{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p017-p023","extent":"range","passage_number":17,"through":23,"paragraph_count":7,"first_locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p017","last_locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Lecture V","date":"1924-09-12","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Gladys Hahn","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Pastoral Medicine","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA318/English/AP1987/19240912p01.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. 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They are hemmed in by the world and because of a weak physical body they cannot confront it with the necessary intensity; they are like a piece of the outer world although they are still inside their physical body. This is clearly the exact opposite of what we described as the third stage for the saint. The saint goes through pain that is then transformed into bliss, and then further to an experience of the spiritual world in its pure spirituality. 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It is a complete waking sleep given over to the bodily functions, which are not under the control of the weak physical body but are active as processes in the outer world are active. Naturally, since these processes are working in a human being they do give human-like impulses. But these people are isolated from the normal human world because they are pushed into the physical world to too great a degree. 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Then we see this progress to the third stage—which could also have been present in early childhood *in statu nascendi*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/318/1924-09-12/p020","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-09-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p017"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":124,"en_words":113,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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It is of utmost importance to investigate how certain capacities can be prevented from shining down into the first seven years of life that should really only emerge during the second seven years.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/318/1924-09-12/p021","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-09-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":145,"en_words":129,"ratio":0.89,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Already at birth, the person is in an abnormal condition because of some unusual stress in putting together the etheric body before entering the physical body. An etheric body was formed that does not want to penetrate the physical body completely, does not want to enter heart and stomach in the proper way but wants to flood them: in other words, an etheric body that carries the astral body and ego organization too strongly into the various organs. Already at birth or very soon after, we see facial or bodily deformities that can give us deep concern. This is called congenital mental retardation—but there is no such thing! There is only karmic mental retardation, related to the child's entire destiny. We will also speak about this more fully, so that you will see how an incarnation spent in such mental dullness can, under certain conditions, even have a beneficial place in a human being's karma, although it may mean misery in that one incarnation. There is need, after all, to regard things not merely from the point of view of finite life, but *sub specie aeterni* from the point of view of the immortal life of a human being. Then we would have a compassionate charity ( *caritas*) and a wise one as well.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":242,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/318/1924-09-12/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-09-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":233,"en_words":242,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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If in the first life period, between birth and change of teeth, not only the second life period shines in but also the third—the period between puberty and the twenties, when our organization should work into our organism—then we see a child in their fourth or fifth year with capacities that often delight the people. They say, “This child talks or acts like a twenty-year-old!” But this is what is happening: the ego organization is developing too early and is overpowering the physical body and making it weak. Idiocy will then appear in the latter part of the person's life. In this case it is not brought on by karma but has been acquired in this very life, and can only be balanced out karmically in later lives. If we observe life intelligently and have a good pastoral medicine to support us, we will be able to prevent it simply by providing the proper education for such a person's early childhood.