{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-03-14/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Look how the plant grows out of the earth. Its stem strives upward; its roots are sunk into the ground, pointing towards the centre of the earth. The opening blossom contains its reproductive organs, which bear the seeds through which the plant continues beyond itself. Charles Robert Darwin,[^3] the famous natural scientist, is not the first to point out that, if a person is compared to the plant, it is the root, not the blossom, that corresponds to his head. This was said already by esoteric Rosicrucianism. The calyx, which chastely strives towards the sun, corresponds to the reproductive organs that in human beings are situated downwards. Human beings are inverted plants. A person turns downwards and covers up in shame the organs that the plant chastely turns upward to the light.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Who are the Rosicrucians?","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-03-14","location":null,"word_count":132,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-03-14/p041","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/AP1987/19070314p01.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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Die Wurzel der Pflanze entspricht dem Kopfe des Menschen — so sagte schon der Rosenkreuzer-Okkultismus —, und dasjenige, was von der Pflanze als Blütenkelch der Sonne keusch entgegenstrebt, das ist das, was der Mensch als Befruchtungsorgane nach unten wendet. Der Mensch ist eine umgekehrte Pflanze. Er wendet die Organe, welche die Pflanze keusch nach oben dem Lichte zuwendet, schamvoll nach unten und verhüllt sie. Der Mensch ist die umgekehrte Pflanze: das ist ein Grundsatz des Rosenkreuzer-Okkultismus und des Okkultismus aller Zeiten. Die Pflanze ist mit den Befruchtungsorganen keusch der Sonne zugewendet. Der Mensch hat die Befruchtungsorgane nach dem Mittelpunkte der Erde gerichtet, den Kopf frei nach dem Sonnenraum hinaus. Zwischen beiden, mitten drinnen, steht das Tier, Die drei Richtungen, die sich durch die Pflanze, das Tier und den Menschen ergeben, bezeichnet man als das Kreuz. Die Pflanze ist der Balken, der nach unten geht, das Tier ist der Querbalken, der Mensch ist der Balken nach oben. Wenn Plato, der große eingeweihte Philosoph des Altertums, sagt, daß die Weltseele an dem Kreuze des Weltenleibes gekreuzigt ist, so bedeutet das nichts anderes, als daß der Mensch die höchste Ausgestaltung der Weltenseele darstellt, und daß die Weltenseele hindurchgegangen ist durch die drei Reiche: Pflanzenreich, Tierreich und Menschenreich. Die Weltenseele ist an dem Kreuze: Pflanzenreich, Tierreich und Menschenreich, den drei Naturreichen, gekreuzigt. — Ein wunderbar tiefes Bild von Plato, ganz aus der Geisteswissenschaft herausgesprochen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":313,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-03-14/p032"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-03-14/p041","GA 55/1907-03-14/p042"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":313,"en_words":306,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.87,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7578,"original_word_count":8755,"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/AP1987/19070314p01.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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