{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Do not think that through mere visionary clairvoyance one acquires the faculty of remembering the previous ego. Humanity was once clairvoyant. If mere clairvoyance sufficed, then all would remember, for all were clairvoyant. It is not merely a matter of being clairvoyant—humanity will already be clairvoyant in the future—it is a matter of having cultivated the ego in this incarnation, or not. If one has not cultivated it, it is not there as an inner human being; one looks back, and remembers as a group-ego, what one had in common. So that these people will say: Yes, I was there, but I have not freed myself. These people will then experience that as their FALL, as a new Fall of mankind, as a falling back into conscious connection with the group-soul. That will be something terrible for the sixth period of time; to be unable to look back to oneself as an individuality, to be hemmed in by not being able to transcend the group-soulness [Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit]. If one will express it strongly, one could say: The whole earth with all it produces (this holds at least as an image) will belong to those who now cultivate their individuality; those, however, who do not develop their individual “I,” will be obliged to join on to a certain group, from which they will be directed as to how they should think, feel, will, and act. That will be felt as a fall, a falling back, in the future humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Group-soulness and Ego-hood.","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-12-04","location":null,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/117/1909-12-04/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":null,"book_title":"The Ego","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/The_Ego/19091204p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Würde das bloße Hellsehen genügen, so müßten sich alle erinnern, denn alle waren hellsehend. Nicht das macht es bloß aus, ob man hellsehend ist, hellsehend werden die Menschen schon in der Zukunft. Das macht es aus, ob man das Ich in dieser Inkarnation gepflegt hat oder nicht. Hat man es nicht gepflegt, so ist es als eine innere menschliche Wesenheit nicht da. Man schaut zurück und erinnert sich, als ein Gruppen-Ich, an dasjenige, was man gemeinschaftlich hatte. So daß diese Menschen sagen werden: Ja, da war ich, aber ich habe mich nicht losgemacht. - Das werden diese Menschen dann empfinden als ihren Fall, als einen neuen Fall der Menschheit, als ein Zurückfallen in die bewußte Zusammengehörigkeit mit der Gruppenseele. Und das wird etwas Furchtbares sein für den sechsten Zeitraum: nicht sich als Individualität im Rückblick fühlen zu können, sondern gehemmt zu sein dadurch, daß man nicht hinaus kann über die Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit. Wenn man es kraß ausdrücken will, so kann man sagen: Denjenigen Menschen, die jetzt ihre Individualität kultivieren, denen wird die ganze Erde gehören mit alldem, was sie hervorbringen kann - es gilt wenigstens bildlich -; diejenigen Menschen, die nicht ausprägen ihr individuelles Ich, die werden angewiesen sein, sich anzuschließen an eine gewisse Gruppe und von der sich eingeben zu lassen, wie sie denken, fühlen, wollen, handeln sollen. Das wird als ein Zurückfallen, als ein Fall empfunden werden in der künftigen Menschheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p036"}],"english":["GA 117/1909-12-04/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":247,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7083,"original_word_count":7056,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":null,"book_title":"The Ego","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/The_Ego/19091204p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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