{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-07/p003-p007","extent":"range","passage_number":3,"through":7,"paragraph_count":5,"first_locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-07/p003","last_locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-07/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Lecture XII","date":"1905-10-07","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051007p01.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 point of fact what we have before us is not just the physical body but a combination of the physical body with higher forces. A piece of rock crystal is also physical but in its very nature this is something quite different from the human eye or heart, which are also physical. The eye and heart are parts of the physical body, but they are intermixed with man's higher members and through this, something is brought about which is completely different from other aspects of the physical. In water we find oxygen and hydrogen but they look quite different from when we see them separated. Then we are aware of their difference. In water we have before us a mixture of both. What meets us in the physical body of man is also a mixture comprised of the physical, etheric and astral bodies.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p003","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051007p01.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 the middle of the Saturn evolution the so-called Asuras (the Archai) were sufficiently advanced to make use of the apparatus. At that time they were at the human stage. They made use of the automata and the pictures they produced. The Asuras themselves were not within the apparatus but outside and only made use of the pictures as we make use of photographic apparatus in order to take pictures of a landscape. Thus the physical body of man was at that time an architectural structure of a physical apparatus operated from outside. This is the first stage of human existence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p004","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051007p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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That also found expression in the configuration of the body. The automaton was built up out of a fairly firm undifferentiated mass, similar to what today is a jelly-like substance, like a soft crystal.[^1] In the second Round of evolution in the Old Sun existence, the physical automaton was imbued with the etheric body. In this Round the solar plexus developed. It is so called because still today only rudiments of the organ are present. It fashions a nervous system into the physical apparatus. In the case of the plant something similar is present. That is the second stage.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p005","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051007p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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Even today the solar plexus is an active agent in certain animals which have not developed a spinal cord. All invertebrate animals are single forms from left behind stages of what was laid down earlier. It was only on the Earth that man cast out from himself the vertebrate animals. In earlier times his organism was still somewhat similar to that of the crab at the present day. Man has progressed beyond that earlier stage whereas the crab has remained stationary. It is an astonishing fact that the whole inner formation of the crab has a certain similarity to the human brain. There is actually a similarity between the internal formation of the crab and the human brain. Like the human brain the crab too is enclosed in a hard shell. After man had developed a spine and had metamorphosed the upper vertebrae, he cast off the hard shell. The crab has not developed further. It has adapted itself to its environment by means of a hard shell that it had to have and which serves the same purpose as does the protective covering of the whole body in man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051007p01.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 heart of the fish has remained stationary at a halfway stage.[^2] The development of the heart is proportionate to the degree in which there is an increase in the inner warmth of the body; this signifies nothing other than a drawing of the astral into the body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":83,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051007p01.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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Aber das ist dem Wesen nach etwas ganz anderes, als das menschliche Auge oder das Herz, die doch auch physisch sind. Das Auge und das Herz sind Teile des physischen Körpers, aber vermischt mit den höheren Gliedern des Menschen und dadurch wird im Physischen etwas ganz anderes bewirkt als beim übrigen Physischen. Sauerstoff und Wasserstoff haben wir auch im Wasser vor uns, aber sie sehen da ganz anders aus, als wenn wir sie beide für sich sehen oder für sich haben. Dann treten sie uns ganz anders entgegen. Im Wasser haben wir eine Mischung der beiden vor uns. Was uns nun im physischen Körper des Menschen entgegentritt, ist auch eine Mischung aus dem Physischen mit dem Äther- und dem Astralkörper.