{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-01-21/p049","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We have to consider the following fact. A certain tribe in Africa that hunts needs certain dogs for hunting. Now there lives a poisonous fly there, the tsetse fly; it stings the hunting dogs, and they perish. Now, as so often, the “savages” have come up with something extraordinarily clever – spiritual science is familiar with the processes. This “savage” tribe now takes its hunting dog to the areas where the poisonous fly is found, just at the time when the dog can give birth to her puppies before she dies from the bite. The puppies are now immune; they can be stung and yet not die. This is an example of the adoption of an external aspect of the internal life process in the ascending line of life. Where life rekindles, where it passes through to the point of inner illumination, where the life process is re-established, it takes the poison within itself, integrates it and makes the organism strong against the poison.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. How Do We Understand Illness and Death?","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-01-21","location":null,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1907-01-21/p049","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19070121p01.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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Nun lebt dort eine giftige Fliege, die Tsetse-Fliege; sie sticht die Jagdhunde, und diese gehen dann zugrunde. Nun haben die «Wilden», wie so oft, etwas außerordentlich Schlaues ausgedacht — die Geisteswissenschaft kennt die Vorgänge. Dieser «wilde» Volksstamm, der führt nun seine Jagdhündin in die Gegenden, wo die giftige Fliege sich aufhält, gerade in der Zeit, wo die Hündin ihre Jungen werfen kann, bevor sie an dem Stich stirbt. Die Jungen sind jetzt immun; sie können gestochen werden und sterben doch nicht. Das ist ein Beispiel für die Aneignung eines Äußeren vom inneren Lebensprozess in der aufsteigenden Lebenslinie. 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