{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-03-14/p058","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The Rosicrucians introduce a certain rhythm into the breath, detail of which can only be imparted directly by word of mouth. However, certain aspects can be mentioned without going into details. The pupil receives definite instruction concerning rhythmic breathing accompanied by thoughts of a special nature. The effect must be thought of as comparable to the persistent drip of water that wears away the stone. Certainly even the most highly developed person will not attain, by breathing in the Rosicrucian manner, a complete transformation of the inner life processes from one day to the next. However, the gradual change wrought in the human body leads eventually to a specific goal. At some time in the future a person will be able to transform within his own being carbonic acid into oxygen. Thus, what today the plant does for human beings—transforming the carbonic acid in the carbon¬will be done by man himself when the effect of the changed breath has become great enough. This will take place in an organ he will then possess, of which physiology and anatomy as yet know nothing, but which is nevertheless developing. An individual will accomplish the transformation himself. Instead of exhaling carbon a person will use it in his own being; with what he formerly had to give over to the plant he will build up his own body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Who are the Rosicrucians?","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-03-14","location":null,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-03-14/p058","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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Auch bei den höchststehenden Menschen wird nicht von heute auf morgen der ganze innere Lebensprozeß umgestaltet, wenn in rosenkreuzerischer Form geatmet wird. Aber dasjenige, was bei solcher Atmung im Leibe des Menschen umgestaltet wird, geht nach einer bestimmten Richtung hin, nämlich dahin, daß der Mensch in Zukunft imstande ist, in sich selbst die Kohlensäure wieder in brauchbaren Sauerstoff umzuwandeln, so daß das, was heute draußen in der Pflanze vor sich geht: die Umwandlung der Kohlensäure in den Kohlenstoff, das, was heute die Pflanze dem Menschen abnimmt, von dem Menschen, wenn der Atmungsprozeß immer weiter und weiter wirken wird in dem Einzuweihenden, in einem eigenen Organ bewirkt werden wird, von dem Physiologie und Anatomie noch nichts wissen, das aber gleichwohl in der Entwicklung begriffen ist. Der Mensch wird also dann selbst die Umwandlung bewirken. Statt den Kohlenstoff [mit der Kohlensäure] hinauszuatmen und an die Pflanze abzugeben, wird er ihn in sich selbst verwenden und seinen eigenen Leib mit Hilfe des Kohlenstoffes, den er vorher an die Pflanze abgeben mußte, auferbauen (siehe Hinweise).","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-03-14/p044"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-03-14/p058"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":259,"en_words":225,"ratio":0.87,"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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