{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 351/1923-10-13/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You may ask why this bile is constantly coming from the liver. Gentlemen, if you had no gall, you would be strange people. It is distributed throughout the body in very small quantities, but it must be in the whole body. If you had no gall, you would be terribly phlegmatic; you would let your hands, arms, and head hang, and it would be unpleasant for you to answer someone's questions and so on. So you would be completely lethargic, phlegmatic people if you had no bile. Man must have bile; the bile must come from the liver. And if the liver is relatively small, then the person is phlegmatic; if the liver is relatively large, then the person has a lot of fire in him, because the bile produces fire. And you see, there can also be too much bile in a person; they can produce too much bile; then they actually feel like hitting out when someone says just a little something to them. In particular, people with a violent temper have a lot of bile flowing out of their liver; a lot of bile flows into the digestive juices and into the blood. So that if you observe inwardly the person to whom you say something or who does not like something that makes a particular impression on him – a lot of bile quickly flows out of the liver and spreads very quickly throughout the body, and he hits you a few times or rants like a trooper. That is what you observe inwardly when a person has too much tendency to secrete bile. But as I said, if he did not secrete any bile at all, he would have no fire at all, but would just flop around as I told you. So you see, the secretion of bile is something that is absolutely essential to a person. I don't know if any of you has tasted bile: it tastes terribly bitter, really poisonous, and a larger amount of bile properly absorbed by the mouth is also a poison. This is related to what I told you last Wednesday. I told you: when a person comes to life, moves, walks, even when he curses and slaps you around a bit, yes, there is so much poison that he has the tendency to produce a lot of the potassium cyanide I told you about. He has to mix that with his blood. I have seen many cases where people have simply developed internal blood poisoning from their anger. One can become so angry, especially when one becomes angry quickly, that one secretes an excessive amount of bile as a result of this anger - actually first a lot of cyan, then bile. Then one gets a terrible toxic mixture in the blood, and that ruins the blood. Wrath can cause terrible blood poisoning. From this you can see how necessary and how harmful something can be for a person, depending on what kind of organ it is in his body. Because everything that happens is connected with the soul again. Anger is something of the soul, the secretion of bile is something physical; but there is nothing in the human being that is not also of the soul and everything of the soul somehow has a physical form.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. 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Und wenn die Leber verhältnismäßig klein ist, so wird eben der Mensch phlegmatisch; wenn die Leber verhältnismäßig groß ist, so hat der Mensch viel Feuer in sich, denn die Galle macht Feuer. Und sehen Sie, es kann auch in einem Menschen zuviel Galle sein, er kann zuviel Galle erzeugen; dann hat er eigentlich die Lust, wenn man nur ein bißchen was zu ihm sagt, einem ein paar herunterzuhauen. Namentlich bei den jähzornigen Leuten fließt aus der Leber fleißig Galle heraus; da fließt viel Galle in den Nahrungssaft und in das Blut über. So daß, wenn Sie innerlich den Menschen beobachten, zu dem Sie etwas sagen oder dem irgend etwas nicht gefällt, das auf ihn einen besonderen Eindruck macht - flugs rinnt viel Galle aus der Leber heraus und verbreitet sich sehr schnell in dem ganzen Körper, und er haut Ihnen ein paar herunter, oder er schimpft wie ein Rohrspatz. Das ist es, was man innerlich beobachtet, wenn ein Mensch zuviel Neigung hat, Galle abzusondern. Aber wie gesagt, wenn er gar keine Galle absondern würde, würde er gar kein Feuer haben, sondern so daherschlapfen, wie ich es Ihnen gesagt habe. Also Sie sehen, die Gallenabsonderung ist ja etwas, was unbedingt zur Absonderung des Menschen gehört. Ich weiß nicht, ob schon irgend jemand von Ihnen die Galle gekostet hat: sie schmeckt furchtbar bitter, richtig giftig, und eine größere Menge von der Galle richtig durch den Mund aufgenommen, ist auch ein Gift. Das hängt zusammen mit dem, was ich Ihnen am letzten Mittwoch gesagt habe. Ich hatte Ihnen gesagt: Wenn der Mensch lebendig wird, sich bewegt, geht, auch wenn er schimpft und Ihnen ein paar herunterhaut, ja, da gibt es so viel Gift, daß er die Neigung hat, viel von dem Zyankali, von dem ich Ihnen da gesprochen habe, zu erzeugen. Das muß er mit dem Blut vermischen. Ich habe viele Fälle schon kennengelernt, wo Leute einfach durch ihren Zorn eine innere Blutvergiftung bekommen haben. Man kann so zornig werden, besonders wenn man schnell zornig wird, daß man durch diesen Zorn überflüssig viel Galle absondert - eigentlich zunächst viel Zyan, dann Galle. Dann kriegt man eine furchtbare Giftmischung ins Blut, und da ruiniert man dann das Blut. Es kommt eine furchtbare Blutvergiftung durch den Zorn. Daraus sehen Sie, wie notwendig und wie schädlich wiederum beim Menschen dasjenige sein kann, was irgendein Organ seines Leibes tut. Denn alles, was geschieht, hängt mit dem Seelischen wiederum zusammen. Der Zorn ist etwas Seelisches, die Gallenabsonderung ist etwas Physisches; aber es gibt nichts im Menschen, das nicht zugleich seelisch ist und alles Seelische hat irgendwie eine physische Form.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":530,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/351/1923-10-13/p010"}],"english":["GA 351/1923-10-13/p010"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":530,"en_words":552,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5895,"original_word_count":5840,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"How Spirit Works in Nature","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA351/English/SOL2024/19231013p01.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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