{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The figure of Mephistopheles which will be our starting-point to-day, is familiar to you all from Goethe's *Faust*. You know that Mephistopheles is a Being—we shall not enter to-day into the question of how far the poetic presentation tallies with the occult facts—a figure who appears in the drama as the seducer and tempter of Faust who, in a certain respect, may be thought of as the representative of man aspiring to reach the heights of existence. In lectures on Goethe I have also indicated what spiritual vistas are revealed in the scene of the “Passage to the Mothers”, where Mephistopheles holds in his hand the key giving access to the dark, nether region where the Mothers dwell. Mephistopheles himself may not enter this region. He merely indicates that in this mysterious realm there is no difference between “below” and “above”:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-01-01","location":null,"word_count":141,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"AP1954","book_title":"The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA107/English/AP1954/19090101p01.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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Sie wissen, daß uns diese Gestalt in der Goetheschen Faust-Dichtung entgegentritt als der Verführer und der Versucher des Faust, der ja in gewisser Beziehung als der Typus des nach den Höhen des Lebens strebenden Menschen aufgefaßt werden darf, und es ist von mir auch in Goethe-Vorträgen darauf hingewiesen worden, welche geistige Perspektive die Szene von dem «Gang zu den Müttern» eröffnet, wo Mephistopheles den Schlüssel in der Hand hält zur Eröffnung eines Gebietes in dunkle Untergründe hinein, in denen die «Mütter» sitzen. Mephistopheles selbst kann dieses Gebiet nicht betreten. Er weist nur darauf hin, daß es sich um ein Gebiet handelt, wo unten gleich oben ist: «Versinke denn! Ich könnt’ auch sagen: steige!» Beides würde dasselbe bedeuten für dieses geheimnisvolle Gebiet. Wir wissen auch, daß Mephistopheles dieses Gebiet als ein solches bezeichnet, wofür er das Wort Nichts anwendet. Er vertritt also in einer gewissen Weise den Geist, der in dem Nichts ein für ihn Wertloses in diesem Gebiete erblickt. Faust antwortet darauf, wie etwa heute noch der geistig Strebende dem materialistisch Denkenden antworten könnte: «In deinem Nichts hoff' ich das All zu finden!»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p004"}],"english":["GA 107/1909-01-01/p004","GA 107/1909-01-01/p005","GA 107/1909-01-01/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":225,"en_words":212,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7750,"original_word_count":8170,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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