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Now the astral body – the body of desire – comes along with wine, tea and other stimulants and disturbs its normal beat. It takes a long time for the astral body to become as wise as the physical body. But then it can work on its etheric body. When the etheric body is also wise, the physical body is worked on; in the future it will strengthen the physical body. But who is working in the physical body today? The Godhead; it is working on the limbs of human nature, on which man does not yet work himself. Let us go back to the example of the cut-off hand. The hand can only exist on the body; removed from it, it withers. Likewise, if I were to be lifted just a few miles above the earth, I would wither away like the severed hand. From this it follows that as a physical human being I am bound to the place where I am placed. Just as I cannot consider the hand by itself, I cannot consider the human being without the earth. Man is not a body in itself, but a part of the whole earth organism. 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Die Gottheit; sie schafft an den Gliedern der Menschennatur, an denen der Mensch noch nicht selbst schafft. Gehen wir auf das Beispiel der abgehauenen Hand zurück. Die Hand kann nur bestehen am Leibe; von ihm entfernt, verdorrt sie. Ebenso: Würde ich nur einige Meilen über die Erde hinausgehoben, so würde ich verdorren wie die abgehauene Hand. Daraus folgt: Als physischer Mensch bin ich an den Platz gebunden, an den ich gestellt bin. Wie ich die Hand nicht für sich betrachten kann, so kann ich den Menschen nicht ohne die Erde betrachten. Der Mensch ist kein Leib für sich, sondern ein Stück vom ganzen Erdorganismus. Er kann nur bei den Eigenschaften bestehen, die dieser bietet. Bei zweihundert Grad Wärme zum Beispiel könnte er nicht existieren. Wie unser Organismus von der Seele, so ist der ganze Erdorganismus von der Erdseele belebt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90b/1906-01-10/p033"},{"locus":"GA 90b/1906-01-10/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Der ‹Geist der Erde› in Goethes «Faust» ist keine Phrase, sondern Wahrheit. 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