{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-31/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When as yet man had no intellect it was possible for the active light of the Godhead to pass through him and illuminate objects. The human being was the mediator for the Godhead. The latter wished by means of light to make the solid objects visible. Because the light passed through him, man himself was formed. Before the light had passed through the human being the Godhead had no need of light, because the objects were not yet solid, but fluid, so that no use could be made of light. That is the condition described in the Bible: ‘And darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God brooded on the face of the waters.’ At that time the world was simply water, even gold and silver and the other metals ran, were fluid. When within the water, like blocks of ice, solid objects arose, man separated his membered form and light became necessary. God said: ‘Let there be light and there was light.’ Then it was that man too first received his form. That is the moment when the Light Ether was introduced and the solid element separated off. God said: ‘Let the dry land appear.’ Before that everything was of a watery nature. In the same way as the Light Ether was incorporated into the solid element, so was the Chemical Ether incorporated into the water. Chemical relationships were worked into man when he was still fluid. The chemical relationships according to which today the different substances are combined, were imprinted into the individual. Then we come back into a condition when man and also the whole Earth was still aeriform; the life, or the atomistic ether flowed into him. The life ether was at that time introduced into the world through man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXVIII","site_heading":"Cosmic Evolution of Human Senses and Consciousness","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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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":"Notizen von einem esoterischen Lehrgang","evidence_translation":"Notes from an esoteric course","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-31/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Als der Mensch noch keinen Verstand hatte, da war es möglich, daß das aktive Licht der Gottheit durch ihn hindurchging und die Gegenstände beleuchtete. Der Mensch war Mittler für die Gottheit. Diese wollte durch das Licht die festbegrenzten Gegenstände sichtbar machen. Dadurch, daß das Licht durch den Menschen hindurchging, wurde der Mensch selbst gestaltet. Bevor das Licht durch den Menschen hindurchging, brauchte die Gottheit noch nicht das Licht, weil die Gegenstände noch nicht fest waren, sondern flüssig, so daß man das Licht noch nicht brauchen konnte. Das ist der Zustand, den die Bibel schildert: «Es war finster auf der Tiefe und der Geist Gottes brütete über den Gewässern». Die Welt war damals richtiges Wasser, auch Gold und Silber und die anderen Metalle rannen damals, waren flüssig. Als innerhalb des Wassers wie Eisbrocken die festen Gegenstände entstanden, da gliederte sich der Mensch ab, und das Licht wurde notwendig. Gott sprach: «Es werde Licht, und es ward Licht», und da bekam der Mensch auch erst seine Gestalt. Das ist der Moment, als der Lichtäther hineingeleitet wird und sich die festen Bestandteile absondern: «Gott machte eine Feste.» Früher war alles eine wässerige Substanz. So wie der Lichtäther in das Feste geleitet wurde, so wurde der chemische Äther in das Wasser geleitet. In den Menschen wurde die chemische Verwandtschaft hineingearbeitet, als er noch flüssig war. Die chemischen Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse, nach denen sich heute die verschiedenen Substanzen verbinden, wurden dem einzelnen eingeprägt. Dann kommen wir in einen Zustand zurück, da der Mensch und auch die ganze Erde noch luftförmig war; da wurde ihm der Lebensäther oder der atomistische Äther eingeflößt. Der Lebensäther wurde damals durch den Menschen in die Welt hineingeleitet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-31/p008"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-10-31/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":275,"en_words":299,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3048,"original_word_count":2811,"may_be_abridged":false},"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/RSP1982/19051031p01.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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