{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-02-07/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is in the nature of lectures such as I am giving here that I anticipate in an earlier lecture some things that will be explained in more detail in later lectures. This will also be the case with what I am about to say now. But I would like to draw your attention to it today. The plant, which is a living being, is not only composed of what physics and chemistry, or biology or physiology, which are in turn composed of them, can investigate, but it also contains something else entirely. If we have progressed so far within ourselves that we feel ourselves in a formative body, as we otherwise do with our ordinary ego in a physical body, then we can, just as we use our eyes and ears for sensory perceptions in the physical body, perceive through this formative body, which we have differentiated from the soul's sense of touch, then we can also perceive what is supersensible in the rest of the world, what permeates and interweaves nature as supersensible. Then we see in everything plant, animal, and also physically human outside ourselves the spiritual, which is then not visionary in a trivial sense, but stands before the empowered soul just as the content of sensory perceptions stands before the unempowered soul. Only we must be able to replace the concepts of space with concepts of time everywhere. How do we actually perceive what is supersensible in plants? By perceiving our own supersensible nature in the formative body as it moves and weaves, we now also perceive the supersensible in the plant world, similar to how one tone in a musical context would perceive another. The perception of the supersensible in the plant world is based entirely on the fact that our own formative body, in its life and weaving, proceeds at a much slower “tempo” than the life and weaving of the plant formative body. I have explained this in more detail in a small book entitled “Human Life from the Point of View of Spiritual Science.” There you will find how everything depends on this different tempo in the time measurement of the human and plant formative forces bodies. Because our formative forces body can interact like a higher, malleable organ with the much faster life of the plant, we truly perceive the other kind of life in the plant world. This brings something completely different before our soul than the old, speculated life force. In other words, we truly perceive the supersensible in the sensible.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Human beings as Spiritual and Soul Beings","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-02-07","location":null,"word_count":423,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-02-07/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2018","book_title":"The Eternal in the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA067/English/SOL2018/19180207p01.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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Haben wir es in uns selbst so weit gebracht, daß wir uns in einem Bildekräfte-Leib fühlen, wie sonst mit unserm gewöhnlichen Ich in einem physischen Leib, dann können wir, wie wir im physischen Leib Auge und Ohr zu Sinneswahrnehmungen benutzen, durch diesen Bildekräfte-Leib, den wir aus dem seelischen Tastsinn heraus differenziert haben, auch wahrnehmen, was Übersinnliches in der übrigen Welt ist, was als Übersinnliches die Natur durchsetzt und durchwebt. Dann sehen wir in allem Pflanzlichen, allem Tierischen und auch physisch Menschlichen außer uns das Geistige, das dann nicht ein in trivialem Sinne Visionäres ist, sondern ebenso vor der erkrafteten Seele dasteht wie der Inhalt der Sinneswahrnehmungen vor der unerkrafteten Seele. Nur müssen wir überall die Raumesbegriffe durch Zeitbegriffe ersetzen können. Wodurch nehmen wir eigentlich wahr dasjenige, was übersinnlich in der Pflanze ist? Dadurch, daß wir unser eigenes Übersinnliches im Bildekräfte-Leib, wie er sich regt und webt, wahrnehmen, dadurch nehmen wir nun auch das Übersinnliche in der Pflanzenwelt wahr, ähnlich, wie wenn ein Ton in einem musikalischen Zusammenhang den andern wahrnehmen würde. Die Wahrnehmung des Übersinnlichen in der Pflanzenwelt beruht ganz und gar darauf, daß unser eigener Bildekräfte-Leib in seinem Leben und Weben in einem viel langsameren \"Tempo abläuft als das Leben und Weben des pflanzlichen Bildekräfte-Leibes. Ich habe das genauer ausgeführt in einer kleinen Schrift «Das menschliche Leben vom Gesichtspunkte der Geisteswissenschaft». Da wird man finden, wie alles abhängt von diesem verschiedenen Tempo in dem Zeitmaße des menschlichen und des pflanzlichen Bildekräfte-Leibes. Dadurch, daß sich unser Bildekräfte-Leib in Wechselwirkung versetzen kann wie ein höheres, bildsames Organ mit dem viel schneller ablaufenden Leben der Pflanze, dadurch nehmen wir wirklich die andere Art des Lebens im Pflanzlichen wahr. Dadurch wird etwas ganz anderes vor unsere Seele treten als die alte, erspekulierte Lebenskraft war. 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