{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 352/1924-02-20/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There is a complete separation of the individual members of the human being. And anyone who has an eye for it can observe in someone whose death is near how the various members, physical body, etheric body, astral body, separate from one another. Now, what does it mean when someone changes his writing a few days before his death? Yes, gentlemen, we do not write with our physical body! What do we actually write with? We write with the I! We use the physical body only as a tool of the I when we write. And our I does not grow old! With your I, you are as young today as you were when you were born. The I does not grow old. The astral body does not age to the same extent as the physical body. But it is the physical body that one has to use as a tool if one wants to write, so the physical body has to grasp the pen with its hand. Now, as a person grows older, he becomes weaker and weaker and can no longer properly access his physical body. But not only that, but all kinds of things are deposited in the physical body itself. And the result of this is that the person can no longer use his fingers properly. He becomes clumsy, trembles, instead of making firm strokes when he writes. When a person is close to death, the etheric body begins to separate from the physical body. There is a loosening. Sometimes this can happen a few days before death; sometimes it happens at the last moment. It cannot be said that one should no longer try to heal a person whom one has observed for days before his death, that he could also die; on the other hand, what has become loose can be joined together again. One must always, as long as a person is alive, try to heal him under all circumstances. But the fact is that in many people the etheric body loosens for days before death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. The Connection Between the Higher Aspects of the Human Constitution and the Physical Body — The Effects of Opium and Alcohol","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-02-20","location":null,"word_count":343,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/352/1924-02-20/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/SOL2024/19240220p02.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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Der astralische Leib wird auch nicht in demselben Maße alt wie der physische Leib. Aber der physische Leib ist es, dessen man sich bedienen muß als Werkzeug, wenn man schreiben will, Also der physische Leib, der muß mit seiner Hand die Feder ergreifen. Nun wird der Mensch, indem er alt wird, immer schwächer und schwächer, und er kann nicht mehr recht an seinen physischen Leib heran. Aber nicht nur das, sondern im physischen Leib selber lagert sich allerlei ab. Und die Folge davon ist, daß der Mensch seine Finger nicht mehr recht gebrauchen kann. Er wird ungeschickt, zittert, statt daß er feste Striche macht, wenn er schreibt. Ist nun der Mensch dem Tode nahe, dann lockert sich schon der Ätherleib vom physischen Leib heraus. Da geschieht eine Lockerung. Das kann zuweilen ein paar Tage vor dem Tode geschehen; manchmal geschieht es im letzten Augenblick. Man darf nicht sagen, daß man etwa einen Menschen, dem man tagelang vor seinem Tode ansieht, er könnte auch sterben, nicht mehr versuchen sollte zu heilen; es kann wiederum das, was sich gelockert hat, zusammengefügt werden. Man muß immer, solange ein Mensch lebt, unter allen Umständen versuchen, ihn zu heilen. 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