{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 46/46-03-43/p055","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A transformation has taken place with the Saturn planetary spirit. It has multiplied. Seven have come out of One. Just as the seed is one and in the ear that forms out of it there are many, all of the same nature as the one, so out of the One Saturn Planetary Spirit, in the transition to the sun stage, seven shoots germinate. And his life now becomes different. He acquires the ability to perceive a sphere that stands one stage lower than he does. This is possible because a number of human bodies, having remained behind in their development, have stopped at the Saturn level. They are thus unable to receive the radiant life of the Sun. They form dark spots within the radiant Sun planet. They perceive the seven Sun Spirits, who have emerged from the Saturn Planetary Spirit, as a kingdom of nature standing above them. And so these seven entities live on the surface of the sun. Among them they perceive a realm whose beings have bodies that are one level lower than the bodies of the human beings on the sun. These bodies themselves, however, give them the nourishment they need in the light they radiate. While the Saturn bodies were only the reflectors of the Saturn spirit, the sun bodies take on the same position in relation to the sun spirits that the sun currently occupies with its light in relation to the beings of the plant kingdom. In terms of bodily organization, the human being during the development of the sun is on the same level as a plant being. It would not be correct to say that he himself passed through the plant kingdom at that time. For a plant kingdom, as it is today, can only develop under the unique conditions of the earth. If one wants to use a comparison in this regard, one would have to imagine the human body of the sun as a plant being that turns towards its own planet organs similar to those that a plant currently develops as a flower. And just as the present plant receives its light from an external sun, so the human sun plant received its light from its own planet, which was, after all, a sun. What the plant sinks into the earth as its root was turned towards the incoming sounds and odours in the solar body; it absorbed them and processed them within itself. One could call the present plant a human body that has remained at the stage of the sun and has turned completely around. It therefore stretches the organs of growth and reproduction, which the human being has covered and turned downwards, chaste towards the sun upwards.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"43. 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Wie das Samenkorn Eines ist und in der Ähre, die aus ihm sich bildet, viele stehen, die gleichen Wesens sind mit jenem Einen, so keimen aus dem Einen Saturn-Planetengeist Sieben Sprossen hervor beim Übergang zur Sonnenstufe. Und sein Leben wird jetzt ein anderes. Er erlangt die Fähigkeit, Wahrnehmungen von einem Gebiete, das um eine Stufe tiefer steht als er, zu erlangen. Dies wird dadurch möglich, dass eine Anzahl von Menschenleibern in ihrer Entwicklung zurückgeblieben, auf der Saturnstufe stehen geblieben sind. Sie sind dadurch unfähig, das leuchtende Leben der Sonne zu empfangen. Sie bilden dunkle Stellen innerhalb des strahlenden Sonnenplaneten. Sie nehmen die aus dem Saturn-Planetengeist entstandenen sieben Sonnengeister als ein [über] ihnen stehendes Naturreich wahr. So leben auf der Sonnenoberfläche diese sieben Wesenheiten; unter ihnen schauen sie ein Reich, dessen Wesen Leiber haben, um eine Stufe tiefer stehend als die Sonnen-Menschenleiber. Diese Leiber selbst aber geben ihnen in dem von ihnen ausstrahlenden Licht die Nahrung, welche sie brauchen. Während die Saturnleiber dem Saturngeist nur die Rückstrahler seiner Wesenheit waren, nehmen die Sonnenleiber den Sonnengeistern gegenüber die Stelle ein, welche gegenwärtig die Sonne mit ihrem Lichte den Wesen des Pflanzenreiches gegenüber einnimmt. In Bezug auf die Leibesorganisation steht der Mensch während der Sonnenentwicklung auf der Stufe eines Pflanzenwesens. Es wäre nicht richtig zu sagen, er sei damals selbst durch das Pflanzenreich hindurchgegangen. Denn ein Pflanzenreich, wie es heute ist, kann sich nur unter den eigenartigen Verhältnissen der Erde entwickeln. Will man einen Vergleich diesbezüglich gebrauchen, so müsste man sich den Sonnen-Menschenleib als ein Pflanzenwesen vorstellen, das ähnliche Organe, wie gegenwärtig die Pflanze als Blüte entwickelt, dem eigenen Planeten zuwendet. Und wie die gegenwärtige Pflanze ihr Licht von einer äußeren Sonne erhält, so erhielt die Menschensonnenpflanze das ihre von dem eigenen Planeten, der ja Sonne war. Das, was heute die Pflanze als Wurzel in die Erde senkt, war am Sonnenleibe den einströmenden Tönen und Gerüchen zugewendet; er nahm sie auf und verarbeitete sie in seinem Innern. Man könnte die gegenwärtige Pflanze einen auf der Sonnenstufe stehen gebliebenen Menschenleib nennen, der sich vollständig umgewendet hat. Er streckt deshalb die Organe des Wachstums und der Fortpflanzung, welche der Mensch verhüllt und nach unten gewendet hat, keusch der Sonne zu nach oben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":384,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/46/46-03-43/p055"}],"english":["GA 46/46-03-43/p055"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":384,"en_words":453,"ratio":1.18,"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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