{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 109/1909-06-07/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The symbol is the best means for working on the astral body. Ideation, mental pictures, should he cultivated until the time comes for the training of the liberated astral body, and only then should the power of judgment be developed. Why is it that so many human beings of the present age are, sad to say, crippled in their life of soul? Why is this? Because they have to say “Yes” and “No” to things at much too early an age. In the period until puberty they should learn to revere the great prototypes, the great processes in nature; only between the fourteenth and twenty-first years should the power of judgment come to maturity. Fewer voluble authors would then be let loose upon humanity. The outcome of premature forming of judgment in immature, though literary-minded men, is the shallow materialism of our present age. This veiled materialism is far more sinister than the scientific kind. An opinion has weight only when it is supported by what the soul has genuinely experienced. Human beings must learn how to form judgments; opinions are so deeply at variance because they have been formed at far too early an age. It is not until the twenty-first year that the ego is born and only from then onwards can there be any question of the individual being able to judge the world correctly, because it is only now that he confronts the world as a truly independent being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Physical World as an Expression of Spiritual Forces and Beings.","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-06-07","location":null,"word_count":243,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/109/1909-06-07/p020","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Die Vorstellung soll gepflegt werden bis zur Bildung des freigewordenen astralischen Leibes, erst dann das Urteil. Weshalb sind so viele Gegenwartsmenschen in ihrer Seele leider verkrüppelte Menschen? Warum? Weil sie viel zu früh «Ja» und «Nein» zu den Dingen sagen gelernt haben. Verehren lernen sollen sie in der Zeit bis zur Geschlechtsreife die großen Vorbilder, die großen Vorgänge in der Natur; erst zwischen dem vierzehnten und einundzwanzigsten Jahre sollte das Urteil reifen. Es würde dann auch eine geringere Anzahl jener Sorte von Schriftstellern auf die Menschheit losgelassen werden, die unter und über dem Strich zu schreiben pflegen. Das Ergebnis der zu frühen Urteilsbildung unreifer, aber schriftstellernder Menschen ist der seichte Materialismus unserer Gegenwart. Dieser verborgene Materialismus ist viel schlimmer als der streitbare, wissenschaftlich. Eine Meinung hat erst Gewicht, wenn sie sich auf Seelenerfahrung stützt. Lernen muß der Mensch zu urteilen; die Meinungen sind daher auch so verschieden, weil viel zu früh die Meinungen gebildet werden. Erst mit dem einundzwanzigsten Jahre wird das Ich geboren, und erst von da ab kann in Frage kommen, daß der Mensch von sich aus die Welt beurteilt. Erst da steht er der Welt selbständig gegenüber.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/109/1909-06-07/p015"}],"english":["GA 109/1909-06-07/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":202,"en_words":243,"ratio":1.2,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.11,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5252,"original_word_count":4749,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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