{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 99/1907-05-28/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These incipient human beings must now receive an etheric body and a physical body. What happened hitherto, up to the stage of the formation of the astral body, depended upon themselves, upon the forces they themselves had developed. But the forming of the etheric body does not, in the present phase of evolution, depend upon the human being alone; in respect of the forming of an etheric body, man is dependent upon beings external to himself. Consequently the human being always has a fitting astral body but there is not in every case perfect accordance between the astral body and the etheric and physical bodies; this is often the cause of maladjustment and lack of satisfaction in life. These incipient human beings whirl around space as they do because they are seeking for suitable parents, parents who will afford the best possible opportunity of receiving an etheric and a physical nature befitting the astral being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. The Descent to a New Birth","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-05-28","location":null,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-05-28/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. 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Was bisher geschehen ist bis zum Aufbau des Astralleibes, hing von ihnen selbst ab, je nach den Kräften, die sie selbst entwickelt haben. Wie aber der Ätherleib sich bildet, das hängt nicht allein vom Menschen ab in dem gegenwärtigen Entwickelungslauf, sondern in bezug auf diese Bildung ist der Mensch von äußeren Wesen abhängig. Darum hat der Mensch zwar immer einen passenden Astralleib; es ist aber nicht immer der Fall, daß dieser Astralleib ganz in den Ätherund physischen Leib hineinpaßt. Daher oft die Disharmonie und Unzufriedenheit im Leben. Daß die werdenden Menschen so herumschwirren, geschieht namentlich deshalb, weil sie ein passendes Elternpaar suchen, das ihnen die beste Gelegenheit gibt, eine zur Astralwesenheit stimmende ÄÄther- und physische Körperlichkeit zu bekommen. Eskann immer nur das relativ beste und passende Elternpaar sein, das ihnen diese gibt. Bei diesem Suchen wirken Wesenheiten, die den Ätherleib an den astralischen Leib angliedern und die ähnlich dem sind, was man oft Volksgeister nennt. Das ist nicht dieses unfaßbare Abstraktum, als was der Volksgeist gewöhnlich angesehen wird; es ist für den geistigen Beobachter der Welt etwas so Wirkliches wie unsere Seele, die in unserem Leibe verkörpert ist. So hat ein ganzes Volk gemeinschaftlich zwar nicht einen physischen Leib, wohl aber einen Astralleib und die Ansätze zu einem Ätherleibe. Es lebt wie in einer astralischen Wolke, und das ist der Leib für den Volksgeist. Das sind die Lenker der Ätherbildungen um den Menschen herum, und so hat der Mensch sich nicht mehr selbst in der Gewalt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-28/p022"}],"english":["GA 99/1907-05-28/p023","GA 99/1907-05-28/p024"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":292,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3399,"original_word_count":3225,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. 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