{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-10-31/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today the night state is filled with mending [the physical body]. We only see something in our dreams, like fragments from the unconscious state. In ancient times of the distant past, not all of the work of the [astral body] had to be used to repair the physical body. Therefore, [even if it was dull and dim], this [astral] body [with the ego] was clairvoyant to a certain extent. In a way, this astral body, which was not so intimately connected to the physical and etheric bodies, could see into its surroundings. It saw what was around it in the spiritual world. However, what was it like, [looking into the world here? What is left behind?] There is dreaming. But dreaming is something that is only a very weak, [corrupted] echo of an [ancient], dim clairvoyance of all humanity, just as we have certain organs in us that used to have their function, [for example, certain] muscles near the ear. [Those beings in the animal kingdom that have remained at this level still have these muscles to move their ears.] Such organs, [which today have no function but which had a function in earlier stages of development], are called atavisms. One such atavism is dreaming. In the distant past, in the distant past of humanity, it was not what it is today, but something that brought man into real contact with his surroundings. As strange as it may seem to materialistic thinkers, I would like to give you an [unreadable] and describe a little [how it was] back then. In those ancient times, when man was in that half-asleep state, he could not perceive man in the way that he [could perceive the external natures, but he perceived] what lived in the soul of [other] people. When he – [the other] – was awake and thinking bad thoughts, then he [perceived this evil feeling, it] rose [like a kind of luminous body] for the consciousness at that time as a process of perception, a color image for the state of mind of the other.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"32. The Origin of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-10-31","location":null,"word_count":344,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p041","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/SOL2024/19071031p01.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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In alten Zeiten einer urfernen Vergangenheit hatte nicht die ganze Arbeit [des astralischen Leibes] verwendet werden müssen auf die Ausbesserung des physischen Leibes. Daher war, [wenn auch dumpf und dämmerhaft], dieser [astralische] Leib [mit dem Ich] in einer gewissen [Beziehung] hellseherisch. In gewisser Weise konnte dieser astralische Leib, der, [weil er] nicht so innerlich gebunden war an den physischen und Ätherleib, konnte [er] hineinsehen in seine Umgebung. Er sah das, was an geistiger Welt um ihn herum war. Allerdings wie war es, [das Schauen in hiesige Welt hinein? Was ist zurückgeblieben?] Da ist zurückgeblieben der Traum. Aber Träumen ist so etwas, was nur ein ganz schwacher, [korrumpierter] Nachklang eines [alten], dämmerhaften Hellsehens der ganzen Menschheit ist, wie wir gewisse Organe in uns haben, die früher ihre Aufgabe hatten, [zum Beispiel gewisse] Muskeln in [der] Nähe des Ohrs. [Diejenigen Wesen im Tierreich, die auf dieser Stufe stehen geblieben sind, haben noch diese Muskeln, dass sie die Ohren bewegen.] Man nennt solche Organe, [die heute keine Aufgabe haben, aber in früheren Entwicklungsständen eine Aufgabe hatten], Atavismen. Ein solcher Atavismus ist Träumen. Es war in alten Zeiten in urferner Vergangenheit der Menschheit nicht jenes [unleserlich], was es heute ist, sondern etwas, was den Menschen in reale Zusammen[hänge] brachte mit [seiner] Umgebung. [So sonderbar es aussieht für materialistische Denker, aber ich möchte Ihnen eine [unleserlich] geben und] ein wenig schildern, [wie es] damals [war]. In jenen alten Zeiten, in denen der Mensch in jenem dämmerhaften halbschlafenden Zustand war, konnte er den Menschen nicht so wahrnehmen, dass er [die äußeren Naturen] wahrnehmen [konnte, aber er nahm] wahr, was in der Seele lebte in [anderen] Menschen. Wenn er — [der andere] — wach war und sich [etwas] Arges dachte, dann [nahm er dieses arge Gefühl wahr, es] stieg [wie eine Art leuchtender Körper] für das damalige Bewusstsein als ein Wahrnehmungsvorgang ein Farbbild auf für den Seelenzustand des anderen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":335,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p039"}],"english":["GA 68b/1907-10-31/p041"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":335,"en_words":344,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8044,"original_word_count":7712,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2024/19071031p01.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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