{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It may occur to those who read the introduction to Faust, the “Prologue in Heaven”, thoughtfully, that it contains words which resound as it were across thousands of years. Goethe has let words spoken between the Lord and Job in the Book of Job re-echo at the beginning of *Faust*. In the Book of Job we read that Job is a good, upright and pious man and of how the sons of the Lord of Light present themselves before Him. Among them is a certain enemy of the Light. In a conversation between the enemy of the Light and the supreme Lord, this enemy of the Light says that he has “gone to and fro in the earth”, seeking and trying out many things. The Lord asks: “Knowest thou my servant Job?” and the enemy of the Light—for so we will call him—answers the Lord that Job is known to him and that he would assuredly be able to divert him from the Good and bring him to perdition. This spirit has to make two attempts to approach Job and he then lays hold of him through injuring his physical body. He indicates this expressly when he says to the Lord: “Seize his possessions and he will not fall; but touch his bone and his flesh and he will fall!” Who can fail to hear an echo of this in *Faust* when the Lord calls to Mephistopheles in the “Prologue in Heaven”: “Knowest thou Faust, my servant!” And then, in similar terms, we hear the retort of the spirit who in the Book of Job comes before the Lord, when Mephistopheles asserts that he can lead Faust gently on the way, that he can win him from the paths which lead to the Good. Here, then, we are listening to sounds striking together in unison across the ages.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-01-01","location":null,"word_count":308,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p008","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 brauchen nur das Buch «Hiob» zu lesen, wie Hiob als ein gerechter, guter und frommer Mann lebt, wie da die Söhne des Gottes des Lichtes sich vor Gott einfinden und sich unter ihnen auch einfindet ein gewisser Feind des Lichtes und wie sich ein Gespräch entspinnt zwischen dem Feind des Lichtes und dem höchsten Gotte, das dahin geht, daß dieser Feind des Lichtes sagt, er habe durch die Lande geschweift und habe Verschiedenes gesucht, Verschiedenes versucht. Da fragt ihn Gott: Kennst du meinen Knecht, den Hiob? Und da sagt der Feind des Lichtes - so wollen wir ihn vorläufig nennen - zu dem Gotte: Er kenne ihn, und er wäre wohl imstande, ihn von dem Pfad des Guten abzubringen, ihn zu verderben. Und Sie wissen ja, wie zweimal dieser Geist versuchen muß, an Hiob heranzukommen, wie er ihm dann dadurch beikommt, daß er seinen äußeren physischen Körper verdirbt. Er bezeichnet das ausdrücklich dadurch, daß er dem Gott gegenüber sagt: Da wird er nicht abfallen, wenn man an seinen Besitz greift, aber wenn man an sein Fleisch greift und an sein Bein, da wird er abfallen! Wer möchte da nicht hineinklingen hören in den Worten des «Faust», wo Gott im Prolog im Himmel dem Mephistopheles die Worte entgegenruft: «Kennst du den Faust? ... Meinen Knecht!» - Und dann hört man förmlich wiederholen die Widerrede des Geistes, der damals, entsprechend dem Buche Hiob, dem Gotte entgegengerreten ist, wenn dieser Mephistopheles sagt: Er könne den Faust seine «Straße sacht führen», er könne ihn abbringen von den Wegen, die in die Welt hineinführen, die man die gute nennt. Also wir hören hier förmlich in einer Harmonie zusammenschlagen die Töne von Jahrtausenden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":327,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p006"}],"english":["GA 107/1909-01-01/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":327,"en_words":308,"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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