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Every movement, small or large, that I experience as I perform it contains its corresponding blood experience. Today blood is to us the red fluid that seeps out when we prick our skin. We can also convince ourselves intellectually of its existence. But in the age when mathematics, mathesis, was still connected with mysticism, when in a dreamy way the experience of movement was inwardly connected with that of blood, man was inwardly aware of the blood. It was one thing to follow the flow of blood through the lungs and quite another to follow it through the head. Man followed the flow of the blood in lifting his knee or his foot, and he inwardly felt and experienced himself through and through in his blood. The blood has one tinge when I raise my foot, another when I place it firmly on the ground. When I lounge around and doze lazily, the blood's nuance differs from the one it has when I let thoughts shoot through my head. The whole person can take on a different form when, in addition to the experience of movement, he has that of the blood. Try to picture vividly what I mean. Imagine that you are walking slowly, one step at a time; you begin to walk faster; you start to run, to turn yourself, to dance around. Suppose that you were doing all this, not with today's abstract consciousness, but with inward awareness: You would have a different blood experience at each stage, with the slow walking, then the increase in speed, the running, the turning, the dancing. A different nuance would be noted in each case. If you tried to draw this inner experience of movement, you would perhaps have to sketch it like this (white line.) But for each position in which you found yourself during this experience of movement, you would draw a corresponding inward blood experience (red, blue, yellow—see Figure 2)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Mathematics, Blood Experience, and the Birth of Modern Science","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 was war für eine Bluttätigkeit vorhanden, als ich als Kind mich aufrichtete aus der horizontalen Lage in die vertikale Lage! Hinter den Bewegungen des Menschen, hinter dem Erleben der Welt durch das Bewegen, das ja auch ein innerliches Erlebnis sein kann und es einmal war, hinter dem steht das Blutserlebnis. Denn in der kleinsten und in der größten Bewegung, die ich erlebe, indem ich sie selber ausführe, liegt ja das Blutserlebnis, das damit verknüpft ist. Nur sehen wir heute eben das Blut als dasjenige an, was sich uns darbietet, wenn wir in die Haut stechen und da der rote Saft herausfließt, oder wenn wir uns in ähnlicher Weise äußerlich von dem Dasein des Blutes überzeugen. Aber die Zeit, wo die Mathematik, die Mathesis noch angeschlossen war an die Mystik, wo das Bewegungserlebnis innerlich, wenn auch traumhaft, in Verbindung war mit dem Blutserlebnis, diese Zeit erlebte das Blut innerlich. Das heißt, der Mensch wurde etwas anderes, wenn er verfolgte, wie durch seine Lungenadern das Blut durchrollt, als wenn durch seine Kopfadern das Blut durchrollt. Und er verfolgte das Durchrollen des Blutes beim Aufheben des Knies, beim Aufheben des Fußes, und er durchfühlte sich, durchlebte sich innerlich in seinem Blut. Das Blut hat eine andere Schattierung, wenn ich den Fuß hoch aufhebe, als wenn ich ihn auf den Boden gesetzt habe. Das Blut hat eine andere Schattierung, wenn ich blöde dasitze und faul schlafe, als wenn ich Gedanken durch den Kopf schießen lasse. So kann der ganze Mensch innerlich Gestalt werden, in verschiedenen Nuancierungen Gestalt werden, wenn er das Blutserlebnis hinter dem Bewegungserlebnis hat. Stellen Sie sich lebendig das vor, was ich hier meine. Denken Sie sich, Sie gehen langsam, Schritt vor Schritt; Sie fangen an schneller zu gehen; Sie fangen an zu laufen; Sie fangen an sich zu drehen, in allerlei Weise zu tanzen, und denken Sie, Sie würden nicht mit dem heutigen abstrahierenden Bewußtsein, sondern mit innerlichem Erleben zuerst die ganz langsame Art haben, sich in den Raum hineinzustellen in allen drei Orientierungen; Sie würden das Schnellerwerden haben, Sie würden das Laufen haben, das Drehen, das Tanzen, aber Sie würden dabei immer haben das entsprechende Blutserlebnis. Zuerst jene innere Schattierung, die Sie natürlich nur immer empfindend erleben können, beim Langsamgehen. Beim Laufen, beim Drehen, beim Tanzen wäre es jeweils anders, so daß Sie, wenn Sie recht vom Inneren heraus Ihr Bewegungserlebnis hinzeichnen wollten, vielleicht folgendes hinzeichnen müßten (Zeichnung, weiße Linie). Aber jetzt würden Sie hinzeichnen für jede Lage, in der Sie während dieses Bewegungserlebens waren, ein innerliches Blutserlebnis (rot, blau, gelb).","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":534,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/326/1922-12-26/p016"}],"english":["GA 326/1922-12-26/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":534,"en_words":467,"ratio":0.87,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4571,"original_word_count":4559,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1985","book_title":"The Origins of Natural Science","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA326/English/AP1985/19221226p01.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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