{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 319/1924-07-21_02/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In so far as man is a sentient being, he bears within himself the next member, the *astral body*. (We need not feel that such terms are objectionable; we should perceive what they reveal to us.) The astral body is essentially the mediator of sensation, the bearer of the inner life of feeling. The astral body contains not only the upbuilding forces but also the forces of *destruction*. Just as the etheric body makes the being of man bud and sprout, as it were, so all these processes of budding are continually being disintegrated again by the astral body; and just because of this, just because the physical and etheric bodies are continually being *disintegrated*, there exists in the human organisation an activity of *soul* and *Spirit*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"meaning_warning":"A sentence of this translation says something the German does not; translation_faults names it, with the German. quote_safe certifies the words, not the meaning: do not quote that sentence as Steiner's meaning. Quote the German or another translation, or quote it only to show the fault.","title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Integration and Disintegration: Spiritual Science in Healing","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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Und gerade dadurch ist in der menschlichen Organisation eine seelisch-geistige Betätigung, daß das Physisch-Ätherische fortwährend abgebaut wird. Man macht etwas ganz Falsches, wenn man meint, das Geistig-Seelische in der menschlichen Wesenheit liege im Aufbau; und der Aufbau, die fortschreitende Entwickelung, komme zuletzt an einem Punkt — meinetwillen in der Nervenorganisation oder dergleichen — dazu, Träger des Geistig-Seelischen zu sein. Das ist nicht der Fall. Wenn einmal - und alle Anzeichen sind dafür da, daß es in Bälde geschehen wird — unsere tief bewundernswürdigen naturwissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen auf dem Wege weiterschreiten, auf dem sie schon sind, dann wird es sich zeigen, daß im Nervenprinzip nicht ein Aufbauendes das Wesentliche ist; das Aufbauende in der Nervenorganisation ist nur dazu da, damit die Nerven überhaupt bestehen können. 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