{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 99/1907-06-05/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus it is man himself who will bring about the future form of his body. Inasmuch as the human being becomes softer and softer, inasmuch as he separates himself from the hard parts, he is approaching his future. An age comes when man will live above his earthly portion as it were, as in time gone by. This condition, which is comparable to your present sleep-condition, will then be replaced by another when the human being will be able to draw his etheric body out of his physical body at will. It will be as if the denser part of man were here below on earth and the human being will make use of it from outside like an instrument. Man will no longer bear his body about and live within it, but will float above it, the body will itself have become rarefied and finer. That seems a fantastic idea today, but one can be distinctly aware of it from spiritual laws just as one reckons future eclipses of the sun and moon from the laws of astronomy. Above all it will be upon the reproductive force that man will work. He will transform it. Many people cannot imagine that there will ever be a different generative process. But it will be so, the process of generation will be altered. The generative process and all that stands in connection with it will pass over in the future to another organ. The organ that is already preparing to become the future organ of generation is the human larynx. Today it can only bring forth vibrations of the air, can only impart to the air what lies in the word that goes forth from it, so that the vibrations correspond to the word. Later on, not only will the word press forward in its rhythm from the larynx, but it will be irradiated by man, it will be penetrated by very substance. Just as today the word only becomes airwaves, so in the future man's inner being, his own likeness, which today is in his word, will issue from the larynx. The human being will proceed from the human being, man will *speak forth* man. And this in the future will be the birth of a new human being—that he is spoken forth by another.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIII. The Future of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-05","location":null,"word_count":384,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-06-05/p017","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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Indem der Mensch immer weicher und weicher wird, das heißt indem er sich absondern wird von den harten Teilen, geht er seiner Zukunft entgegen. Es kommt ein Zeitalter, wo der Mensch wie in verflossener Zeit gleichsam über seinem irdischen Teile leben wird. Dieser Zustand, der Ihrem heutigen Schlafzustande vergleichbar ist, wird alsdann abgelöst werden von einem andern, wo der Mensch seinen Ätherleib wird willkürlich herausziehen können aus seinem physischen Leibe. Es wird gleichsam der dichtere Teil des Menschen hier unten auf Erden sein, und der Mensch wird ihn wie ein Instrument von außen benutzen. Der Mensch wird seinen Leib nicht mehr so an sich tragen, daß er in ihm wohnt, sondern er wird darüber schweben; der Leib selbst wird feiner und dünner geworden sein. Das erscheint heute als ein phantastischer Gedanke, aber man kann es aus den geistigen Gesetzen mit Bestimmtheit wissen, ebenso wie man aus den Gesetzen der Astronomie Sonnen- und Mondfinsternisse für die Zukunft berechnet. Und umgestaltend wird der Mensch vor allen Dingen wirken auf die Hervorbringungskraft. Viele können sich nicht vorstellen, daß je eine andere Fortpflanzungskraft als heute da sein wird. Aber sie wird da sein, die Art der Fortpflanzung wird sich ändern. Alles, was heute Fortpflanzung ist und im Zusammenhang mit diesem Triebe steht, wird in Zukunft an ein anderes Organ übergehen. Dasjenige Organ, das sich heute schon darauf vorbereitet, das zukünftige Fortpflanzungsorgan zu werden, ist der menschliche Kehlkopf. Heute kann er nur Luftschwingungen hervorbringen, er kann nur dasjenige, was in einem Worte liegt, der Luft mitteilen, so daß die Schwingungen dem Worte entsprechend sind. Später wird aus diesem Kehlkopfe nicht nur das Wort in seinem Rhythmus hervordringen, sondern dieses Wort wird vom Menschen durchleuchtet werden, es wird durchdrungen werden vom Stoffe selber. So wie heute das Wort nur zur Luftwelle wird, so wird in Zukunft des Menschen inneres Wesen, sein eigenes Ebenbild, wie es heute im Worte ist, aus dem Kehlkopfe herausdringen. Der Mensch wird aus dem Menschen hervorgehen, der Mensch wird den Menschen aussprechen. Und das wird zukünftig die Geburt eines neuen Menschen sein, daß er ausgesprochen wird von einem anderen Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":362,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-06-05/p015"}],"english":["GA 99/1907-06-05/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":362,"en_words":384,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4976,"original_word_count":4748,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. 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