{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When you are thinking about the figure of Mephistopheles, you may often have asked yourselves: Who is Mephistopheles, in reality? Grave mistakes are made here, mistakes which admittedly can be corrected only by deeper, occult insight. The name itself suggests that Mephistopheles is associated with the devil, or the idea of the devil, for the word “topel” is the same as “ *Teufel*”—devil. But the other question—and here we come into a realm of serious fallacies which frequently occur in explanations of the figure of Mephistopheles—the other question is: Whether Mephistopheles can be identified with the spirit we know as Lucifer, who during and after the Lemurian epoch approached mankind together with his hosts and entrenched himself as it were in the evolutionary process? The prevailing tendency in Europe is to identify the figure of Mephistopheles as he appears in Goethe's *Faust* but also in earlier folk-literature (Folk Plays, Puppet Plays and so forth), with Lucifer. Mephistopheles is a familiar character everywhere, and the question is: Are he and his hosts identical with Lucifer and his hosts? In other words: Are the effects of the Mephistophelean influence upon man the same as those of Lucifer?—That is the question before us to-day.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-01-01","location":null,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Aber die andere Frage ist diese, und hier kommen wir in ein Gebiet schwerer Irrtümer hinein, die in der Auslegung der Gestalt des Mephistopheles oftmals gemacht werden: Ob Mephistopheles zusammengeworfen werden darf mit dem Geist, den wir als den Luzifer bezeichnen, von dem wir in der Entwicklungsgeschichte der Menschheit oft gesprochen haben, der in der lemurischen Zeit und nachher mit seinen Scharen an die Menschheit herantrat und in gewisser Weise in die menschliche Entwicklung eingriff? Man ist in Europa leicht geneigt, die Gestalt des Mephistopheles, wie sie im Goetheschen «Faust» gilt, wie sie aber in all den verschiedenen Produkten der Volksliteratur gegolten hat, in denen sie schon spielt und die dem Goetheschen «Faust» vorangegangen sind, in den Volksschauspielen, in den Puppenspielen und so weiter, mit dem Luzifer zusammenzuwerfen. Wir treffen da überall die Gestalt des Mephistopheles an, und die Frage ist diese: Sind die Gestalt und die Genossen des Mephistopheles dieselben wie jene Gestalt mit ihren Genossen, die wir als Luzifer kennen? Mit anderen Worten: Ist das, was an den Menschen herantritt durch mephistophelischen Einfluß dasselbe wie das, was an den Menschen herantrat durch luziferischen Einfluß? Die Frage müssen wir uns heute vorlegen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":262,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p007"}],"english":["GA 107/1909-01-01/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":262,"en_words":201,"ratio":0.77,"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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