{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-03-14/p055","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Consider for a moment the process of human breathing. The regulation of the breath is connected with the discovery, or preparation of, the philosopher's stone. At present human beings inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, that is, what is exhaled is a compound of oxygen and carbon. A person inhales oxygen, life-giving air, and exhales carbon dioxide, which is poisonous to both human and animal. If animals, who breathe like human beings, had alone populated the earth, they would have poisoned the air, and neither they nor humans would be able to breathe today. So how does it come about that they are still able to breathe? It is because plants absorb the carbon dioxide, retain the carbon and give back the oxygen for human and animal to use again.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Who are the Rosicrucians?","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-03-14","location":null,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-03-14/p055","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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Daher, daß die Pflanze die Kohlensäure aufnimmt, den Kohlenstoff in sich behält und den Sauerstoff wieder zurückgibt, so daß Menschen und Tiere den Sauerstoff wieder zur Atmung benützen können. Es ist also ein schöner Wechselprozeß zwischen der Atmung der Tier- und Menschenwelt und der Atmung oder dem Assimilationsprozeß der Pflanzenwelt — Assimilationsprozeß, damit kein pedantischer Gelehrter etwas dagegen einwenden kann. Derjenige, der jeden Tag fünf Mark einnimmt und jeden Tag zwei Mark ausgibt, schafft einen Überschuß, bei ihm steht die Sache anders als bei demjenigen, der fünf Mark ausgibt und nur zwei Mark einnimmt. Ähnlich kann es auch bei der Atmung sein. 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