{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 122/1910-08-22/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What we are told in Genesis now appears to us in a new light. When we are told that what is expressed in Genesis as *bara* is a kind of meditative activity of the Elohim, we have to say that through their meditation the Elohim recreated, as out of memory, something which I have described as a complex of existence. But in a certain way there happened to the Elohim what happens to us when we try to create something out of memory, though we, of course, unfold our activity at a much lower level. Let me give you an example. A man goes to sleep at night. His world of thought and feeling sinks into oblivion, he passes into the condition of sleep. Suppose that the last thought he had before he fell asleep in the evening was of a rose beside him. This thought sinks into oblivion. In the morning the thought of the rose emerges again. Even if the rose no longer remained by him, the thought would be there. You must distinguish between two things. The one is the calling up in memory of the idea of the rose, which could occur even if the rose had been taken away. But if the rose is still there, he also perceives the actual rose. That is the other thing. In the same way you should distinguish two things in what I have described as the cosmic meditation of the Elohim. When we are told that on the third “day” of creation a cosmic meditation took place, that the Elohim made a division between the fluid and the solid, that they separate off the solid and call it earth, in this we must certainly think of the cosmic act of meditation of the Elohim from whom this creative thought springs; but in what arises to meet their musing we have to think of the Spirits of Will at work, now bringing forth once more the objective in its own substantial nature. Thus work the Spirits of Will, and so they have worked from the very beginning in everything of an earth nature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Elementary Existence and the Spiritual Beings behind it. Jahve-Elohim","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-08-22","location":null,"word_count":354,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/122/1910-08-22/p008","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy Lenn and Owen Barfield","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Genesis","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA122/English/RSP1982/19100822p01.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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Seine Gefühls- und Vorstellungswelt sinkt hinunter in die Vergessenheit für sein subjektives Bewußtsein, er geht in den Schlafzustand über. Nehmen wir an, der letzte Gedanke, den er des Abends gehabt hat, sei, um ein Beispiel zu haben, der einer Rose gewesen, einer Rose, die in seiner Nähe stand, als er einschlief. Dieser Gedanke sinkt hinunter in die Vergessenheit. Am Morgen taucht der Gedanke der Rose wieder auf. Es würde nun bloß dieser Gedanke dastehen, wenn nicht die Rose geblieben wäre. Unterscheiden Sie jetzt zwischen diesen zwei Tatsachen. Die eine ist das Heraufrufen Ihrer Vorstellung von der Rose in die Erinnerung, die unter Umständen auch auftauchen könnte, wenn die Rose weggenommen worden wäre, also der Gedanke, die Erinnerung an die Rose. Wenn aber die Rose stehengeblieben ist, dann taucht für Ihr Wahrnehmen auch die substantielle Rose auf. Das ist die andere Tatsache. Ich bitte Sie, nun auch bei alledem, was wir als kosmisches Sinnen der Elohim bezeichnet haben, ähnlich zwei Tatsachen zu unterscheiden. Wenn uns also erzählt wird, daß im dritten Momente des Erdenwerdens ein kosmisches Sinnen stattfindet, daß die Elohim abtrennen das Flüssige vom Festen, daß sie das Feste heraussondern und es als Erde bezeichnen, so müssen wir da auch das kosmische Sinnen der Elohim ins Auge fassen, denen produktiv dieser Gedanke entkeimt; aber in dem, was vor ihrem Sinnen auftritt, müssen wir uns wirksam denken die Geister des Willens, die nun das Objektive in ihrer eigenen substantiellen Wesenheit wieder hervorbringen. So wirken und wirkten von Anfang an in allem Erdenhaften, das wir um uns herum haben, die Geister des Willens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":359,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/122/1910-08-22/p008"}],"english":["GA 122/1910-08-22/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":359,"en_words":354,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5876,"original_word_count":6153,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy Lenn and Owen Barfield","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Genesis","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA122/English/RSP1982/19100822p01.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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