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But he has had to pay for this consciousness by absorbing into himself on his way towards becoming man, passions, impulses and desires which may lead him into error, wrong and evil. The plant grows according to its natural laws; it unfolds its being according to these laws, and it stands before us, pure, with its green sap. Unless we indulge in fancies we cannot attribute to it any desires, passions or impulses which could divert it from the right path. If now we observe the blood as it circulates through man, the blood which is the external expression of human consciousness, of the human ego, and contrast it with the green chlorophyll sap permeating the plant, we shall realize that this streaming, pulsating blood is the expression as much of man's rise to a higher stage of consciousness as it is of the passions and impulses which drag him down.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/59/1910-02-10/p033","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-02-10","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 59/1910-02-10/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/59/1910-02-10/p026"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":402,"en_words":363,"ratio":0.9,"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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Just as the red rose shows us the plant sap in all its purity, and yet at a higher stage than it had reached in the plant, so the red blood of man, when purified and refined, can show what man becomes when he has mastered everything that might drag him down.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/59/1910-02-10/p034","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-02-10","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 59/1910-02-10/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/59/1910-02-10/p026"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":402,"en_words":363,"ratio":0.9,"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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If the pupil is not a dry stick, if he is able to enter with his feelings into the whole secret symbolised by this comparison, his soul will be stirred and he will experience something which will come before his spiritual vision as a symbolic picture, The picture can be of the Rose Cross: the black cross symbolising what has been slain in man's lower nature and the roses representing the red blood, so purified and refined that it has become a pure expression of his higher soul-nature. 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And if he does this again and again, he will finally attain to Imagination, which shows him that in the outer world there is more than meets the eye.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":143,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/59/1910-02-10/p036","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-02-10","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 59/1910-02-10/p027","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/59/1910-02-10/p027"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":327,"en_words":272,"ratio":0.83,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"C. 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Diese Pflanze vergleiche mit dem Menschen, wenn er vor dir steht. Dieser Mensch hat etwas voraus vor der Pflanze; er hat das voraus, daß sich die Welt in ihm in seinen Vorstellungen, Gefühlen und Empfindungen spiegelt; er hat das voraus, was man menschliches Bewußtsein zu nennen hat. Aber er hat sich dieses menschliche Bewußtsein mit etwas erkaufen müssen; nämlich damit, daß er aufnehmen mußte auf seinem Wege zum Menschen herauf Leidenschaften, Triebe und Begierden, die ihn in Irrtum, Unrecht und in das Böse hineinführen können. Die Pflanze wächst sozusagen nach den ihr eingeborenen Gesetzen, sie entfaltet ihr Wesen nach diesen eingeborenen Gesetzen, und sie steht vor uns in ihrer grünen Saftigkeit keusch, ohne daß wir ihr zuschreiben können, wenn wir nicht Phantasten sind, Leidenschaften, Triebe und Begierden, die sie ablenken können von dem richtigen Wege. Betrachten wir nun aber das, was der äußere Ausdruck ist des menschlichen Bewußtseinslebens, des menschlichen Ich — wenn wir das Blut betrachten, wie es den Menschen durchkreist wie der grüne ChlorophylIsaft die Pflanze, dann müssen wir sagen: Das Blut durchpulst und durchkreist den Menschen, indem es ein Ausdruck ist ebenso für seine Erhebung zu höheren Bewußtseinsstufen wie auch seiner Leidenschaften und Begierden, die ihn herunterziehen. Und jetzt könnte der geisteswissenschaftliche Lehrer zu seinem Schüler sagen: Stelle dir vor, daß der Mensch sich weiter entwickelt, daß der Mensch durch sein Ich Herr wird über Irrtum, Böses und Häßliches, über alles das, was ihn herunterziehen will in das Böse, daß er läutert und reinigt seine Affekte und Leidenschaften. Stelle dir ein reales Ideal vor, dem der Mensch zustrebt, und wo dann sein Blut nicht mehr der Ausdruck sein wird irgendwelcher Leidenschaften, sondern dessen, was in ihm selber Herr ist über alles das, was ihn herunterziehen kann; dann läßt sich sein rotes Blut vergleichen mit dem, was aus dem grünen Pflanzensaft selbst bei der roten Rose geworden ist. Wie die rote Rose uns darstellt den Pflanzensaft in keuscher Reinheit, uns auf einer vollkommeneren Stufe vor Augen bringt, was die Pflanze auf einer unvollkommeneren darstellt, so würde uns das rote Blut beim geläuterten und gereinigten Menschen dasjenige darstellen, was es ist, wenn der Mensch Herr über alles Herabziehende geworden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":402,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/59/1910-02-10/p026"},{"locus":"GA 59/1910-02-10/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Diese Empfindungen und Vorstellungen kann der Geisteslehrer in dem Gemüt, in der Seele des Geistesschülers erwecken. Wenn nun der Geistesschüler kein trockener, nüchterner Schüler, kein Stock ist, wenn er empfinden und fühlen kann das ganze Geheimnis, das in einem solchen Vergleiche sich uns bildlich darstellt, dann wird es wirken auf seine Seele, dann wird für ihn ein Erlebnis sein, was ihm als ein Symbolum für das Erleben in geistiger Anschauung vor die Seele tritt. Dieses Symbolum kann sein das Rosenkreuz: das schwarze Kreuz, das ausdrücken soll, was in der niederen Natur des Menschen ertötet ist; und die Rosen wie das rote Blut, das hinaufgeläutert und gereinigt ist bis zu einem keuschen Ausdruck seiner höheren Seele in ihm selber. Das schwarze Kreuz, von roten Rosen umrankt, wird damit eine symbolische Zusammenfassung dessen, was die Seele erlebt in jenem Zwiegespräch zwischen Geistesschüler und Lehrer. 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