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342. Anthroposophical Foundations for a Renewed Christian Spiritual Activity: Fourth Lecture 14 Jun 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
That is, after all, what more or less clearly expressed underlies our current knowledge. This realization is immediately dispelled when one considers how humans integrate into the cosmos quite differently [than animals].
In the first three lines one would express essentially how the human being still stands under the influence of the conditions of heredity, how he is born out of the father principle of the world.
Certain powers in relation to natural life have definitely declined, and that is why we do not understand many things that are told in biblical history and that mean something quite different from what man associates with them today.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: Fever Versus Shock 30 Dec 1922, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
A large amount of food accumulates in a man's abdomen that he cannot assimilate. In order to understand what is at work here, we must take a closer look at the human organism. What actually happens when the abdomen does not work properly?
The best care for the unborn child naturally requires an understanding of these matters. Pregnant women thus often are not at all satisfied when they obtain what they momentarily crave; as soon as they have it, they crave another taste.
If you give this some thought, you discover what is actually contained in the materialistic viewpoint, which undermines human dignity. A real and true knowledge of the human being leads us instead to the realization that the soul is already there, has always lived.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Brain and Thinking 05 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
These matters must be fully comprehended, and it is therefore important to get to the bottom of things and understand what really lies at their foundation. The very first sentences taught little children in school today—not directly, but indirectly—are mostly rubbish!
At other times, you will see the beetles arrive, run around the dead mouse, and then start digging. First, they dig the ground under the mouse and then all around it. The mouse gradually sinks deeper and deeper into the earth as they continue digging.
The real reason anthroposophy is considered heresy is that those who are engaged in so-called science do not think and cannot understand anthroposophy. This is an aspect of our entire civilization. It is possible today to be a great scientist or scholar without being able really to think.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Effects of Alcohol on Man 08 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
Minute, detrimental influences from outside, even substances that the body otherwise needs to sustain itself, can undermine human health, indeed, can undermine generally the entire organization of the human being. Man can withstand a good deal, but beyond a certain point the organism fails.
This does not infringe on human freedom, but understanding causes a person to say to himself, “Why, this is shocking! I am harmed right into my bones!”
The educated gentleman knows it all. A simple person can't understand everything!” The fact is that the lecturer himself doesn't fully comprehend what he is talking about.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Power of Intelligence as the Effect of the Sun — Beaver Lodges and Wasps' Nests 10 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
Because anything relating to reproduction of living beings must be thoroughly understood, I wish to make use of the time today to speak a bit more about this question from a completely different perspective.
If one wishes to understand the phenomena of the world, therefore, one should not rely too much on speculation; one's speculation is not at all the important thing.
I wanted to add this so that you could understand better everything that relates to Mr. E's question. Now think all this over. Should you wish to ask further questions, I hope to be here next Saturday.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Effect of Nicotine — Vegetarian and Meat Diets — On Taking Absinthe — Twin Births 13 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
When one must sit down and read some difficult book, the blood is stimulated. As soon as an effort has to be made to understand something, the blood is stimulated, but people do not want that anymore. They quite dislike having to exert themselves to understand something. That is something quite repugnant to people. They do not want to understand anything! This unwillingness to understand causes their blood to thicken. Such thick blood circulates more slowly.
You can recognize the extraordinary importance of thoroughly understanding the entire human being in order to determine how a given substance works in the human body. Now, man constantly eats.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: Diphtheria and Influenza — Crossed Eyes 20 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
In this roundabout way, all such matters naturally can come under consideration. A connection can only be claimed, however, if all other factors have been excluded.
What does diphtheria really consist of? Diphtheria can be understood only when one knows that man is actually kept alive from two directions—from the outside in and from the inside out.
In dealing with a patient suffering from diphtheria, for instance, it is under certain conditions best to place him in a rosemary bath so he can smell the rosemary. Repeated long rosemary baths will strengthen the activity of his skin.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Relationship Between the Breathing and the Circulation of the Blood — Jaundice — Smallpox — Rabies 27 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
Figure 1 What can be done under these circumstances? Well, people already do the only thing that can be done in such cases. They vaccinate with cowpox vaccine.
In the same way, when the earth was still the mother of the human being—although the earth was then a kind of comet—he participated in all that the earth underwent. His pulse beat and breathing were that of the earth's pulse beat and breathing. It therefore can be said that it is most remarkable when, if we go back into ancient times when human beings knew instinctively and were not clever as they are today, they always called the earth “mother”—Mother Earth and so forth.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Effect of Absinthe — Hemophilia — The Ice Age — The Declining Oriental and the Rising European Cultures — On Bees 03 Feb 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
It is especially important in pregnancy to administer a lead remedy if there is any possibility at all of hemophilia. All this cannot be understood if one does not know that only the solid body of man is really physical and material. Only that portion is material.
He has the actual soul element in the air he carries within him. When this is understood, that in the air one has the soul element, it becomes clear that man exhales the soul element with each breath, and with each inhalation he takes it into himself again.
In most instances the individual bees renounce love and develop the love in the entire beehive. One can begin to understand their life when one becomes clear that the bees live as if in an atmosphere that is pervaded through and through with love.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Relationship of the Planets to the Metals and their Healing Effects 10 Feb 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
When, in his clinic, he had the corpses of people available who at one time had undergone mercury treatments, he would break their bones open and show his students that little drops of mercury were deposited in them.
There are some people who, when they fall ill with typhoid or cholera, occasionally undergo terrible attacks of dizziness almost to the point of losing consciousness; then events take a most critical turn.
An infection can arise only when the skin is so worn or broken in some spot that the infectious substance can enter through it. You can understand that the infectious substance of syphilis must first have originated where contrasting foreign bloods intermingled.

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