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This assertion is based on clear insights that come from occult research. But only here on this earth do the stone, the plant, and the animal have no self-consciousness. The question arises: are they not conscious? How this is to be understood can only become clear to us through occult study. Let us start with the consciousness of the human being. The nature of the human being in his fourfold nature is based on the fact that he has his consciousness in this physical world, that he has his four members in this world. 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If you look at a person's ten fingers, they are all animated, but not independent - they are only one part of the whole body. Just as we have to search for the ego of the fingers within us, so we have to go up into the astral world to find the common soul of the animals. The individual lions are members of the Lion-I, the Lion-Soul. All lions are connected in the astral, a thread goes from each of them into the astral world, where the ego is.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/94/1906-11-02/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Theosophy Based on the Gospel of John","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA094/English/SOL2024/19061102p01.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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When we follow groups of animals on the astral plane, we see their development taking place there in the same way as that of human beings on the physical plane as individuals.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":69,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/94/1906-11-02/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Theosophy Based on the Gospel of John","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA094/English/SOL2024/19061102p01.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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Wie das zu verstehen ist, kann uns erst durch okkultes Studium klarwerden. Gehen wir zunächst vom Bewußtsein des Menschen aus. Das Wesen des Menschen in seiner Viergliedrigkeit beruht darauf, daß er sein Bewußtsein in dieser physischen Welt hat, daß er seine vier Glieder in dieser Welt hat. Machen wir uns dies durch ein Schema klar:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":112,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-11-02/p005"},{"locus":"GA 94/1906-11-02/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Das Tier hat seine drei Leiber hier, sein Ich in der Astralwelt; das Tier hat darum keine individuelle Seele, sondern eine Gruppenseele. Wenn Sie des Menschen zehn Finger betrachten, sind sie alle belebt, aber nicht selbständig - sie sind nur ein Glied an dem ganzen Leibe. So wie wir das Ich der Finger in uns suchen müssen, so müssen wir in die astralische Welt hinaufgehen, um die gemeinsame Seele der Tiere zu finden. 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Wenn wir Gruppen von Tieren auf dem Astralplan verfolgen, dann sehen wir dort ihre Entwickelung so vor sich gehen, wie die des Menschen auf dem physischen Plan als Individuum.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":62,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-11-02/p008"},{"locus":"GA 94/1906-11-02/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Die Pflanze hat ihren Astralleib in der Astralwelt, den physischen und Ätherleib in der physischen Welt und das Ich im unteren Devachan. Was ist aber die Wesenheit einer solchen Pflanzengruppe? Es haben gleichartige Pflanzen ihr Ich, ihre Gruppenseele im Devachan. Der Mensch im traumlosen Schlaf ist genau in derselben Lage wie die Pflanze ihr ganzes Leben lang. Die ganze Pflanzenwelt der Erde ist ein schlafendes Wesen; die Pflanze führt ein Traumleben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":71,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-11-02/p009"},{"locus":"GA 94/1906-11-02/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Betrachten wir den schlafenden Menschen: Im Bette liegt der physische und Ätherleib, der Astralleib befindet sich auf dem Astralplan und das Ich im traumlosen Schlaf im Devachan. Gehen wir zum Mineral über. 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