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Each member is the fundamental being and cause in its entire essence for the next lower body; the I-bearer for the astral body, the astral body for the etheric body, the etheric body for the physical body. Everything that is the actual I-experience, everything that human beings experience through being self-conscious beings, is expressed in the astral body. All ego experiences are imprinted here. This gives rise to everything that is temporary mental image, judgment, and feeling in human beings. What lives in the astral body is expressed and imprinted in the etheric or life body, and thus becomes something lasting, something that is not temporary but is preserved in a certain sense. Let us suppose we make a temporary judgment; we form a mental image of this or that. If we form a mental image again and again, it becomes a habitual mental image. By becoming a habitual mental image, it is imprinted in the etheric body. 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Here we see how important it is for human beings to have an inkling that the higher members must work into the denser members. It is thus placed in human hands to work into the lower members in a healthy, practical way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-02-18/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-02-18","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":129,"en_words":129,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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But those who understand this will say to themselves: You can continue where nature has left off. If you allow the whole range of sensations to run their course in a healthy way, this will continue to affect your physical body, your brain, and in this way you will build up your physical body throughout your whole life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-02-18/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-02-18","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p011","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p011"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":157,"en_words":163,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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You only get shaky hands when, to a certain extent, your hands detach themselves from the rest of your body. These are things that will be taken into account again in the not-too-distant future, and then people will understand what it means to grasp the human being in his spirit again.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-02-18/p012","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-02-18","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":154,"en_words":148,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Anyone who is not completely in control of themselves in any way is characterized as nervous, or the catchphrase “hereditary burden” is used when something is missing or present that makes a person impractical for practical life. All these things do not stem from careful observation of the real facts, but because, under the influence of materialistic thinking, one has no sense of pursuing the spiritual, the finer things. It is important to observe whether, in the early stages of life, when the invisible works so intensively on the visible, everything is proceeding correctly and is not being disturbed. What is neglected here cannot be made up for later. If anything is not finely chiseled out, the most diverse inconsistencies arise throughout life. The person who is unable to allow harmonizing experiences to rise and fall in the astral body will always render themselves unfit for life in a certain way. Instead of searching for hereditary predispositions in feelings of fear and anxiety, we should rather look for how this or that experience has formed something that has a hardening, woody effect on the physical body. It could be, for example, but this is not always the case, that a good part of what is called agoraphobia has been instilled in people by a very specific type of childhood upbringing. And they cannot escape this affliction because they later lack the means to turn it around. Let us imagine children who, throughout the year, only recognize all the festivities by being showered with gifts! They receive more than they can destroy. This undeserved influx of gifts paralyzes certain aspirations that would generate a healthy sense of self. Such a thing can lie dormant in people during the period when they are preoccupied with their external education or when a new profession takes up all their time; but it eventually emerges in the form of fear of failure.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":384,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-02-18/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-02-18","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":398,"en_words":384,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Here we see how the invisible inner life of human beings affects the visible, so to speak, and even certain sensible physicians now recognize that incapacities for practical life cannot be cured by cold water cures, but that a kind of confession must be initiated, something must be released from the person if healing is to occur.