{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 104a/1909-05-13/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the Bible human beings experience the power of God that flows to them as “manna.” Let us now consider the full character of this age. Yahweh reveals himself in the burning bush on Sinai. “Then Yahweh spoke to Moses: ‘I am the I am.’ And he spoke: ‘You should say to the sons of Israel: ‘The I am has sent me to you!’” (Exodus 3:13) With these words the people were told: The I am has sent me to you! Yahweh is the unpronounceable name of God. The name “I” can never be spoken to a human being from outside. It is the intimate name of God that human beings are only permitted to receive, sanctified in their hearts. It was written on the altar of the tabernacle. Therefore, we read: “To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna and I will give him a white stone with a new name written on the white stone ... (Rev. 2:17) Those who received the I learned through an inner power of the spirit to recognize the name with the hidden manna. Through the fact that Christ revealed himself in a physical body on the earth, human beings are to learn not to disdain the earth like the ascetics, but to recognize that this earth has something to give them. And so, the thirst for existence should not be extinguished but we should purify our desires. The westerner should say: “Here work is done; here hands are in motion and what is achieved here is taken through the gate of death.” It is not our intention to tell of miracles but, through legends, to come to realize what humanity has been given as wisdom.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II-IV","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-05-13","location":null,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1909-05-13/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"James H. Hindes","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/19090513p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1909-05-13/p021"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1909-05-13/p021","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Teilnehmeraufzeichnungen von vier Vorträgen","evidence_translation":"Participants' records of four lectures","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1909-05-13/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"In der Bibel erlebt der Mensch die Götterkraft, die ihm zufließt, als das «Manna». Nehmen wir jetzt die volle Charakteristik des Zeitraumes: Es offenbart sich Jehova auf Sinai im brennenden Dornbusch. «Da sprach Jahve zu Moses: «Ich bin der Ich-bin.» Und er sprach: «So sollst du den Söhnen Israels sprechen: Der Ich-bin hat mich zu euch gesandt.»» (Vgl. 2. Mose 3, 14) Damit wurde den Menschen gesagt: Der Ich-bin hat mich zu euch gesandt! Jahve ist der Name des unaussprechlichen Gottes. Niemals kann der Name «Ich» zum Menschen von außen erklingen; das ist der intime Gottesname, den der Mensch nur geheiligt empfangen durfte in der Brust. Der wurde geschrieben auf den Altar der Stiftshütte. Daher heißt es: «Wer überwindet, dem will ich geben vom verborgenen Manna, und will ihm einen weißen Stein geben und darauf einen neuen Namen geschrieben...»(Vgl. Apk. 2, 17) Diejenigen, die das Ich empfingen, lernten durch innere Geisteskraft den Namen mit dem verborgenen Manna erkennen. Dadurch, daß sich der Christus im menschlichen Leibe auf der Erde enthüllte, dadurch sollten die Menschen lernen, nicht wie die Asketen das physische Dasein zu verachten; sie sollten lernen, daß diese Erde ihnen etwas zu geben hat. Daher soll man nicht auslöschen den Durst nach Dasein, nur läutern soll man seine Begierden. Der Westen sollte sich sagen: «Hier wird gearbeitet; hier werden die Hände gerührt und das, was man sich hier erarbeitet, das nimmt man mit durch die Pforte des Todes.» Nicht Wunder wollen wir erzählen, sondern durch Legenden uns einmal klarmachen, was der Menschheit als Weisheitslehre gegeben worden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1909-05-13/p021"}],"english":["GA 104a/1909-05-13/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":287,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.2,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2445,"original_word_count":2043,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. 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