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When the core of our being has colored the physical and etheric bodies, then what has been created through this coloring will have an effect on every other limb, so that it depends on how the person with his or her characteristics comes to us, whether the core of our being has a stronger effect on the physical body or whether the physical body has a stronger effect. Depending on the person, they can influence one of the four limbs, and the effect on the other limbs creates the temperament. When the human core of being embarks on re-embodiment, it is capable, through this peculiarity, of incorporating a certain excess of activity into one or other of its essential limbs. 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If the physical body has such an influence on the other limbs that the core of the being was unable to overcome certain hardships in the physical body, then the melancholic nature prevails.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68d/1909-01-09/p018","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068d/English/SOL2024/19090109p01.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 a person like this, in whom the I is active spiritually and the blood is active physically, we see the innermost strength maintaining the organization firmly and strongly. And as he encounters the outer world, so his power of the I will want to assert itself. That is the consequence of this I.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68d/1909-01-09/p019","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068d/English/SOL2024/19090109p01.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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And in the physical, it is the blood that essentially, so to speak, delimits the activity of the nervous system.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68d/1909-01-09/p020","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068d/English/SOL2024/19090109p01.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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When this is the case, when it is even taken care of in abundance, then a person's entire striving is directed towards the inner self, we are dealing with the phlegmatic type.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":95,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68d/1909-01-09/p022","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068d/English/SOL2024/19090109p01.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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Wenn der Wesenskern gefärbt hat den physischen und den Ätherleib, dann wird das, was durch die Färbung entstanden ist, wirken auf jedes andere Glied, sodass es davon abhängig ist, wie der Mensch mit seinen Eigenschaften uns entgegentritt, ob der Wesenskern stärker auf den physischen Leib wirkt oder ob der physische Leib stärker wirkt. Je nachdem der Mensch ist, kann er eines der vier Glieder beeinflussen, und durch die Zurückwirkung auf die anderen Glieder entsteht das Temperament. Der menschliche Wesenskern ist geeignet, wenn er zur Wiederverkörperung schreitet, durch diese Eigentümlichkeit im einen oder anderen seiner Wesensglieder einen gewissen Überschuss des Wirkens einzugliedern. So kann er seinem Ich eingliedern einen gewissen Stärkeüberschuss, oder aber der Mensch kann dadurch, dass er bestimmte Erlebnisse in seinem früheren Leben durchgemacht hat, seine anderen Glieder damit beeinflussen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":148,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1909-01-09/p017"},{"locus":"GA 68d/1909-01-09/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Wenn das Ich des Menschen durch seine Schicksale so stark geworden ist, dass seine Kräfte vorzüglich herrschend sind in der vierfachen Menschennatur, dann entsteht das cholerische Temperament. Wenn er dem Einflusse des Astralleibes unterliegt, dann entsteht das sanguinische Temperament. Wirkt mit einem Überschuss der Ätherleib auf die anderen Glieder ein, dann entsteht die phlegmatische Natur. Wirkt der physische Leib auf die anderen Glieder des Körpers ein, dass der Wesenskern nicht imstande war, gewisse Härten im physischen Leibe zu überwinden, da herrscht das melancholische vor.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1909-01-09/p018"},{"locus":"GA 68d/1909-01-09/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"So haben wir einen großen Teil des physischen Leibes als den unmittelbaren Ausdruck des physischen Lebensprinzips des Menschen. So haben wir das Drüsensystem als den physischen Ausdruck des Ätherleibes anzusehen; das Nervensystem, und zwar dasjenige, was da tätig ist, das haben wir als den physischen Ausdruck des Astralleibes anzusehen, und die Pulsationskraft des Blutes ist der Ausdruck des eigentlichen Ichs. Daher wird dasjenige, was das Ich charakterisiert hat, als die vorherrschende Eigenschaft sich wirkend machen. Es wird sich das cholerische Temperament zeigen als tätig in einem kräftig pulsierenden Blute; damit tritt das Kraftelement im Menschen zur Erscheinung, dadurch, dass er besonderen Einfluss auf sein Blut hat. Bei einem solchen Menschen, bei dem geistig das Ich, physisch vorzugsweise das Blut tätig ist, sehen wir die innerste Kraft stramm und stark die Organisation instand halten. Und wie er der Außenwelt so entgegentritt, so wird seine Kraft des Ichs sich geltend machen wollen. Das ist die Folge dieses Ichs.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1909-01-09/p019"},{"locus":"GA 68d/1909-01-09/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Wenn im Menschen der Astralleib vorwiegt, dann wird der physische Ausdruck in den Funktionen des Nervensystems liegen, und dasjenige, was der astralische Leib vollbringt, ist das Leben in Gedanken, in Bildern, sodass der Mensch, wenn er mit dem sanguinischen Temperament begabt ist, die Anlage dazu haben wird, in den Bildern seines Vorstellungslebens zu leben. Wir müssen uns das Verhältnis des Astralleibes zum Ich klarmachen. Würde nur das sanguinische Temperament vorhanden sein, so würde ein Chaos von Bildern auf- und absteigen. Was nicht die Bilder in phantastischer Weise durcheinanderschießen lässt, das sind die Kräfte des Ichs. Und im Physischen ist es das Blut, welches im Wesentlichen sozusagen die Tätigkeit des Nervensystems eingrenzt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":111,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1909-01-09/p020"},{"locus":"GA 68d/1909-01-09/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Es würde zu weit führen, wenn ich Ihnen dies in allen Einzelheiten zeigen würde, wie das Nervensystem und Blut zueinanderstehen und wie das Blut der Zügler ist dieses Vorstellungslebens. Wenn des Menschen Blut zu dünn wird, bleichsüchtig, dann stellen sich auch die phantastischen Gebilde ein, bis zur Illusion und Halluzination, wenn das Blut nicht der Zügler des Nervensystems ist. Hat der Astralleib einen gewissen Überschuss des Wirkens, dann nimmt sich das menschliche Leben so aus, dass der Mensch sich nicht halten kann an einer Vorstellung, und die Folge davon ist, dass ein solcher Mensch an allem gleich entflammt werden kann, was ihm in der Außenwelt entgegentritt, dass aber der Zügel nicht angelegt wird, es innerlich dauernd zu machen, es verfliegt das Interesse schnell, das angefacht worden ist. Wir sehen beim Sanguiniker, wie er von Vorstellung zu Vorstellung eilt, wie er einen flatterhaften Sinn zeigt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1909-01-09/p021"},{"locus":"GA 68d/1909-01-09/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Wenn ein Mensch vorherrschend den Ätherleib in sich hat und den Ausdruck dieses Ätherleibes, dasjenige System, was im Menschen das Wohl- und Missbehagen ausmacht, so wird der Mensch gerade dazu verleitet werden, so recht behaglich in seinem Inneren verbleiben zu wollen. Je behaglicher der Mensch sich in seinem Inneren fühlen wird, desto mehr Einklang wird er schaffen zwischen dem Innern und Äußeren. Wenn dies der Fall ist, wenn sogar im Überschuss dafür gesorgt ist, dann richtet sich des Menschen ganzes Trachten nach dem Innern, wir haben es mit dem Phlegmatiker zu tun.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1909-01-09/p022"}],"beads":[{"from":[17],"to":[17],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[18],"to":[18],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[19],"to":[19],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[20],"to":[20],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[21],"to":[21],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[22],"to":[22],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}