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":169,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-02-18/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-02-18","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":194,"en_words":169,"ratio":0.87,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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They do not know that everything that is an inner experience has its great significance, even if it appears distorted. Should we abolish everything mysterious in human nature because it has a distorted effect on some people? Should we, as is demanded here and there, turn doctors into confessors? It can also be infinitely healing for the soul when it is able to draw the veil of mystery over certain things. A Persian proverb says: The time spent in silent reflection before saying something saves you the time of regretting what you have said thoughtlessly! It was not for nothing that Goethe spoke of the “revealed mystery.” In everything sensory that surrounds us, we can see something mysterious, something that lies so deep within things that it cannot be expressed, but which also flows from soul to soul. And health spreads when people can feel the mystery of life in this way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-02-18/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-02-18","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":257,"en_words":250,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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When we hear about planetary evolution, when we are told what the invisible members of human nature are, what goes with human beings from life to life – all this appeals directly to the ego. All these great ideas, all these world-encompassing ideas do not remain dry ideas and abstractions. Warmth and bliss radiate from them, warmth and bliss permeate and surge through the astral body of the human being. Contentment and bliss emanate from what Spiritual Science offers. And what permeates and glows through the human being as warmth, as fire, continues into their life body. Everything that is the forces of the etheric body is permeated by the forces of Spiritual Science itself, and the etheric body in turn transmits these forces to the physical body, transmits them as dexterity, so that, for example, the hand becomes dexterous and practical when the great, sublime ideas of Spiritual Science pour into the physical body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-02-18/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-02-18","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":229,"en_words":233,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Die drei anderen sind etwas Wirkliches, Reales, ja, die Urgründe für das Reale. Jedes Glied ist Grundwesenheit und Ursache in seinem ganzen Wesen für den nächst niedereren Leib; der Ich-Träger für den Astralleib, der Astralleiib für den Ätherleib, der Ätherleib für den physischen Leib. Alles das, was die eigentlichen Ich-Erlebnisse sind, was der Mensch dadurch erlebt, daß er ein selbstbewußtes Wesen ist, alles das drückt sich ab im astralischen Leib. Hier prägen sich alle Ich-Erlebnisse aus. Dadurch entsteht alles dasjenige, was im Menschen vorübergehendes Vorstellen, Urteilen und Fühlen ist. Was im astralischen Leibe lebt, drückt sich aus, prägt sich ab im ätherischen oder Lebensleib, und dadurch wird es zu einem Dauernden, zu einem solchen, das nicht vorübergehend ist, sondern das sich in einem gewissen Sinne erhält. Nehmen wir an, wir fällen ein vorübergehendes Urteil; über dieses oder jenes bilden wir eine Vorstellung. Bilden wir eine Vorstellung wieder und immer wieder, so wird sie einegewohnte Vorstellung. Dadurch, daß sie eine gewohnte Vorstellung wird, prägt sie sich in den ätherischen Leib hinein. Was im Gedächtnis lebt, was wir uns merken von Tag zu Tag, lebt in unserem Äther- oder Lebensleib. Daß wir einmal ein Klavierstück spielen, liegt in unserem astralischen Leibe; daß wir die Fähigkeit, die Gewohnheit des Spielens erwerben, liegt im Ätherleibe. Alle Gewohnheiten sind im Ätherleibe oder Lebensleibe. Wenn wir ein sittliches Urteil fällen, so ist das wieder eine Tat des astralischen Leibes. Wenn sich uns eine gewisse Richtung des Urteilens durch wiederholtes Urteilen einprägt, so wird das sittliche Urteil zu einem dauernden, zum Gewissen. Das sittliche Urteil ist ein Erlebnis des astralischen Leibes, das Gewissen ist ein Erlebnis des Äther- oder Lebensleibes. So sehen wir, wie durch die Wechselwirkung der höheren Glieder mit den niedern Gliedern das ganze Menschenleben sich von innen nach außen aufbaut.