{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 352/1924-01-23/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now one can say: proteins, when not processed by the body, and specifically when not processed in the abdomen, have a tendency to rot. If we have proteins in us that cannot be properly processed, we really do have something like rotten eggs in our intestines. Isn't that right, gentlemen? You are well aware of the smell of rotten eggs, and the thing is that if a person takes too much protein, he sweats this rotten-egg smell out internally into his body. He permeates himself completely with this rotten egg stench. Yes, if you leave eggs standing, then they will become rotten eggs, then they will stink like rotten eggs. And the part that the body has not processed will of course also stink in the body; but the other part, which is processed, will not stink, but will be transformed into something pure in the body. But that is the work of the etheric body. The etheric body is there to overcome and eliminate that which arises as a putrid stench. It is the case in the human body that the etheric body is the fighter and the victor over putrefaction. Putrefaction is conquered in the human being through the etheric body. If a person no longer has their etheric body after death, then they begin to rot. So I would like to say quite tangibly here: a person does not rot while they are alive; as soon as they are no longer alive, they rot. Why is that? Because the etheric body is gone when a person is dead! The etheric body is therefore the part of the human being that prevents rotting. So we are constantly fighting putrefaction within us, and the one who fights putrefaction is our etheric body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. 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Und der Teil, den der Körper nicht verarbeitet hat, der wird natürlich auch im Körper stinken; aber der andere Teil, der verarbeitet wird, der wird nicht stinken, sondern der geht in den Körper reinlich über. Das ist aber die Arbeit des Ätherleibes. Der Ätherleib ist dazu da, um dasjenige, was entsteht als fauliger Gestank, zu überwinden und zu beseitigen. Das ist im menschlichen Körper so, daß der Ätherleib der Kämpfer und der Sieger über das Fauligwerden ist. Das Verfaulen wird im Menschen besiegt durch den Ätherleib. Wenn der Mensch nach dem Tode nicht mehr seinen Ätherleib hat, dann fängt er ja an zu faulen. Sie können also da, ich möchte sagen, ganz handgreiflich finden: Der Mensch fault nicht, solange er lebt; sobald er nicht mehr lebt, fault er. Woher kommt das? Weil der Ätherleib fort ist, wenn der Mensch tot ist! Der Ätherleib ist also derjenige Teil im Menschen, der das Faulen verhindert. 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