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/318/1924-09-12/p023","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-09-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":172,"en_words":181,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Sehen Sie, bei einem solchen Menschen wird nun nicht Ich-Organisation, astralische Organisation und Ätherleib durch den physischen Leib herangezogen, sondern es tritt etwas ganz anderes ein. Bei einem solchen Menschen tritt das ein, was ich in der folgenden Weise zu beschreiben habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p014"},{"locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Nehmen Sie an, man wird nach der anderen Seite, nach der Seite der Sinne hin, also nach der Seite der Ich-Organisation hin versensitiviert; da ist man furchtbar empfindlich gegen all das, was durch die Sinne einfließt, gegen lebhafte Farben, lebhafte Töne. Aber gerade das Entgegengesetzte tritt bei solchen Menschen ein, deren physischer Leib infolge karmischer Verhältnisse schwach ist. Die werden von innen heraus nun nicht hyperempfindlich, sondern für ihren physischen Leib unempfindlich, dafür aber nehmen sie mit Riesenstärke auf alles dasjenige von der anderen Seite, von der Willensseite her, was in der physischen Welt außerhalb ist. Sie verfallen der Schwere, der Wärme und Kälte. Das alles wirkt so, wie gar nicht auf organische Wesen, sondern wie auf unorganische Wesen, das unterdrückt dann die Äußerungen von astralischem Leib und Ich-Organisation. Sie sind von der Welt hingenommen, sie stellen sich durch den schwachen physischen Leib nicht mit entsprechender Intensität der Außenwelt gegenüber, sie sind wie ein Glied der Außenwelt, aber innerhalb des Physischen. Es ist das deutliche Gegenbild dessen, was wir als das dritte Stadium beim Heiligen beschrieben haben. Der Heilige geht durch den Schmerz, der sich in ihm in Lust verwandelt, über dazu, daß er die geistige Welt in ihrer reinen Geistigkeit erlebt. Er nennt das «die Ruhe in Gott» oder «die Ruhe im Geist». Derjenige, der sich so entwickelt, wie ich das beschrieben habe, der ruht in den verborgenen okkulten Kräften der physischen Welt, die ihm aber nicht zum Bewußtsein kommen, er kommt nicht zu der Ruhe in Gott, nicht zur Ruhe im Geist, er kommt zur Ruhe in den okkulten Kräften der Welt, denen er sich gerade als Mensch in Selbständigkeit gegenüberstellen soll. Er entwickelt das Spiegelbild des dritten Zustandes des Heiligen, das pathologische Spiegelbild, und das ist der Zustand des Blödsinns, in dem das Menschliche ausgelöscht ist, in dem der Mensch ruht in der äußeren Natur, das heißt in den verborgenen Kräften, aber nicht mehr sich menschlich äußern kann, sondern nur in dem, was im Menschen naturgemäß vollzogen wird, was im Menschen die Fortsetzung darstellt der äußeren Naturprozesse, der vegetabilischen Prozesse: Sich-Ernähren, die Nahrungsmittel verarbeiten, und das Sich-Bewegen in der Richtung, wie die Nahrungsmittel in ihrer inneren Verarbeitung Impulse geben, das vollständig wachende Schlafen, hingegeben an die Funktion der Körpergestalt, die aber nicht überwunden werden vom schwachen physischen Leib, sondern ähnlich bleiben den Vorgängen der Außenwelt, die, weil sie im Menschen wirken, menschenähnliche Impulse geben dem Menschen, der herausgestellt ist aus der Welt, weil er zu stark in die physische Welt hineingestellt ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":415,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p015"},{"locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Wir haben es zu tun mit all dem, was das pathologische Spiegelbild der Ruhe in Gott ist. Wir haben es mit dem «Ruhen in der Natur» zu tun. Wir haben es mit den verschiedenen paranoischen Zuständen zu tun, mit demjenigen, was man im gewöhnlichen Leben die Zustände des Blödsinns nennt, während die vorhergehenden Zustände mehr diejenigen des Schwachsinns sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":59,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p016"},{"locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"So sehen wir in die Stufenreihe beim Heiligen von den Anwesenheitsgefühlen gegenüber Wesenheiten der geistigen Welt bis hinein zu dem sich selber Hineinversetzen in die geistige Welt im dritten Stadium. So sehen wir das pathologische Gegenbild von der psychopathologischen Minderwertigkeit, die wir im ersten Stadium verfolgen können. Ganz besonders dann können wir darauf aufmerksam werden auf die psychopathologische Minderwertigkeit, wenn sie sich so ausdrückt, wie ich das vorhin beschrieben habe: in abnormer Wanderlust, verbunden mit dem logikfremden Gedächtnis. Wir sehen das dann übergehen in die Zustände des Wahnsinns, die aber durchaus den