{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 102/1908-02-15/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Then for reasons which we have already stated, the moon separated and we have the earth by itself and the present moon as its satellite. To the sun withdrew all the beings of an essentially higher order than man, whom we have called the Fire-Spirits. But there were certain beings which had not ascended high enough to be able really to endure the sun existence. You must be clear that they were beings exalted far above man, but still not so far advanced as to be able, like the Fire-Spirits, to live on the sun. Dwelling-places had to be created for them. None of the other theatres could have served them, for those were for beings of another nature, who had by no means attained the great age of the beings who, though belonging to the Fire-Spirits, had not quite kept up with them in cosmic evolution. In the main there were two species of beings who had remained behind, and two special arenas were therefore formed for them through the severing of Mercury and Venus from the sun. Mercury and Venus are two planets which have split off as the centres for those Fire-Spirits who are exalted far above human existence, yet who could not have supported the sun-existence. So you have Mercury in the neighbourhood of the sun as arena for those beings who had not been able to live with the Fire-Spirits on the sun, and Venus as arena for beings who in a certain respect had remained behind the Mercury beings but who yet stood far above man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Spiritual Beings and Planetary Formation in Cosmic Evolution","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Alle die anderen Schauplätze hätten ihnen nicht gedient; denn die sind für andersgeartete Wesenheiten, die durchaus nicht das immerhin hohe Alter derjenigen Wesenheiten erreicht haben, die zwar zu den Feuergeistern zu zählen sind, jedoch den kosmischen Kursus nicht ganz absolviert haben. In der Hauptsache waren es zwei Gattungen von Wesenheiten, die zurückgeblieben waren; für diese wurden dadurch zwei besondere Schauplätze geschaffen, daß sich zwei andere Planeten von der Sonne abspalteten, «Merkur» und «Venus». Merkur und Venus sind zwei Planeten, die von der Sonne sich abgespalten haben als die Schauplätze für diejenigen Feuergeister, die weit erhaben sind über menschliches Dasein, die aber das Sonnendasein nicht hätten ertragen können. So haben Sie den Merkur in der Nähe der Sonne als Schauplatz für diejenigen Wesenheiten, die nicht auf der Sonne mit den Feuergeistern hätten leben können, und die Venus als Schauplatz für Wesenheiten, die in gewisser Beziehung hinter den Merkurwesenheiten zurückgeblieben waren, die aber noch weit über dem Menschen standen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":270,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/102/1908-02-15/p020"}],"english":["GA 102/1908-02-15/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":270,"en_words":262,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5879,"original_word_count":6223,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1961","book_title":"The Influence of Spiritual Beings on Man","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA102/English/AP1961/19080215p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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