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One will see that this organization can have no effect on the *essential nature* of thinking. At first sight this *seems* to be contradicted by patently obvious facts. For ordinary experience, human thinking makes its appearance only in connection with, and by means of, this organization. This form of its appearance comes so much to the fore that its real significance cannot be grasped unless we recognize that in the essence of thinking this organization plays no part whatever. Once we appreciate this, we can no longer fail to notice what a peculiar kind of relationship there is between the human organization and the thinking itself. For this organization contributes nothing to the essential nature of thinking, but recedes whenever the activity of thinking makes its appearance; it suspends its own activity, it yields ground; and on the ground thus left empty, the thinking appears. The essence which is active in thinking has a twofold function: first, it represses the activity of the human organization; secondly, it steps into its place. For even the former, the repression of the physical organization, is a consequence of the activity of thinking, and more particularly of that part of this activity which prepares the *manifestation* of thinking. From this one can see in what sense thinking finds its counterpart in the physical organization. When we see this, we can no longer misjudge the significance of this counterpart of the activity of thinking. When we walk over soft ground, our feet leave impressions in the soil. We shall not be tempted to say that these footprints have been formed from below by the forces of the ground. We shall not attribute to these *forces* any share in the production of the footprints. Just as little, if we observe the essential nature of thinking without prejudice, shall we attribute any share in that nature to the traces in the physical organism which arise through the fact that the thinking prepares its manifestation by means of the body.[^1]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":371,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/4/l09/p004","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 4/l09/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/4/l09/p004"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 4/l09/p004"],"length_check":{"de_words":328,"en_words":371,"ratio":1.13,"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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The “I” is to be found within the thinking; the “ego-consciousness” arises through the traces which the activity of thinking engraves upon our general consciousness, in the sense explained above. (The ego-consciousness thus arises through the bodily organization. However, this must not be taken to imply that the ego-consciousness, once it has arisen, remains dependent on the bodily organization. Once arisen, it is taken up into thinking and shares henceforth in thinking's spiritual being.)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/4/l09/p005","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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Following the lines of the preceding argument, we can gain insight into the connections between thinking, conscious I, and act of will, only by observing first how an act of will issues from the human organization.[^2]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":53,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/4/l09/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. 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Dem Wesenhaften, das im Denken wirkt, obliegt ein Doppeltes: Erstens drängt es die menschliche Organisation in deren eigener Tätigkeit zurück, und zweitens setzt es sich selbst an deren Stelle. Denn auch das erste, die Zurückdrängung der Leibesorganisation, ist Folge der Denktätigkeit. Und zwar desjenigen Teiles derselben, der das *Erscheinen* des Denkens vorbereitet. Man ersieht aus diesem, in welchem Sinne das Denken in der Leibesorganisation sein Gegenbild findet. Und wenn man dieses ersieht, wird man nicht mehr die Bedeutung dieses Gegenbildes für das Denken selbst verkennen können. Wer über einen erweichten Boden geht, dessen Fußspuren graben sich in dem Boden ein. Man wird nicht versucht sein, zu sagen, die Fußspurenformen seien von Kräften des Bodens, von unten herauf, getrieben worden. Man wird diesen *Kräften* keinen Anteil an dem Zustandekommen der Spurenformen zuschreiben. 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