{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90b/1906-01-10/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The astral body is constantly attacking the physical body. The heart is good. 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. He can only exist with the properties that the earth offers. For example, he could not exist at a temperature of two hundred degrees Celsius. Just as our organism is enlivened by the soul, so is the whole earth organism enlivened by the earth soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXXVIII. The Transient and the Eternal","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-01-10","location":null,"word_count":256,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90b/1906-01-10/p034","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":"Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090b/English/SOL2024/19060110p01.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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The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Frühe Vortragsreihen und Einzelvorträge für Mitglieder in Berlin 1905–1906 nach ausführlichen und z.T. fragmentarischen Mitschriften.","evidence_translation":"Early lecture series and single lectures for members in Berlin 1905-1906, from detailed and in part fragmentary listeners' transcripts.","evidence_source":"The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 90b); the description calls them \"Hörermitschriften\", and the served text carries the note-taker's gap marker \"[Lücke in der Mitschrift]\". 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Es braucht lange Zeit, bis der Astralleib es dahin bringt, dass er ebenso weise ist wie der physische. Dann aber kann er an seinem Ätherleib arbeiten. Wenn auch der Ätherleib weise ist, wird der physische bearbeitet; den physischen Leib stärkt er in der Zukunft. Wer wirkt denn aber heute in seinem physischen Leib? 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"}],"english":["GA 90b/1906-01-10/p034"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":222,"en_words":256,"ratio":1.15,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.1,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4052,"original_word_count":3695,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090b/English/SOL2024/19060110p01.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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