{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 106/1908-09-12/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"At first, man lived in the bosom of the Godhead. Then he descended to the physical plane. Had he remained above, he would never have achieved his present consciousness of self. He would never have received an ego. Only in the physical body could he kindle the consciousness of self in its bright clarity. He had to encounter external objects and become able to distinguish himself from the objects; he had to descend into the physical world. Only for the sake of man's ego did it happen that man descended. In respect to his ego man stems from the gods. This ego descended out of the spiritual world; it was forged on the physical body so that it might become bright and clear. It is precisely the hardened matter of the human body that has given man his self-conscious ego, that has made it possible for him to attain knowledge. But it also chained him to the earth-mass, to the rock-mass.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Tenth Lecture","site_heading":"Initiation, Christ, and Humanity's Spiritual Redemption","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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Wäre er oben geblieben, er hätte niemals sein heutiges Selbstbewußtsein erlangt. Er hätte nie ein Ich erhalten. Nur im physischen Leibe konnte er das Selbstbewußtsein in seiner hellen Klarheit entfachen. Es mußten äußere Gegenstände ihm entgegentreten, er mußte sich unterscheiden können von den Gegenständen, er mußte hinuntersteigen in die physische Welt. Nur um des Ichs des Menschen willen ist es geschehen, daß der Mensch heruntergestiegen ist. Der Mensch ist seinem Ich nach von den Göttern abstammend. Es ist heruntergestiegen aus der geistigen Welt; es ist geschmiedet worden an den physischen Leib, damit es hell und klar werden kann. Gerade das, was als die verhärtete Materie des Menschenleibes aufgetreten ist, das hat dem Menschen sein selbstbewußtes Ich gegeben, das hat ihm möglich gemacht, sich Erkenntnis zu erwerben. Es hat ihn aber auch geschmiedet an die Erdenmasse, an die Felsenmasse.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-12/p026"}],"english":["GA 106/1908-09-12/p028"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":154,"en_words":161,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5907,"original_word_count":5918,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Norman MacBeth","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Egyptian Myths and Mysteries","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA106/English/AP1971/19080912p01.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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