{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-10-31/p047","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Just as the astral body today transforms only a pale face into a red face [when shame is driven into the face], so in ancient times it shaped [the brain] out of this [primordial form] [into its present form]. Those beings in our line of ancestors who acquired this ability ascend to humans. Those who did not acquire this ability do not ascend to humanity, but condense. [Thus] an earlier stage of development ossified, corrupted, [and shows itself to us in a corrupted state]. Man must never be derived from today's ape, which has never been able to let these powers of the astral body take effect on it. But now we ask, if we go back even further, then we come to an even looser connection [to the physical and ether body]. There is less and less of it [the physical and etheric body], therefore the astral body [in the etheric body] is more and more powerful [and more and more powerful] and more and more able to transform the physical body. [At that time, man was gelatinous, like the animal, which is even more gelatinous today.] When man was in a soft state, the astral body could work on him in a powerful way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"32. The Origin of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-10-31","location":null,"word_count":206,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p047","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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Jene Wesen in unserer Vorfahrreihe, welche diese Fähigkeit sich erworben haben, steigen auf zu Menschen. [Diejenigen], die diese Fähigkeit sich nicht erworben haben, steigen nicht auf zur Menschheit, verdichten. [So] verknöcherte sich, korrumpiert, eine frühere Entwicklungsstufe [und zeigt sie uns in einem korrumpierten Zustand]. Niemals darf der Mensch etwa vom heutigen Affen abgeleitet werden, der niemals hat diese Kräfte des astralischen Leibes auf sich wirken lassen können. Nun aber fragen wir, wenn wir noch weiter zurückgehen, dann kommen wir zu einer noch loseren Verbindung [zum physischen und Ätherleib]. Immer mehr ist darin [vom physischen und Ätherleib], daher ist immer mächtiger [und mächtiger der] astralische Leib [im Ätherleib], immer mehr imstande, den physischen Leib umzuformen. [Gallertartig war damals der Mensch, wie das heutige noch viel mehr gallertartige Tier.] Als der Mensch in weichem Zustand war, konnte der astralische Leib in mächtiger Weise auf ihn arbeiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":180,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p045"}],"english":["GA 68b/1907-10-31/p047"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":180,"en_words":206,"ratio":1.14,"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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