{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus it was to Ahriman that the faculty of human cognition was primarily directed. Ahriman was a Being whose existence was divined by men, a Being of whom they had some knowledge through the culture inaugurated by Zarathustra; and from there the knowledge of Ahriman spread among the other peoples and into their world of ideas. Ahriman with his hosts appears as a figure with the most diverse names among the civilized peoples. And owing to the peculiar conditions obtaining in the souls of the European peoples who had remained farthest in the rear of the migrations from West to East, who had been less affected than the others by what had transpired in the ancient Indian, ancient Persian, Egyptian and even in the Greco-Latin civilizations—owing to these circumstances there prevailed among the European peoples from whom the Fifth Epoch of culture was to be born, an attitude of soul which regarded Ahriman alone as a figure of dread. And while many different names were adopted—as for example, “Mephistopheles” among the Hebrew people—in Europe the figure of Ahriman became the “Devil” in his various forms.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. 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So wurde er etwas, was man ahnte, wovon man etwas wußte durch den Einfluß der Zarathustra-Kultur; und von da aus verbreitete sich die Erkenntnis des Ahriman über die anderen Völker hin und über ihre Kulturvorstellungen. Unter den mannigfaltigsten Namen tritt Ahriman mit seinen Scharen bei den verschiedenen Kulturvölkern auf. Und durch die eigenartigen Verhältnisse, in denen die Seelen der europäischen Völker waren, die am weitesten zurückgeblieben waren auf den Zügen von Westen nach Osten, die am meisten unberührt geblieben waren von dem, was im alten Indien, im alten Persien, in Ägypten, selbst in der griechisch-lateinischen Periode vor sich gegangen war, bei diesen Völkern Europas, unter denen die fünfte Kulturperiode aufleben sollte, da waren Seelenverfassungen vorhanden, daß ihnen besonders die Gestalt des Ahriman als eine furchtbare erschien. Und während diese die verschiedensten Namen angenommen hat - beim hebräischen Volke Mephistopheles genannt wurde -, wurde sie in der europäischen Welt zu der Gestalt des Teufels in seinen verschiedenen Formen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p017"}],"english":["GA 107/1909-01-01/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":168,"en_words":185,"ratio":1.1,"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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