{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 66/1917-03-15/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The breathing process is quite different from that which takes place in the human nervous mechanism. For the nervous mechanism, one can say, in a certain respect, that it is a faithful reproduction of the human soul life itself. And if I wanted to use an expression – such expressions have not yet been coined in language, so one can only use loan images – for the way in which the human nervous system is wonderfully depicted in the soul life, I would like to say: the soul life paints itself into the nervous life, the nervous life is truly a painting of the soul life. Everything we experience in our soul in relation to external perception is reflected in the nervous system. It is precisely this that must make it understandable that the nervous life, especially of the head, is already at birth a faithful imprint of the soul life that comes from the spiritual world and connects with the bodily life. What may be objected to this connection between the soul, which emerges from the spiritual world, and the brain, with the head as its organ, from the point of view of brain physiology, will one day be put forward as proof of it. Before birth or conception, the soul prepares that wonderful formation of the head out of spiritual foundations, which is present as the formation of the human soul life. The head, for example, only becomes four times heavier in the course of a human life than it is at birth, while the whole organism becomes 22 times heavier in the course of further growth. The head, however, already presents itself at birth as something fully developed, if the expression is allowed: perfect. Even before birth, it is basically an image of the soul experience, because the soul experience works on the head from the spiritual world long before physical facts play out in the known way, which then lead to the existence of the human being in the physical world. For the spiritual researcher, the wonderful structure of the human nervous system, which is a reflection of the human soul life, is at the same time the confirmation that the soul comes from the spiritual, and that the forces lie in the spiritual that make the brain a painting of the soul life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. The Human Soul and Body in the Light of Knowledge of Nature and Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-03-15","location":null,"word_count":388,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/66/1917-03-15/p019","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":"Mind and Matter — Life and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA066/English/SOL2024/19170315p01.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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Für den Nervenmechanismus kann man in einer gewissen Beziehung sagen, er ist eine getreuliche Nachbildung des menschlichen Seelenlebens selber. Und wollte ich einen Ausdruck gebrauchen — solche Ausdrücke sind ja in der Sprache noch nicht geprägt, man kann daher nur Lehnbilder-Ausdrücke gebrauchen - für die Art, wie wunderbar im menschlichen Nervensystem abgebildet ist das Seelenleben, so möchte ich sagen: das Seelenleben malt sich selber hinein in das Nervenleben, das Nervenleben ist wirklich ein Gemälde des seelischen Lebens. Alles, was wir mit Bezug auf die äußere Wahrnehmung seelisch erleben, malt sich ab im Nervensystem. Gerade dies ist es, was begreiflich erscheinen lassen muß, daß das Nervenleben namentlich des Hauptes schon bei der Geburt ein getreulicher Abdruck des seelischen Lebens ist, das aus der geistigen Welt herauskommt, und sich mit dem Leibesleben verbindet. Was man heute vielleicht gerade vom gehirn-physiologischen Standpunkte einwendet gegen die Verbindung der aus der Geisteswelt herauskommenden Seele mit dem Gehirn, mit dem HauptesOrgan, das wird einmal gerade als Beweis dafür vorgebracht werden. Die Seele bereitet sich vor der Geburt oder Empfängnis aus geistigen Untergründen heraus jene wunderbare Bildung des Hauptes, die da vorliegt als Bildung des menschlichen Seelenlebens. Das Haupt- wie es zum Beispiel auch im Verlauf des menschlichen Lebens nur viermal schwerer wird, als es bei der Geburt ist, während der ganze Organismus 22mal schwerer wird im Verlaufe des weiteren Wachstums — das Haupt tritt uns schon bei der Geburt als etwas in sich Ausgestaltetes, wenn der Ausdruck erlaubt ist: Vollkommenes entgegen. Schon vor der Geburt ist es im Grunde ein Bild des seelischen Erlebens, weil das seelische Erleben arbeitet an dem Haupte aus der geistigen Welt heraus lange Zeit, bevor überhaupt physische Tatsachen sich abspielen in der bekannten Art, die dann zum Dasein des Menschen in der physischen Welt führen. 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