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316. Course for Young Doctors: Christmas Course II 03 Jan 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

Rudolf Steiner
You realize now, surely, that illness is simply not to be understood from the external, physical organism. The process that constitutes illness lies entirely in the super-sensible.
You will understand them when you know that the liver is an organ within the human being which is most foreign to him.
All these things are exceedingly important for an understanding of the nature of man. But although they are investigated and known, here and there, they remain fruitless for the modern world of science as long as there is no basis for understanding how man is membered into the world around him.
316. Course for Young Doctors: Christmas Course III 04 Jan 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

Rudolf Steiner
If it were to press downwards with its full weight there could be no blood vessels underneath it; they would be crushed. The earthly quality of heaviness is actually taken away from the brain.
Insight into cosmic processes is necessary if we want to understand the relationship of the human being to what is out there in the cosmos. Antimony has a particular connection with the human etheric body, and if you introduce it into the human organism as a medicament, you must understand what antimony is outside the human being before you can know what is stimulated in the etheric body by the use of antimony. You must study the delicate processes in nature if you want to understand how a medicament is to act within the human organism.
316. Course for Young Doctors: Christmas Course IV 05 Jan 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

Rudolf Steiner
To look at fragments of nature under the microscope is not to love her. We must love nature. We must all be able to expand her to the macrocosmic.
If we contemplate the sulfuric nature of the plants we can acquire an understanding for their scent, if we know that something spiritual is in play above and below when the plant gives off its scent.
But this must become a feeling within us, so that we are able to understand the plants. We must understand them in their cosmic, spherical form. If you get such an insight into the nature of the plants that you understand the forces in them which are striving towards drop formation, and then again think of their scent, you will gradually begin to understand everything that works centrifugally in the human being.
316. Course for Young Doctors: Christmas Course V 06 Jan 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

Rudolf Steiner
Many of your questions speak of this as the chaotic knowledge given you by contemporary natural science. What is necessary is to understand, out of real experience, the nature of what was once called the earthy, the watery, the airy, the fiery.
If you will take what I have just said as a stimulus, you will understand the two meditations which will awaken the power of medical understanding within you. In this meditation you may proceed as follows: First of all you can deepen yourselves in contemplation of the external phenomenon of fire, of fire that gives warmth, realizing in this contemplation that this external manifestation of fire is Maya, semblance, illusion.
In the nature of things, those who want to heal must have an intimate understanding of karma in the world. I shall speak of this again. In healing, one cannot run counter to karma; one can only heal in accordance with karma.
316. Course for Young Doctors: Christmas Course VI 07 Jan 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

Rudolf Steiner
The organization of man's inner organs, of the aeriform man, must be understood by means of inspiration. It is really not to be wondered at that real understanding of the inner organs of man was already lost in days of antiquity, for inspiration was lost and inspiration is the only means whereby the inner organs can be understood.
To understand the inner organs, still higher spiritual beings must be reached through inspiration. The inner structure of a skeleton, too, can only be truly understood with inspiration.
I will indicate sometime how the physician can help himself. But you must understand in your hearts what underlies these facts. If you take seriously and earnestly what I have said, it will become a world necessity to introduce into medicine not egoism but altruism.
316. Course for Young Doctors: Christmas Course VII 08 Jan 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

Rudolf Steiner
Some of you are fair, some of you have black hair. What underlies this? Those of you who are dark have in the blackness of the hair an iron process which is going on in the hair.
Just think of the following—the muscular system of man is understood through imagination, as I said yesterday. We learn to know what is working in a muscle when we attain to pictorial, imaginative cognition.
My Philosophy of Spiritual Activity has been little understood because people have not known how to read it. They have read it just as they would read any other book.
316. Course for Young Doctors: Christmas Course VIII 09 Jan 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

Rudolf Steiner
It can also be said that here and there our deeds may give a turn to karma. Nobody who understands karma can ever be a fatalist. The one direction of the physician's attitude is, therefore, towards karma.
What I have said up to now will help you, in a general way, to understand the human being in his relation to the cosmos. Today I should like to give you something that will help you to meditative knowledge of, say, a tiny piece of gold.
If you really feel these things, you will also understand the healing forces of curative eurythmy. The healing power in curative eurythmy is something that reckons very specially with the cosmic forces in the process of healing.
316. Course for Young Doctors: Easter Course I 21 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

Rudolf Steiner
It is, of course, a help if one is able to look at the visible constellations. But if I have understood you aright you mean: How are things, really, if we allow the formulae we have been given to work upon the soul?
Meditation consists, does it not, in the following. As a modern person you feel that you must understand every sentence. This is emphatically an activity of the ego in the present incarnation. Everything you do intellectually is an activity of the ego.
But thereby the content of meditation becomes—not something for you to understand merely—but something that works within you in reality; so that finally you become aware of: Now I have experienced something I was unaware of earlier.
316. Course for Young Doctors: Easter Course II 22 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

Rudolf Steiner
We know nothing at all about a process of disease when we do not know how it can be healed. Understanding consists in the knowledge of how the morbid process can be eliminated. Without the will to heal there can be no medical study in the true sense.
Up to now I have not, inwardly, had the impulse only to understand the human being in order to heal. I had not the impulse to let the whole of my work and studies and knowledge be filled entirely with the realization: I must be capable of healing the human being.
Those who know how things are and who are led by experience to real understanding—they will be the true pioneers of reasonable medical study. This should be your endeavor: to awaken public opinion about the state of affairs.
316. Course for Young Doctors: Easter Course III 23 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

Rudolf Steiner
And just as externally our spatial form is developed under the influence of the moon in connection with the heavens, so we are inwardly ensouled because the sun is working together with the heavens.
Something still continues and we have to thank Mars and Jupiter for the fact that we are not old men at the age of thirty. If we want to understand why existence is still possible for the human being at the age of forty-five, we must look out into the cosmos.
How can that which we feel so deeply, be realized, and how can we reach an understanding of our own destiny and tasks for the future? We feel that we shall only be able to act truly if we get to understand our own karma in its wide connections and at the same time unfold the courage not to run away from it but to fulfill it in practice in the right way.

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