{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 95/1906-08-26/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we are talking only of the physical plane, we are quite justified in saying that man has his Ego and his dwelling-place here, and that man is the highest of the beings who live on the Earth. On the astral plane things are quite different. As soon as an Initiate enters that plane, he comes to know a whole range of new beings who are not present on the physical plane, but appear on the astral plane as beings like himself. Among them are the species-souls or group-souls of animals, and one associates with them as one does with other people on the physical plane. On the physical plane animals have only a physical, an etheric and an astral body; they have no Ego there, for their Ego is to be found on the astral plane. Just as your ten fingers have a common soul, all animals of one species have their common soul on the astral plane. The Ego of the species lion, dog, or ant, and so on, is to be found there as a real being. It is as though the Ego hovered in astral space and held the individual animals on strings like marionettes. Plants also have group-souls of this kind, but their Ego is in Devachan; the “strings” go still higher. And all the minerals, such as gold, diamonds, rocks and so forth, have their group-soul in the upper region of Devachan.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-08-26","location":null,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-08-26/p010","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E.H. 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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":"Vierzehn Vorträge und zwei Fragenbeantwortungen (Hörernotizen)","evidence_translation":"Fourteen lectures and two question-answerings (listeners' notes)","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. 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Die Tiere haben auf dem physischen Plan nur den physischen, Äther- und Astralleib; das Ich haben sie nicht auf dem physischen, sondern auf dem Astralplan. So wie Ihre zehn Finger eine gemeinsame Seele haben, so haben alle Tiere einer Gattung eine gemeinsame Seele auf dem Astralplan. Das Ich der Tiergattung Löwe, Hund, Ameisen und so weiter ist dort vorhanden als eine Wesenheit. Es ist gleichsam, als schwebte das Ich im Astralraum und hielte an Seilen die verschiedenen Tiere wie Marionetten. Auch für die Pflanzen gibt es solche Gruppenseelen; sie haben ihr Ich aber im Devachan. Da reichen die «Seile» gewissermaßen noch höher hinauf. Und alle Mineralien aus gemeinsamen Stoffen, wie Gold, Diamanten, Steine und so weiter, haben eine gemeinsame Gruppenseele in der oberen Partie des Devachan. So unterscheiden sich die Wesenheiten in ihrer Stufenfolge:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":253,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-26/p010"}],"english":["GA 95/1906-08-26/p010","GA 95/1906-08-26/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":253,"en_words":248,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 95/1906-08-26/p010"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2187,"original_word_count":2135,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. 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