{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 46/46-03-43/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When the development of Saturn began, the human body was in a state of formlessness. It first had to develop the creative ability before a soul could experience its first material life in it. This means that the body first had to develop through the seven stages of creative activity before its soul could live through it. This soul must now come so far that it can communicate its inner movement to each of the seven forms of the body. The first time the body passes through its seven forms, it is still quite lifeless. It only comes to life at the seventh stage, when the body becomes creative. And it must now awaken, because the body expends substance in its creative activity. These must be replaced by the soul. And now a second cycle begins. The substance that flows into the body as a replacement passes through the seven stages from formlessness to creative ability. When it has reached this point, the soul no longer limits itself to the experiences that the movement of the incoming substance brings about, but instead begins a new stage of life. The incoming substance, having itself become creative, begins to fill the body internally. Before, it only made up for what was lost; now it is deposited in the body. And again it passes through all forms from formlessness to creative ability. First it is deposited in the body without taking on form, then it gradually takes on forms, develops powers, fashions structures, gives them a physiognomic expression, etc. During this entire cycle, the soul undergoes its third stage of life. It harmonizes this inner structure and balances what has been disturbed by the inner processes. When the material has been shaped internally, it then proceeds to a fourth stage, in which it allows the outside world to have an effect on it. It can do this because the soul that inhabits it has now matured to experience the impressions of its surroundings in a dull way and thus to repeatedly restore order to the disorders caused by the outside world. In the next cycle, the body no longer stops at organizing itself; it transforms itself under the influence of the outside world. The soul has matured to regulate this transformation. Then a cycle begins for the body in which it perceives the effects of the outside world as sensations. The soul again forms the regulator of this level of existence. Finally, the body has reached its last stage: it can experience the outside world. The soul is now so far that it experiences a next stage, namely the next level of consciousness in a higher world for the Saturn existence. It thus undergoes the dreamless state of sleep during this last Saturn cycle. And it now transfers this to the physical body during the first solar cycle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"43. Consciousness – Life – Form","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":475,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/46/46-03-43/p041","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":null,"publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA046/English/SOL2024/46-03-43.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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Er musste sich erst bis zur schöpferischen Fähigkeit hindurchringen, bevor eine Seele in ihm ihr erstes Stofferleben erfahren konnte. Das heißt, dass sich der Leib erst durch die sieben Stufen der Schöpfertätigkeit hindurchentwickeln musste, dann konnte seine Seele ihn durchleben. Diese Seele muss nun wieder so weit kommen, dass sie jeder der sieben Formen des Leibes ihre innere Bewegung mitteilen kann. Das erste Mal, wenn der Leib durch seine sieben Formen hindurchgeht, ist sie selbst noch ganz leblos. Erst auf der siebenten Stufe, wenn der Leib schöpferisch wird, erwacht ihr Leben. Und es muss jetzt erwachen, denn der Leib gibt Stoff aus in seinem Schaffen. Diesen muss ihm die Seele ersetzen. Und nun beginnt ein zweiter Kreislauf. Der Stoff, der als Ersatz einströmt in den Leib, macht selbst die sieben Stufen von der Formlosigkeit bis zur schöpferischen Fähigkeit durch. Ist er da angelangt, so beschränkt sich die Seele nicht mehr auf die Erlebnisse, welche ihr die Bewegung des einströmenden Stoffes bewirkt, sondern sie beginnt eine neue Lebensstufe. Dadurch, dass der einströmende Stoff selbst schöpferisch geworden ist, beginnt er den Leib innerlich zu füllen. Vorher hat er immer nur Ersatz für den Abgang geleistet; jetzt lagert er sich dem Leibe ein. Und wieder macht er da alle Formen von der Formlosigkeit bis zur schöpferischen Fähigkeit durch. Erst lagert er sich formlos im Leibe ab, dann geht er allmählich über zu Formen, entwickelt Kräfte, gestaltet Gebilde aus, gibt ihnen einen physiognomischen Ausdruck usw. Während dieses ganzen Kreislaufes macht die Seele ihre dritte Lebensstufe durch. Sie harmonisiert diese innere Gliederung und gleicht das durch die inneren Vorgänge in Unordnung Gekommene aus. - Ist so der Stoff im Innern gestaltend gewesen, so geht er auf einer vierten Stufe dazu über, die Außenwelt auf sich wirken zu lassen. Er kann dieses, denn die ihn bewohnende Seele ist nunmehr reif geworden, die Eindrücke der Umgebung dumpf zu erleben und so die durch die Außenwelt bewirkten Unordnungen immer wieder in Ordnung zu bringen. Im nächsten Kreislauf bleibt der Leib nicht mehr dabei stehen, sich selbst zu gliedern; er gestaltet sich unter dem Einflusse der Außenwelt um. Die Seele ist dazu reif geworden, diese Umgestaltung zu regeln. Dann beginnt für den Leib ein Kreislauf, in dem er die Wirkungen der Außenwelt als Empfindungen wahrnimmt. Die Seele bildet wieder den Regulator dieser Daseinsstufe. Endlich ist der Leib auf seiner letzten Stufe angelangt: er kann die Außenwelt miterleben. Die Seele ist jetzt so weit, dass sie eine nächste Stufe vorerlebt, nämlich die nächste Bewusstseinsstufe in einer für das Saturndasein höheren Welt. Sie macht dadurch während dieses letzten Saturnkreislaufes den traumlosen Schlafzustand durch. Und diesen überträgt sie nun beim ersten Sonnenkreislauf auf den physischen Leib.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":456,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/46/46-03-43/p041"}],"english":["GA 46/46-03-43/p041"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":456,"en_words":475,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.09,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":15368,"original_word_count":14043,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":null,"publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA046/English/SOL2024/46-03-43.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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