Menschen zu gewissen Verrichtungen des äußeren Lebens geeignet machen können in dem Frühstadium. Wir sehen das dann übergehen oftmals in den dritten Zustand, der auch schon von Anfang an vorhanden sein kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p017"},{"locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Wir sehen, wie der zweite Zustand im wesentlichen darauf beruhen kann, daß wir gar nicht imstande sind, gewissen Zuständen zwischen Geburt und Zahnwechsel entgegenzutreten. Wenn Kinder in dieser ersten Lebensepoche nicht gerade eine übergroße Klugheit zeigen aber eine starke Lernbegierde, die sich erst zeigen sollten nach dem Zahnwechsel, kurz, wenn diejenigen Eigenschaften, die, wie ich in den pädagogischen Vorträgen geschildert habe, eintreten im normalen Leben zwischen Zahnwechsel und Geschlechtsreife, schon deutlich da sind in der ersten Epoche, sollten wir besonders besorgt werden, sollten wir sinnen auf Mittel, die dasjenige, was jetzt pathologisch ist, beheben können, psychische, spirituelle, physische Mittel. Wir werden davon noch sprechen. Aber das ist das, was im Zusammenhang mit diesen Erscheinungen studiert werden muß, nämlich, daß nicht hereinleuchten sollte in die erste Lebensepoche zwischen Geburt und Zahnwechsel dasjenige, was in der zweiten Lebensepoche, wie ich es Ihnen gestern geschildert habe, herauskommen soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":145,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p018"},{"locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Das dritte Stadium kann allerdings in zweifacher Weise sich einstellen. In den weitaus meisten Fällen bringt es sich der Mensch, wie Sie aus meinen Darstellungen ersehen haben, als sein Karma mit. Er tritt schon durch dasjenige, was er durchgemacht hat beim Aufsuchen der Zusammensetzung des Ätherleibes, bevor er in den physischen Leib hereintritt, schon in einen abnormen Zustand ein. Er gestaltet sich einen Ätherleib, der überall nicht hinein will, der nicht hinein will in Herz und Magen in der richtigen Weise, sondern sie überfluten will, der zu stark astralischen Leib und Ich-Organisation in die Organe hineinträgt, und wir sehen auftreten schon bei der Geburt oder sich wenigstens bald nach der Geburt herausbilden die physiognomischen Deformationen, die uns besorgt machen können. Man nennt das angeborenen Blödsinn. Den gibt es aber nicht. Es gibt nur einen karmischen Blödsinn, der mit der ganzen Schicksalslage des Menschen zusammenhängt. Auch das werden wir genauer besprechen, damit man doch auch einsieht, wie eine Inkarnation, die in einer solchen geistigen Umnachtung zugebracht werden kann, unter Umständen sogar günstig in das Karma des Menschen sich hineinstellen kann, wenn es auch ein Elend darstellt in der einen Inkarnation. Da beginnt die Notwendigkeit, die Dinge nicht bloß unter dem Gesichtspunkte des endlichen Lebens, sondern sub specie aeterni oder unter dem Gesichtspunkt des ewigen Lebens des Menschen anzusehen. Da tritt ein dasjenige, was eine gemütvolle und zu gleicher Zeit weise gewordene Caritas durchdringen soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p019"},{"locus":"GA 318/1924-09-12/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Auf der anderen Seite aber kann das zweite Stadium, das ich Ihnen geschildert habe, durchaus in das dritte übergehen, und das zeigt sich dann, wenn schon in der ersten Lebensepoche des Menschen zwischen Geburt und Zahnwechsel nicht bloß die zweite Epoche hereinleuchtet, sondern schon die dritte, diejenige, in der der Mensch seine Ich-Organisation hereinnehmen soll. Wenn uns ein Kind entgegentritt mit Eigenschaften im vierten, fünften Lebensjahr, die oftmals das Entzücken der Umgebung hervorrufen, weil man sagt: der redet oder tut wie ein Zwanzigjähriger — schlimm genug, wenn es so ist. Denn dann tritt eben dasjenige ein, daß die Ich-Organisation zu früh sich entwickelt, den physischen Leib überwältigt und schwach macht. Dann tritt nicht der karmisch vermittelte, sondern im Leben akquirierte Blödsinn ein, der sich karmisch erst später ausgleichen kann; der Blödsinn aber, er tritt im späteren Leben ein. Wenn wir mit verständigem Sinn, mit einer guten Pastoralmedizin hinblicken auf das Leben, werden wir ihn dadurch beherrschen lernen können, indem wir einfach die Erziehung in der richtigen Weise gestalten im Frühstadium des Betreffenden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/318/1924-09-12/p020"}],"beads":[{"from":[17],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[18,19],"to":[15,16],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[20],"to":[17],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[21],"to":[18],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[22],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[23],"to":[20],"confidence":"medium"}],"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)."}}