{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Here lies the cause of the Atlantean flood and of the devastation wrought by the powers of nature which led to the disappearance of the whole continent of Atlantis. But even before that time, man had lost command over the forces of fire and the power to ally them with certain mysterious forces of the earth. Power over the forces of fire and earth in a certain combination had already been withdrawn from man. But now—through the influence of Ahriman and his accomplices—he again acquired a certain mastery over the forces of fire and earth, with dire consequences. And much that is to be heard about the use of fire in ancient Persia is connected with what I am now telling you. Many forces that are applied in black magic and are connected with it, lead to the result that man lays hold of forces of an entirely different nature and thus gains an influence over fire and earth, with terrible and devastating results. The practice of black magic by the descendants of the Atlanteans in ancient Persia would still have been effective had not the teachings of Zarathustra revealed how Ahriman, as an opposing power, ensnares man and clouds his vision of the spiritual reality behind the world of sense. Thus through Zarathustra and his followers, influence was brought to bear upon a large part of Post-Atlantean civilization; on the one hand men were taught of the workings of the sublime God of Light to whom they may turn, and, on the other, of the malefic power of Ahriman and his hosts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-01-01","location":null,"word_count":263,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p019","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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Und manches, was Sie hören über die Verwendung des Feuers im alten Persien, hängt mit dem zusammen, was ich Ihnen jetzt sage: Manche Kräfte, die getrieben werden als schwarze Magie und die damit zusammenhängen und dazu führen, daß der Mensch sich noch über ganz andere Kräfte hermacht und da einen Einfluß gewinnt über Feuer und Erde, können gewaltige, verheerende Wirkungen wachrufen. Schwarze Magie hätte von den Nachkommen der Atlantier selbst noch im alten Persien getrieben werden können, wenn nicht durch die Lehre des Zarathustra darauf hingewiesen worden wäre, wie Ahriman als feindliche Macht auf die Menschen so wirkt, daß er sie umstrickt, sie verdüstert gegenüber dem, was hinter der Sinneswelt als wirkliche geistige Gewalt hervorkommen soll. So sehen wir, daß ein großer Teil der nachatlantischen Kultur - das ging von Zarathustra und seinen Anhängern aus — dadurch beeinflußt wurde, daß dem Menschen klargemacht wurde auf der einen Seite die Wirkung des hehren Lichtgottes, dem sich der Mensch zuwenden kann, und auf der anderen Seite die verderbliche Macht des Ahriman und seiner Genossen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p015"}],"english":["GA 107/1909-01-01/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":260,"en_words":263,"ratio":1.01,"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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