{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 46/46-03-43/p045","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"During the development of the moon, the human being again passes through all states of form seven times, in order to allow the soul to mature to a higher level in each of them. During the seventh stage, the soul has the ability to give its images the most perfect form; it can experience everything that is going on around it on the world body, so that its world of images is an expression of the whole moon world. At the same time, it has the heightened state of consciousness of the next stage as a previous experience; it begins to see fixed forms within its world of images. This makes it ripe to also affect the etheric body in such a way that it forms organs within itself that have something lasting. - And with that, the transition can be made to the first earthly cycle. Within it, the physical body takes up the fixed forms of images; these become its organs. Thus a fourth link begins to develop in the human being. Between the image body and the soul, the perceptions of external objects are inserted. In a certain sense, the body has now outgrown the soul; it has become independent. What occurred in it before were the results of the images that the soul has appropriated from the outside world. Now the outside world directly causes perceptions in it. And the inner life of the soul proceeds as a co-experiencing of these perceptions. The expression of this inner life of the soul is self-consciousness. But self-consciousness matures only gradually. First, the human being must go through a cycle of forms in which only a dull material life is felt in his organs; in a second cycle, the influence of matter causes an inner movement; the etheric body thereby experiences the outer world and transforms the organs into living tools of the physical organism. In a third cycle, the body of images also becomes capable of reproducing the external world. It now stimulates the organs in such a way that they themselves produce images that live within them, but are not yet copies of external things. Only in the fourth cycle does the soul itself become capable of permeating the bodily organs; in doing so, it detaches the images from these bodily organs and covers external things with them. Thus an external world stands before it, with which it enters into opposition as an inner, independent being. But now it is also the case that from time to time the bodily organs it uses become exhausted. Then the possibility of being in contact with the outer world ceases. Sleep sets in, during which the soul again acts on the physical body in a balancing way through the image and etheric bodies. Thus, for esoteric science, sleep appears as a vestige of earlier stages of development. In the present day, human beings have gone a little way beyond the middle of the fourth Earth cycle. This is expressed in the fact that they not only perceive external objects in their clear day-time consciousness, but also the laws on which they are based. The soul has begun to experience the inner transformation of things.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"43. Consciousness – Life – Form","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":534,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/46/46-03-43/p045","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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Dadurch wird sie reif, auch auf den Ätherleib so zu wirken, dass dieser Organe in sich ausbildet, die etwas Bleibendes haben. - Und damit kann der Übergang gemacht werden zum ersten Erdenkreislauf. Innerhalb desselben nimmt der physische Leib die festen Bilderformen in sich auf; diese werden seine Organe. Damit beginnt sich ein viertes Glied am Menschen zu entwickeln. Zwischen den Bilderleib und die Seele schieben sich die Wahrnehmungen äußerer Gegenstände ein. Der Leib ist jetzt in einer gewissen Weise der Seele entwachsen; er ist selbstständig geworden. Was vorher in ihm auftrat, waren die Ergebnisse jener Bilder, welche die Seele aus der Außenwelt sich angeeignet hat. Jetzt bewirkt die Außenwelt in ihm unmittelbar die Wahrnehmungen. Und das Innenleben der Seele verläuft als ein Miterleben dieser Wahrnehmungen. Der Ausdruck dieser Eigentätigkeit des Leibes ist das Selbstbewusstsein. Doch nur allmählich reift das Selbstbewusstsein heran. Erst muss der Mensch einen Kreislauf der Formen durchmachen, in dem in seinen Organen nur dumpfes Stoffleben verspürt wird; in einem zweiten Kreislauf bewirkt der Stoffeinfluss eine innere Bewegung; der Ätherleib erlebt dadurch die Außenwelt mit und gestaltet die Organe zu lebendigen Werkzeugen des physischen Organismus um. In einem dritten Kreislaufe wird auch der Bilderleib fähig, die Außenwelt nachzubilden. Er erregt nun die Organe so, dass sie selbst Bilder hervorbringen, die in ihnen leben, aber noch nicht Abbilder äußerer Dinge sind. Erst im vierten Kreislaufe wird die Seele selbst fähig, die Leibesorgane zu durchsetzen; damit löst sie die Bilder von diesen Leibesorganen los und überzieht mit ihnen die äußeren Dinge. Damit steht eine Außenwelt vor ihr, zu der sie als ein inneres selbstständiges Wesen in Gegensatz tritt. - Jetzt ist es aber auch, wo von Zeit zu Zeit die Leibesorgane, deren sie sich bedient, in Erschöpfung verfallen. Dann hört die Möglichkeit auf, mit der Außenwelt in Verbindung zu sein. Der Schlaf tritt ein, in dem die Seele wieder auf ihre frühere Art durch Bilder- und Ätherleib auf den physischen Körper ausgleichend einwirkt. So erscheint der Schlaf für die Geheimwissenschaft als ein zurückgebliebener Rest früherer Entwicklungsstufen. In der Gegenwart hat der Mensch die Mitte des vierten Erdenkreislaufes um ein Stück überschritten. Dies drückt sich darinnen aus, dass er nicht bloß im hellen Tagesbewusstsein die äußeren Gegenstände wahrnimmt, sondern darüber hinaus die ihnen zugrunde liegenden Gesetze. Die Seele hat mit ihrem Erleben des inneren Umgestaltens der Dinge begonnen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":469,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/46/46-03-43/p045"}],"english":["GA 46/46-03-43/p045"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":469,"en_words":534,"ratio":1.14,"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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