{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1916-04-13/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"First of all, I must direct your attention to the development of the individual human being. For the spiritual researcher, there are certain stages in human life that he must pay particular attention to in order to penetrate the secrets of the development of the human being, of the whole human being. As I said, I cannot prove the details today; I can only cite the results of spiritual research. As far as the reasons are concerned, I must refer you to my earlier lectures or to my writings. One such stage occurs during the years when the human being is going through the process of changing teeth. Much of what I now have to say certainly seems fluid compared to the scientific concepts that are so firmly established and so sharply defined today. But spiritual science really must play a role in many cases, which I would like to compare with what the painter spreads over a landscape as a mood, which he otherwise, insofar as houses and trees are concerned, paints in fixed outlines. What is there of houses and trees in fixed outlines, what is, so to speak, a sharply outlined drawing, only becomes real in the right way, I just want to say now, in a painterly way, when everything that is now the mood of the picture has been poured out. And this mood content truly cannot be captured in such fixed forms as that which is drawn below in houses, trees and the like. So the seventh year approximately – of course, all these numbers are to be understood only approximately – the time of the change of teeth, is to be considered particularly. And there, to the spiritual researcher, certain processes appear in human development that are certainly more subtle, that, I might say, are poured out, as it were, only in the mood over the human soul life, but that are of great importance for the understanding of this soul life. For the spiritual researcher, this change of teeth expresses a complete shedding of what had previously worked in him as physical forces, and like the emergence to the surface of a being that has certainly wanted to come to the surface for a long time, but which, I would like to say, is like a duplication of his being. And in the eruption of the first teeth and their replacement by the second teeth, something that is going on in the whole human organism during this period is expressed strikingly and outstandingly in a particular place.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"14. The Development of the German Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-04-13","location":null,"word_count":425,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p008","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From Central European Intellectual Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA065/English/SOL2024/19160413p01.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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Gewiß, vieles von dem, was ich jetzt werde sagen müssen, nimmt sich gegenüber den heute so fest geltenden und in so scharf umrissenen Begriffen eingeschnürten naturwissenschaftlichen Vorstellungen wie flüssig aus. Aber Geisteswissenschaft muß ja in vielen Fällen wirklich eine Rolle spielen, die ich etwa vergleichen möchte mit dem, was der Maler als Stimmung über eine Landschaft ausbreitet, die er sonst, insoferne Häuser und Bäume in Betracht kommen, in festen Umrissen malt. Was an Häusern und Bäumen in festen Umrissen da ist, was gewissermaßen scharf umrissene Zeichnung ist, wird erst in der richtigen Weise, ich will jetzt nur sagen, malerisch, wenn alles, was nun Stimmungsgehalt des Bildes ist, ausgegossen ist. Und dieser Stimmungsgehalt ist wahrhaftig nicht in so feste Formen zu bannen, wie dasjenige, was unten an Häusern, Bäumen und dergleichen gezeichnet wird. Also das siebente Jahr ungefähr — selbstverständlich sind alle diese Zahlen nur ungefähr aufzufassen -, die Zeit des Zahnwechsels, ist besonders ins Auge zu fassen. Und da erscheinen dem Geistesforscher in der menschlichen Entwickelung gewisse Vorgänge, die gewiß feiner sind, die, ich möchte sagen, wie nur in der Stimmung ausgegossen sind über das menschliche Seelenleben, die aber zum Verständnisse dieses Seelenlebens von hoher Wichtigkeit sind. In diesem Zahnwechsel drückt sich für den Geistesforscher ein vollständiges Abstreifen desjenigen aus, was als physische Kräfte bis dahin in ihm gewirkt hat, und wie das Herausdrängen eines Wesens an die Oberfläche, das gewiß schon seit langem an die Oberfläche wollte, das aber, ich möchte sagen, wie eine Verdoppelung seines Wesens ist. Und in dem Ausstoßen der ersten Zähne und ihrem Ersatz durch die zweiten Zähne drückt sich nur an einer besonderen Stelle markant, besonders hervorragend etwas aus, was im ganzen menschlichen Organismus in dieser Zeit vor sich geht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":382,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p008"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p008"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":382,"en_words":425,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12620,"original_word_count":11914,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From Central European Intellectual Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA065/English/SOL2024/19160413p01.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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