{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 112/1909-07-07/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In order to prevent this, the divine-spiritual Father spoke: In their culmination, in man, the beings of earth have attained to external *knowledge* in their ego; but we cannot yet entrust them with *life*.—For life would in that case take a course in which the beings would be torn from their divine-spiritual root in this life: the human being would become an integral part of the physical body and would for all time forget his divine-spiritual origin. Only by bestowing the boon of death upon all things attracted into matter could the divine Father Spirit rescue the memory of divine origin. Thus it became possible for the growing plant to shoot upward until the impulse of fructification entered, and then for its form to wither and a new one to spring from its seed. But in entering the seed state, the plant is for a moment in the divine-spiritual world, and the divine-spiritual world refreshes it. And all this applies pre-eminently to the human being. He would be banished and chained to the earth and would forget his divine-spiritual origin were not death spread over the earth—were he not provided with ever-fresh sources of strength between death and a new birth—in order that he may not forget his divine-spiritual origin.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"14. 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So war es möglich, daß die Pflanze, wenn sie wächst, in die Höhe schießt bis zu dem Moment, wo die Befruchtung eintritt - und in demselben Moment welkt die Pflanzengestalt, eine neue Pflanzengestalt tritt aus dem Samen hervor. Dadurch aber, wenn die Pflanze in den Samen tritt, ist sie für einen Moment in der göttlich-geistigen Welt und wird erfrischt durch die göttlich-geistige Welt. Und so ist es insbesondere für den Menschen. Der Mensch würde hineingebannt in die Erde und vergessen seinen geistig-göttlichen Ursprung, wenn nicht der Tod ausgebreitet wäre über die Erde, wenn der Mensch nicht immer neue Kraftquellen zwischen dem Tode und der neuen Geburt zugeführt erhielte, um nicht zu vergessen seinen göttlich-geistigen Ursprung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-07/p013"}],"english":["GA 112/1909-07-07/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":215,"en_words":210,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9237,"original_word_count":9192,"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/AP1948/19090707p02.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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