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":310,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p009"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Insofern der Mensch ein bloßes Naturwesen ist, hat er den Äther- oder Lebensleib zunächst gemeinsam mit den Pflanzen. Was in den Pflanzen die Säfte auf- und niedersteigen läßt, was bewirkt, daß sie sich ernähren, sich fortpflanzen, das bewirkt beim Menschen dasselbe. Aber diesem Äther- oder Lebensleib wird von oben herunter eingeprägt, was wir Gewohnheit, Übung oder was wir Gewissen nennen. So wird den Menschen von oben eingeprägt, was ein Seelisch-Geistiges ist. Die Erlebnisse der höheren Glieder übertragen sich immer mehr und mehr auf die unteren Glieder. Da sehen wir, wie wichtig es ist für den Menschen, daß er eine Ahnung davon habe, daß die höheren Glieder hineinwirken müssen in die dichteren Glieder. Es ist so in des Menschen Hand gestellt, in gesunder, praktischer Weise hineinzuwirken in die niedern Glieder.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p010"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Der Mensch kann das, was ihm von der Natur gegeben ist, wieder verderben. Wie bei der Pflanze nur Mißwuchs entstehen könnte, wenn der Äther- oder Lebensleib das, was vorgeht, nicht regeln würde, so entsteht beim Menschen ein innerer Mißwuchs, wenn er in unrichtiger Weise von innen aus, vom Ich aus auf die niedern Glieder wirkt. Der astralische Leib muß in gesunder Weise von den Erlebnissen des Ichs durchdrungen werden. Wer nicht zugeben will, daß beim Aufbau des Gehirnes beim Kinde ein astralischer Leib arbeitet, der wird sich auch nicht bewußt werden, wie wichtig es ist, daß das Ich richtig auf den astralischen Leib einwirkt. Wer das aber einsieht, wird sich sagen: Du kannst da fortwirken, wo die Natur aufgehört hat. Wenn du die ganze Skala der Empfindungen in gesunder Weise ablaufen läßt, so wirkt dies weiter auf deinen physischen Leib, auf dein Gehirn, und so baust du dir selbst deinen physischen Leib während deines ganzen Lebens auf.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":157,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p011"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Wie viele Menschen laufen heute herum mit dem, was man Schreibkrampf nennt! Der ganze Wunderbau des menschlichen Leibes ist in wunderbarer Weise konstruiert. Der Mensch paßt seine Hand durch alles, was er tut, der Welt draußen an. Dieses Zusammenwirken der Hand mit dem Außeren löst sich in gewisser Weise von ihm los, wenn er nicht imstande ist, seine Hand zu durchglühen, zu durchkraften mit seinem inneren Leben. Es ist das ein ähnlicher Vorgang, wie wenn einer sich künstliche Zähne einsetzen läßt. Das ist das Wesentliche, daß wir alles das, was wir als unser Eigenes erhalten können, durchglüht und durchkraftet haben von unserm Ich. Zittrige Hände bekommen Sie nur, wenn in gewissem Grade die Hände sich loslösen von den übrigen Kräften. Das sind Dinge, die in einer gar nicht so fernen Zukunft in intensivstem Maße wieder werden berücksichtigt werden, und dann wird man einsehen, was es heißt, den Menschen wieder in seinem Geiste zu ergreifen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p012"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Ich will das an einem Beispiele klarmachen. Bleiben wir auf unserem Gebiete! Es wird sich zeigen, wie dasjenige, was im Geiste sich abspielt, tatsächlich den Menschen ergreift und ihn geeignet oder ungeeignet macht für das Leben, praktisch oder unpraktisch. Nehmen wir einen Menschen, der dadurch unpraktisch ist für das Leben, daß er unter gewissen Furchtgefühlen leidet, so daß dadurch Nervosität entsteht. Dieses Wort läßt schon die ganze Summe von Unpraxis anklingen. Jeder Mensch, der sich in irgendeiner Beziehung nicht vollständig in der Hand hat, wird als nervös charakterisiert, oder man gebraucht das Schlagwort von der erblichen Belastung, wenn irgend etwas fehlt, beziehungsweise etwas vorliegt, was den Menschen unpraktisch macht fürs praktische Leben. Alle diese Dinge rühren nicht etwa her aus einer sorgfältigen Beobachtung der wirklichen Tatsachen, sondern weil man unter der Einwirkung materialistischer Denkungsweise keinen Sinn dafür hat, das Geistige, das Feinere, zu verfolgen. Es ist wichtig, zu verfolgen, ob in den ersten Zeiten des Lebens, wo in so intensiver Weise vom Unsichtbaren her am Sichtbaren gearbeitet wird, ob da alles richtig verläuft und nicht gestört wird. Was hier versäumt wird, das kann später nicht wieder gut gemacht werden. Wenn irgend etwas nicht fein genug ausziseliert ist, so entstehen im ganzen Leben die mannigfaltigsten Unstimmigkeiten. Der Mensch, der nicht imstande ist, im astralischen Leib harmonisierende Erlebnisse auf- und abwogen zu lassen, wird sich immer in gewisser Weise fürs Leben untauglich machen. Statt bei Angstund Furchtgefühlen nach erblicher Belastung zu forschen, sollten wir lieber suchen, wie sich durch dieses oder jenes Erlebnis etwas ausgebildet hat, was verhärtend, verholzend wirkt auf den physischen Leib. Es könnte zum Beispiel sein, braucht aber nicht immer so zu sein, daß ein gut Teil dessen, was man Platzfurcht nennt, unter Umständen durch eine ganz bestimmte Art der