{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-02-28/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"After the thirty-fifth year and beyond, the astral body influences the “I,” the blood and the nervous system; it acts on growth and has a stabilizing, consolidating effect that results in a certain firmness. What a human being absorbs in his life of thoughts and feelings of a spiritual nature comes to expression as cultural interest and courage. One could therefore also call this “a period when the systems of blood and nerves are elaborated.” It all comes to an end physically when the ether body begins to withdraw its activity from the external aspect of the physical body, at about the thirty-fifth year. It is also the reason why a human then ceases to grow; a person solidifies, fat begins to be deposited; the strength of the muscles diminishes. It all stems from the fact that the ether body is withdrawing. However, it also means that forces are released as they no longer have to work on the physical body. They can now unite with what has inwardly been elaborated: a person becomes wise. It was well-known in ancient times that in public life a person's counsel could not be of value until the ether body began to withdraw from the physical body. Only then was a person ready to enter public life; only then could his or her talents be of benefit to the people and the state.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-02-28","location":null,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-02-28/p026","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/AP1987/19070228p01.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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Daher können wir diese Zeit auch die Zeit der Ausbildung des Blut- und Nervensystems nennen. Diese Zeit ist physisch abgeschlossen etwa gegen das fünfunddreißigste Jahr zu, wo sich der Ätherleib mehr zurückzieht von dem Wirken im äußeren physischen Leibe. Daher die Eigenart, daß von dieser Mitte an der Mensch allmählich aufhört, sich zu vergrößern; er konsolidiert sich, das Fett fängt an sich abzulagern, und die Muskeln gewinnen an Stärke. Das rührt aber nur davon her, daß der Ätherleib beginnt, sich zurückzuziehen. Daher werden auch die Kräfte des Ätherleibes frei, weil sie nicht mehr an dem physischen Leib zu arbeiten haben, und es gliedert sich zusammen mit dem, was der Mensch innerlich ausgebildet hat. Da wird der Mensch weise, Daher haben die Alten wohl gewußt, daß der Rat eines Menschen im öffentlichen Leben erst dann eine Bedeutung haben kann, wenn der Ätherleib sich zurückzieht vom physischen Leibe: dann kann er eintreten ins öffentliche Leben, und seine Anlagen haben für Staat und öffentliches Leben eine Bedeutung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-02-28/p022"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-02-28/p026"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":259,"en_words":230,"ratio":0.89,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.91,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4366,"original_word_count":4806,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/AP1987/19070228p01.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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