zähne zu bilden hat, mit denen fängt es an, die Fähigkeiten der Seele zu entwickeln. Das geschieht in den Tiefen der menschlichen Natur, so daß das Seelische für die ersten sieben Lebensjahre ganz drinnensteckt in der physischen Entwickelung, die wir ebenso als geistig-seelisch wie als physisch-leiblich aufzufassen haben. 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