{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 119/1910-03-21/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We experience this with our soul, which feels as if it has been poured out into the whole environment. This is not without effect, but by experiencing everything, the person takes with them certain impressions from all these situations. We can characterize this as follows. But I would like to make it clear that these things can only be characterized comparatively with words, because you can understand that our words are coined for the physical world and are actually only applicable to this physical world in the right sense. If we use these words - and we could not otherwise communicate about all the mysterious worlds that open up to the spiritual eye - then we must be aware that these words only have an approximate meaning. What is being relived can only be characterized as follows: When a person perceives the pain he has caused another, when he relives this pain after death, he feels it as an obstacle to development. He says to himself in his soul: What would I have become if I had not caused this pain to the other? This pain is something that holds back my whole being from a degree of perfection that it could otherwise have achieved. And so the person says to himself in the face of everything he has spread in the way of error and lies, of ugliness in his surroundings: These are obstacles to development, something that I myself have placed in the way of my perfection. And from this a power is formed in the human soul, which leads to the fact that man in the state in which he now lives between death and a new birth, absorbs the longing, absorbs the will impulses to remove these obstacles from the path. That means that, step by step, we take on impulses in our backward migration to make amends in the next life, to balance out the obstacles we have placed in our own way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Human Being's Journey Through the World of the Senses, Soul and Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-03-21","location":null,"word_count":328,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/119/1910-03-21/p022","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA119/English/Singles/19100321p01.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/119/1910-03-21/p022"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/119/1910-03-21/p022","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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Gebrauchen wir doch diese Worte - und wir könnten uns sonst ja nicht verständigen über all die geheimnisvollen Welten, die dem geistigen Auge sich erschließen -, dann müssen wir uns bewußt sein, daß diese Worte nur einen annähernden Sinn haben. Dasjenige, was da also durchlebt wird, kann nur so charakterisiert werden: Wenn der Mensch wahrnimmt den Schmerz, den er einem andern zugefügt hat, wenn er diesen Schmerz nach dem Tode nacherlebt, dann fühlt er ihn wie ein Entwickelungshemmnis. Er sagt sich etwa empfindend in seiner Seele: Was wäre ich geworden, wenn ich dem andern diesen Schmerz nicht zugefügt hätte? Dieser Schmerz ist etwas, was mein ganzes Wesen zurückhält von einem Grad von Vollkommenheit, den es sonst hätte erreichen können. - Und so sagt sich der Mensch bei allem, was er an Irrtum und Lüge, an Häßlichem verbreitet hat in seiner Umgebung: Das sind Entwickelungshindernisse, etwas, was ich mir selber in den Weg meiner Vervollkommnung gelegt habe. - Und daraus formt sich eine Kraft in der menschlichen Seele, die dahin geht, daß der Mensch in jenem Zustande, in dem er jetzt lebt zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt, aufnimmt die Sehnsucht, aufnimmt die Willensimpulse, diese Hindernisse aus dem Weg zu räumen. Das heißt, Stück für Stück nehmen wir in der Rückwärtswanderung Impulse auf, im kommenden Leben das wieder gutzumachen, wiederum auszugleichen, was wir uns selber an Hindernissen in den Weg gelegt haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":317,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/119/1910-03-21/p022"}],"english":["GA 119/1910-03-21/p022"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":317,"en_words":328,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8184,"original_word_count":7952,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA119/English/Singles/19100321p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 119/1910-03-21/p022"],"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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