{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 127/1911-12-19/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"> *Und es nahten die Nomen, von niemand gesehen,  \n> Zu geräuschlosem Reigen und machten die Runde  \n> Um diese Verlobten. Ein leiser Lufthauch,  \n> Das war die Meinung der Minneberauschten,  \n> Winde sich murmelnd herein zum Kamine;  \n> Doch hinunter zur Nachtwelt, zu Nibelheims Tiefen,  \n> Und hinauf zu den Wolken zu Walhalls Bewohnern  \n> Erklang nun für andere als irdische Ohren  \n> Vernehmlich wie Seesturm der Nomen Gesang:*\n> *Dein eigen ist alles,  \n> Dein Heil wie dein Unheil,  \n> Dein Wollen und Wähnen,  \n> Dein Sinnen und Sein.  \n> Wohl kommen, gekettet  \n> In ewige Ordnung  \n> Die Larven des Lebens,  \n> Die Scharen des Scheins.  \n> Sie ziehen die Zirkel,  \n> Sie zeigen die* *Ziele,  \n> Sie impfen den Abscheu,  \n> Sie wecken den Wunsch;  \n> Doch dein ist das Dünken,  \n> Und wie du geworden,  \n> So wirst du dich wenden,  \n> Wir wissen die Wahl.*\n> *Rough English Translation*\n> And the Norns then came nearer but no one could see them;  \n> In soft silent steps they circled and swayed  \n> Around the Betrothed—who, burning with love,  \n> Thought a breath of sweet air was blowing about them;  \n> While down to the night-world, in Nibelheim's nethermost,  \n> And high in the heav'ns to the hosts of Valhalla  \n> The Norns sang their song, for other than earth-ears  \n> As clear as the clamorous raging of sea storms:\n> All is thine own:  \n> Thy healing or hating,  \n> Desires or delusions,  \n> Thy thought and thy life.  \n> Chained will come, cheerless,  \n> In order eternal,  \n> The hosts of the hidden,  \n> The Larva of Life.  \n> They mark out their measures,  \n> They forecast fulfillment,  \n> They implant raging passion,  \n> Awaken the will.  \n> Yet thine is the thinking,  \n> The fashioning, forming,  \n> The testing and turning:  \n> We challenge thy choice.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Three Lectures on the Mystery Dramas","date":"1911-12-19","location":null,"word_count":314,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/127/1911-12-19/p036","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/127/1911-12-19/p036","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-12-19","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 127/1911-12-19/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-12-19/p026"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":433,"en_words":346,"ratio":0.8,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative and this passage's lecture alignment is imperfect. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."}}