{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-03-21/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is already the case with plants. In plants, you have the earth and in the earth the plant germ. Now, people are not properly studying what happens to the plant germ in the earth. It must first be destroyed, and then the new spring causes the new plant to arise from the destroyed material from outside in a spiritual way. This is how it is with animals, and especially with humans. It is only that it is easier for the plant. The whole universe forms its shape. In the case of the human being, the whole universe does not initially form his shape. He must actually form it himself. The human being must actually enter into this destroyed matter, otherwise no human being could arise from this destroyed matter. The human being must therefore first come from the spiritual world and enter into this destroyed matter. The whole process of fertilization is only there to ensure that the human being, who wants to enter the world, is confronted with a destroyed substance, that he has a destroyed substance. He could not do anything with an undestroyed substance. He cannot enter the world like a plant, because then he could only become a plant. He must really form the whole universe within himself. And he does form it. It is truly wonderful how man forms the universe within this destroyed substance.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Human Existence in Sleep and Death","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-03-21","location":null,"word_count":231,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/349/1923-03-21/p035","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/English/SOL2024/19230321p02.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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Bei den Pflanzen haben Sie die Erde und in der Erde den Pflanzenkeim. Jetzt studieren schon wiederum die Menschen nicht ordentlich, wie es mit dem Pflanzenkeim in der Erde zugeht. Der muß nämlich zunächst zerstört werden, und dann bewirkt der neue Frühling, daß von außen hinein auf geistige Weise aus dem zerstörten Stoff die neue Pflanze entsteht. So ist es beim Tier, und so ist es namentlich beim Menschen. Nur ist es bei der Pflanze so, daß sie es leichter hat. Das ganze Weltenall bildet ihre Gestalt. Beim Menschen bildet das ganze Weltenall zunächst nicht seine Gestalt. Er muß sie sich nämlich selber bilden. Der Mensch muß tatsächlich selber in diesen zerstörten Stoff hinein, sonst würde kein Mensch entstehen können aus diesem zerstörten Stoff. Der Mensch muß also erst aus der geistigen Welt heraus und in diesen zerstörten Stoff hinein. Die ganze Befruchtung ist nur dazu da, daß man dem Menschen, der herein will in die Welt, einen zerstörten Stoff gegenüberstellt, daß er einen zerstörten Stoff hat. Mit einem nicht zerstörten Stoffe könnte er nichts anfangen. Er kann nicht so wie die Pflanze hereinkommen in die Welt, denn da könnte er eben nur Pflanze werden. Er muß wirklich das ganze Weltenall in sich bilden. Und er bildet es auch. 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