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Its development, while the moon substance was still within the earth, proceeded in such a way that it formed semi-solid parts within its liquid mass, which condensed to the point of becoming cartilaginous. He could not yet form solid, bone-like limb inlays during this time, because the earth mass was not suitable for this as long as it contained the moon. Only with the departure of the moon, when the coarsest materiality was removed, did a solid framework develop in the human body. And this was also the time when the possibility of taking the fertilizing substances from the environment ceased. With the mass of the moon, the earth substances also lost the ability to have a fertilizing effect on the human body. In the time before, there were not two sexes in the human body. Man was a being of a feminine nature, to which the masculine essence in the earth environment itself was. The whole moon earth had a masculine character. With the departure of the moon, some of the human bodies were transformed into those with a male character. Thus, it absorbed the fertilizing forces that were previously contained in the sap of the earth itself. The female nature of the human body underwent such a transformation that it could be fertilized by the emerging masculinity. All this happened because a kind of double-sex human body changed into a single-sex one. The earlier human body fertilized itself with absorbed substances. Now the one form of the human body, the female, only received the power to mature what had been fertilized. This happened in such a way that the male power in her lost the ability to prepare the fruit material. This power remained only in the etheric or life body, which has to bring about the ripening. The male form of the human body lost the ability to do anything with the fruit material within itself. The feminine in her was limited to the etheric body. Thus it is that in present-day humans, the etheric body of man is female, but that of woman is [male]. The acquisition of these abilities coincides with the development of a solid skeleton.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"43. Consciousness – Life – Form","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":493,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/46/46-03-43/p074","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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Der zähflüssige Menschenleib wurde aus dem Fortpflanzungsstoffe seiner Umgebung befruchtet und spaltete sich unter solchem befruchtenden Einflusse. Seine Entwicklung, während noch die Mondensubstanz innerhalb der Erde war, ging so vor sich, dass er innerhalb seiner flüssigen Masse halbfeste Teile ausbildete, die sich bis zur Knorpelhaftigkeit verdichteten. Feste knochenartige Gliedeinlagerungen konnte er in dieser Zeit noch nicht bilden, denn dazu war die Erdmasse nicht geeignet, solange sie den Mond in sich enthielt. Erst mit dem Auszug des Mondes, als die derbste Stofflichkeit entfernt war, entstand im Menschenleibe eine feste Gerüstanlage. Und dies war auch die Zeit, in welcher die Möglichkeit aufhörte, die Befruchtungsstoffe aus der Umgebung zu nehmen. Mit der Mondenmasse ging auch den Erdensubstanzen die Fähigkeit verloren, auf den Menschenleib befruchtend zu wirken. In der Zeit vorher gab es nicht zwei Geschlechter des Menschenleibes. Der Mensch war ein Wesen weiblicher Natur, zu dem die männliche Wesenheit in der Erdenumwelt selbst war. Die ganze Monderde hatte einen männlichen Charakter. Mit dem Auszug des Mondes verwandelte sich ein Teil der Menschenleiber in solche mit männlichem Charakter. Er nahm also die befruchtenden Kräfte in sich auf, die vorher gleichsam in dem Safte der Erde selbst enthalten waren. Die weibliche Natur des Menschenleibes erfuhr eine solche Umbildung, dass sie von dem entstandenen Männlichen befruchtet werden konnte. - Dies alles geschah dadurch, dass eine Art doppelgeschlechtiger Menschenleib in einen eingeschlechtigen überging. Der frühere Menschenleib befruchtete mit aufgenommenen Stoffen sich selbst. Nun erhielt die eine Form des Menschenleibes, die weibliche, nur die Kraft, das Befruchtete auszureifen. Dies geschah so, dass in ihr die männliche Kraft die Fähigkeit der Zubereitung des Fruchtstoffes verlor. Es blieb diese Kraft nur dem Äther- oder Lebensleib, welcher die Reifung zu bewirken hat. Der männlichen Form des Menschenleibes ging die Möglichkeit verloren, mit dem Fruchtstoff in sich etwas anzufangen. Das Weibliche blieb in ihr auf den Ätherleib beschränkt. So kommt es, dass in dem gegenwärtigen Menschen die Sache so steht, dass im Manne der Ätherleib weiblich, in der Frau aber [männlich] ist. - Die Erwerbung dieser Fähigkeiten fällt zeitlich mit der Ausbildung eines festen Knochengerüstes zusammen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":451,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/46/46-03-43/p074"}],"english":["GA 46/46-03-43/p074"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":451,"en_words":493,"ratio":1.09,"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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