{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1906-11-08/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We saw in the preceding two lectures that in the light of spiritual science we must think of the human being as consisting not only of a physical or bodily nature, but also of soul and spirit. What materialism regards as the whole of existence, that is, what can be perceived physically, spiritual science maintains is in plan only his first member: the physical body. We know it is built up from the same substances as those that exist in inorganic nature, but we also know that it is called into life by the so-called ether or life body. This ether body is not something merely thought out; it is a reality and can be perceived when the higher senses that slumber in us are developed. The ether body is the second member of our being also possessed by the vegetable kingdom. Our third member, the astral body, is the bearer of pleasure and pain, cravings and passions; animals also possess an astral body. In the human being we see emerging within his physical, ether and astral bodies consciousness of self, that is, the ability to call himself “I.” This is the crown of his nature, which no other earthly being possesses. Spiritual science has often indicated the interrelation of these four members. The Pythagorean fourfoldness is nothing else than that of physical body, ether body, astral body and “I.” Those who have gone more deeply into spiritual science know that the “I” of a human being will develop out of itself what is termed: Spirit Self or Manas; Life Spirit or Buddhi; and Spirit Man or Atma, an individual's essential spirit being. This is all mentioned again today to ensure proper orientation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Origin of Suffering","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-11-08","location":null,"word_count":283,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1906-11-08/p016","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19061108p02.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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Wir wissen aber auch, daß dieser physische Körper aufgerufen wird zum Leben durch das, was wir den sogenannten Äther- oder Lebensleib nennen; und wir wissen dies, weil für die geistige Forschung dieser Lebensleib nicht eine Spekulation, sondern eine Wirklichkeit ist, die erschaut werden kann, wenn der Mensch die höheren Sinne, die in ihm schlummern, in sich eröffnet hat. Wir betrachten den zweiten Teil der menschlichen Wesenheit, den Ätherleib, als etwas, was der Mensch gemeinschaftlich hat mit der übrigen Pflanzenwelt. Als das dritte Glied der menschlichen Wesenheit betrachten wir den Astralleib, den Träger von Lust und Unlust, von Begierde und Leidenschaft, den der Mensch mit der Tierheit gemeinsam hat. Und dann sehen wir, daß des Menschen Selbstbewußtsein, die Möglichkeit, zu sich «Ich» zu sagen, die Krone der Menschennatur ist, die er mit keinem anderen Wesen gemeinsam hat; daß dieses Ich als die Blüte der drei Leiber, des physischen, Äther- und Astralleibes hervorgeht. So sehen wir einen Zusammenhang dieser vier Glieder, auf welchen die Geistesforschung immer hingewiesen hat. Die pythagoräische Vierheit ist nichts anderes als diese Vierheit: physischer Leib, Ätherleib, Astralleib und Ich. Diejenigen, die sich tiefer mit Theosophie beschäftigt haben, wissen, daß dieses Ich aus sich selber herausarbeitet, was wir das Geistselbst oder Manas, den Lebensgeist oder Buddhi und den eigentlichen Geistmenschen oder Atma nennen,","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":302,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1906-11-08/p016"}],"english":["GA 55/1906-11-08/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":302,"en_words":283,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.81,"band":"watch","note":"This witness is somewhat shorter than the original. 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