{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-10-31/p052","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Take coal, it is a mineral substance today. But long ago it was plants. What is now coal was once present as [graphite-containing] plants [in mighty forests]; the organic has transformed into the inorganic, the plant has become stone, the living has become physical. If you are able to do spiritual scientific research, you can see how all stones were originally living beings. We can investigate and prove that stones, rock crystal, were plants in primeval times, just like stone coal. Just as the mineral part of us originally came to life, so too was the human physical body once separated from the etheric body. As you see today] the many coral animals that build the coral reef, the physical, [you see how they grow out of it], see how the living creatures work this physical reef out of their own body. So in a time of man [ancestor] only this etheric body was present, [the astral body, and the] physical body is out of the etheric body [through a process] like ice from the water; the etheric body is a condensation, in condensed, other form, and there we come back to the original state of humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"32. The Origin of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-10-31","location":null,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p052","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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Was heute Steinkohlen sind, sind als [graphithaltige] Pflanzen [in mächtigen Wäldern] da gewesen; das Organische hat sich in das Unorganische verwandelt, die Pflanze ist Stein geworden, das Lebendige ist physisch geworden. [Wenn Sie geisteswissenschaftlich forschen können, könnten Sie sehen, wie alle Steine] ursprüng[lich] Lebewesen waren. Wir können nachforschen, [wir können genau nachweisen], dass Steine, [dass ein Bergkristall] in Urzeiten [eine Art] Pflanze war, [wie die Steinkohle. Als Mineralisches in uns ursprünglich lebendig entstanden, so ist des Menschen ganzer physischer Leib einstmals aus dem Ätherleib herausgegliedert worden. So wie Sie heute sehen] die viele Korallentiere, die das Korallenriff, das Physische aufbauen, [Sie sehen, wie sie herauswachsen], sehen, wie die Lebewesen aus ihrem eigenen Leib dieses physische Riff herausarbeiten. 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