{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 66/1917-03-31/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When we observe the human being as he develops from an early age, from early childhood onwards, we encounter many things that are full of meaning and that are still not sufficiently appreciated by science today. Let us just emphasize the fact that in early childhood the part of the human being that develops most physically is the head. The head grows throughout life in such a way that it increases fourfold, while the rest of the organism grows twentyfold from its childhood state. Consider, then, how different the pace of growth is for the head and for the rest of the organism. This is due to the fact that the head and the rest of the organism are two different metamorphoses of one and the same, but in a very peculiar way. The head appears in man, as he begins his physical life, immediately in a certain perfection; the rest of the organism, on the other hand, appears with the greatest conceivable imperfection, and must first develop slowly to the degree of perfection that it is to achieve in physical life. Thus the head and the rest of the organism undergo quite different periods of development. I have already mentioned how spiritual science shows the origin of this. The human head points back to a long preceding spiritual development. When we enter our physical existence through conception and birth, we come from a spiritual world as soul-spiritual beings. What we go through during our spiritual development in the spiritual world contains a sum of forces that initially express themselves primarily in the head; therefore, what appears in the head as something so perfect and needing little further perfection points to a development that the person has already undergone.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Beyond of the Senses and the Beyond of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-03-31","location":null,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/66/1917-03-31/p027","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/SOL2024/19170331p01.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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Das rührt davon her, daß Haupt und übriger Organismus zwei verschiedene Metamorphosen ein und desselben sind, aber auf eine ganz eigentümliche Art. Das Haupt tritt beim Menschen, indem er seinen physischen Lebenslauf beginnt, sogleich in einer gewissen Vollkommenheit auf; der übrige Organismus dagegen tritt mit der denkbar größten Unvollkommenheit auf, muß sich erst langsam entwickeln zu dem Grad von Vollkommenheit, den er im physischen Leben erreichen soll. Also ganz verschiedene Entwickelungszeitläufe machen Haupt und übriger Organismus durch. Ich habe schon früher erwähnt, wie die Geisteswissenschaft zeigt, woher dieses kommt. Das Haupt des Menschen weist zurück auf eine lange vorhergehende geistige Entwickelung. Wir gehen, indem wir in unser physisches Dasein durch Empfängnis und Geburt eintreten, als seelisch-geistiges Wesen aus einer geistigen Welt heraus. Was wir während einer geistigen Entwickelung in der geistigen Welt durchmachen, das enthält eine Summe von Kräften, die zunächst sich vorzugsweise im Haupt ausprägen; daher weist das, was als so vollkommen und sich nur mehr wenig vervollkommnend sich im Haupte darstellt, auf eine Entwickelung hin, die der Mensch hinter sich hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":282,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/66/1917-03-31/p027"}],"english":["GA 66/1917-03-31/p027"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":282,"en_words":289,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10452,"original_word_count":9922,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2024/19170331p01.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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