{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-04-04/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What is the connection in humans? When a child is thirsty, it does not behave like a machine. It does not just stop moving. On the contrary, a child starts screaming when it is thirsty. What is the connection between thirst and screaming? Screaming is not in the substance, but it is also not in the ether. The ether can form the structure; it can thus form that which is our form. But the ether does not cause us to scream. If the ether were to cause us to scream, there would be a terrible, perhaps not a roar, but a continuous hissing in the world. Because if we look, it is the ether that, together with our eye, causes us to see. The ether is constantly entering our eye. That is why we see. Yes, but when the ether enters our eye, it does not start in the eye: s-s-s-e-] —, no, that is not the etheric body of the human being; it does not lisp. Just imagine if, just because we are looking, there were a constant whispering in a room, that would be a nice story! So the etheric body does not scream or whisper. There is something else there. That is the astral body. And when a child is thirsty and cries out, there is a feeling of thirst in the astral body. And this crying out is what brings the child's feeling to our ears.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The Organization of the Human Being","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-04","location":null,"word_count":240,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/349/1923-04-04/p037","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","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/SOL2024/19230404p02.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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Wenn das Kind Durst hat, verhält es sich nicht wie die Maschine. Es bleibt nicht bloß stehen. Im Gegenteil, das Kind fängt gewaltig an zu brüllen, wenn es Durst hat. Welcher Zusammenhang ist denn zwischen dem Dursthaben und dem Schreien? Das Schreien sitzt nicht im Stoff, das sitzt aber auch nicht im Äther. Der Äther kann den Aufbau bilden; er kann also dasjenige, was unsere Gestalt ist, bilden. Aber der Äther veranlaßt uns nicht zum Schreien. Wenn uns der Äther zum Schreien veranlassen würde, da gäbe es ein furchtbares, vielleicht nicht ein Brüllen, aber ein fortwährendes Gezische in der Welt. Denn wenn wir gucken, da ist es der Äther, der mit unserem Auge zusammen bewirkt, daß wir sehen. Der Äther geht fortwährend in unser Auge hinein. Deshalb sehen wir. Ja, aber wenn der Äther in unser Auge hineingeht, da fängt es nicht an im Auge: s-s-s-e-] —, nicht wahr, das ist nicht der Ätherleib des Menschen; der lispelt nicht. Denken Sie sich einmal, wenn dadurch schon, daß wir gucken, in einem Saal ein fortwährendes Gewisper wäre, das wäre eine schöne Geschichte! Also der Ätherleib schreit nicht, wispert nicht. Da ist noch etwas anderes da. Das ist der Astralleib. Und wenn das Kind Durst hat und schreit, so ist es ein Gefühl des Durstes im Astralleib. 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