{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-04-18/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now you can see: there is something that works in humans that does not work in plants, for example. Because if you introduce a toxin to a plant, the toxin stays somewhere at the top and does not spread. For example, you can find a very poisonous plant in the so-called belladonna, in the deadly nightshade. Yes, the deadly nightshade leaves its poison at the very top; it does not allow it to spread throughout the plant. When a person takes such a poison, it takes hold of the body in such a way that it drives the red blood outwards and the blue blood inwards. Yes, the plants are alive too. Those plants have their etheric body within them, have within them what is left blue, what comes from the weak consumption of opium, not the strong. That is only caused by the sensation in humans. If the plant had blood, it would also have such a sensation, like humans and animals. Humans and animals have it without the use of opium, when the etheric body fights with the physical one; the blood is immediately pushed outwards, and something remains in the body, and that causes this disorder in the body. And that is the astral body. So that one can say: the astral body is influenced by heavy opium use.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. Why Don't We Remember Our Past Lives?","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-18","location":null,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/349/1923-04-18/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","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/SOL2024/19230418p02.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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Jene Pflanzen haben ihren Ätherleib in sich, haben das in sich, was blau gelassen wird, was herrührt vom schwachen Opiumgenuß, nicht vom starken. Das bewirkt erst die Empfindung beim Menschen. Hätte die Pflanze Blut, so hätte sie auch eine solche Empfindung, wie die Menschen und die Tiere. Der Mensch und die Tiere haben es ohne den Opiumgenuß, wenn der Ätherleib mit dem physischen streitet; es wird sogleich das Blut nach außen gedrängt, und es bleibt etwas zurück im Körper, und das macht im Körper diese Unordnung. Und das ist der Astralleib. So daß man sagen kann: Der Astralleib, der wird beeinflußt beim starken Opiumgenuß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":214,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/349/1923-04-18/p021"}],"english":["GA 349/1923-04-18/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":214,"en_words":222,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6917,"original_word_count":6912,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2024/19230418p02.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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