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":171,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p003"},{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-07/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Das physische menschliche Auge ist ähnlich einer photographischen Kamera, denn wie in der Kamera entsteht darin ein Bild der Umwelt. Wenn man nun von dem physischen Auge alles abzieht, was in der Kamera nicht entsteht, dann hat man erst das Spezifische des physischen Auges. So muß man auch von dem ganzen physischen Körper alles abziehen, was nicht rein physisch ist, dann hat man erst das, was man im Okkultismus den physischen Körper nennt. Dieser kann unmittelbar nicht leben, nicht denken, nicht fühlen. Da bleibt dann übrig ein sehr weise eingerichteter äußerst komplizierter Automat, ein rein physikalischer Apparat. Diesen ganz allein gab es nur auf der Saturnstufe des menschlichen Daseins. Damals waren die Augen nicht anders vorhanden denn als kleine Kameras. Was darin von der Umwelt als Bild entworfen wurde, kam zum Bewußtsein einer Devawesenheit. In der Mitte des Saturnkreislaufes waren die sogenannten Asuras (die Archai) reif, den Apparat zu benutzen. Diese waren dazumal auf der Stufe der Menschheit. Sie benutzten diesen Automaten und die Bilder, die darin entstanden. Sie selbst waren nicht darinnen, sondern außerhalb und benutzten nur die Bilder; ähnlich wie wir uns jetzt photographischer Apparate bedienen können, um Bilder einer Landschaft aufzunehmen. Der physische Körper des Menschen war also dazumal ein von außen aufgeführter, architektonischer Aufbau eines physikalischen Apparates. Das ist die erste Stufe des menschlichen Daseins.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p004"},{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-07/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Die zweite Stufe der Ausbildung war die Durcharbeitung dieses physikalischen Apparates mit dem Ätherleib. Da wurde er ein lebender Organismus. Das drückte sich dann auch aus in der Konfiguration des Körpers. Der Automat war aufgebaut aus einer ziemlich festen undifferenzierten Masse, ähnlich wie heute eine Geleemasse ist, wie ein weicher Kristall.* Im zweiten Kreislauf, in dem Sonnendasein, wurde der physische Automat nun von dem Ätherkörper durchzogen. In diesem Sonnenkreislauf entstand auch das Sonnengeflecht (Solarplexus), das darnach benannt ist, weil das ein wirkliches Organ ist, von dem heute nur noch Rudimente vorhanden sind. Es arbeitet sich ein Nervensystem in den physikalischen Apparat hinein. Bei den Pflanzen ist noch etwas Ähnliches vorhanden. Das ist die zweite Stufe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":115,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p005"},{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-07/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Aber diese Stufen sind nicht abgeschlossen; die Entwickelung geht graduell weiter. Ein solches wirksames Agens ist das Sonnengeflecht auch noch heute bei den Tieren, die kein Rückenmark ausbilden. Alle wirbellosen Tiere sind noch einzelne Ausbildungen zurückgelassener Stufen desjenigen, was früher veranlagt war. Die Wirbeltiere hat der Mensch erst auf der Erde aus sich herausgesetzt. Früher war der Mensch noch ähnlich organisiert wie heute etwa der Krebs. Der Mensch ist heute über die damalige Stufe hinausgeschritten, während der Krebs stehengeblieben ist. Überraschend ist es, daß das ganze Innere des Krebses eine gewisse Ähnlichkeit mit dem menschlichen Gehirn hat. Es gibt tatsächlich eine Ähnlichkeit zwischen der inneren Krebsgestalt und dem menschlichen Gehirn. Auch der Krebs ist eingeschlossen in eine harte Schale wie das menschliche Gehirn. Nachdem der Mensch ein Rückenmark ausgebildet und die oberen Wirbel umgestaltet hatte, warf er die harte Schale ab. Der Krebs hat sich nicht weiter entwickelt. Er hat sich an die äußere Umgebung angepaßt durch eine harte Schale, die ihm das sein mußte, was dem Menschen die schützende Hülle der ganzen übrigen Körperlichkeit ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p006"},{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-07/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Die dritte Stufe ist die, auf der das Ganze umorganisiert wird von dem hineinarbeitenden Astralleib. Das Umorganisieren ist verknüpft mit der Ausbildung des Herzens und dem Durchströmen mit dem warmen Blut. Das Fischherz ist auf dem halben Wege stehengeblieben. Das Herz wird gleichmäßig in dem Maße ausgebildet als die innere Körperwärme zunimmt; das heißt nichts anderes als das Einziehen des Astralen in den Körper hinein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":65,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p007"}],"beads":[{"from":[3],"to":[3],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"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)."}}