{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 109/1909-05-25/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus it was first in the ancient Persian epoch that there arose the sentiment that would express itself as follows: “Certainly, what the sun shines upon is *maya*, but I must seek the spirit behind this *maya*. The spiritual world is always around me, but I cannot experience it with physical eyes and ears. I can experience it only with super-sensible consciousness. Once this consciousness has been awakened, then in the physical existence also can I recognize the Great Spirit of the Sun with all its subordinate beings who also belong to the Sun. But an age is approaching when my soul will no longer have this knowledge.” It was difficult to transmit this knowledge fully to human beings. They must gradually be made more mature through renewed incarnations in order to recognize the divine-spiritual element behind all physical phenomena and to understand that all of nature is permeated by it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. The God of the Alpha and the God of the Omega","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-05-25","location":null,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/109/1909-05-25/p014","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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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Sie müssen in immer neuen Verkörperungen nach und nach reif gemacht werden, um hinter allem Physischen ein Göttlich-Geistiges zu erkennen, um zu erkennen, daß die ganze Natur davon durchdrungen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":132,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/109/1909-05-25/p015"}],"english":["GA 109/1909-05-25/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":132,"en_words":151,"ratio":1.14,"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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