{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 112/1909-06-25/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You will see from this that only by taking account of such events can we understand the life of one who had already passed through certain stages of development. There is one stage, for instance, that is soon reached by serious striving along the path of enlightenment: the stage of the so-called Wanderer, of him who has outgrown the prejudices of his immediate surroundings and has cast off the fetters imposed by his environment. This need not make him irreverent: we can become all the more reverent; but he must be free of the prejudices of his immediate surroundings. Let us assume that this man dies at a stage in which he has already worked his way through to a modicum of freedom and independence. When he is born again it can happen that comparatively early in his life some experience will re-awaken this feeling of freedom and independence in him. As a rule, this is the result of losing his father or someone else to whom he is closely bound; or it might be a consequence of his father's reprehensible behavior toward him—he might have cast him out, or something of the sort. All this is faithfully reported in the legends of the various peoples, for in matters of this kind the folk myths and legends are really wiser than is modern science. Among the legends you will often find the type in which the child is cast out, is found by shepherds, nourished and brought up by them, and later restored to his station (Chiron, Romulus and Remus). The fact that their own home plays them false serves to re-awaken in them the fruits of former incarnations. The legend of the casting out of Oedipus is in this category, too. You will now understand that the more advanced a man is—whether at the stage when his higher ego is born or even farther—the richer in experience his life must be if he is to be capable of a new experience, one he had not yet had.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Nehmen wir den Fall, daß ein solcher Mensch in einem Stadium stirbt, wo er sich hindurchgearbeitet hat zu einer gewissen Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit. Nun wird er wiedergeboren, und da kann es sein, daß verhältnismäßig früh ein Erlebnis auftritt, wodurch das Gefühl der Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit wiedergeboren wird. Gewöhnlich geschieht es dadurch, daß der Betreffende seinen Vater oder irgendeinen, mit dem er sonst verbunden ist, verliert, oder auch, daß dieser Vater sich nicht gut gegen ihn benimmt, ihn vielleicht verstößt oder dergleichen mehr. Das teilen uns getreulich die Sagen der verschiedenen Völker mit, denn in diesen Dingen sind die Mythen und Sagen der Völker wirklich weiser als die heutige Wissenschaft. Da werden Sie überall den Typus finden, daß der Vater den Auftrag gibt, daß das Kind ausgesetzt werde; das Kind wird von Hirten aufgefunden, wird von ihnen genährt, aufgezogen und später zu seinem Beruf zurückgebracht, wie zum Beispiel Chiron, Romulus und Remus. 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Auch die Sage von der Aussetzung des Ödipus gehört dahin.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-25/p026"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-25/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Nun können Sie sich auch denken, daß, je weiter der Mensch ist - sei es auf der Stufe der Geburt seines höheren Ich, oder darüber hinaus -, desto reicher an Erlebnissen auch sein Leben sein muß, damit er dahin kommt, daß er wieder ein neues Erlebnis durchmacht, das er früher noch nicht hatte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":53,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-25/p027"}],"english":["GA 112/1909-06-25/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":344,"en_words":338,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 112/1909-06-25/p026","GA 112/1909-06-25/p027"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6326,"original_word_count":6406,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Samuel and Loni Lockwood","identified_edition":"AP1948","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA112/English/AP1948/19090625p02.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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