{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p025-p028","extent":"range","passage_number":25,"through":28,"paragraph_count":4,"first_locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p025","last_locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes","date":"1909-01-01","location":null,"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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The essential point is that, fundamentally speaking, Lucifer had brought man under the influence of the powers connected with air and water *only*; whereas it was Ahriman-Mephistopheles who has subjected him to the influence of far more deadly powers and the civilizations immediately to come will see the appearance of many things connected with Ahriman's influence. Through this influence the seeker for the spirit who does not stand upon firm and sure foundations can readily fall prey to the most terrible illusion and deception. For Ahriman is a spirit who sets out to spread deception as to the true nature of the sense-world, especially as an expression of the spiritual world. When a man has a tendency to abnormal, somnambulistic states or through certain wrongful training awakens occult forces whereby egoism is intensified, then Ahriman or Mephistopheles has a ready influence precisely upon these occult forces, an influence that can soon become overwhelmingly powerful. Whereas Lucifer's influence can only bring it about that what confronts a man from the spiritual world (and this applies also to one who is receiving wrongful training) appears to him as an *astral* form visible to the astral body, the manifestations due to the influence of Ahriman are brought to light in that the evil influences on the physical body press through into the etheric body and then become visible as *phantoms*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p025","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-01-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":264,"en_words":238,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Lucifer's influences can never become as evil as the influences of Ahriman and of those Beings who are connected with the powers of fire. The influence of Ahriman or Mephistopheles can bring it about that in order to attain occult knowledge a man is induced, for example, to undertake certain measures with his physical body. The method that consists in the use and misuse of the physical body is the most evil that can possibly be applied for the purpose of acquiring occult powers. It is a fact that in certain school of black magic such practices are taught in abundance. One of the most terrible perversions to which man may be subject occurs when the forces of the physical body are taken as the starting-point for occult training.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p026","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-01-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 107/1909-01-01/p021"],"length_check":{"de_words":131,"en_words":151,"ratio":1.15,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Centers of black magic and its forces originated from these influences and have persisted to this day.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p027","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-01-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":168,"en_words":161,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Ahriman himself is no mirage—far from it! But what is conjured before men's eyes of spirit under his influence—that is mirage, illusion. When a man's desires and passions flow along evil paths and at the same time he lends himself in any way to occult practices, then the occult forces which are awakened penetrate into the etheric body and the most evil powers of corruption appear among the illusory images which may themselves often be majestic, awe-inspiring. Such is the terrible influence of Ahriman upon man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":108,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p028","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-01-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":106,"en_words":108,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Dagegen war es Ahriman-Mephistopheles, der den Menschen unter Gewalten gebracht hat, die viel, viel furchtbarer sind, und es wird in den nächsten Kulturen mancherlei auftreten, was man in Zusammenhang zu bringen hat mit dem Einflusse des Ahriman. Für den okkult Strebenden, der nicht auf festem und sicherem Grunde strebt, kann sehr leicht gerade durch den ahrimanischen Einfluß die furchtbarste Illusion, die furchtbarste Täuschung eintreten. Denn in der Tat ist Ahriman ein Geist, der darauf ausgeht, über die wahre Natur der Sinneswelt zu täuschen, zu täuschen nämlich darin, daß sie ein Ausdruck ist der geistigen Welt. Wenn der Mensch nun Veranlagung hat zu abnormen Zuständen, zu somnambulen Zuständen oder durch eine gewisse unrichtige Schulung okkulte Kräfte in sich erweckt und irgend etwas in sich hat, was zur Egoität, zum Egoismus hindrängt, dann hat gerade auf die okkulten Kräfte Ahriman oder Mephistopheles leicht einen Einfluß, einen Einfluß, der leicht ein gewaltiger werden kann. Während Luzifers Einfluß nur dahin gehen kann, daß dasjenige, was sozusagen aus der geistigen Welt - auch bei dem in unrichtiger Schulung sich Befindenden - dem Menschen begegnet, als astralische Gestalt entgegentritt, als eine Gestalt, die für den astralischen Leib sichtbar wird, treten diejenigen Gebilde, die auf den Einfluß Ahrimans zurückzuführen sind, dadurch zutage, daß die schlechten Einflüsse, die auf den physischen Leib ausgeübt werden, sich durchdrükken in den Ätherleib und dann als Phantome sichtbar werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":264,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p020"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Wir haben es also bei dem Einflusse Ahrimans mit noch viel, viel niedrigeren Mächten zu tun als bei dem Einflusse Luzifers. Niemals können die Einflüsse Luzifers so schlimm werden wie die Einflüsse Ahrimans und jener Wesenheiten, die mit den Feuermächten zusammenhängen. Ahrimans oder Mephistopheles’ Einfluß kann es dahin bringen, daß der Mensch, um okkulte Erkenntnisse zu erlangen, dazu geführt wird, sagen wir zum Beispiel Verrichtungen vorzunehmen mit seinem physischen Leibe. Es ist das schlimmste Mittel, das angewendet werden kann, um zu okkulten Kräften zu kommen, das in Verrichtungen und im Mißbrauch des physischen Leibes besteht. In gewissen schwarzmagischen Schulen werden in der Tat solche Verrichtungen in dem ausgiebigsten Maße gelehrt. Es gehört zu den furchtbarsten Verführungen des Menschen, wenn der Ausgangspunkt für okkulte Schulung von den physischen Leibeskräften aus genommen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p021"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Es kann hier darauf nicht einmal näher hingewiesen werden, sondern nur darauf, daß alle Machinationen, die irgendwie in einem Mißbrauch der physischen Leibeskräfte bestehen, von den Einflüssen herrühren, die von Ahriman herkommen, und es, weil sich das in des Menschen Ätherleib hineindrängt, wie ein Phantom wirkt, aber wie eine Phantomenwelt, die nichts anderes ist als das Kleid von Mächten, die den Menschen unter das Niveau des Menschen herunterziehen. Fast alle alten Kulturen, die indische, die persische, die ägyptische Kultur, die griechisch-lateinische Kultur haben ihre Dekadenzzeit durchgemacht, in der sie verfallen sind, in der auch die Mysterien verfallen sind, in der man nicht mehr die reinen Überlieferungen der Mysterien bewahrte. In diesen Zeiten sind viele von denen, die entweder Schüler der Eingeweihten waren und doch sich nicht auf ihrer Höhe haben halten können, oder solche Menschen, denen die Geheimnisse auf unrechtmäßige Weise verraten worden waren, nun auf verkehrte und schlechte Wege gekommen. Stätten schwarzmagischer Kräfte gingen von diesen Einflüssen aus und haben sich erhalten bis in unsere Zeit hinein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p022"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Ahriman ist ein Geist der Lüge, der dem Menschen Illusionen vorzaubert, der mit seinen Genossen allerdings in einer geistigen Welt wirkt. Nicht er ist ein Trugbild, o nein! Aber das, was sich unter seinem Einflusse vor des Menschen geistiges Auge gaukelt, das ist ein Trugbild. Wenn des Menschen Wünsche, wenn des Menschen Leidenschaften schlimme Wege gehen und er sich gleichzeitig irgendwie an okkulte Kräfte hingibt, dann drängen sich die okkulten Kräfte, die dadurch herauskommen, in den Ätherleib hinein, und es erscheinen unter den Trugbildern, die manchmal ganz ehrwürdige Gestalten sein können, die verderblichsten, die schlimmsten Mächte. So furchtbar ist der Einfluß des Ahriman auf den Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":106,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p023"}],"beads":[{"from":[25],"to":[20],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[26],"to":[21],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[27],"to":[22],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[28],"to":[23],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}