{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 352/1924-02-20/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, when the etheric body loosens, the person becomes stronger. That a person becomes stronger when his etheric body loosens, you can also see from something else. There is a kind of madman who develops tremendous strength, quite extraordinary strength. You might often be amazed at what such a madman can achieve in terms of strength. Not only are the beatings he gives out much more severe than those of others, but furniture that no one would think of lifting can sometimes be lifted with ease by a madman. So you see, something strange happens that distinguishes such a person from a normal person. What happens in the case of the insane person? Well, in the case of the insane person, the etheric body is always somewhat loose, or the astral body is loosened. Now, the human being is not exactly strong through the physical body, but weak. He must serve the physical body through the etheric or astral body. It is quite correct to say in the vernacular: “Something is loose in him” - something is loosened. The people sometimes speak very correctly because an instinct for the supersensible is present in the people, and in such old folk sayings one should not see something contemptible, but something that is absolutely true. When the etheric or astral body of a madman has become loosened and thus strong, then, as a madman, he is in the same position as someone whose etheric body has already become loosened because he is dying in a few days. And when he becomes stronger in the etheric body, he can write better again. When he becomes stronger in the astral body – because everything that one has forgotten is in there – then he draws out of the astral body what he has forgotten and can again speak the language he used to speak.","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":310,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/352/1924-02-20/p014","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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Also Sie sehen, da tritt etwas Merkwürdiges ein, was einen solchen Menschen von einem normalen Menschen unterscheidet. Was tritt beim Verrückten ein? Nun, beim Verrückten ist der Ätherleib immer etwas locker, oder der Astralleib ist gelockert. Nun ist der Mensch durch den physischen Leib nicht gerade stark, sondern schwach. Er muß den physischen Leib bedienen durch den Äther- oder Astralleib. Man sagt ganz richtig im Volksmund: «Es ist eine Schraube bei ihm los» - es ist etwas gelockert. Das Volk spricht zuweilen sehr richtig, weil ein Instinkt des Übersinnlichen beim Volke vorhanden ist, und in solchen alten Volksaussprüchen sollte man nicht etwas Verächtliches sehen, sondern etwas, was durchaus stimmt. Wenn nun der Verrückte seinen Äther- oder Astralleib gelockert hat und dadurch stark wird, so ist er eben als Verrückter in derselben Lage, in der einer ist, dessen Ätherleib sich schon gelockert hat, weil er in ein paar Tagen stirbt. 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