{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 82/1922-04-12/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Just to show you that anthroposophy is truly not something that just rambles and rambles in vagueness, but that it enters into the very concrete facts of the world, I would like to give you a small example where there is also a will impulse. This example is taken from language. We have - I will choose a characteristic word, I could also choose another word - we have the German word “hier”. I say: “The box lies here.” What actually happens in the human organism when it comes to pronouncing the word “hier”? The first thing that happens is that what lives in the breath is first grasped in the subconscious. And this, what lives in the breath, is now the thought. The thought lives in the breath. We only have a real mental image of the thought when we know, from anthroposophical knowledge, that the thought can really live in the inhaled air, that it is a force that can act on the inhaled air. Only when we cannot go into these details do we come up against all the difficulties of psychology, taken physically. If we believe that thought can directly move a bone, that is, can have such a robust effect on physical matter, we cannot get by. But if we know that thought is something that is transmitted in a roundabout way through the warmth element into the air element, then what is stimulated there is continued into the rest of the organism, and we begin to grasp what is there with an impulse of will. So we can say: First of all we have the experience of breathing. This experience remains unconscious. Only the insight characterized here can transcend it. Then the second element is added: we inwardly experience that which now continues out of the breathing process into the liquid element of the organism. We experience that which signifies a direction in the speech organism. In the arm, it would mean an outstretching of the arm. We perceive this in the i. So we perceive the continuation of the thought-air into the watery element, so to speak the stretching movement. We see through imagination the transition from the breathing movement into the stretching movement. And then this stretching movement is formed in the right. If I were to say only “here,” I would have to draw it: 1st breathing process 5, 2nd stretching movement ie (the horizontal is drawn). But if I now draw the stretching movement as it is experienced unconsciously when I pronounce “here,” I must draw it like this: I perceive the breathing process, perceive the direction of the stretching, which is not carried out, but rolls along in the r. And then I have really experienced inwardly what is present as a volitional impulse when I pronounce the word “here”. In this way, we can follow the impulses of will that express themselves in language when we use our imagination to look into the whole weaving and ruling of the soul that permeates the physical body and the etheric or formative body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Anthroposophy and Agnosticism","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-04-12","location":null,"word_count":513,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/82/1922-04-12/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"So That Man may Become Fully Human","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA082/English/SOL2025/19220412p01.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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Das erste, was da vorgeht, das ist, daß im Unterbewußten zunächst ergriffen wird dasjenige, was im Atem lebt. Und dieses, was im Atem lebt, das ist nun der Gedanke. Der Gedanke lebt im Atem. Erst dann haben wir eine reale Vorstellung vom Gedanken, wenn wir wissen aus der anthroposophischen Erkenntnis heraus, daß der Gedanke in der Atemluft wirklich leben kann, daß er eine Kraft ist, die auf die Atemluft wirken kann. Man kommt erst dann zu all den Schwierigkeiten der Psychologie, physisch genommen, wenn man nicht in diese Einzelheiten eingehen kann. Wenn man freilich glaubt, daß der Gedanke unmittelbar einen Knochen heben soll, also auf die physische Materie wirke in solch robuster Weise, kommt man nicht zurecht. Wenn man aber weiß, daß der Gedanke etwas ist, was sich auf dem Umweg durch das Wärmeelement überträgt auf das Luftelement, dann das, was dort erregt wird, sich fortsetzt in den übrigen Organismus hinein, dann kommt man dazu, zu erfassen, was mit einem Willensimpuls da ist. So daß wir sagen können: Wir haben zunächst das Erlebnis des Atmens. Dieses Erlebnis bleibt unbewußt. Erst die hier charakterisierte Erkenntnis kann es heraufheben. Dann tritt das zweite hinzu: Wir erleben innerlich dasjenige, was sich nun fortsetzt aus dem Atemprozeß in das flüssige Element des Organismus hinein. Wir erfahren dasjenige, was in dem Sprachorganismus eine Richtung bedeutet. Beim Arm würde es bedeuten ein Ausstrecken des Armes. Das nehmen wir wahr in dem i. Da also nehmen wir die von Gedankenluft ausgehende Fortsetzung in das wäßrige Element hinein wahr, gewissermaßen die Streckbewegung. Wir schauen durch Imagination den Übergang von der Atembewegung in die Streckbewegung. Und dann wird diese Streckbewegung geformt im r. Würde ich nur sagen «hie», so würde ich das aufzeichnen müssen: 1. Atemvorgang 5, 2. Streckbewegung ie (es wird die Horizontale gezeichnet). Soll ich aber jetzt die Streckbewegung so aufzeichnen, wie sie erlebt wird unbewußst, wenn ich «hier» ausspreche, so muß ich so zeichnen: Ich nehme den Atemvorgang wahr, nehme die Richtung des Streckens wahr, die wird nicht ausgeführt, sondern die rollt dahin im r. Und dann habe ich dasjenige wirklich innerlich erkennend erlebt, was als Willensimpuls vorhanden ist beim Aussprechen des Wortes «hier». So können wir diejenigen Willensimpulse, die in der Sprache sich ausleben, durchaus verfolgen, wenn wir mit der Imagination hineinschauen in das ganze Weben und Walten desjenigen, was als Seelisches den physischen Leib und den Äther- oder Bildekräfteleib durchzieht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":493,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/82/1922-04-12/p009"}],"english":["GA 82/1922-04-12/p009"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":493,"en_words":513,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12477,"original_word_count":12023,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"So That Man may Become Fully Human","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA082/English/SOL2025/19220412p01.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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