{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 352/1924-01-23/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, as I told you last time, a person cannot be completely teetotal, because if he does not drink any alcohol at all, alcohol is produced in him. But this alcohol remains in the abdomen; it does not go up to the head, because the head must be free of alcohol, otherwise it is immediately unable, as the carrier of the ego, to fight the fermentation that is in the body in the right way. You see, now you can form an idea of the way in which man relates to his natural environment. If you look, for example, at the protein that is rotting everywhere – after all, animals and plants are rotting – you have to say: there is ether everywhere, which gradually balances this out. If you look at the fats, which are also in the plants and are everywhere, you have to say that these fats would gradually make all living things incapable of living, both animal and human, if it were not for a fighter against rancidity in the astral body. So, in fact, the human being fights that which is outside in nature. And when the human being dies, the etheric body, the astral body and the ego leave the physical body. The human being then passes over into the spiritual world. What happens then? Well, gentlemen, you know what happens. The corpse immediately begins to decompose, to go rancid and to ferment at the same time, except that the decomposition is of course more visible, or rather more noticeable, because people rarely walk around with their noses stuffed up. So the putrefaction is easily smelled. But somehow lying over a grave and tasting whether the fat of the corpse in question has gone rancid is not something one usually does, and that is why one usually knows nothing about it. And the fermentation that does take place is certainly not studied. So it is actually the case that when the ego departs, the human body begins to ferment; when the astral body departs, the human body begins to go rancid; and when the etheric body departs, the human body begins to rot. Man carries this within him continually, but while he lives on earth, he fights it continually. Anyone who denies that the etheric body, the astral body and the I are spiritual realities within the human being must be asked: what do you think actually happens, why does the human being not rot? Why does he not ferment? Why does he not turn rancid? He would have to do so if he were like the mere physical body!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. 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Wenn Sie zum Beispiel auf das überall faulende Eiweiß hinsehen — es verfaulen ja die Tiere, es verfaulen die Pflanzen -, so müssen Sie sagen: Überall ist auch Äther, der das nach und nach wiederum ausgleicht. Wenn Sie hinsehen auf die Fette, die ja auch in den Pflanzen sind, die überall sind, so müssen Sie sagen: Diese Fette würden nach und nach alles Lebendige unfähig machen zu leben, das Tierische und das Menschliche, wenn nicht im Astralleib ein Bekämpfer des Ranzigwerdens da wäre. Der Mensch bekämpft also eigentlich dasjenige, was draußen in der Natur ist. Und wenn der Mensch stirbt, da gehen von ihm der Ätherleib, der Astralleib und das Ich fort. Vom physischen Leib gehen sie fort. Der Mensch geht dann in die geistige Welt hinüber. Was geschieht dann? Nun, meine Herren, Sie wissen ja, was da geschieht. Der Leichnam geht dann sofort über in Faulwerden, zugleich in Ranzigwerden und zugleich in Gärung, nur daß eben das Faulwerden natürlich mehr gesehen wird, eigentlich mehr gerochen wird, weil man ja mit zugestopften Nasen sehr selten herumgeht. Also das Fauligwerden wird leicht gerochen. Aber sich irgendwie über ein Grab legen und kosten, ob das Fett des betreffenden Leichnams ranzig geworden ist, das tut man gewöhnlich nicht, und deshalb weiß man gewöhnlich nichts davon. Und die Gärung, die aber stattfindet, studiert man erst recht nicht. Also tatsächlich ist das der Fall, daß dadurch, daß das Ich fortgeht, der menschliche Leib in Gärung übergeht, dadurch, daß der Astralleib fortgeht, der menschliche Leib in das Ranzigwerden übergeht, und dadurch, daß der Ätherleib fortgeht, der menschliche Leib in Fäulnis übergeht. Das trägt der Mensch fortwährend in sich, aber während er auf der Erde lebt, bekämpft er es fortwährend. Derjenige, der da leugnet, daß im Menschen geistig der Ätherleib, der Astralleib und das Ich sind als wirkliche geistige Wesenheiten, der muß eben gefragt werden: Was stellst du dir denn eigentlich vor, warum fault denn der Mensch nicht? Warum gärt er denn nicht? Warum wird er denn nicht ranzig? Das müßte er nämlich werden, wenn er so wäre, wie der bloße physische Leib ist!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":441,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-01-23/p030"}],"english":["GA 352/1924-01-23/p030"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":441,"en_words":436,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6328,"original_word_count":6181,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"A Spiritual Scientific View of Nature and Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA352/English/SOL2024/19240123p02.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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