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Such theories and conceptions of the world can offer only vague concepts about the divine that weaves and works behind material reality. As far as other less ambitious truths are concerned, such as the doctrines of reincarnation and of karma, Spiritual Science is also far ahead of anything traditional science has to offer when it talks about the evolution of the human being. To be sure, science too could adopt these doctrines for if one really wants to draw the proper conclusions from the materialistic-scientific facts, reincarnation and karma would long have been popular ideas. However, because modern scientists have not dared to come to these conclusions, the discussion about the subject has simply been put to rest. Evolution from the perspective of natural history and of history is discussed, but nobody wants to hear anything of the true evolution of the human individuality, which continues from one life to another and carries the human soul into the future.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. 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Solche Weltauffassungen und Theorien haben unbestimmte Begriffe über das Göttliche, das hinter dem Wirklichen webt. Auch in bezug auf andere, weniger hochfliegende Wahrheiten, wie die Lehren von Reinkarnation und Karma, auch darin ist Geistesforschung weit voran alldem, was die Wissenschaft in bezug auf die Entwickelung des Menschen zu sagen wagt. Sie könnte zwar auch zu diesen Lehren kommen; denn wenn man die Konsequenzen der materialistisch-wissenschaftlichen Tatsachen wirklich ziehen wollte, so müßten Reinkarnation und Karma längst populäre Lehren sein. Aber weil man nicht wagt in der heutigen Wissenschaft, diese Konsequenzen zu ziehen, so macht man [davor} halt. Man spricht von naturgeschichtlicher und geschichtlicher Entwickelung, aber von der wahren Entwickelung der menschlichen Individualität, die von Leben zu Leben geht und welche die Menschenseele in die Zukunft hinüberträgt, davon will man nichts hören.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/109/1909-05-25/p004"}],"english":["GA 109/1909-05-25/p004"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":222,"en_words":282,"ratio":1.27,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.14,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5867,"original_word_count":5143,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Peter Mollenhauer","identified_edition":"AP1986","book_title":"The Principle of Spiritual Economy","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA109/English/AP1986/19090525p01.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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