{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Another epoch followed, during which human beings already could see much less of the spiritual world; the influences of the spiritual world upon man were no longer so strong and alive as they had been. This period was originally called Treta Yuga, later on, the Silver Age. During this epoch, human beings living between birth and death obtained their certainty of the spiritual world in yet another way. Their immediate experiences of the spiritual world were unclear, it is true, but to compensate for this they could remember the time that preceded their birth when they had lived together with the spiritual beings. This period, therefore, was one in which the human being was still as certain of the existence of the spiritual world as is the case today when he has grown old and cannot deny that he has passed through his youth. This age was designated as Treta Yuga by the wisdom that knows about such things. Later on, it was replaced by the less clear expression, Silver Age. All of these ancient expressions have at the same time their deep significance, and it is really childish when modern science explains them in the way it does, since it has not the faintest idea of the realities from which these designations flow.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Spiritual Science as Preparation for a New Etheric Vision","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-01-27","location":null,"word_count":214,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/118/1910-01-27/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Gilbert Church and Alice Wulsin","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReapChrist/19100127p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p021"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/118/1910-01-27/p021","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Dann kam eine andere Zeit, in der die Menschen schon viel weniger gesehen haben von der geistigen Welt, in der nicht mehr so ganz lebendig waren die Wirkungen der geistigen Welt in den Menschen. Diese Zeit wurde genannt das Treta Yuga, später das silberne Zeitalter. In anderer Weise gewannen hier die Menschen, welche zwischen Geburt und Tod lebten, eine Gewißheit von der geistigen Welt. Sie hatten zwar unmittelbar nur noch ganz undeutliche Erlebnisse aus der geistigen Welt, aber sie erinnerten sich dafür an diejenigen Zeiten, die vor ihrer Geburt lagen, wo sie ebenfalls mit den geistigen Wesenheiten lebten. Es war dadurch diese Zeit eine solche, in der der Mensch immer noch die geistige Welt so gewiß wußte, wie er heute, wenn er alt geworden ist, nicht ableugnen kann, daß er eine Jugend gehabt hat. Dieses Zeitalter bezeichnete man in denjenigen Erkenntnissen, wo man solche Dinge weiß, als Treta Yuga, wofür man dann später, etwas undeutlich, den Ausdruck silbernes Zeitalter gebraucht hat. Alle diese alten Ausdrücke haben aber ihre tiefe Bedeutung, und es ist von der heutigen Wissenschaft geradezu kindlich, wie sie diese Ausdrücke nimmt, weil sie keine Ahnung von den Realitäten hat, aus denen diese Bezeichnungen geflossen sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p017"}],"english":["GA 118/1910-01-27/p020","GA 118/1910-01-27/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":287,"en_words":303,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.11,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7202,"original_word_count":6514,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Gilbert Church and Alice Wulsin","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReapChrist/19100127p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 118/1910-01-27/p017"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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