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Whatever a more or less incorrect philology may say about it, it does not matter. What matters is to show how the symbolic in the wording can work in occultism. The aim of this wording was to make the person, by pronouncing the words, aware of the occult fact that the physical and spiritual worlds have opposite directions in their currents.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. Group Ego and Individual Ego","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-27","location":null,"word_count":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-27/p030","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071227p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Wenn die Menschheit nun wiederum hinaufgeführt werden soll zum Geistigen, und wenn der Gegensatz ausgedrückt werden soll zu dem Weibe, das das Sterbliche in die Welt gebracht hat, dann muß dasjenige, was das Unsterbliche wieder hineinbringen soll in die Menschheit, umgekehrt ausgedrückt werden; der Name muß umgekehrt werden. Daher redet der Engel Gottes die Maria an mit den Worten «Ave, Maria!» - Aus Eva wird Ave; diese Umkehrung hat symbolischen Charakter. Was auch eine mehr oder weniger verkehrte Philologie dagegen sagt, darauf kommt es nicht an. Es kommt darauf an zu zeigen, wie im Okkultismus das Symbolische in der Wortfügung zu wirken vermag. Man suchte mit dieser Wortfügung zu bewirken, daß der Mensch, indem er die Worte ausspricht, sich der okkulten Tatsache bewußt wird, daß die physische und die geistige Welt in ihren Strömungen umgekehrte Richtungen haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":209,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-12-27/p030"}],"english":["GA 101/1907-12-27/p030"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":209,"en_words":198,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5558,"original_word_count":5233,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071227p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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