kindlichen Erziehung in den Menschen eingeimpft worden ist. Und er kommt nicht los von diesem Übel, weil ihm später die Mittel fehlen, das wieder um und um zu rühren. Denken wir uns einmal Kinder, die eigentlich das ganze Jahr hindurch alle Festlichkeiten nur dadurch erkennen, daß sie mit Geschenken überhäuft werden! Sie bekommen mehr, als sie zerstören können. Dieses unverdiente Zufließen von Gaben legt gewisse Strebenskräfte, die gesundes Selbstgefühl erzeugen würden, lahm. So etwas kann schlummern in der Zeit im Menschen, wo die äußere Ausbildung den Menschen erfüllt, oder ein neuer Beruf ihn ganz in Anspruch nimmt; aber das tritt einmal auf in der Form der Platzfurcht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":398,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p013"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Das kann man nicht einsehen, wenn man nicht versteht, was es bedeutet, wie der astralische Leib sich nach und nach umsetzt in das, was der Mensch in seinem physischen, wahrnehmbaren Verhalten ist. Oder wir können finden, wenn bei einem Menschen irgendwie ganz bestimmte Zustände der Untauglichkeit auftreten, daß in seiner Seele irgend etwas ist, was auf seiner Seele lastet. Er kann es nicht sagen, nicht gestehen und meint, es verheimlichen zu müssen. Dadurch, daß der Mensch den Weg nicht findet zu dem Wort, ergreift es die niedern Glieder und wirkt so fort. Wie wohltätig wirkt es auf den Menschen, wenn er so etwas beichten kann! Dann hat er das Gefühl, jetzt liegt es nicht mehr als Stein in deiner Seele, und dieses Gefühl der Erleichterung wirkt gesundend. Die Beichte ist in dieser Beziehung ein wichtiges Arzneimittel. Das haben die Religionsgemeinschaften gewußt. Da sehen wir, wie das unsichtbare Innere des Menschen sozusagen auf das Sichtbare wirkt, und sogar gewisse vernünftige Mediziner sehen schon ein, daß man Untauglichkeiten für das praktische Leben nicht wohl heilen kann durch Kaltwasserkuren, sondern so, daß man eine Art Beichte einleiten muß, etwas loslösen muß vom Menschen, wenn Heilung eintreten soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p014"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Nun wollen wir einmal die Kehrseite betrachten. Es gibt heute vernünftige Mediziner, die sich sagen, man müsse sich an die Seele des Menschen wenden, wenn man wissen wolle, wie der Mensch in gewisser Beziehung untauglich wird. Diese Mediziner wissen, daß Freude und Lust Heilmittel sind, daß sie gesundend wirken, daß sie das, was verholzt und verknöchert ist, wieder aufweichen, wieder in unsere Gewalt bringen. Aber das ist nicht genug, gerade so wenig, wie es genügt, wenn jemand sagt, das verborgene Geheimnis muß losgelöst werden von der Seele des Menschen. Sie wissen nicht, daß alles, was ein Erlebnis des Innern ist, doch seine große Bedeutung hat, wenn es auch verkehrt auftritt. Sollen wir alles Geheimnisvolle in der Menschennatur aufheben, weil es bei manchen Menschen verkehrt wirkt? Sollen wir etwa, wie es da und dort gefordert wird, die Ärzte zu Beichtvätern machen? Es kann auch unendlich gesundend für die Seele sein, wenn sie in der Lage ist, den Schleier des Geheimnisses über manche Dinge zu ziehen. Ein persischer Spruch sagt: Die Zeit, die man zum schweigenden Nachdenken verwendet, bevor man etwas sagt, die erspart man in bezug auf die Zeit der Reue über das, was man unbedacht gesagt hat! Goethe hat nicht umsonst das Wort vom «offenbaren Geheimnis» gesprochen. In allem Sinnlichen, das uns umgibt, können wir etwas sehen an Geheimnisvollem, etwas, das so tief in den Dingen liegt, daß man es nicht aussprechen kann, das aber auch so von Seele zu Seele flutet. Und Gesundheit breitet sich aus, wenn der Mensch so das Geheimnis des Lebens fühlen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p015"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Dieses Geheimnis des Lebens wird besonders durch Geisteswissenschaft gepflegt. Allerdings macht sie es den Menschen nicht so leicht, an die Dinge heranzukommen. Es ist nicht so bequem, an sie heranzukommen. Die Geisteswissenschaft kann nur anregen, nur sagen, das und jenes ist da. Dann muß der Mensch an sich selbst herantreten und muß mitarbeiten. Unbequem mag es sein, aber unendlich gesund ist es. Dadurch wird das innerste Glied der menschlichen Wesenheit angeregt; Geisteswissenschaft wirkt unmittelbar auf das Ich. Wenn wir von der Planetenentwickelung hören, wenn uns erzählt wird, was die unsichtbaren Glieder der Menschennatur sind, was von Leben zu Leben geht mit dem Menschen - durch alles das wird unmittelbar an das Ich appelliert. Alle diese großen Ideen, alle diese weltumfassenden Ideen bleiben nicht trockene Ideen und Abstraktionen. Wärme und Seligkeit strahlt von ihnen aus, Wärme und Seligkeit durchstrahlt und durchwogt den astralischen Leib des Menschen. Zufriedenheit und Seligkeit geht hervor aus dem, was die Geisteswissenschaft bietet. Und das, was den Menschen so als Wärme, als Feuer durchwebt und durchglüht, das geht weiter in seinen Lebensleib. 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