{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 59/1910-02-10/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"“Then”—the teacher might continue—“imagine that man develops further; that through his ego he overcomes error, evil and ugliness, everything which tries to drag him down to evil; that he purifies and refines his passions and affections. Picture an ideal which man strives to realise, when his blood will no longer be the expression of any passions, but only of his inner mastery of all that might drag him down. His red blood may then be compared with what the green sap has become in the red rose. 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,"title":"III. 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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. 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