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Considering the very different qualities of soul and of consciousness prevalent in those ancient times with which we are dealing, when a certain state of clairvoyance was normal, it need not seem surprising that memory also was very different from what it is to-day.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Stages of downward penetration of divine nature into a human individuality","site_heading":"Divine Descent and the Two Jesus Children","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Wenn wir uns zum Bewußtsein bringen, wie die Seelenfähigkeiten, die Bewußtseinseigentümlichkeiten der Menschen überhaupt in alten Zeiten waren, wenn wir uns erinnern, wie wir in der Menschheitsevolution beim Zurückgehen auf Zeiten stoßen, wo ein gewisser hellseherischer Zustand normales menschliches Bewußtsein war, dann werden wir es auch nicht mehr verwunderlich finden, daß wir uns für diese verhältnismäßig naheliegenden Zeiten sagen können — was uns die Geistesforschung bestätigt -, daß die Bewußtseinsverhältnisse in bezug auf das Gedächtnis in alten Zeiten durchaus andere waren, als sie später geworden sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":169,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-06/p006"}],"english":["GA 123/1910-09-06/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"partial","length_check":{"de_words":169,"en_words":110,"ratio":0.65,"partial":true},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.9,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5403,"original_word_count":5980,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSPC1946","book_title":"The Gospel of St. Matthew (1946)","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA123/English/RSPC1946/19100906p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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