{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-03-21/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You see, such a substance, which is completely disordered, is not found anywhere else in the world. All substances are in some way internally ordered, arranged. If you take the most arbitrary substance, if you just take a grain of dust and look at it through the microscope, you will see how finely and artfully it is constructed inside. The only thing that is completely chaotic inside is the fertilized egg. And the substance must first become completely chaotic; it must no longer be anything in itself if a human being is to develop from it. People are always thinking about the egg white, for example. They always want to study how the egg white is formed internally. Yes, the egg white is internally configured as long as it is not fertilized. When it is fertilized, it is just what I have called a “mess”, that is, a chaos, an absolutely disordered substance. And out of this comes the human being. Even in the Primordial Mother Eve, if she existed at all, the whole human race was not present, nor somehow in an egg germ that was later fertilized, but the egg germ is completely chaotic, disorderly, and was also disorderly in the Primordial Mother Eve. And if a human being is to arise out of this egg germ, then this must be brought about from outside, that is, the human being must enter into this egg germ. A proper scientific study shows, in turn, that the human being must enter this egg germ from the outside. That is to say, the human being comes from the spiritual world. He does not come from the material. The material must first be destroyed.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. 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Ja, das Eiweiß ist so lange innerlich gestaltet, als es nicht befruchtet ist. Wenn es befruchtet ist, ist es eben das, was ich einen «Knatsch» genannt habe, das heißt ein Chaos, ein ganz absolut ungeordneter Stoff. Und daraus entsteht der Mensch. Schon bei der Urmutter Eva, wenn sie überhaupt vorhanden war, war nicht das ganze Menschengeschlecht vorhanden, noch irgendwie in einem später befruchteten Eikeim, sondern der Eikeim ist ganz chaotisch, ungeordnet, und war bei der Urmutter Eva auch ungeordnet. Und wenn ein Mensch aus diesem Eikeim entstehen soll, dann muß das von außen bewirkt werden, das heißt, der Mensch muß in diesen Eikeim hineinfahren. Gerade ein richtiges naturwissenschaftliches Studium zeigt wiederum, daß der Mensch von außen in diesen Eikeim hineinfahren muß. Das heißt, der Mensch kommt aus der geistigen Welt. Er kommt nicht vom Stoff. 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