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A certain activity is driven to the surface, diverted from the internal organs. But if the person is not a cockroach, not an albino, then the same things, the outer appearance of the eye, are present in the iris; but the finer structure, the finer arrangement then points to the inside. 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This already indicates, because leukocytes, for example, are certain bodies in the blood, that the blood of such people is different. We do not know the cause. But if the blood becomes paler on the surface, then the general pallor does not occur, but the skin becomes paler on the surface. That is the difference between the disease of anemia, where the blood simply becomes paler on the inside, and leukopathy or albinism, where the blood is pushed more to the surface. So it is the case that in the case of people with anemia, an activity in the interior is not in order. The ego is more active on the surface, the astral body more in the interior. Therefore, all the bodies with which one sees and hears are more pushed to the surface. You need them for the ego. You need your liver in the inner being. And if you felt everything as strongly as your liver does, then you would constantly observe only your inner being and say: Aha, now I have just received a little cabbage soup in my stomach, the stomach walls are beginning to absorb it. It is like a radiance, very interesting. Now it goes through the pylorus into the small intestine; now it goes into the villi that are on the intestinal walls. You would observe all this, and all this, that would be very interesting; but you would not have time to observe the outside world! It is very interesting and there is plenty to observe and in some things much more beautiful than the outside world, but the human being is just quite distracted by it. So in general, what is inside does not come to consciousness; what lies on the surface comes to consciousness. So if someone does not process the iron properly in his inner being, where the astral person is more active, he will become an anemic person. 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Anemia comes from an irregular processing of iron by your astral body and has more of an effect on the inside of the blood. Thus, if one only understands the human being correctly in what is going on inside him, one can also see which supersensible part of the human being is actually involved. He who properly understands the physical human being also understands the superphysical, the supersensible human being. But with materialism it is just the opposite: he does not understand the supersensible human being at all, and therefore he does not understand the physical human being either.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/352/1924-02-02/p031","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-02-02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 352/1924-02-02/p031","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-02-02/p031"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":114,"en_words":124,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Da wird eine gewisse Tätigkeit an die Oberfläche getrieben, abgelenkt von den inneren Organen. Wenn aber der Mensch kein Kakerlak ist, kein Albino, dann sind dieselben Dinge, das äußere Aussehen des Auges, in der Regenbogenhaut vorhanden; aber die feinere Struktur, die feinere Gliederung weist dann auf das Innere hin. Der Albino ist nicht dadurch ein ganz kranker Mensch, daß er Albino ist, sondern er ist nur mit einer Krankheitsanlage behaftet dadurch, daß er eben schon von Jugend auf das hat und sich nachher die körperliche Einrichtung daran gewöhnt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-02-02/p029"},{"locus":"GA 352/1924-02-02/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Sehen Sie, es ist gar nicht gut, den Albino auch Leukopath zu nennen. Dadurch wird schon hingewiesen darauf, weil Leukozyten zum Beispiel gewisse Körper im Blute sind, daß das Blut solcher Menschen anders beschaffen ist. Man kennt die Ursache nicht. Wenn aber das Blut an der Oberfläche bleicher wird, so tritt nicht die allgemeine Bleichsucht ein, sondern es tritt an der Oberfläche das Bleicherwerden der Haut ein. Das ist der Unterschied zwischen der Krankheit der Bleichsucht, wo einfach das Blut im Innern bleicher wird, und der Leukopathie oder dem Albinismus, bei dem das Blut mehr an die Oberfläche gedrängt wird. Das ist also so, daß bei Bleichsüchtigen eine Tätigkeit im Innern nicht in Ordnung ist. Das Ich ist mehr an der Oberfläche tätig, der Astralleib mehr im Innern. Daher sind alle Körper, mit denen man sieht und hört, mehr an die Oberfläche gedrängt. Die braucht man zum Ich. Die Leber brauchen Sie im Innern. Und wenn Sie alles so stark fühlen würden, wie das Ihre Leber tut, dann würden Sie fortwährend nur Ihr Inneres beobachten und sagen: Aha, jetzt habe ich eben in meinen Magen hinein ein bißchen Kohlsuppe gekriegt, die Magenwände fangen an, das aufzusaugen. Das ist so wie ein Ausstrahlen, sehr interessant. Jetzt geht das durch den Magenpförtner in den Dünndarm hinein; jetzt geht es da in die Zotten, die an den Darmwänden sind. Sie würden das alles beobachten, und das alles, das wäre sehr interessant; aber Sie hätten gar keine Zeit, die Außenwelt zu beobachten! Es ist sehr interessant und reichlich zu beobachten und in manchen Dingen viel schöner als die Außenwelt, aber der Mensch ist eben recht davon abgelenkt. Also im allgemeinen kommt das da drinnen nicht zum Bewußtsein; das, was an der Oberfläche liegt, kommt zum Bewußtsein. Wenn also jemand das Eisen nicht recht verarbeitet in seinem Innern, wo gerade der astralische Mensch mehr tätig ist, wird er bleichsüchtig. Wenn er das Eisen außen nicht richtig verarbeitet, sondern auflöst, wie ich es Ihnen beschrieben habe, dann wird er ein Albino - das ist sehr selten -, bekommt er Leukopathie.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":344,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-02-02/p030"},{"locus":"GA 352/1924-02-02/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Sie sehen also, dasjenige, was ich da von Ihnen gefragt worden bin, hängt damit zusammen: Der Albinismus kommt von einer unregelmäßigen Schwefel- oder Eisenverarbeitung durch das Ich. Die Bleichsucht kommt von einer unregelmäßigen Eisenverarbeitung durch Ihren astralischen Leib und schlägt sich mehr nach dem Innern des Blutes. So kann man, wenn man den Menschen nur richtig versteht in dem, was da vorgeht in seinem Innern, auch hinschauen darauf, welcher übersinnliche Teil des Menschen eigentlich dabei beschäftigt ist. Wer den physischen Menschen ordentlich versteht, versteht auch den überphysischen, den übersinnlichen Menschen. Aber beim Materialismus ist gerade das der Fall: Er versteht den übersinnlichen Menschen gar nicht, und er versteht daher auch nicht den physischen Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-02-02/p031"}],"beads":[{"from":[29],"to":[29],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[30],"to":[30],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[31],"to":[31],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}