{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 73a/1921-01-14/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the human head organization, we are dealing with a continuous process of degeneration, which is, however, nourished by the appendages of the head. While the head itself is organized for degeneration through its organization, we are dealing with a continuous dying in the human head. The processes that are ascending and vitalizing are one thing; the other processes are those that are held back, spread out in the line of time, which, when compressed into an instant, appear as the death of the whole organism. One could also say: what comes over the whole organism in an instant with death could be regarded, mathematically expressed, as an integral for which one seeks the relevant differential. And then one would come to find, distributed over the time line, in the differential series into which one has resolved the integral, that which takes place as a retrogressive development, a devolution in the human main organism. This devolution, however, is found to be the actual basis for the process of imagining and of sensing. We can therefore say that it is impossible to regard what underlies human growth, what underlies ascending development, as the organizing forces, and also as the basis for the processes of soul and spirit. On the contrary! Where the organism is being broken down, the soul and spirit arise precisely above the breakdown, precisely above the destruction of the organic. One cannot gain insight into the connection between the physical body and the soul in man if one does not know that what one regards as the basis of the organization must not be regarded as the basis of the spiritual-soul process. The physical body must first break down, make way, give way, so that the spiritual-soul in man can take hold.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"13. The Relationships Between Spiritual Science and Individual Academic Subjects III","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-01-14","location":null,"word_count":294,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/73a/1921-01-14/p020","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Scientific Disciplines and Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA073a/English/SOL2024/19210114p01.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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Man könnte auch sagen: Das, was mit dem Tod in einem Augenblick über den ganzen Organismus kommt, das könnte man betrachten, mathematisch ausgedrückt, wie ein Integral, für das man das betreffende Differenzial sucht. Und man würde dann dazu kommen, in der Differenzialreihe, in die man das Integral aufgelöst hat, verteilt auf die Zeitlinie dasjenige zu finden, was sich abspielt als eine rückgehende Entwicklung, eine Devolution im menschlichen Hauptesorganismus. Diese Devolution aber, die findet man wiederum als die eigentliche Grundlage für den vorstellenden und den Sinnesprozeß. Man kann also sagen: Es ist unmöglich, das, was dem menschlichen Wachstum, was der aufsteigenden Entwicklung zugrundeliegt, was gerade die organisierenden Kräfte sind, das auch anzusehen als die Grundlage für die geistig-seelischen Prozesse. Im Gegenteil! Da, wo der Organismus abgebaut wird, da erhebt sich gerade über dem Abbau, gerade über der Zerstörung des Organischen, das Geistig-Seelische. Man erlangt keinen Einblick in den Zusammenhang des Leiblich-Physischen mit dem Geistig-Seelischen im Menschen, wenn man nicht weiß, daß man nicht das, was man als die Grundlage der Organisation ansieht, auch etwa ansehen darf als die Grundlage des geistig-seelischen Prozesses. Das Leiblich-Physische muß zunächst sich abbauen, muß Platz machen, es muß weichen, damit das Geistig-Seelische im Menschen Platz greifen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":288,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/73a/1921-01-14/p020"}],"english":["GA 73a/1921-01-14/p020"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":288,"en_words":294,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8353,"original_word_count":7905,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Scientific Disciplines and Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA073a/English/SOL2024/19210114p01.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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